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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Tv RadioBig Little Lies: Season 2
Our feelings about season 2 of Big Little Lies are complicated. On the one hand, give Laura Dern the Emmy! On the other, fuck HBO for preferring Jean-Marc Vallée's vision to Andrea Arnold's Read more »| 24 Jul 2019 -
MusicViolent Femmes – Hotel Last Resort
A posied and provoking record, Hotel Last Resort consolidates Violent Femmes as one of the greatest contributors to both the punk and the American musical canon Read more »| 24 Jul 2019 -
MusicYip Man of Scotland – Here Comes the Feelings (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for Here Comes the Feelings, the latest single from Dumfries artist Yip Man of Scotland Read more »| 24 Jul 2019 -
ComedyICYMI: Stephen Buchanan on I'm Alan Partridge
BBC New Comedy Award Winner Stephen Buchanan dives headfirst into the wonderful world of Partridge. Jurassic Park! Read more »| 23 Jul 2019 -
BooksMy Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
Rachel DeLoache Williams' tale of her relationship with fraudster Anna Delvey is an intimate, methodical look at the pair's relationship Read more »| 23 Jul 2019 -
MusicEH-FM SAY Award Special – 22 Jul (Listen Again)
Listen back to our Scottish Album of the Year Award Special on EH-FM ahead of the Live at the Longlist event at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh on 26 July Read more »| 22 Jul 2019
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MusicSavage Mansion & Romeo Taylor's Doune the Rabbit Hole preview on EH-FM
Listen back to Romeo Taylor and Savage Mansion's Craig Angus as they take over our slot on EH-FM for a Doune the Rabbit Hole preview Read more »| 19 Jul 2019 -
MusicThe Vegan Leather announce debut album with new single The Hit
Listen to The Hit, the brand new single from The Vegan Leather, taken from their freshly announced debut album, Poor Girls / Broken Boys Read more »| 19 Jul 2019 -
MusicMark Ronson to headline Edinburgh’s Hogmanay
The Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars collaborator has been announced as the headline act at this year's Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations Read more »| 19 Jul 2019 -
ComedyClimate chaos: Edinburgh Fringe's most urgent challenge
We speak to Matt Winning, Jon Long and Isla Cowan about the pressing challenge that is our climate emergency Read more »| 18 Jul 2019 -
BooksThe Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
Alix Nathan's latest is an impressively-written novel let down by a lack of focus on the heart of its intriguing premise Read more »| 18 Jul 2019 -
Tv RadioKilling Eve: Season 2
Picking up moments after the first series’ bloody finale, Killing Eve dives into familiarly, hilariously perverse territory throughout its second series Read more »| 18 Jul 2019 -
MusicTRNSMT 2019 @ Glasgow Green, Glasgow, 13 Jul
We report back from Saturday at TRNSMT festival in Glasgow, with stand-out sets from Fontaines DC, Zoe Graham and Sigrid Read more »| 17 Jul 2019 -
MusicAndrew Wasylyk – Journey to Inchcape (Miaoux Miaoux Remix) (Premiere)
Watch the video for the Miaoux Miaoux remix of Andrew Wasylyk's Journey to Inchcape Read more »| 17 Jul 2019 -
MusicAlexandra Levy on her debut album as Ada Lea
Ahead of her debut LP as Ada Lea, we chat to Alexandra Levy about Virginia Woolf, the colourful visualisation of music and breaking down the barrier between the public and the private Read more »| 16 Jul 2019