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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TheatreThe Moira Monologues @ Tron Theatre
Moira Bell is a legend, and she's back for just one night as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival to tell you exactly what makes that so. ... Read more »| 08 Apr 2016 -
TheatreThe Destroyed Room @ Traverse Theatre
The Destroyed Room takes its name from Jeff Wall’s 1978 photograph, showing a site of structured devastation, shedding no light on why this has happene... Read more »| 08 Apr 2016 -
Film
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - First Trailer
The trailer for Star Wars prequel Rogue One has landed Star Wars’ galaxy from a long, long time ago is expanding with A New Hope prequel Rog... Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
ClubsJames Ruskin: 20 years of Blueprint Records
Mr Ruskin guides us through the milestone releases and musical progression of his defining techno label Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Film
Louder than Bombs director: “You’ve got to find your own take”
Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier makes his way across the Atlantic for Louder than Bombs, a New York-set family drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrn... Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Music
Lush: Shoegaze, Blind Spot and Reunions
Disbanded by tragedy, Lush have remained inactive for two decades. But with a recent compilation highlighting the oft-overlooked quality of their songbook, Emma Anderson tells us why the time was finally right to regroup Read more »| 07 Apr 2016
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Art
Richard Slee @ Tramway
Richard Slee's Work and Play exhibition at Tramway has some good moments, but isn't getting the laughs it's going for. Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Comedy
Katherine Ryan interview: Comedy is a Conversation
Katherine Ryan chats about fame, the welcoming UK comedy scene and the meaning of her show title. Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Art
Sarah Wright @ Glasgow Print Studio
Sarah Wright expands into installation and sculpture in her latest exhibition in Glasgow Print Studio. Using methods of stripping away and simplification, she paradoxically sets up a disquieting ambiguity. Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Music
Primal Scream @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 30 Mar
Bo Ningen have sucked the air right out of the room. The Japanese-by-way-of-London noise rock sprites are fronting a paltry pre-Primal Scream crowd, but by t... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Film
Son of Saul director: “It had to be raw”
Hungarian director László Nemes tells us how he approached filming the unfilmable with blistering Holocaust drama Son of Saul Set in the Ausch... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
MusicRM Hubbert – Telling the Trees
Telling the Trees marks something of a new chapter for RM Hubbert. His last album, Breaks & Bones, completed what’s now called his 'Ampersand trilo... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Music
Protomartyr @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 2 Apr
This is not your typical rock’n’roll experience. The band barely acknowledge the audience. In between verses, the singer carries the air of ... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Music
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
"I will not dignify this inane composition with a response" was Washington, D.C.'s former mayor Vincent Gray's (wholly disingenuous) response to The Communit... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Comedy
Are Gong Shows Good or Bad for Comedy?
Are gong shows a positive or negative force in stand-up? We asked Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Jon Whiteley to present their arguments Read more »| 06 Apr 2016