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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ComedyFelicity Ward on Bags, Bowels and Mental Health
Comedian Felicity Ward powers into the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival with her superb Fringe show 50% More Likely to Die Read more »| 04 Oct 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 4-10 October
With the launch of several festivals and openings at Glasgow Print Studios, 103 Trongate, Common Guild, Céline and 16 Nicholson Street all through the week in Glasgow there is lots to see. Read more »| 04 Oct 2016 -
MusicCatholic Action @ King Tut's, 25 Sep
If you thought there was no place for 70s glam rock in 2016, Catholic Action are here to prove you wrong. The Glaswegian four-piece, fronted by the long-lock... Read more »| 04 Oct 2016 -
FilmWhat to Watch this Week (3-10 Oct)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including John Malkovich playing characters from David Lynch films and Louis Theroux’s Scientology doc Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Music
Honeyblood @ The Hug & Pint, 26 Sep
With their second album Babes Never Die out on FatCat in November, Scottish duo Honeyblood are back with a reinvigorated performance that showcases the bulk ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Music
Sleaford Mods – TCR EP
This is the grist, you know, for Mods frontman’s Jason Williamson’s mill. The first new Sleaford Mods music since 2015’s Key Markets couldn... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016
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ClubsSmall-Town Club: Shapes on their 1st Birthday
For the past year Shapes has been putting the party vibe into Stirling and Falkirk, two towns perhaps not widely known for their late night scenes. On the eve of the Shapes First Birthday event, founder Ryan Hamblett explains how it all came about. Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Film
Michael Peña on War on Everyone
Cops, chemistry and comedy: Michael Peña talks War on Everyone Although he has a slew of big Hollywood titles to his name, Michael Peña is an ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Art
Manchester Moleskine project turns its final page
After a two-year labour of love, the Manchester Moleskine sketchbook project comes to an end, bowing out with a closing party at Old Granada Studios. We spoke to curators Jon Massey and Adam Stanway as they look back on their favourite submissions. Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Music
Dead Light – Dead Light
On this inaugural collection of introspective, painterly instrumentals from English duo Anna Rose Carter and Ed Hamilton, incidental noise is just as importa... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Music
The Seshen - Flames & Figures
Imagine Little Dragon recorded a record with Erykah Badu for a DJ set inspired by Stranger Things. Chuck in some FlyLo-style space-travelling, some powe... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
MusicConor Oberst – Ruminations
Written in the winter of last year during an extended visit to his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, Conor Oberst’s seventh solo album is his most low-key o... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: October 2016 Horoscopes
Mystic Mark delivers his verdict on the month ahead Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Music
D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated
Sometimes true originality takes a while to click. On a first listen, the debut effort from D.D Dumbo, aka Oliver Hugh Perry from Castlemaine, Australia, is ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2016 -
Books
From pulp to corsets: lesbian literary stereotypes
Vita Sackville-West was a writer who happily shunted the boundaries of literary form, along with the imposed norms of gender and sexuality. As her granddaugh... Read more »| 30 Sep 2016