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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TheatreMagicFest: 'We see magic as the art of the impossible'
As Edinburgh’s MagicFest approaches its ninth year, moving to May for the first time, The Skinny chats to festival founders Kevin and Svetlana McMahon about the festival, the nature of magic and why this is a theatrical art form Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
MusicAidan Moffat & RM Hubbert on Here Lies the Body
We talk to Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert about childhood holidays to Blackpool, feminism and road trips ahead of their debut album together, Here Lies the Body Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Film
Stacy Martin on Redoubtable, Wiazemsky and Godard
The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius returns with Redoubtable, a pastiche portrait of the marriage of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky. We speak to Stacy Martin about playing the late Wiazemsky and who should play her Nymphomaniac director, Lars von Trier Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Tv RadioArrested Development Season 5: Release date & trailer
The rapid-fire sitcom about a dysfunctional family will return to Netflix this month Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Music
A. Wesley Chung – Abandon (The Farthest Shore): Premiere
Listen to the new single from Glasgow-based songwriter A. Wesley Chung, taken from his upcoming solo album Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Theatre
War Horse @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Reader, I’ve fallen in love... with a horse called Joey, in the National Theatre's thunderous production of War Horse Read more »| 08 May 2018
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Music
Beach House's Victoria Legrand on new album 7
As Beach House return with their seventh album, one half of the Baltimore duo, Victoria Legrand explains their decision to change up their writing and recording process after 14 years of working together Read more »| 08 May 2018 -
Film
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Despite a talented cast and an imaginative director, this messy adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story of aliens visiting Croydon during the height of punk falls short of its potential by a wide mark Read more »| 07 May 2018 -
Books
Problems by Jade Sharma
Jade Sharma's new novel is as relentless as its protagonist, laying bare the messy truths of being human Read more »| 07 May 2018 -
FilmIrma Vep
Maggie Cheung and Jean-Pierre Léaud star in this witty and free-wheeling film about filmmaking Read more »| 06 May 2018 -
Music
Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert – Here Lies the Body
RM Hubbert and Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat team up – with some formidable help from Siobhan Wilson – for an unpredictable and diverse new album Read more »| 05 May 2018 -
Music
Josh Rouse @ Manchester Academy 3, 26 Apr
Josh Rouse takes a while to get going in Manchester tonight, but eventually hits his stride with a mixture of old and new tracks Read more »| 04 May 2018 -
Music
Natalie Prass @ Mono, Glasgow, 29 April
Ahead of releasing her sophomore album, Natalie Prass is on top form tonight and seeing her in a venue as intimate as Mono feels like a real privilege Read more »| 04 May 2018 -
Art
Scottish Art Highlights and Opportunities: May 2018
May starts with the final week of Glasgow International, and brings new sculpture in Jupiter Artland from Phyllida Barlow and the last few weeks of DCA's well-received show on Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness Read more »| 04 May 2018 -
ArtCCA Highlights – May / June 2018
CCA's spring and summer programme has a panoramic selection of cinema and a bank holiday crowded with live music courtesy of Stag & Dagger Read more »| 04 May 2018