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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MusicTirzah @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 19 Aug
Stripped back and experimental, Tirzah's vulnerability carries tonight's Edinburgh International Festival audience through an abstract show Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
MusicLoyle Carner @ SWG3 Galvanizers Yard, Glasgow, 15 Aug
Loyle Carner establishes a love-in at SWG3's Galvanizers Yard as the sun sets for a performance that feels organic, textural and alive Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: The 2024 award winners
The new-look Edinburgh International Film Festival came to a close with the world premiere of an excellent new Scottish documentary and an awards ceremony for its mint-fresh competitions Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
MusicSpotlight On... Xaia Chimera
Glasgow DJ and producer Xaia Chimera fights through the fire and the flames on her fervent third album Infernal Rapture Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
FilmEIFF 2024: To Kill a Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood gets a modern retelling in Kelsey Taylor's restrained psychological drama To Kill a Wolf Read more »| 21 Aug 2024 -
FilmEIFF 2024: *smiles and kisses you*
A man's relationship with an AI doll is the heart of this engaging, humane but slightly repetitive documentary Read more »| 21 Aug 2024
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FilmEIFF 2024: Lollipop
Daisy-May Hudson's drama about a single mother trying to regain access to her kids after a spell in prison can feel a little heavy-handed at times, but an excellent lead performance from Posy Sterling pulls it along Read more »| 21 Aug 2024 -
FilmEIFF 2024: A Shrine
A lovely moral parable centred on an Iranian man living in Montreal who tries to get rich quick by building a mobile shrine for the city's Iranian diaspora community Read more »| 21 Aug 2024 -
MusicSPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE – YOU'LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING
Philadelphia’s SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE commit to their eccentricities for better and for worse Read more »| 20 Aug 2024 -
MusicMelt-Banana – 3+5
Melt-Banana open up their most transcendental mosh pit yet on the feverish 3+5 Read more »| 20 Aug 2024 -
MusicSOFI TUKKER – BREAD
Despite pulling together a strange swirl of sounds, SOFI TUKKER have created a sun-soaked party landscape on BREAD Read more »| 20 Aug 2024 -
FilmIrish rappers Kneecap are about to be movie stars
We catch up with two-thirds of Belfast rap group Kneecap ahead of the release of their boisterous and politically sharp eponymous biopic. They discuss the Irish language, Belfast movie clichés and Michael Fassbender's inappropriate apparel Read more »| 20 Aug 2024 -
MusicCassyette – This World Fucking Sucks
After her 2021 breakout hit Dear Goth hailed her as “the future face of alternative”, Cassyette aims to alienate feelings of isolation in her debut album Read more »| 19 Aug 2024 -
MusicFontaines D.C. – Romance
Nostalgia is more than well-earned on Romance, guided by gridiron songwriting that offers no reprieve of excitement across 11 breathless songs Read more »| 19 Aug 2024 -
FilmKneecap
Kneecap is an exercise in myth-making for a new generation in political protest and musical sacrilege Read more »| 19 Aug 2024