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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MusicCloud Nothings – Last Building Burning
Last Building Burning is an energetic riot that, though it tries, fails to leave a mark Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
FilmBig Night Out: Everyman Cinema opens in Glasgow
The independent boutique cinema chain opens its first Scottish branch in Glasgow’s Princes Square this month Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Theatre
Real Horror Show: Edinburgh Horror Festival preview
The Skinny chats to Alex Staniforth, one of the co-founders of the Edinburgh Horror Festival, about their third year, why there’s not enough horror theatre, and what makes the genre so unique Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Music
Karine Polwart – Laws of Motion
Karine Polwart's latest album brims with new influences and new energy, and is all the better for it Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
MusicYoko Ono – Warzone
On Warzone 13 songs from Yoko Ono's back catalogue are reimagined with the greatest care and dedication offering a sensitivity that is needed in our world now as much as ever Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
FilmGomorrah director Matteo Garrone on Dogman
Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone returns with Dogman, the story of a friendly dog-groomer who's drawn into violence by the local coke-head Read more »| 12 Oct 2018
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Film
Touch Me Not
Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not has good intentions, but what this chilly study of intimacy is lacking is, ironically, intimacy Read more »| 12 Oct 2018 -
Music
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 7 Oct
From cover-to-cover, Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood bring their two collaborative albums to Saint Luke’s tonight, highlighting the peaks and troughs of both records Read more »| 11 Oct 2018 -
Music
John Carpenter on his newfound life as a rockstar
John Carpenter is having a late-in-life career swerve, taking a break from cinema while he dips his toe in the music business. He tells us how life as a rockstar is both joyous and terrifying Read more »| 11 Oct 2018 -
Music
Stephen Malkmus on returning to Scotland and the new Jicks album
The Skinny catches up with Stephen Malkmus of Pavement and 'Jicks' fame ahead of his welcome return to Scotland in October and finds him 'laying low' in Indiana Read more »| 11 Oct 2018 -
Clubs
The Black Madonna on gender equality in music and her friendship with Optimo
Ahead of playing Terminal V's massive Halloween party, we chat to The Black Madonna about her friendship with Optimo, her sterling work with gender parity in music and the good and bad aspects of being "a dinosaur internet raver" Read more »| 11 Oct 2018 -
Clubs
Noncompliant on Maximum Pressure and feminism
Midwest rave veteran and outspoken activist Lisa Smith, aka Noncompliant, is finally getting the international recognition she deserves Read more »| 11 Oct 2018 -
Film
Scottish zombie musical Anna and the Apocalypse gets official trailer
The comedy-horror mashup set at Christmas hits UK cinemas in November, and gets its music-filled official trailer Read more »| 10 Oct 2018 -
Music
Belle and Sebastian to score Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird debut film
The Scottish group will compose the music for Simon Bird’s Days of the Bagnold Summer Read more »| 10 Oct 2018 -
Music
Virginia Wing @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 7 Oct
Virginia Wing more than do justice to their third album Ecstatic Arrow tonight, in an intense and energetic live performance Read more »| 10 Oct 2018