Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmTerry Gilliam on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Former Python and maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam speaks to us about finally finishing his long-gestating, possibly cursed magnum opus The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and tells us he'd rather be toiling with no money than working at the Marvel factory Read more »| 15 Jan 2020 -
MusicThe Skinny's Scottish Albums of the 2010s
As the decade came to a dramatic end, we polled our music team one last time to find out what the best Scottish albums of the last ten years were Read more »| 14 Jan 2020 -
MusicThe Art School venue goes into liquidation
No more Vic Bar! Sad news that The Art School’s union venue will be closing its doors Read more »| 14 Jan 2020 -
ComedyMaisie Adam interview: Hang Fire and HIGNFY
Maisie Adam had a fantastic 2019 – making appearances on Mock the Week and Have I Got News for You as well as returning to the Fringe for her sophomore hour. This year the SYTYF 2017 winner is stepping back on Scottish soil, touring her second show Read more »| 14 Jan 2020 -
MusicYorkston/Thorne/Khan – Navarasa: Nine Emotions
James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan's third collaboration, Navarasa: Nine Emotions, is steeped in conceptual daring Read more »| 14 Jan 2020 -
MusicElisabeth Elektra – Crystalline (track premiere)
Listen to Crystalline, the dreamy new single from Elisabeth Elektra Read more »| 14 Jan 2020
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MusicHoly Fuck – Deleter
The Canadian quartet deliver a modern day electro masterclass with their fourth album Read more »| 14 Jan 2020 -
FilmOscar nominations are in and it's all lads, lads, lads
Once again it's an all-male lineup in the Best Director category, and the awful Joker is somehow this year's frontrunner with 11 nominations, but it's not all bad in this year's anyone-could-win Oscars race Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
FilmHoly Macaroni Pie! Batman is coming to Glasgow
The latest version of Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as The Caped Crusader, will be partly shot in Glasgow, with Scotland’s largest city doubling for Gotham Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
ArtHal Fischer @ GoMA, Glasgow
GoMA's exhibition of Hal Fischer's work celebrates his renowned photography that documents a specific moment of 70s gay male history with conceptual cleverness and humour Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
FilmFive great "one-shot" films
Ahead of the release of Sam Mendes's 1917, a first world war film that appears to be shot in just one take, we consider the merits of some of cinema's other great "one-shot" wonders Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
MusicField Music – Making a New World
It ain't half pop, mum. Field Music look back in style – but even further back with the concept – on their seventh album of kinder, gentler music Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
MusicBurns&Beyond announce Tiny Changes benefit line-up
The fundraising concert for the charity set up in honour of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison features We Were Promised Jetpacks, Kathryn Joseph, Aidan Moffat and more Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: January 2020
The year kicks off with big weekends at either end of January, plus a very special Sneaky Pete's set from S-Type Read more »| 10 Jan 2020 -
FilmUncut Gems
The Safdie brothers follow up Good Time with another frenetic New York drama, as Adam Sandler gives a great performance as a brash jeweller who dabbles in various suspect tradings across the city Read more »| 10 Jan 2020