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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ArtUtopian Dreams: Threshold festival's visual arts programme
This year, the visual arts programme of Liverpool's grassroots Threshold Festival invites artists to respond to visions of the future as imagined in the 50s and 60s. We quiz director Chris Carney and exhibiting artists on their ideas of retro-futurism Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
ComedyBobby Mair – Obviously Adopted
This is an odd show. From a suitably odd man. Mair wanders on stage embodying the spirit of self-proclaimed scruffy flunkee, looking part-scarecrow, part cra... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
ComedyHardeep Singh Kohli: Hardeep is Your Love?
It seems bizarre that a comic as articulate and insightful as Hardeep Singh Kohli ever appeared on anything as pedestrian as The One Show. Prone to roun... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
Festival Watch: BBK Bilbao, Pukkelpop, Liverpool Sound City, Blissfields and more
The vast Bilbao BBK Festival (10-12 Jul) this week confirmed The Prodigy as a headliner – also added to the bill for 2014 are Dawes, Skaters and P... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Festival GuideYDance: Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival 2014 reveals its lineup
As part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural programme, YDance are organising the first Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival, which will take place at Tramway from 10-12 July. We announce the companies taking part Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
Festival Watch: EXIT, Y Not, Big Day In
A round-up of festival lineup additions, including Carl Cox's back-to-back DJ showcase at EXIT Festival, lineup additions for the Y Not Festival, and a look at Edinburgh's Big Day In showcase event Read more »| 18 Mar 2014
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Festival Guide
Festival Watch: British Sea Power for Lunar Festival, plus Eastern Electrics, Nozstock, Flow Festival
British Sea Power join folk legend Donovan to headline this year's Lunar Festival, plus we reveal lineup additions for Flow, Nozstock, Eastern Electrics and more Read more »| 14 Mar 2014 -
Music
Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail reveals the lineup for Lost Map's Howlin' Fling
Label boss Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail tells us about the lineup for Lost Map's Howlin' Fling, which will see Beth Orton, Steve Mason and the whole Lost Map roster descend on the Isle of Eigg for 3 days of carousing Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
Festival Watch: Queens of the Stone Age for Reading & Leeds, Public Enemy for Tramlines, and more
A round-up of festival lineup editions, including Queens of the Stone Age for Reading & Leeds, Public Enemy for Tramlines, Poliça and Andrew W.K. for VISIONS, and much more Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
ComedyGlasgow International Comedy Festival: Hurricane LOLbag
Over the last decade, Glasgow International Comedy Festival has established itself as the host of the single highest concentration of laughs on the west coast per annum. We take a look at what this year's programme has in store Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
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Festival Watch: Live at Leeds, Oya, EXIT, Latitude, Wide Days and more
A round-up of festival lineup additions, including Damon Albarn for EXIT, The Prodigy for Gkobal Gathering, plus Live at Leeds, Latitude, Creamfields, and Edinburgh in-the-city showcase Wide Days Read more »| 10 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
StAnza 2014: Q&As with Andrew Sclater and Marion McCready
As this year's StAnza Festival begins, we follow up our feature taking a look at this year's highlights with a series of exclusive Q&As with the performers, presenting our full interviews with Andrew Sclater and Marion McCready Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
StAnza 2014: Q&As with Ross Sutherland and Sophia Walker
As this year's StAnza Festival begins, we follow up our feature taking a look at this year's highlights with a series of exclusive Q&As with the performers, presenting our full interviews with Ross Sutherland and Sophia Walker Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Art
Glasgow International 2014: Art and the City
The sixth instalment of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art lands in April, bringing with it a host of artists from around the globe to show with the host city's renowned creatives. New director Sarah McCrory tells us what we should expect Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Music
Kendal Calling welcomes Suede, De La Soul, Happy Mondays and more
Taking place at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District, the Kendal Calling Festival (1-3 Aug) offers an intimate and friendly alternative to the bigger, more... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014