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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MusicJulia Kent – Temporal
Julia Kent's sixth solo effort is a stunningly meditative and expertly controlled album, making for a unique sonic experience Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicTim Presley’s White Fence – I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk
Tim Presley's White Fence project takes on a new, more ambient and impressionistic – though not wholly unfamiliar – direction, spurred on by a move back to San Francisco and the spectre of addiction Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicFucked Up @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 20 Jan
Off the back of releasing Dose Your Dreams last year, Fucked Up deliver one of the most diverse sets of their career tonight as they move beyond the blueprint of bruising hardcore punk Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicAdrianne Lenker @ YES, Manchester, 17 Jan
Big Thief's frontwoman makes a compelling case for the position of her generation's most exciting songwriter in Manchester Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicBetter Oblivion Community Center – Better Oblivion Community Center
Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst's surprise album as Better Oblivion Community Center showcases the complementary talents of two of America's most talented songwriters Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
MusicDream Nails – Take Up Space (Unplugged)
Unplugged, Dream Nails fly the flag for female rhetoric and unearth a steadfast sisterhood at the heart of their punk rock ferocity Read more »| 23 Jan 2019
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FilmWatch trailer for Wild Rose, Glasgow's answer to A Star Is Born
Jessie Buckley stars as a Glasgow pub singer with dreams of Nashville in the knockout comedy-drama Wild Rose Read more »| 23 Jan 2019 -
MusicAndrew Wasylyk – Mariner's Hymn (Video Premiere)
Watch the video for Mariner's Hymn taken from Andrew Wasylyk's upcoming new album, The Paralian Read more »| 23 Jan 2019 -
Film
Karyn Kusama on Destroyer and casting Nicole Kidman as a grizzled cop
Karyn Kusama's latest film, Destroyer, is an epic LA noir centered on a grizzled cop played by Nicole Kidman. The talented director discusses her rollercoaster career and the pleasure of seeing her porcelain star release her inner rage Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
MusicGigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 22-28 Jan
Massive Attack, Pictish Trail, Roddy Woomble, Makeness, Rachel Sermanni and Lost Under Heaven are just some of our highlights across the central belt this week Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
FilmOscar nominations betray #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite
Two years on from Moonlight’s landmark Best Picture win, 2019’s Best Picture contenders like Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody are looking rather retrograde, while once again female filmmakers are ignored Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
MusicFlight of the Conchords to release new live album
New Zealand's fourth most popular folk parody duo return with a live album featuring seven brand new songs Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
MusicKnockengorroch: 2019 line-up announced
Benjamin Zephaniah, Talisk, Elephant Sessions and Solareye are among the names set to appear at this year's Knockengorroch Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
MusicSneaks – Highway Hypnosis
The third album from Eva Moolchan, aka Sneaks, whips by at breakneck speed with its slightly more urgent, label-defying moments ameliorating its sluggish centre Read more »| 22 Jan 2019 -
MusicSAMAs unveil full Paisley Takeover programme
C Duncan, Kathryn Joseph, CRYSTAL, Pleasure Heads and Megan Airlie are among the artists set to perform at the Paisley festival Read more »| 22 Jan 2019