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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BooksIsabella Hammad on her Palestinian Shakespeare novel Enter Ghost
The author of Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad sits down to talk about Shakespeare, political theatre, and narratives of identity ahead of her appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicPushing It Forward: Liturgy's Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix
With the release of their recent album 93696, Liturgy are still pushing themselves into bold new spaces. Ahead of their set at Glasgow’s new Core. Festival, we speak to the band’s Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicTime Out For Fun: Jerry Casale on 50 years of Devo
As new wave pioneers Devo set off on their farewell tour, we catch up with guitarist Gerald Casale to reflect on their 50 boundary-pushing years Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicAndrew Hung – Deliverance
Andrew Hung’s latest solo record is a patchy affair, as prone to misstep as it is to moments of thrashing joy Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicLaura Groves – Radio Red
Fourteen years after her only album as Blue Roses, the Shipley singer-songwriter elegantly steps out under her own name Read more »| 08 Aug 2023 -
MusicThe Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Eleven years after their last studio album, The Hives have returned with a vengeance, doing their bit to help rock'n'roll supplant flatpack furniture as Sweden’s greatest export Read more »| 08 Aug 2023
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ComedyKiell Smith-Bynoe returns to the Fringe
Best known for his TV roles on Stath Lets Flats, Ghosts and the latest series of Taskmaster, Kiell Smith-Bynoe brings a chaotic kids party to the Edinburgh Fringe and goes back to his improv roots Read more »| 04 Aug 2023 -
BooksTraces of Enayat by Iman Mersal
In Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat, the poet and scholar blends biography, memoir, and literary criticism to recover the story of forgotten Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat Read more »| 03 Aug 2023 -
ArtStudio Frostwood: Sustainable Ceramics
We talk to Studio Frostwood, an Edinburgh-based ceramics studio led by contemporary designers Hazel Frost and Natalie J Wood, about crafting a sustainable practice Read more »| 03 Aug 2023 -
BooksCamilla Grudova on Children of Paradise and The Coiled Serpent
We chat to Camilla Grudova, author of the creepy Children of Paradise and upcoming short story collection The Coiled Serpent, about capitalist horror, British class politics, and why people can't flush the toilet Read more »| 03 Aug 2023 -
TheatrePsychic Translations: Ong Ken Sen on Trojan Women at EIF
Director Ong Ken Sen sought emotional resonances across Euripides' Trojan Women and the story of the Korean Comfort Women Read more »| 03 Aug 2023 -
MusicGirl Ray – Prestige
Girl Ray are back with a work of loving homage that just falls a little flat Read more »| 02 Aug 2023 -
ComedyDream Gig: Jodie Mitchell
As they come to the Edinburgh Fringe with their debut hour, stand-up, Drag King and host of The LOL Word (a queer women, trans and non-binary comedy collective), Jodie Mitchell takes on August's Dream Gig Read more »| 02 Aug 2023 -
MusicThe Great Western returns for 2023: lineup revealed
The multi-venue Glasgow festival returns this November with Warmduscher, Forest Swords and a stage from Lost Map Records Read more »| 02 Aug 2023 -
MusicBrenda @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 28 Jul
An intimate album launch in the corner of The Glad Cafe can barely contain all the personality of post-punk trio Brenda, its individual members, or their special guests Read more »| 01 Aug 2023