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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FilmInverness Film Festival reveals 2024 programme
Inverness Film Festival is back with another packed lineup that should delight Highland audiences – highlights include new films from Mike Leigh, Sean Baker and Andrea Arnold Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
MusicRoddy Woomble: Sometime During the Night We Fell Off the Map, track-by-track
Roddy Woomble talks us through his eighth solo album, Sometime During the Night We Fell Off the Map Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
ArtVoices from the Archive: Holly Davey at Fruitmarket
Holly Davey’s new exhibition at Fruitmarket sees the artist foregrounding the voices of the women artists who have exhibited at the gallery over the last 50 years Read more »| 11 Oct 2024 -
ClubsFergus Jones finds himself on Ephemera
The debut album from Edinburgh-born, Copenhagen-based Fergus Jones (fka Perko) is the product of worldwide collaborations – we catch up with Fergus to get the details Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
FilmSicko Mode: Weird Weekend returns to Glasgow
Weird Weekend, Matchbox Cine's celebration of strange and wonderful cinema, is back – we take a look at the 2024 programme Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
FilmScotland on Screen: Laura Carreira
From her incisive short films to her upcoming feature debut On Falling, Laura Carreira has shown herself to be a filmmaker with an eye for nuanced cinema concerned with social justice. Ahead of On Falling’s UK premiere, we look back at this body of work Read more »| 10 Oct 2024
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FilmSince Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands
Carla J. Easton and Blair Young team up to tell a vibrant but enraging story of the great girl bands from Scotland that should be on teenage bedroom walls across the country but aren't Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Saint Sappho
Following the release of latest single M.A.D., and ahead of a string of live shows, we catch up with queer Glasgow alt-rock duo Saint Sappho Read more »| 10 Oct 2024 -
MusicOliver Coates on new album Throb, shiver, arrow of time
Ahead of releasing his latest solo record, Throb, shiver, arrow of time, we catch up with cellist, producer, film composer and electronic musician Oliver Coates Read more »| 09 Oct 2024 -
MusicLawrence Power on the viola and performing with the SCO
Ahead of his appearance at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's Borealis shows, part of their New Dimensions series, we chat with world-class violist Lawrence Power Read more »| 08 Oct 2024 -
MusicThe Skinny on…Tricia Reid from Sophisticated Boom Boom
80s Glasgow band Sophisticated Boom Boom – a favourite of John Peel's – are reuniting to support the release of Carla J. Easton and Blair Young's doc Since Yesterday. Ahead of that gig, the band’s guitarist, Tricia Reid, takes our Q&A Read more »| 08 Oct 2024 -
ComedyTwo for Joy: Spencer Jones on his debut tour
We meet Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated prop comic Spencer Jones, who's driving all the way from Torquay for his first Glasgow show Read more »| 08 Oct 2024 -
MusicThe Linda Lindas – No Obligation
With a clearly defined sound and unapologetic enthusiasm, The Linda Lindas are absolutely a group to watch Read more »| 08 Oct 2024 -
BooksJourneys and Flowers by Mercè Rodoreda
Brought to life in English for the first time, this translated collection of stories by Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda is beautifully rendered Read more »| 08 Oct 2024 -
ArtSummerhall: Tax dispute puts Edinburgh arts venue in jeopardy
HMRC have hit the company which manages Summerhall with a 'winding-up petition', claiming the Edinburgh arts organisation owe unpaid corporation tax. Summerhall are disputing the claim, but their programme of events will be disrupted Read more »| 07 Oct 2024