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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ComedyJohn Robins: Where Is My Mind?
Where Is My Mind by The Pixies plays while the audience sits, as punters subconsciously mouth lyrics and reminisce about the last time they heard the anthem.... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
ComedyJoey Page: Golden Peacock Hour
Dressed dapper, sporting a blazer, broach and trilby, Joey Page turns his hour into a surreal and fantasy-filled story time. ‘What-if’ scenarios ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
ComedyNancy Clench: Yes Queen
When a 6'5" tall drag queen, shoulder-to-toe in tartan, sipping vodka and coke whilst waving a kissed copy of The White Paper takes to the stage, unremarkabl... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
ComedyChristian Schulte-Loh: Attack of the 50 Foot German Comedian
Christian Schulte-Loh hit Glasgow with his Edinburgh Free Fringe 2013-approved show Attack of the 50ft German Comedian, bounding on to the stage, backed by a... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
Festival Watch: Beacons, T in the Park, James Lavelle's Meltdown, and more
Beacons (7-10 Aug), the festival set in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales is this year being headlined by The Fall, Darkside, Jon Hopkins and Daughter. They rece... Read more »| 28 Mar 2014 -
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Festival Watch: Full lineup for Stag & Dagger confirmed
The final lineup for Glasgow's Stag & Dagger one-day festival has been confirmed, featuring Albert Hammond Jr., Los Campesinos!, The Hold Steady, Forest Swords and East India Youth Read more »| 26 Mar 2014
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Festival GuideFestival Watch: Liverpool Psych Fest, Counterflows, Aberdeen's Big Beach Ball and more
A round-up of festival lineup additions, including Glasgow's Counterflows, Liverpool Psych Fest, Aberdeen's Big Beach Ball and more Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Festival Guide
Behaviour 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 Guide
Behaviour 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 -
Festival Guide
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 -
Art
Utopian 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 -
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