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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MusicDigitalism @ The Liquid Room, 23 Aug
Most of the horde emerge from the venue sweat-soaked and grinning Read more »| 28 Aug 2008 -
ComedySusan Calman - Maybe It Is Your Fault
Stand regular, Susan Calman, brings her first solo show to the Merchant City Festival. Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
MusicBestival 2008 @ Isle of Wight, 5-7 Sep
This year Isle of Wight's Bestival yields Mermaids. Ideal. Read more »| 19 Aug 2008 -
Music5 Reasons to haul ass to Hydro Connect
Drink with an outstretched pinky at Connect and you could easily be mistaken for royalty, as Ally Brown reveals Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
Festival GuideEdinburgh Interactive Festival '08
For the last eight or so years the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival has joined the other hoards of arts based festivals over the month of August,... Read more »| 07 Aug 2008 -
MusicTartan Heart Festival @ Belladrum, Invernesshire, 8-9 Aug
Despite recent heavy headline casualties (including The Long Blondes and The Holloways) Belladrum has proven its thus far short-lived but prolific festival p... Read more »| 06 Aug 2008
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ComedyLatitude 2008 @ Henham Park, Suffolk, 18-20 Jul
The road to Suffolk is a long one coming from Scotland, but that's not to say Latitude Festival, now celebrating its third year, doesn't merit the miles. Bil... Read more »| 29 Jul 2008 -
MusicThe Edge Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 1-31 Aug
The Edge Festival will be supplying Edinburgh's culture-soaked droves with a smorgasbord of tune-churning local and international talent Read more »| 24 Jul 2008 -
MusicT in the Park 2008 @ Balado, 11-13 Jul
After breaking the undercarriage of the Skinnymobile on its rocky exit from T in the Car Park last year, much to the peculiar amusement of an onlooking polic... Read more »| 21 Jul 2008 -
MusicPutting the Attitude into Latitude
It's a little beyond our usual threshold, geographically speaking, but the Latitude Festival could be just the ticket to justify a jaunt down south for a bank holiday weekend of music, comedy and poetry slamming. Here, some of the performers make their picks... Read more »| 16 Jul 2008 -
MusicFive to Jive to at T in the Park
From Will Young to Holy F**k, the line-up for this year's annual shindig in Balado certainly can't be accused of one-dimensionality. Here's five acts from a ... Read more »| 10 Jul 2008 -
MusicHot Chip: Bombarding the Senses
Hot Chip shouldn't be a high-charting pop group. Just look at them. But they are, and that's something to be celebrated, Nick Mitchell says, after a chat with beats man Felix Martin Read more »| 10 Jul 2008 -
MusicVampire Weekend: Hot, then not...now what?
Can New York's favourite preppy kids find a way to belie their Zack Morris appearance and step out of Paul Simon's shadow? Ally Brown corners Vampire Weekend in the desert to pose the question personally Read more »| 09 Jul 2008 -
MusicPrimal Scream @ ABC 2, 7 Jul
This intimate 'secret' gig highlights the sheer charisma of one of the finest bands we’ve known Read more »| 09 Jul 2008 -
MusicBattles Park it in Balado
It's been a tough 14 months for Brooklyn's chief spasmodic melody makers, but shit's about to get ten times heavier when Battles share a tent with Will Young in a field just outside Kinross. Dave Kerr asks Ian Williams whether he thinks he'd better leave right now Read more »| 08 Jul 2008