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: July 2025
This July, there's some titanic out-of-towners coming to the Hydro and Hampden Park, but it's the height of festival season and our recommendations range from the heart of Glasgow all the way up to Inverness Read more »| 01 Jul 2025 -
MusicRival Consoles – Landscape From Memory
The latest from Ryan Lee West injects some heart into his technically brilliant, but icy electronics Read more »| 01 Jul 2025 -
FilmHot Milk
Fiona Shaw is excellent, but there's little else to recommend in this limp adaptation of Deborah Levy's 2016 novel Read more »| 01 Jul 2025 -
BooksModeration by Elaine Castillo
In her sophomore novel, Elaine Castillo explores ideas of innovation and ethics through a subtle speculative narrative Read more »| 01 Jul 2025 -
![Lana Del Rey @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 26 Jun [only for use with review]](https://images.theskinny.co.uk/assets/production/000/150/752/150752_widescreen.1.jpg "Lana Del Rey @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 26 Jun [only for use with review]")
MusicLana Del Rey @ Hampden Park, Glasgow, 26 Jun
Premier pop storyteller Lana Del Rey delivers an impressive debut stadium outing in Glasgow Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
TheatreThe Croft @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
The Croft, directed by Alastair Whatley, is a claustrophobic Highland ghost story to get lost in Read more »| 30 Jun 2025
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FilmScottish Film Events: July 2025
This month, check out the newly renovated Filmhouse, celebrate Pride at GFT, enjoy some alfresco cinema at Queen's Park and catch lots of films on 35mm Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
ArtScottish Art Highlights: July 2025
As we edge closer to August (AKA Edinburgh Art Festival), a flurry of exhibitions open across the capital Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
MusicKatie Gregson-Macleod – Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early
After parting ways with a major label, on her latest EP, Katie Gregson-Macleod shows us exactly what direction she should take with her music Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
ComedyBehind the Mic: Brass Tacks Comedy
Katie Palmer, head honcho at Brass Tacks Comedy, tells us how the production company came about and her big summer plans Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
BooksSasha Debevec-McKenney on her poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name
In her poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name, American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney navigates the tragedy and comedy of both past and present Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
FilmThe Shrouds
David Cronenberg explores the burials of the future in a personal, nightmarish meditation on tech and flesh in new film The Shrouds Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
ArtPalestine Museum Scotland, Edinburgh
A permanent space for Palestinian art and stories in Edinburgh's New Town explores themes of resistance and perseverance in the face of brutality Read more »| 30 Jun 2025 -
Art'A profound rift': Anger grows over CCA's response to Palestine protests
Art Workers for Palestine Scotland (AWFPS) have made a statement contradicting CCA's version of events following the arts centre's closure due to AWFPS's pro-Palestine protests, while Scotland's arts community react to CCA's handling of the situation Read more »| 27 Jun 2025 -
MusicOn Lorde, Virgin and running away
In celebration of new album Virgin, Anahit Behrooz takes a deep dive into Lorde's back catalogue exploring its relatability through a constant negotiation of pleasure and limitation, freedom and responsibility Read more »| 27 Jun 2025