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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TheatreJoe Douglas on taking The Cheviot... on tour
Ahead of a new touring production of John McGrath’s revered play, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The Skinny talks to its director, Joe Douglas, about the play, the current political climate and the future of culture in Scotland. Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
BooksMurder at the Golden Lion: Bloody Scotland returns
In anticipation of Bloody Scotland in Stirling this September, crime author Russel D McLean takes a look at The Murder at the Golden Lion: A Case for the Great Detective (apologies to Agatha Christie – and all Golden Age crime writers) Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
ClubsGlasgow Clubbing Highlights: 31 Aug - 6 Sep
Three big names in the space of three days feature in our round-up of this week's best club nights in Glasgow Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Edinburgh Clubbing Highlights: 31 Aug - 6 Sep
Birthday celebrations and a special reunion are on the cards this week in our pick of the capital's best club nights Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
MusicGonjasufi – Callus
Callus is not an album for the faint-hearted. Clocking in at a mammoth 19 tracks, the latest release from Sumach Ecks, better known as Gonjasufi, explores mo... Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
Music
Gold Dust Woman: Angel Olsen interview
After discovering My Woman on the road, Angel Olsen found the balance to confound her critics for a fourth time Read more »| 30 Aug 2016
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Music
Kevin Morby @ Summerhall, 24 Aug
Like the mountains, fire, willows and coyotes that pop up time and again on his latest record, Kevin Morby has the appearance of a timeless literary symbol. ... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Music
The Garden @ Electric Circus, 24 Aug
Somewhere beneath the paper-white face paint, red lipstick and dress shirts are Californian twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears. The Garden remain mysteriou... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Art
Theresa Duncan and Eddo Stern @ DCA
Though billed together, CD-ROMS and Small Wars are starkly different affairs. The former, a retrospective of American artist Theresa Duncan, is light-hearted... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 30 Aug - 5 Sep
This week sees Simon Starling's Common Guild show close with two events, as well as new exhibitions from David Dale, Tramway, Civic Room, Patriothall, Glasgow School of Art, and more. Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Music
Randolph's Leap announce Glasgow all-dayer line-up
Glasgow indie-pop outfit Randolph's Leap have revealed the line-up for their latest I Can't Dance To This Music all-dayer in Glasgow this October The fourth... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Music
The Parrots @ The Magnet, 27 Aug
The Parrots' trademark rock posturing more than matches the red velvet-bedecked environs at underground dive bar The Magnet. Celebrating the launch of t... Read more »| 30 Aug 2016 -
Music
Frank Ocean - Blonde
"We gon' see the future first / We'll let you guys prophesy," Frank Ocean sings on opener Nikes – and you believe him. Not least because the high, eeri... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
Art
The Charged Line: Neon in art and culture
The UK’s biggest ever survey of neon art opens in Blackpool – but why does neon still fascinate us over a century after it was first commercially produced? Read more »| 29 Aug 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (29 Aug-5 Sep)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the new comic promo for Thor, the latest from Woody A... Read more »| 29 Aug 2016