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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MusicTexas – Jump on Board
After nearly thirty years in the biz, Texas' ninth album Jump on Board finds the Glaswegian pop titans in a reflexive mood. Love, loss, regret and forgivenes... Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
MusicStag & Dagger, Glasgow, 30 Apr
Since its inception as one of many festivals in London's trendy East End in 2008, Stag & Dagger emerged in the next year as Glasgow's premier music expo ... Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
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Jamie & Shoony – Young Minds (Video Premiere)
Watch the new music video for Young Minds by Jamie & Shoony Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Film
Marvel heroes team up in first Defenders trailer
Marvel’s small screen superheroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist get their version of the Avengers with new Netflix show The Defenders Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
MusicYellow Is the New Black: Colonel Mustard & the Dijon 5 interview
We chat to The Colonel about dance-offs in South Korea, the Yellow Movement and Crossing the Road – i.e. the usual Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 stuff... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Fat Goth – Carpe Diem (Track Premiere)
Listen to Carpe Diem from Dundee noise-makers Fat Goth's new album Enorme! Read more »| 03 May 2017
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Music
Tica Douglas – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
The second record from Tica Douglas collects moments and feelings from partway through a journey that might have no end. Over terse acoustic guitar strumming... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel – I Can Spin a Rainbow
Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record. Dark corners, echoey corridors, lyrics half sung, half spoken. If this i... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Haçienda Classical to open Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage
Legendary Haçienda DJs team up with Manchester Camerata to take the Friday morning slot on Glastonbury's iconic Pyramid Stage Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
ClubsAera @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 7 Apr
Sneaky Pete’s is probably one of the only venues in Scotland where the DJ comes nose-to-nose with much of the dancefloor. A tangible sen... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Books
Scottish Poetry News – May 2017
Our columnist updates you on all things poetry for May, including a chat with Ted Hughes Prize winner Hollie McNish and the best words being offered on page and stage around Scotland Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Books
Librarians v Comics: Glasgow Libraries
Everybody knows you’d be hard pushed to find a librarian who couldn’t tell their Austen from their Elbow, but we wanted to find out how well thes... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Film
Elba v McConaughey in The Dark Tower trailer
Idris Elba’s gunslinger will battle it out with Matthew McConaughey’s The Man in Black in this epic Stephen King adaptation Read more »| 03 May 2017