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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MusicWe Are Scientists – Megaplex
Boasting a yet poppier flavour than their previous record, We Are Scientists are at risk of losing one of their defining attributes: their sincerity Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
MusicJoan As Police Woman @ The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, 17 Apr
Joan Wasser delivers an honest and open set tonight showcasing her fifth studio album Damned Devotion to thrilling effect Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
MusicHip Hop Academic: Dave Hook on Solareye's new album
Best known as the frontman of hip-hop sextet Stanley Odd, Solareye is going solo for his latest project. We chat to him about politics, prison rap, expressing identity and his hip-hop PhD Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
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Quiet as a Mouse – Is it Funny When it Hurts?
Quiet as a Mouse are anything but quiet on debut album Is it Funny When it Hurts? Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
Music
Tony Njoku – H.P.A.C.
H.P.A.C. takes some time to get into its stride with many of its best tracks are tucked away at the end, but as it concludes it's difficult not to dive back in Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
Music
Half Waif – Lavender
Nandi Rose Plunkett has nailed the careful art of crafting an album with Lavender Read more »| 23 Apr 2018
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Music
Bryan Ferry @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 17 Apr
Bryan Ferry is focused on the task at hand tonight; gliding through the best of his Roxy Music and solo back catalogue he shows us exactly how to put on a show Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
Music
Lucy Dacus @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 20 Apr
Lucy Dacus brings the ambitious songs from her 2018 sophomore album Historian to a sold out crowd on her first trip to Glasgow Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
MusicYo La Tengo on There's a Riot Going On
For more than three decades, Yo La Tengo have defied expectations and stayed true to themselves. Bassist James McNew talks us through There’s a Riot Going On, their most ambitious LP yet Read more »| 23 Apr 2018 -
Film
Get Out & A Quiet Place: Horror stories for our times
Two hit horror movies separated by just over a year stand out as the most telling portraits of Trump’s America Read more »| 20 Apr 2018 -
Comedy
Limmy remixes the Golden Girls theme tune
Glasgow comedian Limmy has returned to the mixing desk to create an electronic version of the classic 80s sitcom’s cheery theme tune Read more »| 20 Apr 2018 -
Music
Momentum Music Fund opens to Scottish musicians
Scottish bands and musicians will have access to grants of up to £15,000 under the scheme from PRS Foundation and Creative Scotland Read more »| 20 Apr 2018 -
Film
Watch Avengers do battle in Edinburgh’s Waverley Station
Chris Evans’ Captain America and Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow kick arse against some Infinity War bad guys in the first proper glimpse of a scene shot in Edinburgh from the third Avengers movie Read more »| 20 Apr 2018 -
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Half Waif on new album Lavender
Personal apocalypses run through Nandi Rose Plunkett’s new album, but Half Waif also offers a collective sense of comfort to hold in the darkest of times Read more »| 19 Apr 2018 -
ArtShonky @ Dundee Contemporary Arts
Artist John Walter seeks to organise his own work around a group show of contemporary and established artists, and positions their work as united under the "aesthetics of awkwardness" Read more »| 19 Apr 2018