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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Music
Bossy Love Are Meant To Be
We chat to Glasgow's rising pop stars Bossy Love on falling in love, building a future and owning the album they've always wanted Read more »| 10 Feb 2020 -
Film
First Love
The relentless Takashi Miike is back, this time with a madcap gangster mashup that's as genuinely thrilling as it is ridiculous Read more »| 10 Feb 2020 -
Music
Romance Is Boring at 10: Los Campesinos’ Lost Emo Legacy
Romance Is Boring celebrates ten years of existence with a reissue this month; we take a look at how the Los Campesinos! masterpiece is an unsung cornerstone of the emo revival Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
Art
Personal is Political: RSA New Contemporaries 2020
The Royal Scottish Academy's selection of the most recent art graduates returns, including some timely works from emerging artists keen to confront social issues and political tumult Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
Clubs
B2B: Aquarian x Sougwen Chung
With his debut album due for release this month, we asked DJ and producer Aquarian to discuss the making of the album and his collaboration with artist and researcher Sougwen Chung Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
Film
Scott Graham & the cast on Scottish small-town drama Run
Shell and Iona director Scott Graham returns with third feature Run. Sitting down with The Skinny and some of the film's cast, Graham tells us how his tale was inspired by a visit to his hometown and the story of a Bruce Springsteen obsessed fisherman Read more »| 07 Feb 2020
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Music
Nada Surf – Never Not Together
It's business as usual for Nada Surf on their ninth studio album, Never Not Together Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Music
La Roux – Supervision
Elly Jackson's third studio album Supervision sorely fails to live up to the standard of her previous records Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Theatre
Workers Theatre on Something Has to Happen Festival
We catch up with the folk from The Workers Theatre about radical art, how a theatre cooperative works and why their upcoming festival – Something Has To Happen – couldn't be more timely Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Tv Radio
Bojack Horseman: Season 6, Part 2
Bojack Horseman sends off its central characters almost too neatly, but its tone is near-perfect: the choice to continue living, trying, failing, and starting over is conveyed with cynicism, humour, and hope Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Music
Shopping – All or Nothing
Shopping add an electronic edge to their post-punk sound, offering a soundtrack for the frustrating times we live in Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Books
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
Blending fantasy and history, A Tall History of Sugar is an epic, generation-spanning novel set in newly independent Jamaica Read more »| 06 Feb 2020 -
Tv Radio
Grow Up: The Evolution of Coming-of-Age TV
Season two of Netflix’s Sex Education marks how far coming-of-age television series have come Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
Music
Fatoumata Diawara @ Tramway, Glasgow, 31 Jan
On the last evening of January, Fatoumata Diawara and co provide some much-needed musical catharsis Read more »| 05 Feb 2020 -
Music
Penelope Isles @ Gullivers, Manchester, 30 Jan
Although there could be a bit more showmanship on stage from Penelope Isles, you can’t help but thrill at the prospect of what they’re going to do next Read more »| 05 Feb 2020