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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MusicEdinburgh Festivals 2016: A Map of the Music
The Skinny ploughs through the Fringe programme so you don't have to. Our guide to August's musical happenings, with commentary from some of the players Read more »| 26 Jul 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 26 July - 1 August
This week Edinburgh Art Festival officially begins, and it's packed with talks, performance and previews. Read more »| 26 Jul 2016 -
ComedySooz Kempner on Queen: Comedy Spotlight
Despite growing up to the strains of triumphalist pomp-rockers Queen, Sooz Kempner's Fringe show investigates how she ended up 'one of life's losers'. We find out what makes Mercury and co. so elemental to her outlook Read more »| 26 Jul 2016 -
Music
Corbu – Crayon Soul
It’s not all that often that your ears encounter a debut as stylistically ambitious and texturally nuanced as Crayon Soul, with New York duo Corbu poss... Read more »| 26 Jul 2016 -
Music
Russian Circles – Guidance
Ok, let’s just get it out of the way: ‘post-rock’ is a dead concept in 2016. Despite implying a level of innovation or deviation from ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2016 -
Music
Timeless Melody: Blossoms on their debut album
Stockport's Blossoms are a guitar band in the classic British mould, with a hard-touring work ethic that's won them the adoration of millennials and Britpop survivors alike. Frontman Tom Ogden tells us more ahead of their debut album Read more »| 26 Jul 2016
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ComedyBoJack Horseman: Season Three
BoJack Horseman's titular hero sinks to new depths in a bold and assured season of the melancholy sitcom Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (25-31 Jul)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Matt Damon back as Jason Bourne, Kubrick's Barry Lyndon back in cinemas and The JT LeRoy Story laid bare in a fascinating doc Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
Music
DJ Shadow @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 20 July
The rumble of floor-quaking bass announces Joshua Paul Davis, aka DJ Shadow, to the gloom of the O2 ABC. Barely visible on the dimly lit stage, our maes... Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
Music
Ette @ The Old Hairdressers, 21 July
As parties go, this one gets off to a quiet start. Folk-popsters Randolph’s Leap usually appear as a 16-legged beast, but with the rhythm sec... Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
Music
Sun Kil Moon @ RNCM, Manchester, 20 July
Mark Kozelek delivers an occasionally spellbinding, but ultimately bloated, set in Manchester Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
Film
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Compelling documentary telling the story of literary hoax JT LeRoy Read more »| 25 Jul 2016 -
Art
UK's first graphene exhibition opens in Manchester
A new exhibition telling the story of graphene, an extraordinary substance discovered at the University of Manchester in 2004, has opened at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MSI). Read more »| 22 Jul 2016 -
Books
The GFG: The BFG in Scots Translatit by Susan Rennie
Getting up to look out of the window one eerily silent night, a wee girl called Sophy spots an extraordinary figure across the street.Something with twa bric... Read more »| 22 Jul 2016 -
Film
Best Film Screenings in the North (22-29 July)
The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week Read more »| 22 Jul 2016