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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FilmScott Graham on Iona
Scott Graham follows up 2012's Shell with Iona, another wind-swept rural tale of familial malcontent, this time set on the elemental Hebridean island of the ... Read more »| 14 Mar 2016 -
MusicNew Albums This Week: Adam Stafford, K-X-P + more
The best new albums hitting the shelves this week, featuring the return of former Y'All is Fantasy Island frontman Adam Stafford, Finnish visionaries K-X-P and Derbyshire composer Richard J Birkin Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
MusicErrors / Bossy Love @ La Belle Angele, 5 Mar
It’s a brave band that allows Bossy Love to open for them. Pure heat from the very first bar, the Glaswegian trio transform a sparse, early doors crowd... Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
MusicUnder the Influence: The Cosmic Dead
Hailing from Glasgow's premier psych crusaders, The Cosmic Dead's Julian Dicken meditates on a few inspirational tracks that made him want to play Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Art
Ignite Dundee 2016: Creative Sparks
This May, Dundee's cultural highlights are brought together in the form of Ignite Dundee, who have also arranged a programme of specific public art and performance events. Read more »| 11 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Lloyd Langford on Fun and Sustenance
Ahead of his visit to Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Lloyd Langford chats about how the blues can be joyous, wrestling with Greg Davies and what makes a true friendship. Read more »| 11 Mar 2016
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Music
Stream Iggy Pop and Josh Homme's 'Post Pop Depression'
The punk progenitor and desert rock godfather release their collaborative LP, which Pop claims may be his last Self-financed and recorded in secrecy with Qu... Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
Music
These Important Years: Bob Mould on Patch the Sky
Having triumphantly ridden the comeback trail in recent years, Bob Mould's personal life suddenly cracked open in 2014. He tells us how a traumatic year informed new album Patch the Sky, and why those pesky Hüsker Dü reunion rumours won't go away. Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
ArtEttie Wyatt Gosebruch: The Skinny Showcase
Ettie Wyatt Gosebruch is a photographer originally from London, currently living and working in Leeds. Her work looks at the role of ambiguity and illusion w... Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Rachel Jackson: Comedy Spotlight
Rachel Jackson's show about her attempts to find The One ran at the Free Fringe last year, and now Memoirs of a Bunny Boiler returns for a one-night stand at... Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
Film
Gavin Scott Whitfield interview
Gavin Scott Whitfield is a vibrant new voice in British independent filmmaking. His shorts are vivid and humane portraits of outsiders and the vulnerable in today's society. We speak to him ahead of a showcase of his work at HOME in Manchester Read more »| 10 Mar 2016 -
Film
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: "It was easy to make Amélie"
Visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet on the epic sets of The City of Lost Children, the freedom of Alien: Resurrection and painting his own version o... Read more »| 09 Mar 2016 -
Music
The Coral @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 5 March
The Coral were so prolific in the 2000s that no one could begrudge them a break when they announced their hiatus. The Hoylake group released six albums and 1... Read more »| 09 Mar 2016 -
Music
Public Memory – Wuthering Dream
Discombobulation – that’s the effect ERAAS’ Robert Toher, aka Public Memory is aiming for on his solo debut; a suite of dislocated beats sw... Read more »| 08 Mar 2016 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: CCA, Fruitmarket & More
This week, there are new exhibitions from Glasgow-based artists Sara Barker and Lizzie Hudson, as well as events in Rhubaba, Good Press and CCA. Read more »| 08 Mar 2016