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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BooksPonti by Sharlene Teo
Reading Sharlene Teo's weird and beautiful coming-of-age novel is an overwhelming experience Read more »| 11 Apr 2018 -
MusicScottish Music Highlights: 10-16 Apr
This week's gig guide sees Hinds and Goat Girl return with new albums, a huge Arcade Fire show in Glasgow, and much more Read more »| 10 Apr 2018 -
MusicHome$lice – Howdy
Home$lice's debut album Howdy is sharp, sweet and full of character Read more »| 10 Apr 2018 -
Music
Rival Consoles – Persona
Persona is experimental and diverse in its sonic scope, but each unique sound is in service of its greater whole, making for a record that is undeniably the vision of a singular artist Read more »| 10 Apr 2018 -
Art
Scottish Design: Contemporary Ceramics
Continuing our tour of Scottish design, Local Heroes bring you the first of two forays this year into contemporary ceramics Read more »| 10 Apr 2018 -
Film
Neon Bull
An intoxicating film about Brazilian rodeo workers that's pleasingly multi-layered and subversive in its portrayal of childhood, masculinity and gender roles Read more »| 10 Apr 2018
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Music
Let's Eat Grandma @ Stereo, Glasgow, 4 Apr
Although their set tonight was short and featured mostly new tunes, Let's Eat Grandma deliver an exciting performance at Glasgow's Stereo, surely a sign of great things to come Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
Clubs
Hi & Saberhägen on Light On Leaves and working with Midland
We speak to Kami Cullen from Hi & Saberhägen about Light On Leaves, the latest EP from the Edinburgh duo released on Midland's Intergraded label Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
Music
Trembling Bells @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 3 Apr
Trembling Bells bring gigantic guitar riffs and an abundance of life to Sneaky Pete's tonight following the release of latest album, Dungeness Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
Film
Donald Glover is a spot on Lando Calrissian in latest Solo trailer
The latest trailer for the upcoming Han Solo prequel gives us the best glimpse yet of what to expect from the troubled Star Wars production Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
Music
Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People
Confidence Man bring the party with their debut album Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
Music
Confidence Man's Janet Planet tells us how to get the party started
Janet Planet of Australian party group Confidence Man tells us about playing up to the rumours, getting drunk in hot tubs and learning how to do hip rolls Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
MusicGlasgow five-piece Home$lice discuss debut album Howdy
We catch up with three members of Glasgow five-piece Home$lice at the 13th Note ahead of their debut album release this month Read more »| 09 Apr 2018 -
Film
A Quiet Place
John Krasinski mines some gut-wrenching tension out of A Quiet Place's ingenious premise in which a family has to stay silent to stay alive Read more »| 06 Apr 2018 -
Film
2001: A Space Odyssey's predictions, 50 years on
Stanley Kubrick’s hallucinatory sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey was released 50 years ago, but its themes of human evolution and our obsession with technology are as fresh as ever Read more »| 06 Apr 2018