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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MusicJenny Hval – Apocalypse, Girl
"Think big girl, think big like a King," begins Jenny Hval on her first album for Sacred Bones – one which journeys from the Norwegian artist's be... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
MusicNeil Young – The Monsanto Years
There are fewer fish swimming in our oceans, and Neil Young ain't happy. Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
MusicFFS – FFS
Some musical partnerships are just meant to be. Take Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks, making colourful and unorthodox pop together for fast approaching half a... Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Music
Girlpool – Before the World Was Big
The L.A. duo's debut full-length is a sparse, palpably emotional affair Read more »| 28 May 2015 -
Art
Save the Arches: RM Hubbert, Rob Drummond, Tam Dean Burn tell us why
With the long-term future of The Arches still uncertain as the venue appeals moves to shut down its clubbing operation, we ask actors, writers and musicians for their views on the Glasgow arts institution Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Comedy
Watch Bad Movies with Great Comedians @ CCA, Glasgow
The bloke at the ticket office was smiling tonight as people asked where they could see the bad movie. For every so often a show comes along with an ide... Read more »| 27 May 2015
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Music
Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Kalevi’s new self-titled album is a comprehensive introduction to an artist surely destined to become one of synth-pop’s quirky new posterboys &n... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Film
Thief
One last big job and then he's out for good. Frank (Caan) is a master jewel thief operating under the same illusion as the gangsters, dealers and hitmen of a... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Music
We Came From Wolves – We Came From Wolves
The debut effort from Scottish four-piece We Came From Wolves is a slick and consistently catchy collection of anthemic pop-rock songs written specifically f... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Music
Mates Of State – You're Going To Make It
Connecticut’s favourite husband-wife duo return with a five-song burst of new wave-tinged melodicism, as warm and wonderful as ever. It’s splendi... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Music
Miaoux Miaoux – School of Velocity
“Oh my god. It really is beautiful,” croons Julian Corrie – aka Miaoux Miaoux – on a track named Luxury Discovery. Both the... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Music
J Fernandez – Many Levels of Laughter
After three EPs, J Fernandez finally comes through with debut full length Many Levels of Laughter – and hasn’t lost any of his DIY eclectici... Read more »| 27 May 2015 -
Music
Hidden Door: LoneLady @ King's Stables Road, 22 May
First things first, Hidden Door isn’t as hidden as the would-be detective in you might hope. A stone’s throw from the Grassmarket, the ‘sec... Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Art
Blood, Fusion and Student Debt: This Week in Scottish Art
In this week's Scottish art round-up, Dundee's degree show continues, art students in Edinburgh and Glasgow get in on the act with new exhibitions, and there are more talks, events and exhibitions than you can wave a "polystyrene thing" at. Read more »| 26 May 2015 -
Music
In Pictures: Randolph's Leap, Book Group and The Sons at Nothing Ever Happens Here
Summerhall's gig series continues, Kat Gollock was down the front... Read more »| 26 May 2015