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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BooksMen Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Nothing to learn but plenty to love about Murakami's latest anti-machismo collection. Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: 25-31 May
Riverside Festival returns to Glasgow this weekend, plus club nights featuring Theo Kottis, Palms Trax, George Fitzgerald, Soichi Terada and more Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Music
Madd Again! Genre-blending the Manchester way
Manchester crew Madd Again! are back with their second EP MaddTing Vol. 2.1 Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
MusicPriests @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 22 May
Don't be fooled by frontwoman Katie Alice Greer's cutesy pastel pink raincoat, her freshly manicured nails or her bleach blonde pleats because as soon as Pri... Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
MusicThe Wytches' Summer Playlist
The Wytches' bass player Daniel Rumsey share seven tracks ideal for a lazy summer afternoon Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Theatre
Hidden Door 2017: Lost in Leith Theatre
The Skinny gets an exclusive tour of Leith Theatre, closed for 30 years, and now the site of the 2017 Hidden Door Festival Read more »| 25 May 2017
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Music
Eivør – Slør
Copenhagen-based Faroese artist Eivør is of considerable standing in Scandinavia, boasting ten solo albums and notable slots on trailers for TV shows ... Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Music
LIFE – Popular Music
Contrary to what its title might suggest, LIFE’s Popular Music isn’t a sarcy take on popular culture; instead the punk four-piece from Hull (the ... Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Music
Lou Mclean – Empty Cans (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Empty Cans by Lou Mclean in the player above, and read on for some lovely words about the song and video from the lady herself Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Clubs
Feeling Brave: Alan Fitzpatrick interview
We speak to techno heavyweight Alan Fitzpatrick about touring, Scottish crowds, and his mega-hit We Do What We Want, ahead of his Riverside Festival debut this weekend Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Music
SAY Awards 2017: Longlist revealed
We look at the twenty albums making up the longlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year prize Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Books
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Flights sets out as a dissection of modern travel, and becomes a diagnosis of the ancient human compulsion to move about. It is a loose travelogue, a collect... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Film
The Beguiled
Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola offers up a ripe Gothic drama filled with full-blooded performances from a cast including Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell and Elle Fanning Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Music
Gilles Peterson’s search for unsigned acts in Liverpool
We talk to Gilles Peterson about Future Bubblers, his initiative to find and develop musical talent in Liverpool Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Film
Aki Kaurismäki to be GFT's latest CineMaster
The Finnish filmmaker follows David Lynch and Martin Scorsese in Glasgow Film's rolling CineMasters series, with classics like The Match Factory Girl and The Man Without a Past screening alongside some rarely screened Kaurismäki Read more »| 24 May 2017