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 RadioNailed It!: Season Three
Netflix's Nailed It! celebrates the joy of taking part, even if its contestants often run into severe problems in its baking challenges Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
FilmKnife + Heart
Knife + Heart is a vibrantly realised erotic thriller in which a mysterious killer is picking off young actors on the set of a gay porn film Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
MusicPeter Cat Recording Co. – Bismillah
Peter Cat Recording Co. announce themselves with a gorgeous set of songs, in turn weary and swooning Read more »| 04 Jul 2019 -
ArtCCA Highlights – July/August 2019
From art tackling cultural imperialism to a rare screening of a cult horror, CCA's summer programme is as diverse as it is delightful Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicLILURA – Killer Karma (Track Premiere)
Listen to Killer Karma, the brand new single about getting stuck in toxic relationships from LILURA Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicThe Soft Cavalry – The Soft Cavalry
As The Soft Cavalry, Steve Clarke and Slowdive's Rachel Goswell present a highly-textured and intricate album that tackles the paradoxes of adulthood Read more »| 03 Jul 2019
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MusicTrash Kit – Horizon
Trash Kit expand their sound with strings, brass and synths on their third album, Horizon Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
FilmNever Look Away
Never Look Away is a decades-spanning saga about a German artist whose practice is shaped by the turbulent politics of his home nation during the mid-20th Century Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
BooksWater Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy
Water Shall Refuse Them is a vaporous exploration of malice and teenage angst Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicHarry Harris – I Feel Drunk All the Time
Harry Harris' new album I Feel Drunk All the Time is full of ambitious songwriting, and covering a lot of ground, half the appeal is not knowing what’s round the next corner Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
FilmMonsoon
British-Cambodian writer-director Hong Khaou follows-up his delicate debut Lilting with another elegant study of cultural alienation and displacement as a young man born in Vietnam but raised in the UK returns home after three decades Read more »| 03 Jul 2019 -
MusicInterpol @ O2 Academy, Leeds, 25 Jun
Evergreen New Yorkers Interpol continue to ooze class after two decades together Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
MusicRichard Hawley – Further
Richard Hawley sets his controls for the heart of optimism on Further Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
MusicDeclan Welsh and the Decadent West – No Fun (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for No Fun, the latest single from Declan Welsh and the Decadent West Read more »| 02 Jul 2019 -
FilmKVIFF 2019: Lara
Oh Boy director Jan-Ole Gerster returns with a darkly comic and stealthily moving study of a 60-year-old woman who's having trouble accepting her pianist son's success Read more »| 02 Jul 2019