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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MusicField Music – Commontime
Sunderland’s own brotherly writing duo, Peter and David Brewis, have been at it again. Their first release since 2012’s Mercury Prize nominated P... Read more »| 26 Jan 2016 -
MusicKathryn Joseph tops Scottish music writers' poll
Kathryn Joseph's Bones You Have Thrown Me, And Blood I’ve Spilled has topped the 2015 Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites (BAMS) poll to find the year's best album. Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
BooksDundee International Book Prize open for 2016
The Dundee International Book Prize, one of Scotland's leading prizes for unpublished authors, has invited entries for its 2016 edition. Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
ComedyMonkey Barrel Comedy Celebrates 5th Birthday
Ben Verth reflects on Monkey Barrel Comedy's anniversary Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
Film
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Robert Mitchum brings late-career gravitas to this brilliant Boston-set crime thriller Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
Music
Daughter @ Manchester Albert Hall, 21 Jan
It's oh so quiet… And it really is. Just as Daughter start to test their voice with second album Not to Disappear, tonight they perform an abrupt abou... Read more »| 25 Jan 2016
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Music
Bloc Party – Hymns
It's hard to know where to start with the 2015 version of Bloc Party. A far cry from the band that crafted one of this generation's finest debut records in S... Read more »| 25 Jan 2016 -
Music
Laura Cannell @ Everyman Bistro, 21 January
With 2014 debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, Laura Cannell announced herself as an incredibly unique and startling interpreter of music which n... Read more »| 24 Jan 2016 -
Comedy
Streamboats: 5 American comedians to watch online
Our conversation with American babe Nick Thune got us thinking about US standups you might not have heard of, but who're big in the States. Here are som... Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
ComedyNick Thune interview: American Babe in the UK
He's been on The Tonight Show ten times, but US comedian Nick Thune is new to the UK. As he brings his American Babe show to these shores, he talks to The Skinny about thwarted rockstar dreams, and the perils of making jokes about dogs on drugs Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
Music
New Albums This Week: De Rosa, Tortoise & more
The week's best new records – De Rosa, Tortoise & more Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
Music
Working For A Nuclear Free City – What Do People Do All Day?
An unwieldy moniker they may have, but Manchester’s WFANFC have always peddled a neat line in intelligent indie pop, not afraid to bounce around a litt... Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
Music
Suspended in a Sunbeam: Introducing A Mote of Dust
With solo project and a new album just launched, The Skinny catches up with former Aereogramme/Unwinding Hours frontman Craig B to talk music, metaphor, and just a little metaphysics. Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
Theatre
The Weir @ Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 19 Jan
The Weir has become a modern classic. The apparent contradiction in that label – the somewhat uneasy pairing of classic and contemporary – i... Read more »| 22 Jan 2016 -
Books
Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
Losing your glasses. Drinking too much at a book group. Getting the fridge fixed. Forgetting the names of things. Helen Simpson’s latest collection of ... Read more »| 22 Jan 2016