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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MusicWire – Silver/Lead
Wire emerged alongside the nascent punk movement in the late 70s, but they just as quickly gave up those cheap thrills in search of something more visce... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
MusicCharlotte OC – Careless People
In Charlotte OC’s world, every line has a shadow; 'We keep on running like a river! Riveeeer.' The pop-minded theatricality of her debut album Careless... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Manuela – Manuela
By the time the second chorus rolls around on Everything Goes, the gauzy, unassuming opener to Manuela’s debut record, you know you’re in good ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Saltland – A Common Truth
Let’s get the most important part out of the way before we start wittering on: Rebecca Foon’s second album as Saltland is a bona fide stunner. Po... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Coco Hames – Coco Hames
From the opening salvo of When You Said Goodbye and I Do Love You, you’ll immediately know whether or not you’re going to love Coco Hames. With t... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Film
My 20th Century
The first feature from Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi – who recently won the Golden Bear for her latest film On Body and Soul – comes t... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017
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Clubs
Slam on 25 years of Soma Records
Slam's Soma 25 stage at Glasgow's upcoming Riverside Festival will celebrate the iconic label's 25th anniversary year – here the dynamic DJ duo reflect on their quarter-century in the game Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
MusicChaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 – Star Stuff
Chaz Bundick is a chameleon. Pioneering the chillwave epoch of the early 2010s under the moniker Toro y Moi, he’s since tried his hand at funk, psyched... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Theatre
Lliam Paterson on Bluebeard's Castle & The 8th Door
Ahead of a new collaboration with Glasgow's Vanishing Point, Scottish Opera’s composer-in-residence Lliam Paterson tells us about reviving and reinventing a seminal Hungarian opera Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
FilmMulholland Drive gets new trailer for its rerelease
Turn-of-the-millennium masterwork Mulholland Drive is coming back to cinemas, and its new trailer takes us back inside David Lynch’s ravishing nightmar... Read more »| 27 Mar 2017 -
Music
Sharing Stories: Martha interview
As Durham's finest prepare to play Manchester Punk Festival, Nathan Stephens-Griffin tells us about punk in 2017, the death of subculture and the importance of indie labels like Fortuna POP! Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
Music
Elvis Costello @ Festival Theatre, 18 Mar
After a couple of years on the road, Elvis Costello is bringing his run of Detour shows to a close. The show operates as a sort of intimate retrospective; Co... Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 23-29 Mar
Karnival celebrate 11 years in the capital with Chicago legend Derrick Carter, Manchester's Paleman headlines Headset, plus Denis Sulta celebrates all things Jurassic Park Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
Clubs
Glasgow Clubbing Highlights: 24-30 Mar
The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival Fringe brings some big names to Glasgow this weekend, including radio veteran Gilles Peterson and dynamo British producer Bonobo, plus Blackout's 11 hour techno marathon is here... Read more »| 24 Mar 2017 -
Film
Nicolas Winding Refn remaking Maniac Cop
A modern adaptation of 1988 cult slasher Maniac Cop is in the works, with Nicolas Winding Refn and his partner Lene Børglum producing Drive and Neon ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2017