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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MusicRight On Time: Shadowlark interviewed
Ahead of their performance at Bluedot Festival, Shadowlark talk synths, haunted recording studios and starting out right Read more »| 29 Jun 2017 -
Music
Sound of Progress: Public Service Broadcasting on Every Valley
J. Willgoose, Esq. walks The Skinny through the people, politics and picket lines that make up Public Service Broadcasting's emotional third album Every Valley Read more »| 29 Jun 2017 -
MusicSacred Paws win the 2017 SAY Award
Strike A Match wins this year's Scottish Album of the Year prize Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
Clubs
Riverside Festival 2017: The review
No matter how impressive a line-up Glasgow’s annual Electric Frog & Pressure Riverside Festival delivers – and this year’s crop of acts... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
Books
Walls Come Tumbling Down by Daniel Rachel
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the formation of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge across two decades where artists and activists joined forces to ma... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
Books
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays by Tom McCarthy
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish is the first collection of essays from Tom McCarthy, a novelist twice nominated for the Man Booker prize for C and Satin Island... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017
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MusicTigerside @ Soup Kitchen, Manchester, 25 Jun
"For those of you who couldn’t make Glastonbury at least we’ve got the smell here”, says Tigerside vocalist Jonno aka John Nash, referring ... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
Music
Brendan Canning on the return of Broken Social Scene
The day following the Manchester terror attack we meet up with Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning, ahead of the band's show in the city that night, to talk about fifth album Hug of Thunder, and why they've reformed Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
BooksNew York State of Mind: Don Winslow on The Force
Crime epics are US author Don Winslow’s stock in trade. With his most recent, The Force, he moves the narrative from his well tread setting of the Mexican borderlands to New York, exploring police corruption in the rotten apple Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
Music
Simon Wells – Crime of the Scene
Simon Wells – he of Snuff, those great purveyors of authentic punk rock back in the day – has a new record, and it’s the first record to be... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
Clubs
Fleetmac Wood on their Rumours Rave
We speak to Lisa Jelliffe, one half of DJ duo Fleetmac Wood, about Glastonbury, DJ accessories, naked men, shawls, capes and the upcoming Rumours Rave to Glasgow's Art School Read more »| 27 Jun 2017 -
FilmMatt Reeves on War for the Planet of the Apes
We talk emotions, Batman and dystopian futures with War for the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves Read more »| 27 Jun 2017 -
Music
Shogun – Katana
Let’s be honest, grime (rightfully or wrongly) has a bit of a bad rep for not excelling in the art of insightful lyricism, not in the way that its pred... Read more »| 27 Jun 2017 -
Music
Ride – Weather Diaries
When Ride's fourth album, 1996's Tarantula, was deleted by Creation Records after just one week, it marked a sad end for a band who had once burnt so brightl... Read more »| 27 Jun 2017 -
Music
Washed Out – Mister Mellow
The visual album is not a new concept; in fact, the medium stretches at least as far back as Yellow Submarine in 1968. Over the past few years though, it's b... Read more »| 27 Jun 2017