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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TheatreScottish Theatre Highlights: October 2024
Some top picks for spooky season courtesy of Edinburgh Horror Festival, plus a whole host of other theatrical highlights in our October round-up Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
MusicYasmin Williams – Acadia
Yasmin Williams’ follow-up to 2021’s Urban Driftwood is an ambitious record that showcases the guitarist’s wide range of musical influences Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
BooksScottish Books Events: October 2024
As autumn sets in, there's a plethora of book launches, workshops and readings to get stuck into – here's our October book events guide Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
ClubsScottish Clubbing Highlights: October 2024
It’s cold outside, but the clubs are only just heating up. October’s top club picks include The Hacker, Machinedrum, Pinch, Beatrice M. & Ema, and Daniel Avery Read more »| 30 Sep 2024 -
ComedyScottish Comedy Highlights: October 2024
October’s a jam-packed month for comedy fans across the Central Belt with comedy celebrating Black History Month, some alt comedy legends and a spooky standout for the whole family Read more »| 27 Sep 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Zerrin
With the video for Zerrin's latest single Spring Cleaning released today, we catch up with the Glasgow-based Australian artist to find out more Read more »| 26 Sep 2024
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FilmSubversive Shorts: How Eastern Bloc animators evaded Soviet censors
This year's Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival opens with a programme of animation made during the tail end of Soviet rule. Czech filmmaker Michaela Pavlátová tells us how artistic freedom and creativity for animation flourished during this era Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
MusicPale Waves – Smitten
Capturing the kaleidoscopic array of feelings of queer love across a collection of earworms, Pale Waves’ fourth album may be the band’s most complete package to date Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
BooksIntermezzo by Sally Rooney
In her masterful fourth novel Intermezzo, Sally Rooney conveys the tangles of grief and desire through the relationship between two brothers Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
MusicNina Nesbitt – Mountain Music
Mountain Music represents a genre-shift for Nina Nesbitt, a record that showcases her vocals more than her previous pop-oriented records ever did Read more »| 24 Sep 2024 -
MusicLos Campesinos! @ QMU, Glasgow, 21 Sep
Following the release of new album All Hell, and almost two decades into their career, Los Campesinos! play their biggest Scottish show to date Read more »| 23 Sep 2024 -
MusicThe Last Dinner Party @ O2 Academy Glasgow, 20 Sep
Divisive Londoners The Last Dinner Party bring a night of theatricality to Glasgow's O2 Academy Read more »| 23 Sep 2024 -
FilmTIFF 2024: On Falling
Laura Carreira’s workplace drama On Falling does Ken Loach better than Ken Loach – it's a deeply moving depiction of emotional purgatory in working-class Scotland Read more »| 23 Sep 2024 -
FilmMy Old Ass
Megan Park’s follow-up to The Fallout is a fantasy coming-of-age film about living in the moment, which is elevated by Maisy Stella’s authentic performance Read more »| 23 Sep 2024 -
FilmThe Outrun
German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt does a fantastic job of bringing Amy Liptrot’s poetic alcohol recovery memoir to the screen, helped in no small part by a transcendent performance by Irish actor Saoirse Ronan Read more »| 23 Sep 2024