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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MusicScottish New Music Round-Up: June 2023
From experimental jazz to indie-pop concept albums, there's so much good Scottish music flying around this summer, you'll need a really big net to catch it all Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
ArtCCA Highlights: June 2023
In addition to its regular scheduling of some brilliant film screenings and exhibitions, the CCA will be extra lively this month with the arrival of two immersive arts festivals Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
MusicLe Tigre on DIY culture & their live return
While a wave of new bedroom beatmakers might’ve racked up the awards in their absence, Le Tigre's outspoken singalongs have never felt more relevant. We chat DIY culture with the trio ahead of their return to UK and European stages Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
BooksScottish Books Events: June 2023
It's a poetry heavy month, with the launch of two new poetry nights in Glasgow and plenty of spoken word at Hidden Door and Spit It Out Festival Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
ArtScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: June 2023
Art Night takes place in Scotland for the first time this month, alongside an array of festivals and exhibitions across the country Read more »| 31 May 2023 -
FilmScottish Film Events: June 2023
This month The Folk Film Gathering returns with a focus on Ukrainian cinema and gives some classic Play for Today films the big screen treatment Read more »| 31 May 2023
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MusicScottish Live Music Highlights: June 2023
Festival season kicks off, plus big gigs from CHVRCHES, Wu-Tang Clan and Arctic Monkeys – here's our pick of June's best gigs across Scotland Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
MusicCaroline Polachek @ SWG3, Glasgow, 25 May
Caroline Polachek brings grace, glamour and grit to the SWG3 Galvanizers’ stage for her knock-out Scottish debut Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
FilmTina Satter on NSA whistleblower thriller Reality
Life proves stranger than fiction in Reality, Tina Satter's gripping real-time thriller about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner. Satter tells us why she wanted to dramatise Winner's life by using verbatim transcripts of her interrogation by the FBI Read more »| 30 May 2023 -
BooksYan Ge on her debut English-language collection Elsewhere
Yan Ge introduces her debut English-language collection Elsewhere, a group of short stories hopping from Dublin to colonial-era Burma to ancient China Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
BooksBored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
Tony Santorella’s witty and sharp debut novel follows its titular bored gay werewolf as he navigates encountering his fellow beasts Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
FilmReality
Sydney Sweeney stars as whistleblower Reality Winner in this compelling, quiet-spoken thriller based on dialogue taken from Winner's FBI interrogation Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: June 2023
Exams are over, University is out and it’s officially summer. Top June picks include nights from Facta & K-LONE, DJ Gigola b2b MCR-T, Jana Rush and BFTT Read more »| 29 May 2023 -
FilmThe Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer explores the banality of evil in The Zone of Interest, which just picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes Read more »| 28 May 2023 -
ArtA Fragile Correspondence: Scotland at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Our design correspondent heads to Venice to explore A Fragile Correspondence, Scotland's presentation at the Architecture Biennale Read more »| 26 May 2023