International Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny international festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and 2019 line-up information for international festivals such as Primavera Sound, Le Guess Who and Toronto Film Fest.
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CMJ 2012: Detour Scotland's Ally McCrae surveys the New York Music Marathon
Greetings from the midst of New York’s yearly marathon of new music, (cue American broadcaster voice) Ally McCrae reporting from CMJ 2012. This festiva... Read more »| 18 Oct 2012 -
Art
Scotland + Venice: Critical Dialogues
What is a fallow year for Venice Art Biennale is the big blowout for the architecture world. But as you might expect, the work on show at the 13th Internatio... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
Trans Musicales
Festival Column: Trans Musicales
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales – 'meeting through music', nicely literal) is the winter festival which has garnered the useful reputation for being the... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
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Flow Festival, Helsinki
The former Suvilahti power plant will soon be buzzing again. From 8-12 August the ninth Flow Festival will take place on the historic site close to the cente... Read more »| 02 Jul 2012 -
Coachella
Coachella – Field of Glamorous Dreams
A pasty Scot heads for the glamour-packed fields of Indio, California, for a Coachella festival that smells of roses, not piss... Read more »| 29 May 2012 -
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Clubbing at the Festivals: Playing The Field
If Scottish summer festivals leave you cold (and wet, and windy), then an escape to greener pastures might be your ticket Read more »| 30 Apr 2012
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Trans Musicales
Awake On Foreign Shores: Trans Musicales 2011
In search of an alternative winter festival, our Music editor heads for Les Recontres Trans Musicales to find out how the French get down Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Winter in Venice
The temperature has dropped in Venice, and we've happily swapped ice creams for the best hot chocolates you could possibly imagine. An icy fog has desce... Read more »| 22 Nov 2011 -
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Festival Column: The Falls Festival, Tasmania
To me, New Year's Eve is a rubbish night. I almost inevitably find myself switching between the extreme heat of a sweaty party and the extreme cold of Scot... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Welcome welcome, new team!
Buongiorno a tutti!Now that Alex, Clare, Emma and Fran have said their goodbyes and returned to home turf, you have a new set of Information Assistants to fo... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: One team leaves, another arrives
As our team of IAs are getting ready to leave Venice (new team to arrive soon), Emma, Fran and Alex throw in a bit of self-promotion to show us what else they've been up to these past few weeks... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Clooney and Cocktails
31 August marked the opening of the Venice Film Festival so we donned our most fabulous clothes, boarded the not-quite-as-fabulous vaporetto and sped&nb... Read more »| 14 Sep 2011 -
Art
Scotland+Venice Diaries: Chewing the Scenery
Halfway through our stay – oh how time marches on – and all is andando alla grande! Things continue to tick over nicely in the exhibition, with ... Read more »| 31 Aug 2011 -
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Festival Column: KaZantip Republic
When is a festival not a festival? When it takes place in the non-existent state of KaZantip that's when, and therefore only exists in a parallel reality. Th... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Sonar
Sonar 2011 – A Diary
El Raval is littered with fauna typical of June. Wet cans of Estrella Damm exchange hands in the clandestine passageways of Carrer de L'Hostpital. Ears ring ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011