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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MusicFLO – Therapy at the Club
On FLO's latest album, Therapy at the Club, the trio reach for a more box office pop sound with mixed results Read more »| 07 Aug 2026 -
MusicBonnie Kemplay - Someone, somewhere track-by-track
Following the release of Someone, somewhere, singer-songwriter Bonnie Kemplay talks us through the EP track by track Read more »| 07 Aug 2026 -
MusicSiobhan Wilson on her Fringe show FLOWERCORE
Ahead of bringing her immersive gig theatre FLOWERCORE to this year's Fringe, we catch up with singer-songwriter, composer and artist Siobhan Wilson Read more »| 07 Aug 2026 -
MusicCitizen – Halcyon Blues
Toledo group Citizen's sixth record signifies another significant brick in the road towards the band's mature sonic identity Read more »| 07 Aug 2026 -
MusicLawrence English – The Rest Is My Ghost
On his latest album, Australian composer Lawrence English offers a sonic essay on memory Read more »| 06 Aug 2026 -
MusicInteresting Things festival returns to Stirling
As Stirling's avant-garde all-dayer Interesting Things returns for its third year, we find out how Scotland's smallest city has become an unlikely home for musical discovery Read more »| 06 Aug 2026
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MusicOvermono – Pure Devotion
Overmono's latest album Pure Devotion offers songs for reflection, whether the calm before the storm or the soul-searching afterwards Read more »| 06 Aug 2026 -
FilmMore Hockney than Cockney: In praise of Sexy Beast
EIFF's 25th anniversary screening of Sexy Beast will remind us of the film's place near the very top of the British gangster film canon Read more »| 06 Aug 2026 -
FilmThe Film's the Thing: Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet at 30
Kenneth Branagh will be celebrated in a big way at this year's EIFF, and rightly so! He helped resurrect Shakespeare on screen Read more »| 06 Aug 2026 -
Musicmaya ongaku – Nothing Space Music
Nothing Space Music, the second album from Japanese band maya ongaku, finds beauty in patience and stillness Read more »| 05 Aug 2026 -
BooksBeth Frieden on Gaelic poetry and new pamphlet Acair san Talamh
We chat with Beth Frieden, a Glasgow-based poet and New Scottish Writers Award winner for Gaelic Poetry in 2021, about her debut pamphlet, Acair san Talamh, ahead of her appearance at Govanhill Book Festival Read more »| 05 Aug 2026 -
MusicDrone Logic: Piping Live! festival returns to Glasgow
Piping Live! returns for its 23rd year, this time with an expanded experimental programme – we catch up with the team behind the festival to talk minimalism, guided improvisation, and Angine de Poitrine Read more »| 05 Aug 2026 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-Up: August 2026
Celestial bodies and nocturnal animals star across this month's music – along with a flock of singles and EPs, we recommend records from Alex Amor, Hanna Tuulikki & Tommy Perman, The Great Pleasure and a live album from our old friend Jacob Alon Read more »| 04 Aug 2026 -
ClubsCurated Environments: Edinburgh's nightclubs and the Fringe
If clubs are vital to Edinburgh’s culture, then why do they feel overlooked during the Fringe? One writer considers where clubs sit in our cultural landscape, in discussion with the cast and crew of the city’s nightlife venues Read more »| 04 Aug 2026 -
BooksScottish Books Events: August 2026
Edinburgh Book Festival returns this August, and it's joined by the Book Fringe and Govanhill Book Festival Read more »| 03 Aug 2026