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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Film
Surf's Up: Martyn Robertson on Ride the Wave
Glasgow-based documentarian Martyn Robertson brings his first feature film, Ride the Wave, to Glasgow Film Festival this month. We talked to him about life among the surfers and what it means to bring Scottish stories to a wider audience Read more »| 08 Mar 2022 -
Comedy
Glasgow Comedy Festival 2022: The Highlights
Glasgow Comedy Festival rides again to deliver an excellent line-up of local laughs – here are some of our programme highlights Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
Film
The Hermit of Treig
Lizzie Mackenzie's compassionate documentary The Hermit of Treig follows an ageing hermit whose declining health may force him to leave the remote wilderness he called home for four decades Read more »| 07 Mar 2022 -
Film
Benedetta
Basic Instinct and Elle director Paul Verhoeven dips his toe into the lesbian nun sub-genre with Benedetta, a darkly comic and provocative drama exploring the overlap between religious devotion and eroticism Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
Film
Bergman Island
In Mia Hansen-Løve's latest, a filmmaking couple takes a trip to island of Fårö in Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman shot many of his films and where he resided in later life Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
Film
A Banquet
Tensions between a widowed mother and her eldest daughter arise when the latter gives up eating due to potentially unnatural forces in this feature film debut from Ruth Paxton Read more »| 04 Mar 2022
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Film
Red Rocket
Sean Baker returns with another tale from the fringes. In Red Rocket, his focus is a washed-up porn actor who's looking to get back on his feet Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
Film
Lizzie Mackenzie on The Hermit of Treig
We meet up with documentarian and Oban native Lizzie Mackenzie ahead of the Glasgow Film Festival premiere of her debut feature The Hermit of Treig to find out about her fascination with outsiders and rebels Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
Film
The Skinny on… Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci returns to his hometown this month for an on-stage talk at Glasgow Film Festival; ahead of that chat, we asked Iannucci to fill out our Q&A Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
Film
Sean Baker on Red Rocket
With Red Rocket, Sean Baker has once again turned his camera on a corner of the US rarely represented in American cinema. Baker introduces us to the concept of the 'suitcase pimp' and explains why he's happy working outside the Hollywood mainstream Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
Music
Connect Festival 2022: Massive Attack, The National headline
Connect Festival in Edinburgh announces a lineup topped by Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, The National, Jon Hopkins, Mogwai and more Read more »| 23 Feb 2022 -
Music
The Great Eastern festival returns for 2022
Edinburgh all-dayer The Great Eastern is back, with Kathryn Joseph, Free Love and Anna B Savage among the first acts announced for 2022 Read more »| 23 Feb 2022 -
Music
Kelburn Garden Party 2022: First acts announced
We take a closer look at Kelburn Garden Party's first announcement for 2022 featuring Max Cooper, HENGE, DJ Kampire, Nova, Optimo, Free Love and more Read more »| 11 Feb 2022 -
Film
Glasgow Short Film Festival reveal films in 2022 competitions
GSFF are back in-person and have revealed the films competing for the Bill Douglas Award and the Scottish Short Film Competition. The Skinny favourites James Price, Cat Bruce and Bryan M Ferguson are among those with films in the latter Read more »| 10 Feb 2022 -
Film
HippFest 2022 preview: Scotland's silent film fest returns
Mark Kermode's band scores FW Murnau’s City Girl and Withnail & I’s Paul McGann narrates the closing gala, L’Homme du Large – those are just a few potential highlights from this year's HippFest Read more »| 09 Feb 2022