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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Musiccorto.alto – Bad With Names
Forward-thinking and exciting, Bad With Names marks a new high point for jazz in Scotland Read more »| 02 Oct 2023 -
BooksNot Your Usual: Heather Parry on writing the body
Not Your Usual is a new series from The Skinny and Glayva highlighting interesting and exciting artists from across the Scottish scene. For our third instalment we catch up with prolific author Heather Parry over a Jumping Bean glocktail Read more »| 02 Oct 2023 -
TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: October 2023
Innovative opera, radical new theatre and a new musical about treason – here's our pick of the best theatre across Scotland this October Read more »| 29 Sep 2023 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: October 2023
October’s here and brings a bumper crop of comedy with it. From huge names on tour to a comedy festival by The Shore, there’s plenty of gigs to whet your comedy whistle this month Read more »| 28 Sep 2023 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: October 2023
As festival season draws to a close, club nights reclaim the dance floor, as Scotland gets freaky in October with M.E.S.H., Loraine James, Scott Brown, Umru and Ziúr Read more »| 28 Sep 2023 -
FilmScotland on Screen: Paul Laverty on The Old Oak
Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty talks to us about The Old Oak, his latest – and probably last – feature film with Ken Loach Read more »| 28 Sep 2023
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ComedyLeith Laughs: Rosalind Romer on Leith Comedy Festival
In anticipation of its first full run, we sit down with Leith Comedy Festival's director Rosalind Romer to chat about community, accessibility, and comedy Read more »| 27 Sep 2023 -
MusicThe National @ OVO Hydro, Glasgow, 24 Sep
The National weaponise a near quarter-century of experience; a juxtaposition of the solemn and the sublime that enraptures Glasgow’s OVO Hydro Read more »| 26 Sep 2023 -
MusicNabihah Iqbal @ King Tut's, Glasgow, 21 Sep
If you’re searching for a striking, multilayered and beat-driven performance with equally ruminating sounds, Nabihah Iqbal's Dreamer is the show for you Read more »| 26 Sep 2023 -
BooksSeeing for Ourselves by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's cross-disciplinary book is a beautiful consideration of devotion to faith, family and politics Read more »| 26 Sep 2023 -
MusicMatana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden...
Matana Roberts' Coin Coin saga returns for a fifth chapter, and continues to evolve in captivating fashion Read more »| 25 Sep 2023 -
FilmThe Old Oak
Reported to be Ken Loach's final film, The Old Oak concerns the bringing together of a bitter working-class community with a busload of Syrian refugees. Tensions soon give way to shared humanity in this rousing call for solidarity Read more »| 25 Sep 2023 -
FilmBrother
Brother is a powerful and beautifully rendered drama about siblings from a Toronto suberb, told over three time periods Read more »| 22 Sep 2023 -
MusicSpotlight On... Thundermoon
Ahead of the release of their debut EP, we shine a spotlight on uplifting Edinburgh synth trio Thundermoon Read more »| 21 Sep 2023 -
MusicSummerhall appoint Arusa Qureshi as Music Programme Manager
Edinburgh writer, journalist, DJ and music programmer Arusa Qureshi is set to take over from Jamie Sutherland as the new Music Programme Manager at Summerhall Read more »| 21 Sep 2023