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 Live Music Highlights: January 2025
It might be cold and dark outside for much of January, but there are big gigs, mini-festivals, and an Independent Venue Week that warrant wrapping up and getting out the house for Read more »| 07 Jan 2025 -
ArtScottish Art Events & Exhibitions: January 2025
While the first month of the year is undoubtedly a quiet one, there's still plenty of exhibitions to see across Scotland this January Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
MusicMoonchild Sanelly – Full Moon
The blue-haired bombshell oft dubbed the ‘Queen of African Pop’, Moonchild Sanelly is back. Her latest outing, Full Moon, is her most exciting to date Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
MusicLambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out
Irate Brighton duo Lambrini Girls are fierce, funny and fully-formed on their crackling debut album, Who Let The Dogs Out Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FilmBabygirl
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are caught up in a complex web of sexual domination in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, one of the most welcome entries into the erotic thriller canon in years Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FilmThe Great Queer Filmmakers of the 21st Century
Ahead of The Skinny's screening of Matthias & Maxime at GFT as part of Queer Cinema Sundays, we asked our writers: "Who are the great LGBTQ+ auteurs of the 21st Century?" Read more »| 06 Jan 2025
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MusicEthel Cain – Perverts
Perverts, Ethel Cain’s foggy, horrifying, southern gothic pantomime, is a cryptic conquest seeking to draw out your deepest fears and desires Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
BooksDealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou
In acclaimed Congolese author Alain Mabanckou's latest book, a new resident of Frère Lachaise cemetery has to reckon with their death Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
ComedyThe Skinny on... Alison Spittle
Hella chill comic Alison Spittle answers this month’s Q&A from an A&E waiting room. No doubt it’ll end up in her next show Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: January 2025
Come out of the cold in the new year with our hand-picked selection of laughs in Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 06 Jan 2025 -
FilmUncovering the Past: RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys
With his debut fiction film Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross finds a cinematic language to interrogate Black historical narratives that immerse audiences in that history. He discusses his suspicion of image-making and the role of the artist in political change Read more »| 30 Dec 2024 -
MusicGreat Scots: 2024 in Scottish Music
Celebrating another year of wonderful Scottish music, here's our annual Great Scots playlist featuring a glut of music from an insanely talented bunch of musicians Read more »| 20 Dec 2024 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: January 2025
Get 2025 off with a bang with our first clubs round-up of the year; highlights include big nights with Optimo, Wu-Lu, and Louie Vega Read more »| 20 Dec 2024 -
FilmNickel Boys
Documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross (best known for Hale County This Morning, This Evening) moves into fiction filmmaking with this heartbreaking story of two boys' experience of racism and brutality at a reform school in 1960s Florida Read more »| 19 Dec 2024 -
FilmNosferatu
Bill Skarsgård stars as the vampiric Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’ faithful, richly detailed remake of the German horror classic. The result is a dark delight Read more »| 19 Dec 2024