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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MusicKate Tempest / All We Are @ The Art School, 1 Dec
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts' graduates All We Are put in a peppy turn, drawing the attention of a chatty, full capacity Art School with rich voca... Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
ArtIan Skelly on The Coral: Distance Inbetween
As the curtain comes down on a triumphant year for The Coral, following the success of their eighth album Distance Inbetween, we chat with drummer Ian Skelly... Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 6-12 Dec
It's the second art weekly of December and so the season of Christmas Party fundraisers is upon us! With very affordable art and all-invited parties through 16 Nicholson Street, CASS Art and Rhubaba, find some art cheer where you are this week! Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
Music
Baby Strange vs WHITE: A Christmas Roast
Glasgow bands Baby Strange and WHITE play their biggest show to date this December as they co-headline the O2 ABC. Having played a tonne of shows together al... Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
ArtHelen Marten wins Turner Prize 2016
The 30-year-old artist from Macclesfield says she’ll share the £25,000 award with her fellow nominees. In less surprising news, Michael Gove is a dick Read more »| 06 Dec 2016 -
Music
ISLE – Faults: Video Premiere
ISLE are multi-instrumentalists Liam John Rutherford and Ben Singer. Based in the Scottish Borders, the talented duo pride themselves on produ... Read more »| 06 Dec 2016
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Art
Elinor Stanley @ House for an Art Lover
Elinor Stanley brings intimate paintings of bald heads and retreating figures to Mackintosh's House for an Art Lover. Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Theatre
Scottish Panto Season: Battle of the Dames
Trapped in some kind of pre-Christmas Hell, our grumpy theatre editor attempts to find some semblance of festive cheer by chatting to not one, not two, but three Panto dames and trying to turn them against each other. It didn’t work Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Theatre
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A treat. What better way to celebrate the festive season than this rambunctious, zany version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland written and directed ... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Film
Robert Sheehan on new film Jet Trash
Misfits and Mortal Instruments actor Robert Sheehan talks to The Skinny about starring and producing suspenseful indie thriller Jet Trash. Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Comedy
Comedy is the best response to 2016
While there's nothing funny about the loss of our favourite artists or a worrying rise in fascist ideology, 2016 has at least had comedians to go to the most horrible of places and find a response. Our Dark Arts expert investigates Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Music
The Weeknd – Starboy
No matter how hard he tries to convince us otherwise on Starboy, Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, has lost his edge in his pursuit of super stardom. It wou... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Books
The Brilliant & Forever by Kevin MacNeil
Everyone on this Scottish island is an aspiring writer, even a talking alpaca called Archie. He wears a Stetson, and gave his best friend, our narrator, a ju... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Books
Poetry News: Review of 2016
Our monthly poetry column reviews the events of 2016 – including Neu! Reekie! and Flint & Pitch – while offering up some lyrical gift options for Christmas Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Music
Stay Fresh Fest 2: Full line-up confirmed
The final three acts have been added to the bill, as The Deaf Institute and The Skinny celebrate some of the most vital new music in the North Following las... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016