Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
-
MusicMartha Ffion on Sunday Best
We talk Seinfeld, Peep Show and growing up in Ireland with Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Martha Ffion ahead of the release of her debut album Sunday Best Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
FilmMom and Dad
One half of the duo behind Crank returns with Mom and Dad, a horror comedy about murderous parents, starring Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
MusicGumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa
Soundway Records' latest compilation is a fantastic introduction to the party-starting bubblegum sound from South Africa Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Books
Scottish Poetry News: March 2018
A look at the month ahead in the poetry world, as StAnza and Aye Write! festivals return for 2018 Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
MusicMartha Ffion – Sunday Best
Sunday Best is a confident debut chock-full of understated pleasures, one that hints Martha Ffion will only get better as her career progresses Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Film
Ramrod
A fascinating and absorbing western starring Veronica Lake, whose character comes across as a noir femme fatale who's been dropped into the middle of cattle country Read more »| 05 Mar 2018
-
Film
Oscars results: Get Out, Timothée Chalamet and Greta Gerwig were robbed
But cheers to wins for Jordan Peele, James Ivory and wonderful Chilean movie A Fantastic Woman. Kudos too to Best Actress Frances McDormand and her rousing speech Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Music
Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
Cocoa Sugar is a potent mix of sugary boy band choruses, tongue-twister rap and surreal imagery making for the Leith trio's best album yet Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Music
Young Fathers on Cocoa Sugar and Edinburgh's live music scene
We pay Young Fathers a visit in their Leith studio space to talk about new album Cocoa Sugar, via pop dreams, improv poetry, huge horses and the future for Edinburgh's live scene Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Books
Introducing The Little Book of Feminist Saints
The Little Book of Feminist Saints showcases the women through history who broke new ground, shattered glass ceilings, and broke the mould. We talk to its creators Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Art
Call and Response: Kobi Onyame vs the artist
An experimental music-art collaboration takes place this month in Many Studios in Glasgow, pairing artists with tracks from Kobi Onyame's acclaimed new album GOLD Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Film
You Were Never Really Here
Morvern Callar director Lynne Ramsay knocks it out of the park again with this fierce hitman thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, which has echoes of Taxi Driver Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Art
Margaret Salmon @ Tramway
Margaret Salmon's works so far are the subject of a large scale retrospective at Tramway in Glasgow, as they present an exhibition of the previous 20 years of her experimental film practice alongside elements of her working archive Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Art
Rehana Zaman @ CCA, Glasgow
Rehana Zaman's first solo show in Scotland is an installation containing three variously connected and distinct video works that nimbly negotiate intimate documentary interviews with structural, formal and experimental elements Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Film
The Skinny's Final Oscar Predictions
'And the award should go to...' Read more »| 02 Mar 2018