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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BooksFive events to catch at Bloody Scotland 2018
Scotland's premier crime festival returns to Stirling across 21-23 September. If you're not sure where to start, we've picked a few programme highlights Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
BooksBrothers in Blood by Amer Anwar
Amer Anwar's debut novel is an intelligent and deft thriller set in West London's Sikh community Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
MusicWaxahatchee – Great Thunder EP
Great Thunder offers some stunning moments from Waxahatchee and finds Katie Crutchfield at her most off guard and most personal Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
MusicChilly Gonzales – Solo Piano III
With accidental notes giving way to accidental brilliance, Solo Piano III is Chilly Gonzales' most breathtaking piece of work to date Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
Music
Manu Delago – Parasol Peak
Recorded at different altitudes within the Alps, hang drum maestro Manu Delago's Parasol Peak offers a truly unique listening experience Read more »| 06 Sep 2018 -
Music
Garbage @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 4 Sep
Although not without technical hitches, Garbage and Shirley Manson deliver an impassioned performance from start to finish on the first night of their Version 2.0 anniversary tour in Edinburgh Read more »| 05 Sep 2018
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Theatre
The Month in Scottish Theatre: September 2018
If you’re feeling a bit of Fringe fatigue, or just looking for something to see the month after August, we’ve got you covered Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Art
Art News and Opportunities: September 2018
September brings new opportunities, and exhibitions of poignant and ambitious new works from emerging and established artists alike, including massive sculpture, a year-long animation project in Tramway, and poignant records of travel in DCA. Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Books
Scottish Poetry News – September 2018
September's spoken word calendar sees Wigtown and Islay host their festivals, and a bumper crop of new poetry collections to enjoy at home Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Music
Frightened Rabbit announce first performance since Scott Hutchison’s death
The much-loved Scottish band will perform for the first time without their frontman Scott Hutchison at a special Sleep in the Park event dedicated to the late singer-songwriter Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Books
Running Upon The Wires by Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest's new poetry collection plots the universal map of heartbreak, and the eventual optimism of new love Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Tv Radio
Disenchantment
Matt Groening's new animated show set within a fairytale kingdom has plenty of magic, but not of the comedic kind that made The Simpsons and Futurama essential viewing Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Clubs
Brain Dancing on Glasgow clubbing and their new EP
We catch up with Glasgow duo Rob Etherson and Ross Anderson, aka Brain Dancing, to chat about their debut EP Read more »| 05 Sep 2018 -
Music
Thom Yorke shares track from Suspiria soundtrack
The Radiohead frontman’s new score for Luca Guadagnino’s remake of the horror classic is released in October Read more »| 04 Sep 2018 -
Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 4-10 Sep
Lost Map Records fifth birthday celebrations continue in Edinburgh, while Garbage, The The, Lithics, Peanut Butter Wolf and Screaming Females all also playing in the central belt this week Read more »| 04 Sep 2018