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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MusicJulie Byrne @ CCA, Glasgow, 28 May
Julie Byrne runs her fingertips over her guitar strings before each song. From the closest rows, you can hear the opening few notes ring softly, though meant... Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
Comedy
Tom Green interview: "You know Trump fired me, right?"
As Tom Green's European tour rides into Glasgow, our super-journo Fred Fletch renounces his retirement to ask a set of questions as unique as Green's comedy and screen career Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
MusicSgt. Pepper at 50: Giles Martin on The Beatles classic
On the 50th birthday of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band we talk to Giles Martin, who follows in his father's footsteps as he remasters the anniversary edition Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
FilmFrancis Lee on EIFF opener God's Own Country
Edinburgh International Film Festival gets its best opening film in years with God's Own Country, an emotionally rich story of romance blossoming between a gruff Yorkshire farmer and a handsome Romanian migrant worker. Director Francis Lee tells us more Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
BooksA cultural call to arms: Rebel Inc. 25 years on
Author Jenni Fagan recalls revolutionary 90s publisher Rebel Inc. exactly 25 years on, speaking with the key architects & authors it bore – Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird. This is also a cultural call to arms. What better use to make of the past? Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
Art
Rachel Maclean introduces Spite Your Face
No stranger to these pages, video artist Rachel Maclean offers an insight into her dark Venetian fairytale, Spite Your Face Read more »| 31 May 2017
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MusicJeff Rosenstock @ Stereo, Glasgow, 21 May
The thrill of following most bands is in watching them grow with the years. Evolution is key to keeping fans interested, as well as to just being a sane huma... Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Ariana Grande confirms Manchester benefit concert
Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Pharrell are among the other artists confirmed to play the One Love Manchester concert Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
FLY Open Air festival @ Hopetoun House, 20 May
FLY Club Open Air Festival returns for the second installation in the new luxury surroundings of Hopetoun House Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Thea Gilmore – Counterweight
Since her first few feral records, Thea Gilmore has settled into a pattern of releasing new music, covers albums and compilations. You can't blame her, if an... Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Art
Ambit @ Street Level, Glasgow
Street Level presents a part of the Ambit project on Scottish Photography, and features five artists whose markedly different practices nevertheless contain moments of subtle rapport and overlap Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Art
After Hours @ 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
Through a combination of spatial intervention, sculpture, publication and video work, Higgins complicates ideas of formal presentation, as well as leisure, professionalism and labour Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Saint Etienne – Home Counties
Even when they were a part of the 'alternative dance' scene of the early nineties, Saint Etienne never fully bought into the bombastic, hedonistic style that... Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Check out the debut track from new Manchester band Koalas
New Manchester synth-pop band Koalas have unveiled their debut track, Home Heart, co-produced by avant-pop producer Brendan Williams (Dutch Uncles, GoGo Penguin). Read more »| 30 May 2017 -
Music
Natalie Imbruglia @ Gorilla, Manchester, 14 May
We're hamstrung from the off by dint of presentation: Natalie Imbruglia's European tour arrives with good intentions but who doesn't inwardly groan at the wo... Read more »| 30 May 2017