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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MusicW.H. Lung – Every Inch of Earth Pulsates
Manchester's best-kept secret, W.H. Lung, deliver a visceral, urgent third album in Every Inch of Earth Pulsates Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
MusicLanny – bliss!! bliss! bliss
On their debut solo record, Lanny rips up the power-pop playbook – bliss!! bliss! bliss is the optimal lo-fi manual for coping in the modern age Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
MusicMount Eerie – Night Palace
On Night Palace, Phil Elverum continues to muddy the idea of a musical identity, sounding closer to work he's released as The Microphones Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
MusicThe Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Perennial gloomsters The Cure are back to their majestic, melancholy best on Songs of a Lost World, their first album in 16 years Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: November 2024
November in Scotland offers a slate of powerful adaptations Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
BooksScottish Books Events: November 2024
There's two big literary festivals arriving in Edinburgh this month: Push the Boat Out and the Radical Book Fair. Elsewhere, the likes of Eliza Clark and Hannah Lavery launch new books Read more »| 29 Oct 2024
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ArtScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: November 2024
There's a diverse set of new festivals, installations and exhibitions taking place across the country in November Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
FilmBlitz
Blitz sees Steve McQueen torn between telling a rousing tale of 'Blitz Spirit' and delving into the darker impulses of war-torn Britain Read more »| 29 Oct 2024 -
MusicIron & Wine @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 25 Oct
Sam Beam and co. are firing on all cylinders for this exceptional Iron & Wine show in Edinburgh Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: November 2024
November brings a trio of mini-festivals, big Scottish shows from Niteworks and Barry Can't Swim, and visits from English Teacher, Confidence Man and Billy Woods Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
BooksGaza poet Mosab Abu Toha on new collection Forest of Noise
We speak with Gaza poet Mosab Abu Toha, whose extraordinary new collection spans poems written before and during the genocide Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: November 2024
November is rammed with excellent comedy: highlights include mighty homegrown talent, an Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and The Office Australia’s new Michael Scott/David Brent Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
MusicMerope – Véjula
The latest from Lithuanian folk duo Merope is a masterful melding of gorgeous pastorals and the mysterious Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
BooksThe Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini
First published in 1972, Ángel Bonomini’s short story The Novices of Lerna is a masterpiece of surrealist fiction finally translated into English Read more »| 28 Oct 2024 -
FilmAnora
Sean Baker’s Anora, a screwball romance in which a brassy exotic dancer is swept off her feet by the gawky son of a Russian oligarch, is another of his razor-sharp humanist depictions of life for people on the margins Read more »| 28 Oct 2024