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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MusicTica Douglas – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
The second record from Tica Douglas collects moments and feelings from partway through a journey that might have no end. Over terse acoustic guitar strumming... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel – I Can Spin a Rainbow
Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record. Dark corners, echoey corridors, lyrics half sung, half spoken. If this i... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Haçienda Classical to open Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage
Legendary Haçienda DJs team up with Manchester Camerata to take the Friday morning slot on Glastonbury's iconic Pyramid Stage Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
ClubsAera @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 7 Apr
Sneaky Pete’s is probably one of the only venues in Scotland where the DJ comes nose-to-nose with much of the dancefloor. A tangible sen... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Books
Scottish Poetry News – May 2017
Our columnist updates you on all things poetry for May, including a chat with Ted Hughes Prize winner Hollie McNish and the best words being offered on page and stage around Scotland Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Books
Librarians v Comics: Glasgow Libraries
Everybody knows you’d be hard pushed to find a librarian who couldn’t tell their Austen from their Elbow, but we wanted to find out how well thes... Read more »| 03 May 2017
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Music
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Film
Elba v McConaughey in The Dark Tower trailer
Idris Elba’s gunslinger will battle it out with Matthew McConaughey’s The Man in Black in this epic Stephen King adaptation Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley
It's always a little odd when an artist pulls out the self-titled record a few years into their career. This is Joan Shelley's fourth album, and her most con... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Fazerdaze – Morningside
“When I’m writing a song I never think about who’s gonna hear it, I just try and think about what I’m feeling, and I try and articula... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
MusicBlack Lips – Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?
Black Lips have never given a lot of fucks, but since working with Mark Ronson on 2011's criminally underrated Arabia Mountain, they've made a concerted effo... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Wild Beasts @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 1 May
Boy King is the furthest that Wild Beasts have ventured from their 'signature' sound. It features much heavier, electronic instrumentation that distorts thei... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Film
Films to watch in preparation for World War III
Concerned about the genuine possibility of global thermonuclear war? Maybe if we could get the 45th President of the USA to sit down and watch the following films, he'd remove his small finger from the doomsday button Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
FilmWhat to Watch this Week (1-7 May)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Neil Gaiman series American Gods, and Julian Barratt comedy Mindhorn Read more »| 02 May 2017