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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FilmEdinburgh Film Festival announce £50,000 Sean Connery Prize
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced two huge prizes for this year’s edition: one for best short film and one for best feature Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
Tv RadioLove Lessons with Married At First Sight Australia
Trusting the process, causing chaos and traumatising those around you – welcome to the world of Married At First Sight Australia Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
MusicGrandaddy – Blu Wav
Jason Lytle finally comes down to earth for a startlingly assured embrace of alt-country Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
MusicWilliam Doyle – Springs Eternal
William Doyle’s latest is a mixed bag, as capable of passages of delicate, elegiac beauty as it is of flailing missteps Read more »| 14 Feb 2024 -
ComedyDream Gig: Ian Smith
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated stand-up and co-host of Northern News podcast, Ian Smith has a Dream Gig to rival U2's Las Vegas residency Read more »| 13 Feb 2024 -
BooksThe Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor
In the distant future, a woman walks into a tattoo parlour to tell the tale of her interconnected tattoos in this mesmerising and blistering exploration of male violence and female solidarity Read more »| 13 Feb 2024
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MusicIDLES – TANGK
A raucous expression of love, TANGK is raw, vulnerable and inimitably IDLES Read more »| 12 Feb 2024 -
MusicLime Garden on friendship and their debut album
Wonky pop party band Lime Garden unleash their debut album this month, proving that there is nothing better than getting up on stage and having fun with your mates Read more »| 12 Feb 2024 -
MusicLime Garden – One More Thing
Brighton four-piece Lime Garden show signs of bigger things to come on debut album One More Thing Read more »| 12 Feb 2024 -
TheatreThe Pie's The Thing: A Play, A Pie & A Pint returns
With the days steadily getting longer, A Play, A Pie & A Pint launches its ambitious spring season this month Read more »| 09 Feb 2024 -
Musicbilly woods @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 6 Feb
billy woods revels in freedom tonight at Summerhall, although missing soundcheck means he has to shout to be heard Read more »| 08 Feb 2024 -
ClubsCL!CK: Vaj Power & Miss Cabbage on their new night
Miss Cabbage teams up with VAJ.Power to create CL!CK – the newest party that you didn’t know you needed. Ahead of their Valentines' night, we chat to the duo Read more »| 08 Feb 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Rosé Chrissy
Following the surprise release of her debut album, Diary of a Baddie, we shine a spotlight on Glasgow rapper Rosé Chrissy Read more »| 08 Feb 2024 -
BooksWrong Norma by Anne Carson
Acclaimed poet and polymath Anne Carson returns with Wrong Norma, a series of unconnected yet beautifully coherent vignettes Read more »| 08 Feb 2024 -
MusicKelburn Garden Party 2024: First acts announced
With Erol Alkan, HAAi, James Holden, Free Love, LVRA, Rebecca Vasmant, corto.alto and more announced for Kelburn Garden Party, we finally have summer in our sights Read more »| 07 Feb 2024