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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TheatreDo Not Press This Button @ Oran Mòr, Glasgow
Despite strong performances from Gemma McElhinney and David Rankine, Alan Bisset's latest play fails to get moving Read more »| 19 Nov 2019 -
Tv RadioThe Politician
Ryan Murphy's latest creation sets its heights too high in its ambition and ultimately suffers as a result Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
FilmAtlantics
Mati Diop's feature debut Atlantics feels like the work of an experienced master Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
TheatreEZRA @ Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
EZRA is an enjoyable and witty play from writer Stella Green, strongly performed by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
MusicMetronomy @ SWG3, Glasgow, 13 Nov
Metronomy prove once more that they deserve their place at the head of the electro-grunge-pop table Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
Theatre//BUZZCUT// Double Thrills @ CCA, Glasgow
This double bill of Project X Dance's Ghost Dimensions and Travis Alabanza's Burgerz puts forward vital, interesting and necessary work Read more »| 18 Nov 2019
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MusicBlack Lips @ Stereo, Glasgow, 12 Nov
While Black Lips are a little less wild now than before, they still bring more vibrancy and unpredictability than most Read more »| 18 Nov 2019 -
MusicAmerican Football @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 3 Nov
The kings of emotionally literate indie rock do stirring justice to their late-career masterpiece in unlikely Leeds surrounds Read more »| 14 Nov 2019 -
MusicSKOOP rapper Tzusan on debut album Babau
We chat to SKOOP Records' co-founder Tzusan about sci-fi, sampling, and loads and loads of egg boxes Read more »| 13 Nov 2019 -
MusicCloth – Cloth
Glasgow trio Cloth's moody debut is assured and offers a glimpse at an even more exciting future Read more »| 13 Nov 2019 -
MusicBonnie 'Prince' Billy – I Made a Place
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy returns with his first album of original material in eight years, and it's a typically idiosyncratic, at-times aggressively upbeat, collection Read more »| 13 Nov 2019 -
MusicJeffrey Lewis & The Voltage – Bad Wiring
Bad Wiring is an electrifying addition to the Jeffrey Lewis canon, and possibly his best studio album yet Read more »| 13 Nov 2019 -
MusicLeif Vollebekk – New Ways
Leif Vollebekk's latest album New Ways is perfectly packaged and well-delivered, but fails to see Vollebekk break out of his easy-listening niche Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
FilmThe CGI Jeebies: Bringing actors back from the dead
A new movie wants to bring James Dean back from the dead and CGI has removed the need for intergenerational casting in decades-spanning gangster epic The Irishman. What does that mean for the future of screen acting? Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
MusicTNGHT – II
II bears the same restrained energy and cheek of TNGHT, yanked right up to date by a pair of plugged-in beatmakers Read more »| 12 Nov 2019