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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MusicThe Vegan Leather on anxiety, escapism and their debut album
We chat to The Vegan Leather's Gianluca Bernacchi and Marie Collins about anxiety, escapism and their debut album, Poor Girls / Broken Boys Read more »| 16 Oct 2019 -
MusicCommon Holly – When I Say To You Black Lightning
The second record from Montreal-based songwriter Brigitte Naggar and company is an inventive, endearing, restless and powerfully tender voyage Read more »| 16 Oct 2019 -
MusicWeyes Blood on Titanic Rising and the climate crisis
Five months on from the release of her fourth album as Weyes Blood, we speak to Natalie Mering about Titanic Rising and the ongoing climate crisis Read more »| 15 Oct 2019 -
MusicEl Rancho Records on EH-FM, 14 Oct: Listen Again
El Rancho Records label boss Ian Jnr Crawford takes over our show on EH-FM, taking us through the history of the label Read more »| 15 Oct 2019 -
MusicJesca Hoop @ Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Oct
Jesca Hoop tells tales and lends her impressive voice to songs old and new for an appreciative Edinburgh crowd Read more »| 15 Oct 2019 -
FilmKen Loach on gig economy drama Sorry We Missed You
Consider the rumours of Ken Loach's retirement well and truly quashed. Following I, Daniel Blake, the tireless filmmaker is back with Sorry We Missed You, another powerful drama exploring austerity Britain Read more »| 15 Oct 2019
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FilmThe Irishman
Martin Scorsese reunites with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci for this enthralling mob epic that's full of echoes of Scorsese’s earlier films Read more »| 15 Oct 2019 -
MusicAnna Meredith on creating her own worlds on FIBS
Following on from her 2016 SAY Award-winning album Varmints, we speak to Anna Meredith about telling lies and creating her own worlds on its follow-up, FIBS Read more »| 15 Oct 2019 -
MusicPip Blom @ The Caves, Edinburgh, 9 Oct
Pip Blom brings colour and noise to The Caves with a set designed to be danced to Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
FilmOrdinary Love
Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson give career-best performances in this tale of a middle-aged couple’s brush with cancer Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
FilmLFF 2019: Ema
Starring Pablo Mariana di Girolamo and Gael García Bernal, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín's new film is a seductive, opaque study of grief and sex Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
MusicFloating Points – Crush
Crush is some of the most tightly-constructed and dense work Floating Points has ever released Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
MusicVagabon – Vagabon
Stripped back and rich, Vagabon's genre-spanning second album is an incandescent and undefinable triumph Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
MusicDeclan Welsh and the Decadent West – Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold
Declan Welsh's debut digs into city life in a way reminiscent of Mike Skinner or Alex Turner Read more »| 14 Oct 2019 -
MusicAnna Meredith – FIBS
Anna Meredith's new record is a maximal and intricate album that blurs boundaries between the organic and electronic Read more »| 14 Oct 2019