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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MusicSuper Inuit – Tectonic (Video Premiere)
Watch the Mario Cruzado-directed video for Tectonic, the latest single from Edinburgh duo Super Inuit Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
ArtHold Water: Senga Nengudi's Solo Show in Edinburgh
Senga Nengudi is one of the foremost of the avant garde black art scene extending from the 1970s in the USA. This month her first solo show outside the US opens in The Fruitmarket Gallery Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
ArtNuart Aberdeen completes its 2019 line-up
Internationally-renowned street art festival Nuart Aberdeen finalises its 2019 line-up, with new additions including Ememem, Vhils, Smug and Evol Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
MusicCHAI – PUNK
Confidently taking on everything from rave rock to rose-tinted tropic-pop and with former singles trashing tired beauty tropes, CHAI tackle our stereos – and societal stereotypes – head on Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
MusicStephen Malkmus – Groove Denied
Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus delivers his infamous "lost" electronic solo album, and it's a showcase of the indie rock titan's willingness to experiment Read more »| 12 Mar 2019 -
MusicSigrid – Sucker Punch
By the end of Sucker Punch, on her long-awaited debut album Sigrid has more than earned her moment, and hopefully many more to come Read more »| 11 Mar 2019
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MusicFamily Values: Stillhound on their new album
As Edinburgh three-piece Stillhound prepare to release their new self-titled album, they tell us their remarkable tales of early fame, musical reincarnation and the lows of dashed dreams Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
TheatreFuture Facing: National Theatre of Scotland's Interference
The National Theatre of Scotland puts sci-fi on stage in a new trilogy of plays set in the near-future. The Skinny heads to their canal-side HQ to discuss robots, ethics, virtual universes and the future of the human race – no biggie Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
ComedyFringe Dog's Glasgow Comedy Festival guide
Fringe Dog runs away from home to give us a guide to Glasgow International Comedy Festival Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
FilmMinding the Gap
Bing Liu's 12-year-spanning Minding the Gap is both a great skating doc and a moving portrait of how toxic masculinity can manifest in destructive ways Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
FilmGuy Maddin on skew-whiff Vertigo remake The Green Fog
The endlessly inventive Guy Maddin has crafted a skew-whiff remake of Vertigo from clips of films set in San Francisco. The result is both loving homage and sly critique, and the Canadian director cheekily suggests he's improved on Hitchcock's original Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
ArtMaking Ground @ Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
The three artists in the Embassy group show Making Ground each deal with the persistence of the physical and social violence of colonialism Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
MusicMeat Puppets – Dusty Notes
Back with their original line-up, Meat Puppet fans can rest assured that Dusty Notes is a bona fide treat to match Bob Mould’s Sunshine Rock in the renaissance stakes Read more »| 11 Mar 2019 -
ArtDCA at 20: A Timeline
This month marks the 20th birthday of one of Scotland’s most-beloved cultural spaces, Dundee Contemporary Arts. To mark the occasion we’ve taken a look through their archive to pick out some of the key events of the last two decades Read more »| 10 Mar 2019 -
FilmTrue/False 2019: Knock Down the House
Rachel Lears' documentary follows four women running for Congress in the midterm elections of 2018, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Read more »| 09 Mar 2019