Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh Fringe
Hans Teeuwen Preview
Introduced to the Fringe in 2007 with the delectably bizarre Amsterdam Comedy Collective, Hans Teeuwen returns to Edinburgh again this summer with new and re... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hopkinson Smith - Lute and Baroque Guitar
Hailed as one of the most important lute players of modern times, Harvard Graduate Hopkinson Smith brings a program that balances various contrasting musical... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fucked
As ill-advised titles go, Fucked has got to be up there with the worst of them. But whilst a pointlessly offensive title can often be what breaks rather than... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Elis James: The Most Cautious Little Boy in Wales
Elis James is such a cautious little boy that this year will be the first solo offering from this cheeky and irreverent bilingual Welsh comic. Appearing as ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Edwyn Collins
If there were any sort of civic pride amongst Scotland’s music community, a statue of Edywn Collins would stand proud in every town. His first band, O... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
David Simon
For fans of The Wire—which, after the ceaseless praise that’s rained on the edgy cop show in the last couple of years, seems to be almost everyon... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh Fringe
David O'Doherty at Fringe Fest Preview
David O’Doherty has come a long way since his days spent hosing the insides of shipping containers at a German supermarket distributor. Fresh from tou... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Crush returns to Edinburgh Fringe
It's been six years since Paul Charlton's Edinburgh debut, Love, Sex and Cider, won a Fringe First. Now the playwright and actor is back with Crush, a play t... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Broken Records at Edinburgh Fringe
The story of Edinburgh’s Broken Records is already becoming well worn; but for those still unfamiliar with the band, here are the basics. There are se... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Beachy Head at Edinburgh Fringe - The Skinny
Having been awarded a Fringe First and short-listed for the Carol Tambor Award for their first play Mile End in 2007, expectation surrounding Analogue's foll... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Cardinal Burns at Edinburgh Fringe: Preview
Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns, two-thirds of comedy sketch trio 'Fat Tongue' bring their first full show to this year’s Fringe under their new au... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Barflies: A Staging of Charles Bukowski's writings
Which great works of art might never have seen the light of day without the assistance of a few slurps? Can we learn more from the edge of a barstool than fr... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Anna & Katy Event Preview
"So funny you'll think they're men," reads the blurb for this duo's return to the Fringe after a four-year hiatus. Since their 2005 performance of Penny Spub... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Sean Hughes
Two years after his return to the stand-up circuit following a decade's absence, former Perrier winner and Never Mind the Buzzcocks captain Sean Hughes is ba... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Alun Cochrane is a Daydreamer (at night) at Edinburgh Fringe: Preview
Alun Cochrane offers a blend of the mundane and the fantastical. Taking his material from all corners of his mortgage-paying, newspaper-flicking, Skoda-drivi... Read more »| 05 Aug 2009