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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MusicSpotlight On... LYLO
Glasgow alt-pop trio LYLO return from a six-year writing and recording hiatus with brand new single Hush, from their forthcoming new record Thoughts of Never Read more »| 22 Feb 2024 -
TheatreManipulate: Ruins @ The Studio, Edinburgh
In Ruins, Megahertz and Feral Arts address the climate crisis through daring design, otherworldly choreography and the tight confines of a mesh cube Read more »| 22 Feb 2024 -
TheatreManipulate: La Conquête @ The Studio, Edinburgh
French company Compagnie à parodies and interrogates colonialism through genre-bending performance in La Conquête, part of this year's Manipulate Festival Read more »| 22 Feb 2024 -
BooksGathering, edited by Durre Shahwar & Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
The latest from indie publishers 404 Ink, Gathering is a remarkable and ground-breaking collection about women of colour moving through nature Read more »| 22 Feb 2024 -
FilmGlasgow Short Film Festival 2024: Archive, community and folklore
GSFF is back with a sparkling programme including newly-unearthed Bill Douglas shorts, little-seen work from a Mexican feminist group, some subversive folklore films and a strand in defiance of oppression Read more »| 20 Feb 2024 -
FilmScotland on Screen: Tony Curran
In Sky's new sexy and hugely entertaining drama Mary & George, Tony Curran plays James VI and I. It's one of his juiciest roles yet. We discuss his long career, his acting craft and his favourite performances Read more »| 20 Feb 2024
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MusicHurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
The latest from Alynda Segarra's shapeshifting outfit is calm and assured, but no less powerful for it Read more »| 20 Feb 2024 -
MusicMGMT – Loss of Life
The Connecticut duo’s fifth release is a big, warm hug of a whimsical and wonderful return to form Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
MusicNadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
On her fifth studio album, Nadine Shah presents a collection of breathless forward momentum that never loses its balance Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
MusicWhitelands – Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day
Whitelands' second debut album is hazy and intriguing, but we're left wanting more edge Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
MusicReal Estate – Daniel
The jangly New Jerseyans provide another nugget of blissful escapism Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
BooksThe Skinny on... Anahit Behrooz
She wrote the actual book on radical intimacy and love in female friendship. As The Skinny's very own Anahit Behrooz prepares to release her second book, Mapping Middle-earth, we ask her some increasingly intrusive questions Read more »| 19 Feb 2024 -
FilmPerfect Days
Wim Wenders serves a bittersweet slice-of-life with a commanding central performance from Kōji Yakusho as a hard-working Tokyo toilet cleaner Read more »| 16 Feb 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Gallus
Following the release of their latest single, Wash Your Wounds, and ahead of their forthcoming Scottish tour, we catch up with Gallus Read more »| 15 Feb 2024 -
FilmViggo Mortensen, George Mackay set for Glasgow Film Festival
Rose Glass, Maxine Peake, George Mackay and Viggo Mortensen are among the stars set to appear at the 20th edition of the Glasgow Film Festival Read more »| 15 Feb 2024