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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Comedy
Rosco McClelland on hell, WIPs, and Scottish comedy
We talk to Rosco McClelland about hell, writing about birds and committing to the bit of being nominated for Glasgow Comedy Festival's top award every year Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Theatre
Scottish Theatre Highlights: April 2025
April offers a wide variety of new work from Stellar Quines, Scottish Opera, Dundee Rep and more – here's our pick of what's in store this month Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Comedy
Scottish Comedy Highlights: April 2025
There’s some wee beauties of gigs in store for us in April from local favourites and exciting new voices alike Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Music
Buffet Lunch – Perfect Hit!
Perfect Hit! is a chocolate box, each track offering new, delicious morsels from the ridiculous to the sincere Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Books
Holy Boys by Andrés N. Ordorica
Edinburgh-based poet Andrés N. Ordorica returns with his second poetry collection, an exploration of heritage told through lenses of queerness, liminality and desire Read more »| 31 Mar 2025 -
Film
Four Mothers
James McArdle is a winning lead in this sharp Irish comedy in which an author gets saddled caring for three of his friends' elderly mothers as well as his own mother one summer Read more »| 31 Mar 2025
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Comedy
Rob Copland @ The Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow
Rob Copland's breakthrough Edinburgh Fringe hit Gimme (One With Everything) underwhelms at Glasgow Comedy Festival Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
Music
Jupiter Rising x EAF: First details for 2025 revealed
Glasgow DJ and electronic artist TAAHLIAH will headline this year's Jupiter Rising x EAF, the after-dark party of live music, art and performance at Jupiter Artland Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
Music
Lucy Dacus – Forever is a Feeling
The fourth solo album from the boygenius member has moments of magic, but struggles to match the emotional intensity of Lucy Dacus' prior work Read more »| 28 Mar 2025 -
Music
Spotlight On... PAQUE
Ahead of releasing his latest single, Circus, we catch up with Glasgow-based rapper PAQUE Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
Art
Jerwood Survey III @ Collective, Edinburgh
This group exhibition at Collective takes a refreshing anti-institutional stance, with leading artists – not curators – selecting the early-career artists on display Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
Music
Dustin Wong – Gloria
Dustin Wong’s latest dose of guitar mangling squeezes joy out of the cracks of grief Read more »| 27 Mar 2025 -
Film
MUBI FEST coming to Glasgow in 2025
Distributor, streaming service and production company MUBI have announced that their global touring festival MUBI FEST will come to Glasgow in November 2025 Read more »| 26 Mar 2025 -
Music
aya – hexed!
Blending elements of mathcore and drone with gritty techno, aya’s sophomore album is a full-throttle exploration of addiction and self-destructive cycles Read more »| 25 Mar 2025 -
Music
Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Deafheaven are characterised as the hipsters of black metal, but Lonely People With Power is their heaviest album yet Read more »| 25 Mar 2025