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Bloody Scotland 2019: Festival recap
As Bloody Scotland entered its eighth year, the festival – an annual celebration of crime writing – presented a full weekend of top authors to ch... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Edinburgh Book Festival: The Second Weekend
Raymond Antrobus & Joe Dunthorne – Poetry in the Raw The evening begins with two lengthy readings to introduce the audience to the respective poet... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Week two recap
Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence “In the Dream House is a memoir like no other,” begins chair Paula Akpan. Carmen Maria Machado do... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Edinburgh Book Festival: The Last Weekend
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has taken over Charlotte Square across August, with appearances from everyone from master storyteller Philip Pullma... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Theatre
Contemporary performance festival Take Me Somewhere returns
It’s pointless to write a feature about Scotland’s newest festival of contemporary performance, Take Me Somewhere, without mentioning the debt it... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Books
Paisley Book Festival: Radical voices, rebel stories
Storms aside, as the days get longer and brighter, dare we say that spring is on the way. Just in time to shake off the winter blues, the inaugural Paisley B... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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Edinburgh Book Festival: The First Weekend
Kit de Waal with Damian Barr – Class Act Damian Barr opens the event by saying, "Not only are you allowed to be common at this session, you are active... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Week one recap
Alycia Pirmohamed and Jay Gao It felt properly exciting to be back at Edinburgh International Book Festival, sitting alongside a bunch of strangers, some ma... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Music and Spoken Word at The Edinburgh Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival continues across August with an exceptional array of events from the world of music and spoken word. Here are a few... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Books
Kaite Welsh on The Unquiet Heart and Edinburgh Book Festival
Kaite Welsh self-deprecatingly muses how fun she was at parties: "Nobody wants to hang out with the girl talking about the history of anesthesia." We respect... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Film
Rob Roy to open HippFest 2019
Coming up for its ninth year, the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (HippFest) has established itself as one of the highlights of Scotland’s vibrant film... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Comedy
A Long Time Coming: Josie Long on her debut book
Even though Josie Long has had a 20-odd-year-long career in the arts, she still finds it hard to believe that she has written a book. She studied English at ... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
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What's On Scotland 4-18 Jun: Glasgow International & more
It's been delayed over a year, but Glasgow International, Scotland's largest festival of contemporary visual arts, is finally coming back to the city and not... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
Music
Luna Delirious – Valentine (Track Premiere)
Luna Delirious is a singer-songwriter from Edinburgh who has been writing her own music since the age of 16. She’s only really been on the gigging circ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 23 Apr-7 May: Night Fever & more
Exhibitions are back baby! And we don't just mean online! From 1 May, the V&A Dundee is reopening its doors to visitors, with new exhibition Night Fever:... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
Art
CCA Highlights: March / April 2018
Russell Findlay tracked Scotland's most notorious gangsters. But the journalist almost paid the price for his intrepid investigations when William 'Basil' Bu... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
Declan Welsh on how politics influences his songwriting
Singer, songwriter and poet Declan Welsh, who hails from East Kilbride, has a particularly sharp way with words. With his band The Decadent West (a moniker c... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
LOVE SICK – What I'd Do (Stripped): Track Premiere
Glasgow-based LOVE SICK – a duo comprising of Shaun Canning and Julie Knox – first came to our attention at the end of last month when we stumble... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
Malcolm Middleton on his new Human Don't Be Angry record
Malcolm Middleton first found fame in the mid-90s as one half of Arab Strap. Middleton and Aidan Moffat split in 2006 after a decade of stellar releases and ... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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The Perseverance of Raymond Antrobus
Since launching his first collection, The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus has taken the UK by storm. Already a skilled poet, Antrobus has been writing poetry ... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Edinburgh Fringe 2018: What the Star Ratings Mean
it cannot have escape your attemtion that at world"s greatest arts festival nearly all reviews in every publicatiom is perfectly wrong !!! i sorry for... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Books
Nina Mingya Powles on Small Bodies of Water
"When it comes to nature writing, we tend to imagine people traipsing through fields, not so much teenage girls going to the beach at the weekend," says Nina... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Theatre
Hannah Lavery and Natalie Ibu on Protest
At a time when our national rights to gather and protest are increasingly at risk, our livelihood, our joy, and our liberty seem constantly under threat. As ... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
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What's On Scotland 7-14 Aug: Fringe of Colour & more
Like many of our colleagues and friends in Scotland's creative community, The Skinny have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, so we're asking for your... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
Books
Torrey Peters on Detransition, Baby
More than anything, Reese wants to be a mother. After her relationship with Amy – who detransitioned to live as Ames – collapsed, Reese fell into... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
Music
Sacred Paws on Glasgow and Run Around the Sun
"I’ve just moved house." Despite her reputation as an energetic onstage performer, Rachel Aggs tells us she's feeling a bit tired, as she holds the ph... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
Music
Aino Elina – Saippuaa (Video Premiere)
Originally hailing from Lapland in Finland, Edinburgh-based synthpop songwriter Aino Elina is back with Saippuaa, taken from her debut EP Unissa. Elina combi... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Film
Scottish musicians on their soundtracking sidehustles
For a country with such a vibrant music scene, Scottish musicians are responsible for surprisingly few great musical moments in cinema. There are Mark Knopfl... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Music
Spotlight On... Count Florida
Glasgow queer indie-pop three-piece Count Florida are Mel Whittle (vocals, guitar), Isobel McKenna (bass) and Argo Scott (drums). They released their debut a... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
Music
Seeking Light: Sharon Van Etten interview
With August upon us, everything seems to be happening at once. The tourist season fully in swing, and Edinburgh's streets enlivened with fresh faces from aro... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago