The Skinny
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Independent Cultural Journalism – arts, culture and events in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee + beyond. May 2024 issue out now.
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Independent Record Shop from Glasgow, Scotland. Est. 2002. Open To The Moment. Sign up to our mailout, ok? https://t.co/AfjHbivHqO
Aidan Moffat
'Flat, out of tune, and rambling like a drunk on a Saturday night.'
Vic Galloway
BBC Broadcaster, Journalist, Musician @CheckMasses & Author: 'Songs in the Key of Fife' & 'Rip It - The Story of Scottish Pop'. My views! Bookings: @prgartists
Brian Ferguson
Edinburgh-based journalist, arts-follower, traveller-around-Scotland. Any views expressed are mine alone. Follow me on Instagram @brianjaffa
Glasgow Film Festival
The film festival for audiences. #GFF25 26 February - 9 March 2025 Tweets are from GFF staff, or CEO/Director of festival Allison Gardner if noted as (AG).
The ninth series of #InsideNo9 kicks off tonight – here's Kirstyn of the TheresNotAlwaysATwist podcast on ten years of compelling, confounding telly from Shearsmith and Pemberton
theskinny.co.uk/comedy/opinion…
'McKenna reveals the modern realities of millennial living: being broke, complicated family relationships and generational differences, and the politics of queerness'
EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS is out tomorrow via 4th Estate Books - Read our review
theskinny.co.uk/books/book-rev…
‘Good, bad and outrageous, this anthology has it all. With pieces ranging from intimate personal essays and short stories about childhood first loves to transgressive autofiction about queer sex workers’
Thanks to The Skinny for featuring SLUTS!!
'Mary In The Junkyard announce themselves as artisans of atmospheric experimental rock'
THIS OLD HOUSE, the debut EP by MARY IN THE JUNKYARD, is out next week on AMF Records - Our ★★★★ review is now live
theskinny.co.uk/music/reviews/… [Review by Vicky Greer]
Do you have a comedy show coming up in Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee next month? Shout at me about it (nicely) for The Skinny’s June issue (before it’s wall to wall Fringe). Email’s in bio ✌️
Lots of exciting new openings in Dundee this month, from a brand new music venue to everyone's favourite bubble tea joint - Read below!
theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do/s… [Article by Rebecca Baird]
'The hardcore Kentuckians don’t just live up to expectations, they beat the living shit out of them'
Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for YOU WON'T GO BEFORE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO, the new album by meteoric metalheads Knocked Loose - Out Friday on Pure Noise Records
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Fresh off the court from Challengers, Josh O'Connor stars in LA CHIMERA, out Friday
On the new episode of the CINESKINNY podcast, Peter Simpson & anahit behrooz agree it's like real-life Indiana Jones - and a lot of other good things.
open.spotify.com/episode/0qAKwQ… Curzon
'Even the most warmly recognisable sounds fall apart into static and harsh, high BPMs'
Read Tony Inglis's ★★★★ review for DEATH JOKES, the new album by Amen Dunes, out this Friday via Sub Pop Records
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'To this day, I reckon I’m the only person that’s ever yelled at their parents; 'Stop telling me to follow my dreams!''
Ahead of gigs at Monkey Barrel Comedy and The Stand Glasgow, Welsh wonder MORGAN REES presents an eclectic lineup for this month's DREAM GIG
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'Reading and writing books for children has taught me that they still speak to us as adults'
The Hidden Story of Estie Noor is out Thursday on Hachette Children's Group - Author Nadine Aisha Jassat (@nadineaishaj) examines the magic of children's literature 📖✨
theskinny.co.uk/books/features…
'A sweeping accumulation of the last decade or so on Cook and his work'
BRITPOP - The three-disc record by super-producer A. G. Cook - is out Friday. Read our ★★★★ review
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'Good, bad and outrageous, this anthology has it all.'
SLUTS, edited by Michelle Tea, is out now via Cipher Press - Read our ★★★★ review of these stories exploring our cultural obsession with promiscuity
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'I think we’ve been very lucky that the night seems to attract genuinely lovely people who want to come and watch it.'
Polly Glynn interviews Giulia Galastro, the person behind two of Scotland’s most inclusive comedy nights; Open Comedy & The Other Show
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'The past collides with the present and the living collides with the dead in Alice Rohrwacher’s meditation on personal histories and collective belonging...'
LA CHIMERA is our film of the month, out on Friday; here's @carmenchloie's review
theskinny.co.uk/film/new-relea… Curzon Film
'You would truly forgive a lot of crazy for a flat that size in Stockbridge'
As Park Circus rerelease SHALLOW GRAVE for its 30th birthday, we look back on this dazzling landmark of Scottish cinema
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INTERVIEW: Yan Ge speaks to The Skinny
about her extraordinary short story collection (her first in English; she's been publishing in Chinese for 20 years). #Elsewhere is longlisted for Jhalak Prize 2024
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#JhalakShowcase #jhalakprize24
For the May issue of The Skinny, I spoke with HOARD stars Joseph Quinn and Saura Lightfoot-Leon *and* writer-director Luna Carmoon about the stranger things found in the audacious debut feature. You can pick it up across Scotland now.
