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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MusicCaro Emerald @ Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 13 Oct
Delivering a rich mix of soul and jazz, Caro Emerald shines bright as she takes the stage of the Usher Hall Read more »| 16 Oct 2018 -
Theatre
Ballyturk @ Tron Theatre
Andy Arnold's revival of Enda Walsh’s absurdist hit is lively, but its heavy existentialist dint lacks clarity. Read more »| 16 Oct 2018 -
ArtV&A Dundee: First impressions
After years in the making, the much-anticipated £80m V&A Museum of Design in Dundee has finally opened its doors. But does it fulfil its architect's vision of a “living room for the city”? Read more »| 16 Oct 2018 -
FilmLFF 2018: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Ben Wheatley’s partly-improvised family drama Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is funny and frenzied, but some of the huge cast get lost in the melee Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Music
Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics
Neneh Cherry's fifth studio album, Broken Politics may not always seem like an urgent inquisition into our times, but it may encourage a sense of reflection Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
MusicMØ – Forever Neverland
Scandi electro-pop has never looked so good; MØ returns with her second full length album Forever Neverland four years after her debut Read more »| 15 Oct 2018
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MusicSpare Snare & De Rosa @ The Great Eastern, Glasgow, 12 Oct
The Great Eastern is an unexpected music venue, ordinarily a day centre for the elderly, but tonight it stages a powerful joint headline show from Spare Snare and De Rosa Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Music
How to Dress Well – The Anteroom
For his fifth album using the How to Dress Well moniker as an intravenous exploration of the hold that music has over our fragile human hearts, Tom Krell has perfected his process Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Film
Make Me Up
With Make Me Up, pop ironist Rachel Maclean invites us into another darkly hilarious world in which the candy-coloured computer generated images contrast sharply with the brutal satire within Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Music
Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning
Last Building Burning is an energetic riot that, though it tries, fails to leave a mark Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Film
Big Night Out: Everyman Cinema opens in Glasgow
The independent boutique cinema chain opens its first Scottish branch in Glasgow’s Princes Square this month Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Theatre
Real Horror Show: Edinburgh Horror Festival preview
The Skinny chats to Alex Staniforth, one of the co-founders of the Edinburgh Horror Festival, about their third year, why there’s not enough horror theatre, and what makes the genre so unique Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Music
Karine Polwart – Laws of Motion
Karine Polwart's latest album brims with new influences and new energy, and is all the better for it Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Music
Yoko Ono – Warzone
On Warzone 13 songs from Yoko Ono's back catalogue are reimagined with the greatest care and dedication offering a sensitivity that is needed in our world now as much as ever Read more »| 15 Oct 2018 -
Film
Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone on Dogman
Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone returns with Dogman, the story of a friendly dog-groomer who's drawn into violence by the local coke-head Read more »| 12 Oct 2018