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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TheatreHidden Door 2017: Lost in Leith Theatre
The Skinny gets an exclusive tour of Leith Theatre, closed for 30 years, and now the site of the 2017 Hidden Door Festival Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
MusicEivør – Slør
Copenhagen-based Faroese artist Eivør is of considerable standing in Scandinavia, boasting ten solo albums and notable slots on trailers for TV shows ... Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
MusicLIFE – Popular Music
Contrary to what its title might suggest, LIFE’s Popular Music isn’t a sarcy take on popular culture; instead the punk four-piece from Hull (the ... Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
MusicLou Mclean – Empty Cans (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Empty Cans by Lou Mclean in the player above, and read on for some lovely words about the song and video from the lady herself Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
Clubs
Feeling Brave: Alan Fitzpatrick interview
We speak to techno heavyweight Alan Fitzpatrick about touring, Scottish crowds, and his mega-hit We Do What We Want, ahead of his Riverside Festival debut this weekend Read more »| 25 May 2017 -
MusicSAY Awards 2017: Longlist revealed
We look at the twenty albums making up the longlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year prize Read more »| 24 May 2017
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Books
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Flights sets out as a dissection of modern travel, and becomes a diagnosis of the ancient human compulsion to move about. It is a loose travelogue, a collect... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Film
The Beguiled
Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola offers up a ripe Gothic drama filled with full-blooded performances from a cast including Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell and Elle Fanning Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Music
Gilles Peterson’s search for unsigned acts in Liverpool
We talk to Gilles Peterson about Future Bubblers, his initiative to find and develop musical talent in Liverpool Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Film
Aki Kaurismäki to be GFT's latest CineMaster
The Finnish filmmaker follows David Lynch and Martin Scorsese in Glasgow Film's rolling CineMasters series, with classics like The Match Factory Girl and The Man Without a Past screening alongside some rarely screened Kaurismäki Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Books
Cities in Literature: Reading the Queer City
As a new book is published on the topic, we take a look at the idea of the city in the queer canon: often presented as a place of freedom and emancipation, but at other times an enforcer of social constructs Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Music
Metronomy @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 17 May
Over the past ten or so years, Metronomy have recorded five studio albums, been nominated for the Mercury Prize, and quietly built up an eclectic range of nu... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Music
Eli Cripps – Poison Arrow: Video Premiere
Watch the new video for Poison Arrow by Eli Cripps Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Books
You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
You Don’t Know Me is a sharp, enticing, and thought provoking debut novel. The book begins with the evidence in a court case against a young male from ... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
Music
Leftfield @ O2 Apollo, Manchester, 20 May
As far as album anniversary shows go, you’ll be hard pushed to find one as varied and all-encompassing as Leftfield’s run through of the ground-b... Read more »| 23 May 2017