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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MusicLadytron – Paradises
On their eighth album Paradises, Ladytron head for the disco and relive the fun of 90s clubland Read more »| 16 Mar 2026 -
BooksThe Delusions by Jenni Fagan
Jenni Fagan's intensely humanist novel explores the administrative structures of the afterlife Read more »| 13 Mar 2026 -
MusicMs Banks – SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL
Ms Banks has never lacked for candour, but on SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL, she raises it to an organising principle Read more »| 13 Mar 2026 -
MusicSpotlight On... Bottle Rockets
Following the release of new single father's daughter and ahead of their forthcoming new EP, we catch up with Glasgow's Bottle Rockets Read more »| 12 Mar 2026 -
BooksMirrorstage by Peter Scalpello
Poet Peter Scalpello turns his hand to prose in this psychedelic exploration of queerness and addiction Read more »| 12 Mar 2026 -
ClubsThank You for the Music: Queer Elders’ Memories of Fire Island
A dance through time – one writer gathers recollections of Fire Island, Scotland’s first regular gay club, charting police raids, leaky ceilings and love to the soundtrack of disco Read more »| 12 Mar 2026
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FilmHippFest: Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot on scoring Finis Terræ
Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot discuss their latest collaboration, a new folk-tinged score to Jean Epstein’s landmark experimental drama Finis Terræ, which they will be debuting live at this year's HippFest Read more »| 12 Mar 2026 -
ComedyBehind the Mic: Good Egg Comedy
Ross Leslie of Good Egg Comedy chats about being a Good Egg, Glasgow International Comedy Festival and supporting the next generation of Scottish comics Read more »| 12 Mar 2026 -
FilmThe Good Boy
Anson Boon plays a 19-year-old hoodlum who receives some unconventional rehabilitation from Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough in this strange and thought-provoking drama Read more »| 11 Mar 2026 -
MusicEdinburgh International Festival announces 2026 programme
Edinburgh International Festival returns with a programme around the theme of All Rise. Highlights include a new version of Angels in America, Missy Mazzoli's opioid opera The Galloping Cure and an intimate gig from corto.alto Read more »| 11 Mar 2026 -
MusicOra Cogan – Hard Hearted Woman
Hard Hearted Woman is a beguiling and consistently original album from the indie-folk maverick Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
MusicKim Gordon – PLAY ME
Kim Gordon has mastered a modern mixture of distorted guitar and intense trip-hop beats with the release of her most political solo album Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
FilmBi Gan on Resurrection
We are living in the Bi Gan era! This hugely talented Chinese filmmaker discusses his latest work, Resurrection, a dazzling epic spanning the history of cinema Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
FilmHlynur Pálmason on The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason's fourth feature is an idiosyncratic look at a family in crisis that's set over four seasons and regularly drifts from the quotidian to the surreal. The Icelandic writer-director discusses his unique approach to filmmaking Read more »| 10 Mar 2026 -
BooksSpoiled Milk by Avery Curran
Something deadly is lurking in the background of Briarley School for Girls in this queer Gothic boarding school novel Read more »| 10 Mar 2026