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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MusicEx-Easter Island Head - Twenty-Two Strings
The Liverpool collective's unique methodology is exposed on the cover of their latest album. Three electric guitars + one bass = twenty-two strings. With the... Read more »| 10 Aug 2016 -
MusicBlossoms @ Gorilla, 7 Aug
“It’s better than watching Sunday afternoon shit on the TV.” Blossoms frontman, Tom Odgen has got a point – matinée ... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
ArtThis Week in Scottish Art: 9-15 August
There's the first recorded 24 hour art day this week thanks to non-stop events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with Edinburgh Art Festival at the fore once again Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
ArtOur Andrew of the Flowers - Andrew Black Interview
In advance of his first solo show at Embassy Gallery, Andrew Black speaks candidly about what the opportunity has meant to him as a white cis male, and how he's not trying to get away guilt-free Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Film
What to Watch this Week (8-15 Aug)
The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including the latest film from Todd Solondz, 80s-set coming-of-... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Film
Brady Corbet on The Childhood of a Leader
Brady Corbet has come a long way from 2004's Thunderbirds reboot. Since that inauspicious start he's chosen his acting roles wisely and with The Childhood of... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016
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Music
Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being
Like a trip to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, Glass Animals’ debut Zaba was a fruit salad-coloured melting pot of fizzing percussion, popping s... Read more »| 09 Aug 2016 -
Film
The Shallows
Jaume Collet-Serra's shark thriller starring Blake Lively offers some unsettling scenes, but most of the groundwork was done by Jaws four decades ago Dark, ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Comedy
Vir Das on Telling the Truth with Toilet Humour
Vir Das is one of the biggest names in Indian comedy, and it's apt that his first name means 'brave' – the last time he was in town, things didn’t quite go as planned Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Re-Imagining A Seminal Moment in Scottish Raving
With Slam's legendary 1989 Tramway rave as its starting point, The Pony Island looks to merge classic rave sounds with a community vibe that promotes inclusivity and fun Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Film
Pete's Dragon
A charming new spin on Disney's Pete's Dragon Disney’s ongoing spate of live-action remakes has once again upped the ante with Ain't Them Bodies Saint... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Film
Todd Solondz on his controversial career
For over two decades, Todd Solondz has wryly explored the lives of middle-class suburbanites trapped by their own melancholy and anxieties. We speak to him a... Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Film
The Wave
Hollywood-style disaster picture made in Norway Read more »| 08 Aug 2016 -
Clubs
Guest Selector: Joakim
Multi-talented Crowdspacer/Tigersushi head honcho Joakim guides us through the ten tracks that make him think of summer Read more »| 06 Aug 2016 -
BooksThe Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
The revisionist treatment of the American West has gathered pace over decades, with John Wayne’s pristine duds and decency decomposing into Deadwood's ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2016