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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TheatreStill No Idea @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence tackle public and media attitudes to disability in the arts with a mixture of humour and brutal honesty Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
MusicOptimo, Night School and Green Door on Free Love
We speak to three people who have helped shape Free Love's career from their formation through their days as Happy Meals to their reinvention as Free Love Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
ArtArika Episode 10: Experimental Science, Radical Politics
Cutting-edge maths and physics is paralleled with experiences of Black, POC, Queer, Trans and Indigenous communities in Arika's latest programme in Glasgow Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
FilmGlasgow Film Festival lines up dystopian sci-fi retrospective
Glasgow Film Festival unveil a free retrospective of dystopian cinema, and a showcase of Icelandic cinema, for their 2020 edition Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
Tv RadioThe End of the F***ing World: Series 2
This sequel to James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden)'s adventures has morphed into a different, less anarchic and explosive experience – but it is richer for it Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
MusicCloth's Rachael and Paul Swinton on their self-titled debut
Twins and close collaborators Rachael and Paul Swinton discuss the stark, elegant and haunting debut record from their band, Cloth Read more »| 08 Nov 2019
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FilmThe Report
Adam Driver is typically brilliant in this impressively mounted dramatisation of the US Senate’s investigation into torture conducted during the War on Terror Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
ArtLocal Heroes: Jewellery in Scotland
We take a look at Scotland’s flourishing independent jewellery design scene with a focus on five new makers based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
ArtDundee Zine Fest, Good Press, and Scotland's Zine Scene
Ahead of this weekend's Dundee Zine Fest, we take the temperature of Scotland's zine scene Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
ComedyICYMI: Richard Brown on Ellen DeGeneres
Chunks maestro and pitch-dark stand-up Richard Brown watches Ellen DeGeneres' latest stand-up special, Relatable Read more »| 08 Nov 2019 -
MusicYoung Guv – GUV I and GUV II
Fucked Up's Ben Cook explores a different musical direction with his solo project Young Guv, as demonstrated on his two-part project Guv I and Guv II Read more »| 07 Nov 2019 -
MusicRedemption Arc: Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi interviewed
With the future of Fat White Family in the balance after a drug-fuelled implosion three years ago, Lias Saoudi snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with searing new album Serfs Up! Ahead of a November tour, he reflects upon a turbulent journey Read more »| 07 Nov 2019 -
MusicChuchoter – U Can Find (Video Premiere)
Lynn Ruth Miller stars in the video for Chuchoter's latest single U Can Find Read more »| 07 Nov 2019 -
BooksThe BAME writers network changing Scotland's publishing scene
The Scottish BAME Writers Network is creating space in Scotland's literary scene. One writer looks at how the group is doing just that Read more »| 07 Nov 2019 -
BooksNudibranch by Irenosen Okojie
Leave your expectations at the front cover, and dive into Irenosen Okojie's immersive and darkly surreal short story collection Read more »| 07 Nov 2019