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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BooksExercises in Control by Annabel Banks
The everyday become unsettling in these darkly funny short stories about control Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
BooksPaisley Book Festival: Radical voices, rebel stories
As the very first Paisley Book Festival gets ready to shake up Scotland’s literary scene, we ask three of its appearing writers to reflect on their experiences, challenges and hopes for the Scottish publishing industry Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicPictish Trail – Thumb World
Pictish Trail's new album is an electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder that's funny, beautiful and life-affirming Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicAngel Olsen @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 14 Feb
Angel Olsen brings her six-piece band to the Barrowlands for a night of beautiful ballads, gorgeous arrangements and Buckfast regrets Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
MusicThe Massacre Cave – We Own the Sun (Video Premiere)
Watch the new music video from Eigg metallers The Massacre Cave, starring their fellow island resident Pictish Trail Read more »| 18 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioLocke & Key
Where Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez’s graphic novel had blood and guts, Netflix swap in teenybopper romances and faux scares Read more »| 18 Feb 2020
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MusicThe Menzingers @ QMU, Glasgow, 11 Feb
The Menzingers' northernmost show on their Hello Exile tour is a resounding success, with Glasgow’s hospitality is been more than repaid Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
MusicFourth Daughter – Vision of You (Live Session Premiere)
Watch the live solo session for Vision of You, the latest single from Edinburgh's Fourth Daughter Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
FilmSimon Bird on directing Days of the Bagnold Summer
The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird introduces us to his debut feature film Days of the Bagnold Summer, a sweet comedy focused on the precarious relationship between a well-intentioned librarian mother and her metalhead teen son Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
MusicSpinning Coin – Hyacinth
Spinning Coin have melded their well-worn sound into something new and vaguely psychedelic on new album Hyacinth Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
TheatreTrojan Horse @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
LUNG's award-winning show, adapted from 200 hours of interviews, concentrates on the devastating consequences of a media storm Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
MusicAnna Meredith @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 8 Feb
At its heart, Anna Meredith's music is about fun and exploration, and along with her band, tonight they stick to that ethos at every single turn Read more »| 17 Feb 2020 -
Tv RadioStranger Things fave back from the dead in new trailer
No, it’s not Barbs. Read more »| 14 Feb 2020 -
TheatreManipulate 2020: Lamp, Shadowbird and Island Home
We round up our coverage of this year's Manipulate festival with three ambitious shows that strive for thought-provoking visual spectacle, with varying degrees of effect Read more »| 14 Feb 2020 -
MusicFresh Break: Gary Moore on Echo Machine's electrifying debut
Leaving The Mirror Trap firmly in the past and looking forward with a pensive eye on humanity's growing lack of human connection, Echo Machine frontman Gary Moore talks creating the chaotic synth-pop soundtrack for a detached generation Read more »| 14 Feb 2020