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: 10-16 May
The best of Scotland's club picks this week, featuring Helena Hauff at The Berkeley Suite, Chaos In The CBD at Cabaret Voltaire, a General Ludd-led fundraiser at The Reading Rooms, plus plenty more parties to choose from Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music25 Years of Electric Honey
Electric Honey is the Glasgow-based independent record label that first signed the likes of Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro. Not bad for a company that's run as a project by a class of music management students. How do they do it? Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
MusicGirlpool – Powerplant
“As a society I feel that we perceive softness and vulnerability as traits that are ‘weak’, and people emotionally disconnect themselves in... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
MusicTree Trunks – You Say (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for You Say by Tree Trunks Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Trof NQ announce 10th birthday party plans
The team at ace Thomas Street hangout Trof NQ are planning some epic May Bank Holiday celebrations to mark the venue's first decade Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Film
Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott takes the Alien franchise back to its roots with horror thrill-ride Alien: Covenant Critic David Thomson once described Alien, Ridley Scott&rsq... Read more »| 10 May 2017
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BooksDark Fantasy: Ever Dundas on debut novel Goblin
Goblin, the debut novel from Ever Dundas, blurs the lines between fantasy and reality but also between genders, questioning the roles imposed upon us from bi... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
BMX Bandits Forever: Duglas T Stewart interview
The Belshill indie-pop icons are back with their tenth full-length – frontman Duglas T Stewart talks us through it Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Theatre
Void @ Dance International Glasgow
Running skittishly through the concrete milieu that is Glasgow’s Southside (because you stayed too long at the previous performance’s post-show c... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Music
Her's' favourite pop duos
Liverpool dreampop duo Her's are causing quite a stir – here are five of the musical pairings that have inspired them Santo & Johnny Brooklyn... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
Theatre
Each Other @ Tramway, Glasgow
If contemporary art often falls back on the ‘it’s open to interpretation’ line, Each Other, by contrast, seems to cry out for meaningful ex... Read more »| 09 May 2017 -
Comedy
How Comedy Captured the Edinburgh Fringe: Part 1
In the first of a series of articles to celebrate the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's 70th anniversary, we look back at the remarkable rise of stand-up comedy and how it came to dominate the once theatre-heavy programme Read more »| 09 May 2017 -
Film
Detour
A gorgeous neo-noir road movie with one or two bumps, starring Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen and Bel Powley Read more »| 09 May 2017 -
Theatre
Ask Auntie Trash: I R Disappoint
Ever been disappointed in life? Trash is a theatre critic, she knows all about it. Read more »| 09 May 2017 -
Music
Psych Analysis: Weirds interview
Ahead of their mind-bendingly raucous debut, Weirds share their thoughts on Leeds' fertile scene and the ongoing public fascination with psychedelic sounds Read more »| 09 May 2017