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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FilmLights, Camera, Take One Action
Take One Action delivers another shot in the arm to complacent cinema-goers and encourages its audience to take what it sees on the screen and ask themselves 'how can I use this information to enact change in my own life?' Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
FilmDunoon Film Festival and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Fancy turning your film festival experience into a road-trip? Here are a couple of great festivals worth taking a few hours drive for Read more »| 04 Sep 2014 -
Comedy
The Wit Parade: Liverpool Comedy Festival
Do you like to laugh out of your face? This year's Liverpool Comedy Festival presents up-and-coming names fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe alongside established stars on a bill with something for everyone, but particularly those keen to spot new talent Read more »| 03 Sep 2014 -
Festival Guide
Page to Stage Festival, Liverpool, 13-27 Sep
Following the success of Manchester’s recent 24:7 festival, September sees Liverpool play host to a similar venture, showcasing eight examples of new w... Read more »| 02 Sep 2014 -
Festival GuideNorthwest Festival Watch – September 2014
The festival season's last hurrah Read more »| 01 Sep 2014 -
FilmScotland Film Event Highlights – September 2014
A new film festival launches, Nick Cave beams into cinemas via satellite and the incomparable Bill Murray shows up throughout the month with a quartet of his best films Read more »| 01 Sep 2014
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Music
In Pictures: Beacons Festival 2014
In Pictures: Beacons Festival 2014 Not even the late arrival of Hurricane Bertha on the Sunday morning could dampen the spirits of several thousand reveller... Read more »| 18 Aug 2014 -
Music
Beacons Festival 2014: Sunday 10 August
After a gloriously sunny Saturday, a little bit of hurricane wasn't gonna dampen the spirits of Sunday at Beacons – bringing us John Wizards' pop calypsos, a snarling Speedy Ortiz, and one showstopping finale from Darkside Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
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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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