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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MusicYama Warashi – Crispy Moon
Every 2022 album release has been shaped by pandemic society (how long will it be before music journalists run out of new ways to say a song was written duri... Read more »| 23 May 2022 -
MusicJust Mustard – Heart Under
Just Mustard's second album is an ear-piercing piece of intuitively crafted work Read more »| 23 May 2022 -
FilmCannes 2022: Aftersun
Premiering in Cannes' Critics' Week, we take a look at the first feature from Scottish director Charlotte Wells, which centres on Normal People's Paul Mescal as a young father with an uneasy relationship with his pre-teen daughter Read more »| 21 May 2022 -
Clubs700 Bliss discuss their debut album Nothing To Declare
After a four-year hiatus, DJ Haram and Moor Mother revive 700 Bliss, a collaborative project marrying forward-thinking noise rap with experimental club sounds Read more »| 20 May 2022 -
Music700 Bliss – Nothing to Declare
Moor Mother & DJ Haram reconvene as 700 Bliss for a patchy but bracing collection. Read more »| 20 May 2022 -
MusicSpotlight On... Bikini Body
Edinburgh post-punks Bikini Body share their new single Young Dad, and talk us through their plans for 2022, in this week's Spotlight Read more »| 19 May 2022
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ArtJuli Bolaños-Durman & Aivaras Simonis on Spirited Waste
Juli Bolaños-Durman and Aivaras Simonis join forces to uplift discarded waste and render it into objects of beauty Read more »| 19 May 2022 -
BooksThe Arena of the Unwell by Liam Konemann
Liam Konemann perfectly captures a bygone era of indie sleaze in the stunning queer coming-of-age novel, The Arena of the Unwell Read more »| 18 May 2022 -
MusicCharli XCX @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 15 May
If tonight's Charli XCX show is a closing party of sorts for Crash, then it’s a hell of a way to go out Read more »| 17 May 2022 -
ComedyICYMI: Chloe Petts on The Thick of It
Chloe Petts, co-founder of queer-inclusive comedy night The LOL Word and soon-to-be on her debut tour, takes on the mighty The Thick Of It for this month's ICYMI Read more »| 17 May 2022 -
MusicAndy Shauf @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10 May
A night of storytelling and uncontained joy from three of Canada’s most exciting alternative artists headed by Andy Shauf – the kind of show that sticks with you for a long time Read more »| 16 May 2022 -
MusicEverything Everything – Raw Data Feel
On their sixth studio album Everything Everything turn to the world of AI, offering up a record of deepfaked pop Read more »| 16 May 2022 -
MusicLykke Li – EYEYE
Lykke Li continues her foray into experimentation on fifth album EYEYE Read more »| 16 May 2022 -
ArtSaoirse Amira Anis on new exhibition Mis(sing) Information
Saoirse Amira Anis, curator of Mis(sing) Information, discusses the exhibition which poses urgent questions about institutional misinformation, reparation and repatriation Read more »| 13 May 2022 -
BooksBHP Comics' Sha Nazir on The Bold Collection
Glasgow-based BHP Comics' Sha Nazir on their new Bold Collection, the challenges of indie publishing, and fostering more diverse voices in the Scottish comics scene Read more »| 13 May 2022