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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ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: October 2018
It's October, which means a month packed with Halloween parties featuring some of the best DJs around right now, from both Scotland and further afield Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
MusicRenaissance Men: From the Port to the Bridge
Ahead of an exhibition at the Beacon Arts Centre celebrating their contribution to music, three Scottish DJs explain the significance of Robert Rental and Thomas Leer in the story of post-punk Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
Music
Almost Famous: Marie Davidson on Working Class Woman
We chat to Marie Davidson about her love of psychology, living in Berlin and finding herself on her fourth solo album, Working Class Woman Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
Books
XX by Angela Chadwick
This is Chadwick’s true strength: the ability to distil the human experience and reproduce it in print. Topical, probing and quietly intense – XX is a phenomenal debut. Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
Music
Tim Hecker – Konoyo
Despite its flaws, Tim Hecker's ninth studio album Konoyo is still more than a worthwhile listen Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
Film
Paris Nous Appartient
Jacques Rivette's totemic work of the French New Wave comes to Blu-ray Read more »| 28 Sep 2018
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MusicAgainst The Current @ The Garage, Glasgow, 25 Sep
Ahead of their new album Past Lives dropping this week, New Yorkers Against The Current put on a solid headline show despite a slightly depleted crowd at The Garage Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
MusicThe Amazing Dale Barclay: A Tribute
With the devastating news that Dale Barclay has lost his battle with brain cancer, we take a look back at the musical life of The Amazing Snakeheads' charismatic frontman Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Music
Freakender @ The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 14-16 Sep
With standout performances from Kaputt, Savage Mansion, Free Love and Irma Vep, the third Freakender weekender is most certainly a welcome one. Here's to more freaky weekends! Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Tv Radio
American Vandal: Season 2
Netflix's true-crime spoof returns for a second series and its psychological insights remain as potent as its jokes are puerile Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Tv Radio
Killing Eve
Phoebe Waller-Bridge returns to TV with a wonderfully weird cat-and-mouse thriller Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Music
Electric Fields 2018: Review
Electric Fields remains a diverse, enjoyable weekend of music, but when End of the Road offers much the same, plus incredible headliners, it’s hard not to want more from a flagship Scottish event Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Music
Black Belt Eagle Scout – Mother of My Children
Mother of My Children is a vital and bold debut, giving a platform to the Native American experience through the familiar and historically monochromatic genre of grunge, which is given new life thanks to this fresh voice Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Music
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – King of Cowards
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs's sophomore album, King of Cowards is metal bursting at the seams with imagination and innovation Read more »| 27 Sep 2018 -
Music
Joan Armatrading @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 25 Sep
Sadly backing tracks accompany the vast majority of tonight's performance, often muddying and distracting from Joan Armatrading's fantastic songs which deserved more Read more »| 27 Sep 2018