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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MusicDictator – Taped Up (Track Premiere)
Listen to Taped Up, the gritty, determined new single from Edinburgh four-piece Dictator Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
MusicCaribou on new album Suddenly and finding joy in tragedy
Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, tells us about his intimate new album, Suddenly Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
TheatrePride Plays @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Scotland's first LGBTQI+ playwright festival returns to The Traverse, showcasing some excellent new work Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
FilmDystopian Sci-fi at Glasgow Film Festival 2020
Hoping for a bright, shiny future with flying cars and labour-saving technology? Glasgow Film Festival's daily retrospective suggests some less upbeat possibilities for humanity Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
MusicBest Coast – Always Tomorrow
Five years on from California Nights, Bethany Cosentino delivers a thoughtful paean to self-care at the second attempt Read more »| 19 Feb 2020 -
MusicDry Cleaning @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 13 Feb
Dry Cleaning bring a new twist to post-punk, showing why they're a band to watch for the future Read more »| 18 Feb 2020
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BooksExercises in Control by Annabel Banks
The everyday become unsettling in these darkly funny short stories about control Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
BooksPaisley Book Festival: Radical voices, rebel stories
As the very first Paisley Book Festival gets ready to shake up Scotland’s literary scene, we ask three of its appearing writers to reflect on their experiences, challenges and hopes for the Scottish publishing industry Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicPictish Trail – Thumb World
Pictish Trail's new album is an electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder that's funny, beautiful and life-affirming Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicAngel Olsen @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 14 Feb
Angel Olsen brings her six-piece band to the Barrowlands for a night of beautiful ballads, gorgeous arrangements and Buckfast regrets Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicThe Massacre Cave – We Own the Sun (Video Premiere)
Watch the new music video from Eigg metallers The Massacre Cave, starring their fellow island resident Pictish Trail Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioLocke & Key
Where Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez’s graphic novel had blood and guts, Netflix swap in teenybopper romances and faux scares Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicThe Menzingers @ QMU, Glasgow, 11 Feb
The Menzingers' northernmost show on their Hello Exile tour is a resounding success, with Glasgow’s hospitality is been more than repaid Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
MusicFourth Daughter – Vision of You (Live Session Premiere)
Watch the live solo session for Vision of You, the latest single from Edinburgh's Fourth Daughter Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
FilmSimon Bird on directing Days of the Bagnold Summer
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird introduces us to his debut feature film Days of the Bagnold Summer, a sweet comedy focused on the precarious relationship between a well-intentioned librarian mother and her metalhead teen son Read more »| 17 Feb 2020