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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Musicbrownbear @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 19 Jan
brownbear delights with a string quartet and backing singers for a one-off sold-out show as part of Celtic Connections Read more »| 22 Jan 2025 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival reveals its 2025 programme
The 21st edition of GFF returns with a programme rich with Scottish talent this year, including the world premiere of John Maclean’s second feature and an on-stage talk with James McAvoy Read more »| 21 Jan 2025 -
BooksConfessions by Catherine Airey
In Catherine Airey's debut, an epic family saga unfolds across generations and countries, capturing the entanglements of the Irish-American experience Read more »| 21 Jan 2025 -
MusicTiti & Ale Hop – Mapambazuko
The collaboration between the Congolese guitarist and Peruvian composer is a sparkling prospect on paper, but only fulfils its promise in patches Read more »| 21 Jan 2025 -
MusicDITZ – Never Exhale
Never Exhale is not for the faint of heart. A breathlessly intense, punishing listen filled with audible dynamism, sonic interest and gnarled heaviness Read more »| 21 Jan 2025 -
MusicSam Amidon – Salt River
Sam Amidon explores the organic quality of folk music with this collection of warm and playful re-compositions Read more »| 21 Jan 2025
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MusicBecca Starr @ Room 2, Glasgow, 18 Jan
Becca Starr's album launch tonight is proof that hip-hop performed with a full band is the way forward Read more »| 20 Jan 2025 -
MusicMogwai – The Bad Fire
As Mogwai embark on their fourth decade, eleventh album The Bad Fire proves this legendary group can still produce moving, intelligent and vital work Read more »| 20 Jan 2025 -
FilmThe Brutalist
Adrien Brody gives a career-best performance as a visionary architect whose talents are exploited by Guy Pearce's ruthless tycoon in this towering meditation on the American Dream from Brady Corbet Read more »| 20 Jan 2025 -
MusicSpotlight On... KuleeAngee
With their second single, Television, out now we catch up with Keshav Kanabar and Duncan Grant, aka KuleeAngee Read more »| 16 Jan 2025 -
ArtBe United: Celebrating ten years of activism
Be United turned ten years old in 2024 and in 2025, the organisation has more huge ambitions for Black creatives in Scotland. We meet co-founder and director Emma Sithole to find out more Read more »| 16 Jan 2025 -
ComedyBuilding the Tension: Adam Flood on Late Night Comedy Rave
Unlikely bedfellows comedy and rave go together better than you think, according to Adam Flood Read more »| 16 Jan 2025 -
Musicjasmine.4.t. – You Are the Morning
You Are the Morning debuts jasmine.4.t as a sincere new horizon in indie rock Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
TheatreWest Bank Diaries: Bethlehem Calling at Celtic Connections
Celtic Connections presents Bethlehem Calling, a unique production bringing together theatremakers, audiovisual artist and musicians for a work based on the diaries of teenage girls growing up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank during the second Intifada Read more »| 14 Jan 2025 -
ArtCosy Craft: Meet interior design duo Granite + Smoke
We speak to the founders of Granite + Smoke – recently shortlisted for a Dezeen award – to find out more about the duo putting joy into January Read more »| 14 Jan 2025