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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MusicAlbums of 2016 (#7): David Bowie – Blackstar
On 8 January, David Bowie’s 69th birthday, his 25th studio album Blackstar was released. Seemingly a cause for double celebration, certainly none of us... Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 29 Nov – 5 Dec
A whole new week's worth of screenings, openings and exhibition openings with a restaged Strawberry Switchblade performance tomorrow, openings at Mount Florida Studios and Collective and a 12-hour symposium in Dundee. Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
TheatreCultural Highlights: Strictly Ballroom in Leeds
Strictly Ballroom: The Musical With all the glistening lametta, prawn cocktail starters and Only Fools and Horses re-runs of Christmas, there’s arguab... Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
Art
Cultural Highlights: Art Without Walls at YSP
Art Without Walls For more than three decades, Yorkshire Sculpture Park has been busy breaking down barriers between the public and contemporary art, capita... Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
Music
Independent Venue Week announces 2017 line-up
Manchester's Cabbage star among the first names to be unveiled Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
Comedy
Rosco Mcclelland wins Scottish Comedian of the Year
Scotland’s finest underground comedic talent contributed to a good cause at the 2016 Scottish Comedian of the Year final. Read more »| 29 Nov 2016
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Film
The Hired Hand
Peter Fonda's gorgeous and meditative western from 1971 gets a much-deserved Blu-ray release from Arrow Video Read more »| 29 Nov 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (28 Nov-4 Dec)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including FKA Twigs’ Soundtrack 7, the new season of Gil... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
MusicAlbums of 2016 (#8): Anohni – Hopelessness
Hopeless times need music too. Anohni teamed up with OPN and HudMo to produce one of the most startling records of recent years Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Music
Kate Tempest on Let Them Eat Chaos
The London writer and performer speaks about new album Let Them Eat Chaos, and the radical, positive power behind her thunderous words Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Music
Albums of 2016 (#9): Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Parquet Courts have released five records in five years – a feat achieved by few of their peers. Human Performance ticks all the right boxes Earl... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Music
El Hombre Trajeado – Fast Diagonal
12 years after their last album, it’s remarkable how much of El Hombre Trajeado’s sound has carried over onto record number four. If 2004's ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Film
The Films of 2016: Love, Death and Aliens
From Love & Friendship to Pablo Larrain's The Club (via sci-fi in Arrival and body horror in Evolution), our film team's ten favourite films of 2016. Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
MusicD.I.D – The State We're In
First noticed chanting “We are a mess, we are failures and we love it” with the cast of Skins back in the ancient past of 2011, D.I.D now return ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
Music
Albums of 2016 (#10): Beyoncé – Lemonade
For her sixth album, Beyoncé once again offered another way in, and this time around, the ambition of the accompanying visuals advanced the whole a league beyond the sum of its parts Read more »| 28 Nov 2016