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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MusicHozier – Unreal Unearth
Despite the album’s overly manufactured pitfalls, Hozier’s work evokes the deeply relatable feeling of searching for something to cling to as we are swept along by the tides of destruction Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
FilmEIFF 2023: Babak Jalali on Fremont
This year's Edinburgh International Film Festival closes with Babak Jalali's Fremont. Jalali tells about his desire to make a film with empathy and compassion, but without the schmaltz Read more »| 14 Aug 2023 -
MusicSugababes @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 8 Aug
Sugababes finally get to reap the love of being one of the greatest pop groups of the century Read more »| 10 Aug 2023 -
MusicAurora Engine on TERRE, showcasing at Made In Scotland
Ahead of her run as part of this year's Made In Scotland showcase, we catch up with Aurora Engine to find out how she incorporates Scotland's landscape and wildlife into her music Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
MusicCarla J. Easton @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 3 Aug
Carla J. Easton paints a rainbow as she brings her dayglo daydreams to The Hug & Pint Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
BooksBut The Girl by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel is a delicate investigation into intergenerational immigrant subjectivities Read more »| 09 Aug 2023
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MusicSophie Ellis-Bextor @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, 4 Aug
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is in her element tonight as the sun shines bright for her shimmering disco set at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Bandstand Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
ArtEdinburgh Art Festival: Platform 2023
Edinburgh Art Festival's Platform exhibition returns with a fresh cohort of emerging talent. This year, each artist has been paired with a writer from the EAF x The Skinny writer programme to explore their practice Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
ArtQueering the City: Edinburgh Art Festival 2023
As Edinburgh Art Festival returns this month, The Skinny meet Sean Burns and Tarek Lakhrissi to discuss their artistic contributions to the festival Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
BooksDevorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa on what radical love looks like
Ahead of their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we ask authors Devorah Baum, Alva Gotby and Sophie K Rosa about their most utopian imagination of what love can look like Read more »| 09 Aug 2023 -
BooksIsabella Hammad on her Palestinian Shakespeare novel Enter Ghost
The author of Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad sits down to talk about Shakespeare, political theatre, and narratives of identity ahead of her appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicPushing It Forward: Liturgy's Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix
With the release of their recent album 93696, Liturgy are still pushing themselves into bold new spaces. Ahead of their set at Glasgow’s new Core. Festival, we speak to the band’s Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicTime Out For Fun: Jerry Casale on 50 years of Devo
As new wave pioneers Devo set off on their farewell tour, we catch up with guitarist Gerald Casale to reflect on their 50 boundary-pushing years Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicAndrew Hung – Deliverance
Andrew Hung’s latest solo record is a patchy affair, as prone to misstep as it is to moments of thrashing joy Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicLaura Groves – Radio Red
Fourteen years after her only album as Blue Roses, the Shipley singer-songwriter elegantly steps out under her own name Read more »| 08 Aug 2023