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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MusicBorn To Do It: Craig David interview
The one and only Craig David fills The Skinny in on his return to music, his first album in six years and his upcoming UK tour Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
MusicRag'n'Bone Man – Human
The Rag’n’Bone Man. The R’n’B Man. Oh lordy, his trouble so hard. Rory Graham has got the blues: blessed with a rich yet gritty voice... Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
Film
Watch the Stranger Things Season 2 Trailer
A seriously creepy promo for Stranger Things season two landed online last night promising a terrifying new monster, the return of Eleven, and Mike, Luc... Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
Film
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins' decade-hopping coming-of-age film is a complex and boldly expressive meditation on time and identity Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
MusicFuture Get Down @ Sneaky Pete's, 28 Jan
“That was bangin’! Better than most club nights I’ve been to,” a random punter remarks, as The Skinny's hearing and eyesight slowly r... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Bandcamp donate profits to ACLU
New music website Bandcamp have announced that today (Fri 3 Feb) all of their profits will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, starting from 12... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017
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Music
Esben and the Witch: Guest Selector
The post-rock trio get to grips with the tracks behind their stunning latest LP Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
FilmDonald Trump 'too crazy for South Park'
“It’s really hard to make fun of [Trump]; what’s actually happening is much funnier than anything we could come up with” Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Acting Strange – Start It Over: Track Premiere
Listen to Start It Over, the first track from the new album by Glasgow band Acting Strange Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
Reassessing Martin Scorsese's legacy
Think Martin Scorsese's films are all about gangsters, violence and mayhem? Think again. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
Kate Tempest shares blistering Europe is Lost video
The insanity of our current political climate is documented in the video for the powerful Kate Tempest piece Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Music
The Upside Down: S U R V I V E interview
Best known for their Stranger Things soundtrack, we talk to S U R V I V E about synths, sophomore album RR7349 and what's next for the four-piece ahead of th... Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
Is Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge war porn?
War! What is it good for? Making lots of movies (say it again). Are all war movies – even those about pacifists – war porn? Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
Raising Cain
John Lithgow stars here as a troubled child psychiatrist in this hallucinatory, 1992 psychological thriller from director Brian De Palma. Read more »| 03 Feb 2017 -
Film
John Carpenter's Vampires & Ghosts of Mars
This pair of late works by John Carpenter prove that the genre master's filmography has riches beyond his earlier, celebrated classics Read more »| 03 Feb 2017