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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TheatreBard in the Botanics: Bringing Wonder to Glasgow
Our run down of this year's Bard in the Botanics season, with a theme of "Unlikely Wonders" and the first production of Love's Labour's Lost in almost five decades. Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
Theatre
The Driver's Seat @ Lyceum Theatre
Is Lise a victim? This question haunts The Driver's Seat, with Laurie Sansom’s superb rendering of the balance between power and vulnerability which dr... Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
Film
The Films of 2015 so far: Our mid-year report
We're just over halfway through 2015 and, in terms of film, it's shaping up to be a doozy. Here are the movies our film writers have loved so far. Will any of them make the long haul to our end of year list? Check back in six months Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
Music
Eleventh Day Dream – Works for Tomorrow
More roadhouse rattle from veteran Chicago first-wavers Eleventh Day Dream. Now on long player #13, and augmented by additional guitar (courtesy of Illinois-... Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
MusicThe War On Drugs: "It's fun to be the underdog in a mainstream world"
Ahead of their return to the UK this month, The War On Drugs' mainstay Adam Granduciel breaks something of a silence to share his reaction to the phenomenal success of Lost In The Dream and what the next chapter might hold for the band Read more »| 08 Jul 2015 -
Music
7 to see at T in the Park
The 22nd annual T in the Park is upon us, taking place at its new home of Strathallan Castle. Away from the limelight hogging chart sensations, we’ve picked out a handful of margin walkers from across the weekend that you simply shouldn’t miss Read more »| 08 Jul 2015
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Art
Gray's School of Art Degree Show: Stating their Case
It’s quite a trek to reach Gray’s School of Art. Half an hour by bus or an hour walking from Aberdeen’s centre, in a green garden campus on... Read more »| 08 Jul 2015 -
MusicSeven Davis Jr – Universes
Universes’ lead single is called Sunday Morning, but like most of the debut record from long term limelight shirker Seven Davis Jr., its overriding fee... Read more »| 08 Jul 2015 -
Music
Strange Wilds – Subjective Concepts
More echoes of grunge from the label that started it all – between the squalling noise of METZ and this selection of jagged rifferama, you wonder where... Read more »| 08 Jul 2015 -
Art
Back to Black Mountain: The Only Way To Do It
GSA Curatorial Practice students mount an exhibition that's intended as a sharp new contextualisation of American Abstract Expressionist prints Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
MusicOught announce new album ‘Sun Coming Down’
Montreal post-punk quartet Ought have announced the release of their second full-length LP, Sun Coming Down, this September. Sun Coming Down is the follow-u... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
Music
Haiku Salut – Etch and Etch Deep
Half-dreams – the hypnagogic state between wakefulness and sleeping. That’s where Haiku Salut sneak up on you, playing on your fragile consciousn... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
Music
Vinyl Williams – Into
The second long player from LA-based artist/multi-instrumentalist Lionel Williams – grandson of film composer John Williams – and it certainly do... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
Art
Daubing and Befriending Birds: This Week in Scottish Art
The Whisky Bond's Annual Party this Saturday is the big event this week, while there are new shows at Collective, Glasgow Sculpture Studios and the Glasgow Project Room, plus one-offs and last chances in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Read more »| 07 Jul 2015 -
MusicAlessandro Cortini – Risveglio
A sound that pulls at unnerving soundtrack textures, implies a dislocation from home and wears its analogue chops as if there’s no possible alternative... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015