UK Festivals
Welcome to The Skinny UK festival guide. We bring you previews, reviews, and line-up information for arts, film, music and comedy festivals around the UK.
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Festival Guide
In My Bed @ 24:7 Festival
In My Bed’s structure is dazzling. Set in and around the bed belonging to Sarah (Olivia Sweeney), we flash backwards and forwards through a relationshi... Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
Music
Beacons Festival 2014: Saturday 9 August
Day two at Skipton's Heslaker Farm sees Hookworms warm to their role as headliners, Ex-Easter Island Head bewitch a seated hideaway, and Jon Hopkins turn the main stage into a glow-in-the-dark Wacky Warehouse Read more »| 10 Aug 2014 -
Music
Beacons Festival 2014: Friday 8 August
We're reporting live from Beacons Festival in the tempestuous Skipton countryside, where flash rains are no match for Yorkshire's commitment to a fancy dress theme. Togas at the ready for Golden Teacher, Daniel Avery and Daughter Read more »| 09 Aug 2014 -
Festival Guide
Anonymity @ 24:7 Festival
Anonymity is the murky tale of two gas fitters trapped in a dingy basement, undertaking a task as dark and foreboding as the cellar itself. As the play progr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
Festival Guide
The Box of Tricks @ 24:7 Festival
When they were younger, Mark and Mike were as close as any brothers could be. But when Mark is killed in an accident, how did the pair become so estranged fr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
Festival Guide
To the Dam @ 24:7 Festival
We meet Lisa stretched out on a warm rock as she stares across “England’s highest beach”. She’s not by the seaside, however. This is ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014
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Festival Guide
Afterglow @ 24:7 Festival
All you need is love, The Beatles told us. But unfortunately sometimes love isn’t enough, as the characters find out in Afterglow, a new play from writ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
Music
Electric Dreams: Behind the scenes at new Dumfriesshire festival Electric Fields
As the latest prospect on Scotland's festival circuit sets out its stall, we go behind the scenes at Dumfries-based one day event Electric Fields with two of its core organisers Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Festival Guide
Northwest Festival Watch – August 2014
Field trippin' Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Comedy
Robin Ince @ Solas Festival, Sat 21 Jun
Robin Ince headlines Saturday's proceedings at Solas Festival, Perth Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Festival Guide
Digital Tools for a Smooth Festival Ride
How did people figure out the festivals in the old days? Who knows. Now we have smartphones. Here's what you need to get you through August with the maximum amount of free time for beer Read more »| 30 Jul 2014 -
Art
I Knead You Tonight... Homebaked, Anfield
Homebaked, the community-run bakery and land trust in north Liverpool and a legacy of Liverpool Biennial's 2012 public realm commissioning programme, seems to be going strong. We talk to Sue Humphreys and Jeanne van Heeswijk to find out what's what Read more »| 29 Jul 2014 -
Festival Guide
Stuff @ 24:7 Festival, 18-24 Jul
Stuff, from writer Mick Cooper, starts with a seemingly straightforward premise: affluent bachelor Xav (Karl Greenwood) is dying of a brain tumour and has co... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
Music
T in the Park 2014: Sunday 13 July
And on the third day, let there be sun. Like Atom Tree the night before, another Glasgow electronic act assembles beneath the crimson glare of the T Bre... Read more »| 18 Jul 2014 -
Music
T in the Park 2014: Friday, 11 July
What began as a relatively small shindig in Strathclyde Park way back in 1994, with some seventeen-odd thousand punters gathering to see Rage Against The Mac... Read more »| 16 Jul 2014