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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MusicYoung Fathers share Trainspotting 2 track
Listen to Only God Knows from the soundtrack to the eagerly-awaited Irvine Welsh adaptation Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
FilmEwan McGregor snubs Piers Morgan over Women's March
The Trainspotting star pulled out of an interview with Morgan in solidarity with the women around the world who marched against Donald Trump's presidency at the weekend Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (24-30 Jan)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Trainspotting 2 and Hacksaw Ridge Flamingo We&... Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
MusicGet to Know: Patty Hearst
We talk to Patty Hearst's Michael Cahill ahead of the band's appearance at Stay Fresh Fest 2 It's fair to say that Patty Hearst have put in the hours a... Read more »| 24 Jan 2017 -
Music
Rationale @ King Tut's, 20 Jan
Rationale kicks off his UK tour in Glasgow with a beautiful vocal performance and charisma-filled live show Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Music
Laura Marling & BBC SSO @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 19 Jan
Shining a light on female artists is very much at the forefront of this year’s Celtic Connections festival, so what better way to kick off proceedings ... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017
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FilmStar Wars: Episode VIII gets its full title
Rian Johnson’s Star Wars film, the eighth in the franchise, has a full title at long last. And it’s tantalising… News just in, the title ... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Theatre
Picnic at Hanging Rock @ The Lyceum, Edinburgh
Joan Lindsay’s novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, originally published in 1967 and later immortalised by Peter Weir's 1975 film of the same name, has b... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Books
Kapka Kassabova on borders: "A powerful political tool"
Kapka Kassabova captures cold war history and the current refugee crisis on the blurred borders of the Balkan peninsula. The poet and travel writer's beautiful, tragic and universal new book may just be the most important you read in this year of Brexit Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Music
Strobes – Winder: Video Premiere
Watch the video for Winder by Strobes Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Music
Los Campesinos! – Sick Scenes
Sick Scenes, the sixth Los Campesinos! record and their first since 2013’s excellent No Blues, gives the impression that they've been itching to come b... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Music
PVT – New Spirit
After their pop-aspiring last record Homosapians found Australian electronic experimentalists PVT playing arena gigs in support of Gotye, New Spirit&nbs... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Film
Kristen Stewart promises 'kickass' political film
While promoting her directorial debut in Sundance, Kirsten Stewart promises her next film will be much more political and discusses Donald Trump's obsession with her love life Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Music
Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now
‘I used to play punk,’ sneers Matt Korvette, as though daring himself not to laugh scornfully. ‘Now I’m just singing the blues.&rsquo... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017 -
Music
Blue Aeroplanes @ Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 12 Jan
A memory: hazy but inarguable. The year: 1990. The location: well, best to draw a veil. A breathless Michael Stipe, thanking The Blue Aeroplanes for their su... Read more »| 23 Jan 2017