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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BooksLibrarians v Comics: Glasgow Libraries
Everybody knows you’d be hard pushed to find a librarian who couldn’t tell their Austen from their Elbow, but we wanted to find out how well thes... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
MusicBonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
MusicAfghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Film
Elba v McConaughey in The Dark Tower trailer
Idris Elba’s gunslinger will battle it out with Matthew McConaughey’s The Man in Black in this epic Stephen King adaptation Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley
It's always a little odd when an artist pulls out the self-titled record a few years into their career. This is Joan Shelley's fourth album, and her most con... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Fazerdaze – Morningside
“When I’m writing a song I never think about who’s gonna hear it, I just try and think about what I’m feeling, and I try and articula... Read more »| 03 May 2017
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Music
Black Lips – Satan's Graffiti or God's Art?
Black Lips have never given a lot of fucks, but since working with Mark Ronson on 2011's criminally underrated Arabia Mountain, they've made a concerted effo... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Music
Wild Beasts @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 1 May
Boy King is the furthest that Wild Beasts have ventured from their 'signature' sound. It features much heavier, electronic instrumentation that distorts thei... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Film
Films to watch in preparation for World War III
Concerned about the genuine possibility of global thermonuclear war? Maybe if we could get the 45th President of the USA to sit down and watch the following films, he'd remove his small finger from the doomsday button Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
FilmWhat to Watch this Week (1-7 May)
The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Neil Gaiman series American Gods, and Julian Barratt comedy Mindhorn Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Art
This Week in Scottish Art: 2-8 May
Nicolas Party's new installation at Jupiter Artland and a pair of exhibitions from Glasgow School of Art students feature in this week's art round-up Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Future Islands @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 27 Apr
Samuel T. Herring secured his legacy with his legendary performance on Letterman back in 2014. Now he has the task of living up to his well-earned reputation... Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
MADES – Never Lonely (Video Premiere)
Watch the debut music video from MADES for debut single, Never Lonely Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Music
Pond on new album The Weather
Pond guitarist Joe Ryan talks impending nuclear threat, colonialism, and producing with Kevin Parker ahead of the Aussie group's seventh album The Weather Read more »| 02 May 2017 -
Film
Julian Barratt's spoof song as his Mindhorn character
A deliriously sexy piece of 80s "erotic power-rock" from Mindhorn's Richard Thorncroft, titled You Can't Handcuff The Wind, has been unearthed ahead of the film's release Read more »| 02 May 2017