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FLO album review: Access All Areas - The Skinny
Dec 13, 2024 · Access All Areas is an assertively, confidently, confoundingly surface level record that succeeds in presenting their lead singles with various wigs on for 45 minutes and change. …
Great Scots: 2024's Best Scottish Music - The Skinny
Dec 20, 2024 · We cover as much of it as we can in our weekly Spotlight On… features, monthly new Scottish music column – Music Now – and do our best to update our Spotify playlist of the …
Competitions - Win Win Win! - The Skinny
Competitions. Hey you! Want to win stuff? Like competitions? Well, friend, this is the page for you. You too could be a winner with The Skinny: just take a scan of the vast array of wonderful …
Johnny Barrington on Silent Roar - The Skinny
Jul 12, 2023 · There’s a distinctly bittersweet flavour to Silent Roar, the soulful and gently comic debut feature from Johnny Barrington, which is due to have its world premiere at Edinburgh …
Duncan Cowles on mental health doc Silent Men - The Skinny
Nov 7, 2024 · Manly Tears: Duncan Cowles on Silent Men Ahead of his debut feature Silent Men, documentarian Duncan Cowles talks to us about getting blokes to open up on camera, the …
Scotland's Best Events This Week (26 Sep-3 Oct) - The Skinny
Sep 26, 2024 · The third edition of Samizdat, Scotland’s film festival dedicated to cinema from Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, is filled with little-seen classic …
The Skinny's Books of 2024
Dec 5, 2024 · Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Picador) Kaveh Akbar has written a deeply moving tale of grief that is rich with inventive narration. Martyr! navigates the inner turmoil of its protagonist …
The Skinny's Albums of 2024
Feb 13, 2024 · 9. Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee Why do we constantly have to reach for authenticity? Can we not fully realise ourselves in performance? On Diamond Jubilee, Cindy …
Queer review: trippy Burroughs adaptation by Luca Guadagnino
Dec 9, 2024 · Craig has surely shaken the spectre of Bond with this twitchy, rakish and deeply compassionate turn. Lee cuts a pitiful figure in his various addictions, which extend beyond …