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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TheatreLiverpool's Lantern Theatre to close
The Lantern Theatre in Liverpool is set to close its doors for the final time on 31 July 2016. Widely appreciated for providing the city with new theatre si... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
Music
Outblinker – The Remains of Water Peck EP
A three-track sneak peek of the album due out later in the year, the latest EP from the Glasgow five-piece balances precariously between the ecumenical and t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2016 -
MusicJC Flowers – Driving Excitement and the Pleasure of Ownership
Londoners JC Flowers are certainly full of ideas. Baudrillard is loftily cited on the press release, suggesting a knowing angle to their classicist psych-pop... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
MusicGhold – Pyr
OWCH. You know that feeling when someone repeatedly bashes your skull with a meat tenderiser until it caves and the bone splinters and the pain goes fuz... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Music
False Advertising – Brainless EP
Just a heads-up; you can disregard the Mancunian band's moniker and the EP's title. Over five tracks on Brainless, their follow-up to last year's stupid... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016 -
Music
Composer-Curator: Neil Luck's Resonance FM show
A new radio show on Resonance FM, Drivetime Underground, presents experimental music in a commercial, 'magazine'-style format – aiming to subvert ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2016
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MusicYoni & Geti – Testarossa
In its original conception, Testarossa comprised the soundtrack to a script formulated by Why? mainman Yoni Wolf and fellow alt rapper Serengeti. E... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Music
We Are Scientists – Helter Seltzer
You’ve heard it before: indie band makes waves with intoxicating studio debut, and lives forever in its shadow. In the decade since the squeaky-clean n... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Music
Explosions in the Sky @ Glasgow Barrowlands, 19 April
Should they be responsible for some of the most soul-achingly beautiful music ever recorded – and from a post-rock perspective at least there’s a... Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 27 Apr - 2 May
Our weekly art guide, featuring performance at Glasgow School of Art and The Glue Factory, the return of Glasgow Zine Fest, and a beer-based art exhibition in Edinburgh. Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Film
Twin Peaks cast: Familiar faces and big surprises
Check out the ridiculous Twin Peaks cast! Read more »| 26 Apr 2016 -
Comedy
Jim Jefferies on Sex, Guns and Donald Trump
With a new Netflix special in the bag, we chat with Jim Jefferies ahead of his upcoming UK tour dates, including his first solo show in Edinburgh outside of the Fringe. Read more »| 25 Apr 2016 -
Art
CCA Highlights - May/June 2016
Bored in Glasgow this Spring? Impossible – not when there’s so much great film, art and music going on at the CCA. Allow us to be your guide Read more »| 25 Apr 2016 -
Music
Africa Oyé announce DJs for 2016 festival
Africa Oyé bring back DJ Edu and Esa Williams for the third year running Read more »| 22 Apr 2016 -
Theatre
Composer Mark Simpson on his debut opera, Pleasure
Millennials, eh? Always tweeting, worrying and... writing operas. At just 27, award-winning composer Mark Simpson has written his first chamber opera, Pleasu... Read more »| 22 Apr 2016