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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ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 29 March - 4 April
This week, catch Dovecot Gallery's dancing carpet ballet, the Rhubaba choir, and a chance to read through Kevin Harman's legal correspondence after smashing Collective Gallery's window six years ago. Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
MusicFrightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Give or take a month, it’s been ten years since Frightened Rabbit put out the first run of Sing the Greys on the tiny Hits the Fan label. It seems pert... Read more »| 29 Mar 2016 -
Music
September Girls – Age of Indignation
2014's Cursing the Sea did just enough to flag the potential of this Dublin five piece: their shadowy debut was sharply styled but that winning aesthetic alo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
Music
Shonen Knife – Adventure
Shonen Knife, by strength of statistics alone, have earned their legendary status ten times over. The revolutionary Osaka punk band are celebrating their 35t... Read more »| 28 Mar 2016 -
ClubsMoxie on NTS Radio and On Loop
Already firmly established in clubs and on the airwaves, NTS Radio resident Moxie reveals plans for a label, ahead of DJ slots across Scotland Read more »| 26 Mar 2016 -
MusicNew Albums This Week: The Thermals, Bob Mould
Our round-up of the best new music released this week, including the return of Hutch Harris and The Thermals, and solo LP number eleven from Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016
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Film
Sebastian Schipper on single-shot crime flick Victoria
Sebastian Schipper has made a thrilling single-shot crime odyssey set in Berlin. Unfortunately, few believed he pulled it off without hidden edits. It's time to set the record straight Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Protomartyr on The Agent Intellect
"We think that we’re living in the future and we know what’s going on, but we really don’t” – Joe Casey Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
The Field – The Follower
Swedish producer Axel Willner’s 2011 album title, Looping State of Mind, perhaps sums up his music as The Field better than anything. Referencing ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Dane Baptiste on Unreasonable Doubts and Sunny D
A nationwide tour and a self-penned sitcom would go right to some comedians' heads. Not so for Dane Baptiste, who tells us that success is a mix of roots, determination and a lucky vagina. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Mogwai – Atomic
Upon motive alone, this is a poignant release – a reworked version of the original soundtrack created for Belfast-born director Mark Cousins’ doc... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Alun Woodward – Music From Battle Mountain
It's been seven years since Alun Woodward's last album (2009's eponymous Lord Cut-Glass LP), so the very emergence of Battle Mountain feels like a triumph. W... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Music
Future of the Left – The Peace and Truce of...
“The proper music abounds,” sneer Future of the Left on their fifth album, taking potshots at the tedium of 'authenticity' while barrel-roll... Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Will Naameh wins Edinburgh Revue championship
The 2016 Edinburgh Revue stand-up championship took place in front of a packed Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance. Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
ComedyGreg Proops @ Citizens Theatre, 19 Mar
Best known for his appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway?, stand-up Greg Proops brings his observations to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016