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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ComedyAlexis Dubus: Cars and Girls
Award-winning comedian Alexis Dubus has a poetic take on travel and heartbreak. Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
MusicRecord Store Day in Scotland
With this year’s Record Store Day specials already making prophetic dents in your post-Easter funds (not to mention those of your friendly neighbourhoo... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
MusicCut the Slack: Words with Courtney Barnett
With her profile rising rapidly, Courtney Barnett's debut album has finally seen the light of day. She tells us about finding fascination in the plain ol' ordinary... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Books
A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh
By the end of the first chapter of Irvine Welsh's new book, Edinburgh cab driver ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson has managed to secure himself a ten grand d... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Books
Living Memory: Patricia Duncker reimagines George Eliot
The appetite for Victoriana is endless; it seems we can’t get enough of corsets and bonnets. As Patricia Duncker releases a new novel, she talks to us about the neo-Victorian tale, her fascination with George Eliot and the nature of literary celebrity Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Art80s Icons, Human Donation, and a Hermit Genius: This Month in Scottish Art
This month's pick of Scottish contemporary art sees four exhibitions run through the month, across Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Read more »| 01 Apr 2015
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MusicThomas Truax – Jetstream Sunset
The Dr Seuss of pop returns. With The Hornicator (the home-made assemblage of various instruments and components that drives his off-beat – in both sen... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Music
Föllakzoid – III
III promises more of the same for Chilean ‘cosmic music’ band Föllakzoid, masters of the mantric ten-minute krautrock groove. However, this ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Art
Be My Guest: Glasgow Open House Festival 2015
Glasgow Open House Festival is set to be the most exciting and genuinely unique art festival of this year. We talk to the organisers Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Art
1 Royal Terrace: Conversations About Art
We catch up with the founders of up and coming Glasgow gallery 1 Royal Terrace in advance of their second programme of exhibitions, now underway Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Books
Aye Write! All Write: 10 Years of Literature in Glasgow
We discover how literary festival Aye Write! has become a key date in the Glasgow cultural calendar, speaking to its guest programmer and the writers who have grown with it: Louise Welsh, Christopher Brookmyre, Alan Bissett and his birthday suit. Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Books
Karin Altenberg: “I’ve always felt like an outsider”
We chat to bestselling author Karin Altenberg about her new book Breaking Light, and landscapes lost and found Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Whisky in the Water: Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard Interviewed
The Death Cab For Cutie frontman on surviving breaks and staying publicly personal for the band's eighth album Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Nothing Ever Happens Here: Broken Records / Garden Of Elks / Fuzzystar @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 27 Mar
Can’t fault the folks behind Nothing Ever Happens Here for their noble intention to reignite the Edinburgh live music scene; enthusiastic cheers please... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Music
Bop English – Constant Bop
At first glance Constant Bop just looks like a sixties pastiche. From the pastel-washed cover to the cheesey title, this could pass for a lost Tim Buckl... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015