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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FilmStill Making Sense: why Stop Making Sense is "the Citizen Kane of concert movies"
Even after three decades, Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense feels mint fresh. With Glasgow Film Festival's late night screening coming up, we take the opportunity to sing its praises. Plus: five other great concert films Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
Film
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: The New Girlfriend
Francois Ozon's favourite subject is the fluidity of sexual identity and desire. He's been playing with this theme since early short The Summer Dress ri... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FilmGirls Behaving Badly: Desiree Akhavan on Appropriate Behaviour
It's not in every debut that you find a bisexual Iranian woman angrily brandishing a strap-on in public – but you'll find this and more in Desiree Akhavan's boundary-pushing comedy Appropriate Behaviour. Just don't call her the new Lena Dunham Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
FilmLove and Death: David Robert Mitchell on horror movie It Follows
David Robert Mitchell tells us how he turned his childhood dream into indelible cinematic nightmare It Follows Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
Film
Glasgow Film Festival 2015: Appropriate Behaviour
"That was a present," protests Shirin (writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan) when her girlfriend returns a mysterious box to her amidst an acrimonious break-... Read more »| 17 Feb 2015 -
Music
Caribou, Wu-Tang Clan, FKA Twigs lead Parklife 2015 lineup
Caribou, The Roots, Metronomy and the Wu-Tang Clan are among a host of big names announced for the Parklife weekender in Manchester on 6 and 7 June. Dan Sna... Read more »| 12 Feb 2015
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Music
Wayne Coyne heads up keynote speakers at Liverpool Sound City
Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has been announced as a keynote speaker at this year's Liverpool Sound City Conference. Taking 'The Unsing Hero' as its th... Read more »| 11 Feb 2015 -
FilmEsoteric Horror at GFF 2015
Are we going through a mini horror renaissance? Upcoming releases, including inventive slasher It Follows and allegorical animal-uprising oddity White God, suggest a resounding yes Read more »| 10 Feb 2015 -
Film
Fifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival
Fifteen films from the Glasgow Film Festival lineup you'd be mad to miss... Read more »| 09 Feb 2015 -
Music
No Pausing for Breath: FutureEverything's 20th Anniversary
This year marks the 20th anniversary of FutureEverything and a chance for its organisers to take stock — but not to stand still. They tell us what's next for this pioneering festival that explores the nexus of technology, society and culture Read more »| 06 Feb 2015 -
Festival GuideSister Act: Amy and Rosana Cade at Queer Contact
February welcomes the return of Queer Contact festival, and with it, Sister, a bold exploration of body image, feminism and identity that wowed last year's Edinburgh Fringe. Rosana Cade tells us how her performance piece, with sibling Amy, came about Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Music
Belle & Sebastian, Grace Jones to headline Festival No. 6
Belle and Sebastian and Grace Jones have been unveiled as two of the three headline acts for Festival No. 6 this September. The Glasgow indie outfit –... Read more »| 03 Feb 2015 -
Music
Robert Hood (Floorplan), Midland, Joy Orbison added to Riverside Festival bill
A clutch of new names have joined the line-up for the Electric Frog & Pressure Riverside Festival in May, with a launch party at SWG3 this weekend also a... Read more »| 30 Jan 2015 -
Film
Glasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2015 programme
The Glasgow Short Film Festival has revealed the details of its 2015 programme, the first to take place outside the main Glasgow Film Festival. It opens wit... Read more »| 29 Jan 2015 -
Music
Thurston Moore Band, Django Django set for Live at Glasgow all-dayer
Django Django, The Thurston Moore Band and Honeyblood are among the first bands announced for the inaugural Live at Glasgow all-dayer this May. Glasgow gara... Read more »| 28 Jan 2015