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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MusicCAKE @ QMU, Glasgow, 23 Jan
Ending a seven-year silence, California's CAKE play a cathartic set at QMU as part of this year's Celtic Connections festival Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
TheatreTouching the Void @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
This theatrical adaptation of Joe Simpson's infamous memoir is an unforgettable celebration of the unbroken human spirit Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
MusicGraham Costello’s STRATA – OBELISK
Filled with texture, OBELISK is an hour-long journey that demonstrates all of the most gripping aspects of a rising ensemble Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
MusicAndrew Wasylyk – The Paralian
The Paralian is an antidote to everyday chaos, an album that’s somehow both meditative and majestic, quieting the mind as it leads it through multiple journeys of space, time and place Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
MusicBring Me the Horizon – Amo
After ditching the metalcore almost completely on 2015’s critically acclaimed That’s the Spirit, Sheffield’s genre-smashing trailblazers take it a step further on their most ambitious project to date Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
FilmBurning
Lee Chang-dong's Burning begins like a meet-cute rom-com and morphs to a potboiler thriller, but there's something much more disturbing simmering underneath Read more »| 29 Jan 2019
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FilmThe Wife
A superb character study centred on a truly brilliant performance from Glenn Close Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
MusicSister John – Sister John
Sister John's eponymous sophomore record sees the Glasgow four-piece pushing doors with a new confidence Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
TheatreGlasgow Girls @ King's Theatre, Edinburgh
This timely revival of Cora Bissett's smash hit musical boasts incredible energy and a message of hope Read more »| 28 Jan 2019 -
Theatre#Hypocrisy @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Imogen Stirling's Fringe hit fuses spoken word and music, with a few important life lessons along the way Read more »| 28 Jan 2019 -
TheatreLes Misérables @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
The long-awaited return of the infamous smash hit musical is an exceptional and captivating production Read more »| 28 Jan 2019 -
MusicSwervedriver – Future Ruins
Bold and ambitious, Swervedriver's sixth studio album Future Ruins is deliriously difficult to place, and all the more exciting for it Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
MusicBlood Red Shoes – Get Tragic
Get Tragic is a powerful album, raw in its unflinching honesty, experimental in its lyrical and instrumental balances, and deeply moving Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
Clubs
Rebecca Vasmant on new Sub Club night Era Suite
Glasgow-based DJ, producer and jazz guru Rebecca Vasmant is the brains behind Era Suite, a new party night at Sub Club bringing jazz, Afrobeat, Latin, funk and electronica to the dance floor Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
Books
David Keenan introduces For The Good Times
David Keenan discusses The Troubles, mobster humour, and his second novel For The Good Times Read more »| 25 Jan 2019