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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MusicSpotlight On... New Scottish Music in 2025
From doom-metal to pop and everything in-between, we highlight just some of the mostly grassroots Scottish artists to look out for in 2025 Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
MusicScottish New Music Round-up: January 2025
January is off to a flying start with excellent new records from Franz Ferdinand, C Duncan, Diljeet Kaur Bhachu, Penny Black and more Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: January 2025
January is one of the quieter months for theatre, after the festive extravaganza of December, but some winter magic continues... Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
FilmScottish Film Events: January 2025
Mike Leigh visits GFT, an epic film about the Flow Country at Celtic Connections and a whole load of Oscar bait! Plus, our film podcast The CineSkinny escapes the studio for a live post-film discussion about 21st-century queer cinema Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: January 2025
It might be cold and dark outside for much of January, but there are big gigs, mini-festivals, and an Independent Venue Week that warrant wrapping up and getting out the house for Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
ArtScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: January 2025
While the first month of the year is undoubtedly a quiet one, there's still plenty of exhibitions to see across Scotland this January Read more »| 06 Jan 2025
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MusicMoonchild Sanelly – Full Moon
The blue-haired bombshell oft dubbed the ‘Queen of African Pop’, Moonchild Sanelly is back. Her latest outing, Full Moon, is her most exciting to date Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
MusicLambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out
Irate Brighton duo Lambrini Girls are fierce, funny and fully-formed on their crackling debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FilmBabygirl
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are caught up in a complex web of sexual domination in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, one of the most welcome entries into the erotic thriller canon in years Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FilmThe Great Queer Filmmakers of the 21st Century
Ahead of The Skinny's screening of Matthias & Maxime at GFT as part of Queer Cinema Sundays, we asked our writers: "Who are the great LGBTQ+ auteurs of the 21st Century?" Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
MusicEthel Cain – Perverts
Perverts, Ethel Cain’s foggy, horrifying, southern gothic pantomime, is a cryptic conquest seeking to draw out your deepest fears and desires Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
BooksDealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou
In acclaimed Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's latest book, a new resident of Frère Lachaise cemetery has to reckon with their death Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
ComedyThe Skinny on... Alison Spittle
Hella chill comic Alison Spittle answers this month’s Q&A from an A&E waiting room. No doubt it’ll end up in her next show Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: January 2025
Come out of the cold in the new year with our hand-picked selection of laughs in Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FilmUncovering the Past: RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys
With his debut fiction film Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross finds a cinematic language to interrogate Black historical narratives that immerse audiences in that history. He discusses his suspicion of image-making and the role of the artist in political change Read more »| 30 Dec 2024