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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Music
Buffet Lunch – Perfect Hit!
Perfect Hit! is a chocolate box, each track offering new, delicious morsels from the ridiculous to the sincere Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Books
Holy Boys by Andrés N. Ordorica
Edinburgh-based poet Andrés N. Ordorica returns with his second poetry collection, an exploration of heritage told through lenses of queerness, liminality and desire Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Film
Four Mothers
James McArdle is a winning lead in this sharp Irish comedy in which an author gets saddled caring for three of his friends' elderly mothers as well as his own mother one summer Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Comedy
Rob Copland @ The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow
Rob Copland's breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe hit Gimme (One With Everything) underwhelms at Glasgow Comedy Festival Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
Music
Jupiter Rising x EAF: First details for 2025 revealed
Glasgow DJ and electronic artist TAAHLIAH will headline this year's Jupiter Rising x EAF, the after-dark party of live music, art and performance at Jupiter Artland Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
Music
Lucy Dacus – Forever is a Feeling
The fourth solo album from the boygenius member has moments of magic, but struggles to match the emotional intensity of Lucy Dacus' prior work Read more »| 28 Mar 2025
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Music
Spotlight On... PAQUE
Ahead of releasing his latest single, Circus, we catch up with Glasgow-based rapper PAQUE Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
Art
Jerwood Survey III @ Collective, Edinburgh
This group exhibition at Collective takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
Music
Dustin Wong – Gloria
Dustin Wong’s latest dose of guitar mangling squeezes joy out of the cracks of grief Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
Film
MUBI FEST coming to Glasgow in 2025
Distributor, streaming service and production company MUBI have announced that their global touring festival MUBI FEST will come to Glasgow in November 2025 Read more »| 26 Mar 2025 -
Music
aya – hexed!
Blending elements of mathcore and drone with gritty techno, aya’s sophomore album is a full-throttle exploration of addiction and self-destructive cycles Read more »| 25 Mar 2025 -
Music
Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Deafheaven are characterised as the hipsters of black metal, but Lonely People With Power is their heaviest album yet Read more »| 25 Mar 2025 -
Film
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2025: The Award Winners
Lisa Clarkson’s Paternal Advice won this year’s Scottish Competition while Iranian filmmaker Maryam Tafakory won the Bill Douglas Award for best international short film Read more »| 25 Mar 2025 -
Music
SPELLLING – Portrait of My Heart
On her ardent fourth album, SPELLLING's Chrystia Cabral channels and exudes a wild assortment of sonic influences, resulting in her most honest and entrancing record to date Read more »| 24 Mar 2025 -
Music
Sacred Paws – Jump Into Life
Filled with effervescent joy, despite its lyrics of heartbreak and healing, Sacred Paws' latest album Jump Into Life is pure catharsis Read more »| 24 Mar 2025