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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Music
In Pictures: Brew at the Bog Festival 2012
Rolling reportage from Brew at the Bog 2012 at Bogbain Farm in Inverness. Photography by Emily Wylde Read more »| 18 May 2012 -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2012, 19 May: Full line-up and stage times
The one-day, one-ticket festival returns to Glasgow for a fourth year, presenting an array of acts in an array of venues across the city. Here's a full line-up of what's on where and when Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
Music
In Pictures: The Great Escape, Brighton 2012
The Great Escape, Brighton 2012 A few of the highlights from The Great Escape music festival, which ran in Brighton from 10-12 May, including Admiral Fallow... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
Film
Southside Film Festival 2012
Southside Film Festival (17-20 May) returns for a second year to provide an oasis of film to an area of Glasgow that's starved of the moving image for much of the year Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
Music
T Break 2012 Line-Up Announced
Today Tennent's Lager announced the 16 bands that made the cut from well over a thousand entrants to play this year's T Break stage at the T in the Park fest... Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Music
Mastodon, Mogwai, New Order, Aidan Moffat (and More) Talk Festival Season
The cream of this year’s UK festival line-ups open a serious can of straight talk on the destinations they're looking forward to, memorable seasons past, and what actually happens in the VIP area Read more »| 11 May 2012
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Festival Guide
Noise of Summer: UK Festivals 2012
From north to south, we present a guide to the festival season’s first, second, third (and umpteenth) big weekends Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Festival Guide
Mayfesto 2012: Get Engaged
The forward-thinking theatre festival sets out its stall for 2012 Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2012
Some say there's a dearth of good gigs at home as festival season approaches, Stag & Dagger thinks differently Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Art
In Pictures: Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012 Some highlights from the biennial art fest, running in venues across the city from 20 April until 7 May &n... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Art
Moyra Davey: The Lives of Others
New York-based artist Moyra Davey examines her own life against the well-thumbed narratives of literary greats. We quizzed her on her new film, due to screen at Glasgow International 2012 Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Film
Il Boom
Set in the luxurious apartments of Italy's nouveau riche during the country's postwar economic boom, the rather aimless satire of Il Boom (1963) seems an unl... Read more »| 17 Apr 2012 -
Film
Director Whit Stillman in interview
Following his Malickesque hiatus, The Skinny speaks to Whit Stillman, American cinema's great social anthropologist, about his riotous new college campus comedy Damsels in Distress Read more »| 13 Apr 2012 -
Film
Italian Film Festival, Scotland, 13-26 Apr
With an exquisitely judged blend of contemporary and classic films, the Italian Film Festival returns to showcase the cinema from one of the great filmmaking nations Read more »| 09 Apr 2012 -
Comedy
Edinburgh International Science Festival: The Science of Comedy
Robin Ince and Matt Parker are coming to Edinburgh to prove that science isn't just fun, it's hilarious Read more »| 04 Apr 2012