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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Festival GuideBehaviour Festival: In May @ Tramway
Performed by the Ligeti Quartet with Samuel Rice, Fredrik Holm at the piano, and sung by Leentje Van de Cruys, In May follows a dying man's journey over the last few months of his life Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Festival GuideBehaviour Festival: Hate Radio @ The Arches
The intelligently constructed play is framed on either side - at the start and end - by video testimonies of survivors. While the videos are short, they seem to counter-balance the main body of the live part of the show Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
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Behaviour Festival Launch: Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel and Sister @ The Arches
Behaviour Festival 2014 launches with Bryony Kimmings' Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel and Rosana and Amy Cade's Sister Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
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Festival Watch: T Break deadline approaches, lineup additions for Roskilde, Electric Picnic and more
A round-up of summer festival news, with lineup additions for Roskilde, Electric Picnic and Radio 1's Big Weekend in Glasgow, plus a reminder: just one week until T in the Park's T Break closes for submissions Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
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Northwest Festival Watch: Threshold and FutureEverything
As we keep an eye on the Northwest’s homegrown fests, two programmes steal the limelight this month – Liverpool’s Threshold, and FutureEverything in Manchester Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
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
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Comedy
Bobby 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 -
Comedy
Hardeep 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 -
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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 GuideFestival 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 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 -
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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 -
Comedy
Glasgow 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