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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MusicLiverpool International Music Festival welcomes Rustie, Forest Swords and more
This year's Liverpool International Music Festival (15-31 Aug) features its most ambitious music programe yet, featuring big names and cutting edge cult favo... Read more »| 15 May 2014 -
Music
In Pictures: Sounds from the Other City 2014
Sounds from the Other City 2014 Divided by the river Irwell from Manchester, it can often be forgotten that Salford has a vibrant DIY scene of its own. Now ... Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
Festival GuideOn Tour: Owls, The War On Drugs, First Aid Kit, plus the latest festival news
A round-up of tour news, with Chicago art-rockers Owls; Philadelphia's The War On Drugs; Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit, plus: the latest bands added to the lineups of Flow Festival, Electric Picnic, and Dinefwr Literature Festival Read more »| 14 May 2014 -
MusicStag and Dagger 2014 @ Various Venues, Glasgow, 4 May
Recent BBC reality show The Street painted a picture of Sauchiehall Street as a booze and piss-soaked wasteland peopled by confrontational buskers, refo... Read more »| 12 May 2014 -
Music
In Pictures: Liverpool Sound City 2014
Liverpool Sound City 2014 For three days over 1-3 May, Liverpool didn't get a wink of shuteye as the now mammoth Sound City festival brought an embarrassmen... Read more »| 12 May 2014 -
Festival GuideSummer at the Festivals: A Field in Scotland (or England)
We take a look at the wealth of experiences on offer on the UK festival circuit, focusing on the thriving and growing number boutique outdoors festivals, and the big-top extravaganzas of T in the Park, Glastonbury, and Reading and Leeds Read more »| 07 May 2014
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Art
Street Art: Ascent at Chorlton Arts Festival
Leafy Chorlton gets a splash of bold colour this month when several of the Northwest's up-and-coming artists display work across the Manchester suburb during the Chorlton Arts Festival Read more »| 02 May 2014 -
Festival Guide
Northwest Festival Watch – May 2014
The latest local affairs in northwest England, including Slime City Festival and Baltic Block Party Read more »| 01 May 2014 -
Festival Guide
Rabble-rousing: Writing on the Wall 2014
Liverpool literary festival Writing on the Wall returns this month with a focus on the First World War. Festival director Madeline Heneghan and this year's ‘rebel ranter’, Owen Jones, tell us more Read more »| 29 Apr 2014 -
MusicGoNorth announce live showcase lineup
GoNorth Festival (4-5 Jun) is Scotland's specialist showcase festival and creative industries showcase, taking place annually at venues across Inverness. Tod... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Music
In Pictures: Threshold 2014
Threshold Festival 2014 The fourth year of Liverpool's grassroots festival of music and arts commandeered a clutch of venues in the Baltic Triangle over the... Read more »| 28 Apr 2014 -
Music
Northwest Festival Watch: Liverpool Sound City
Bird and Ex-Easter Island Head consider the scope of Liverpool Sound City on the run-up to the May bank holiday weekend event Read more »| 24 Apr 2014 -
Festival Guide
Behaviour Festival: Sam Halmarack and the Miserablites @ The Arches
Having lit up crowds from Edinburgh’s fringe to Australia, Sam Halmarack brings his pop spectacular back to Scotland. There’s only one problem, h... Read more »| 23 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores @ Blackfriars Basement, Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Richard Gadd is clearly having a bad time. So bad, in fact, that it's debatable which would be better - to review him, or refer him to the Samaritans. This is a deliciously weird hour, from the moment you walk in Read more »| 22 Apr 2014 -
Comedy
Devitt and Storrie @ State Bar, Glasgow International Comedy Festival
As Devitt and Storrie take the floor in the crowded basement of the State Bar, there is a palpable sense of mischief. A prickling sense that something is afo... Read more »| 22 Apr 2014