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 GuideFirst Thought, Best Thought: A Look at Write Now Festival
Combining six brand new one-act plays, workshops and script-in-hand readings, Liverpool's Write Now Festival lays bare the writing and rehearsal process, as Ian Moore explains Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
FilmVenice Film Festival 2013: Never Trust a Beautiful Woman in a Transit Van
Our second report from the 70th Venice Film Festival: Under the Skin and Tom at the Farm Read more »| 05 Sep 2013 -
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Venice Film Festival 2013: Planes, Boats and Mobiles
Our first report from the 70th Venice Film Festival: The Wind Rises, Night Move, Philomena and The Canyons Read more »| 04 Sep 2013 -
Music
Day Tripping: Liverpool Psych Fest returns for a second year
Plug in, wig out and feel the love for Liverpool Psych Fest's sophomore outing Read more »| 03 Sep 2013 -
Music
Summercamp festival, Liverpool, 24-25 Aug
It's a bank holiday weekend, and Liverpool International Music Festival and everything else that's going on seem perfectly aligned as the sun beams down on t... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
Festival Guide
FrightFest 2013: Round-up 2 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
A round-up of the second day at Film4 FrightFest, where there were ghosties, zombies, beasties, time travel, guys making prime manure out of other guys... well, most things, really Read more »| 25 Aug 2013
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Festival GuideFrightFest 2013: Round-up 1 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
We lock ourselves in Empire Leicester Square for five days of death and dismemberment with some of the most fervent genre fans around. We escaped the baying throng long enough to deliver this, the first of our roundups... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
Music
In Pictures: Sunday at Beacons 2013
In Pictures: Beacons 2013 Rolling reportage from our two intrepid photographers, running like headless chickens around Beacons festival's second outing at H... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
MusicIn Pictures: Saturday at Beacons 2013
In Pictures: Beacons 2013 Rolling reportage from our two intrepid photographers, running like headless chickens around Beacons festival's second outing at H... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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In Pictures: Friday at Beacons 2013
In Pictures: Beacons 2013 Rolling reportage from our two intrepid photographers, running like headless chickens around Beacons festival's second outing at H... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Music
Beacons Day Three @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 18 Aug
We round off our three days of coverage from Beacons festival with waves of psychedelia courtesy of Moon Duo and Hookworms, star turns from Fatima, Theo Parrish and Andres, and a transcendental set from James Holden. We got the post-festival blues Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Beacons Day Two @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 17 Aug
In the second of our live reports from Beacons, a riotous set from Gold Panda proves the stealth highlight of Saturday, while Bicep and Bondax bring the party, and Local Natives soothe frayed nerves with their calming brand of swoon-gaze Read more »| 18 Aug 2013 -
Music
Beacons Day One @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 16 Aug
Our five intrepid reporters are broadcasting live – well, as live as you can get allowing time for sleep and gin – from this year's Beacons festival. Here's the lowdown on Friday's events, from a sputtering Ghostpoet to a spluttering Fucked Up Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Film
Out and About: Movies at Liverpool Pride
We preview the LGBT films screening as part of Liverpool Pride Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
Festival Guide
Bump @ Three Minute Theatre, Manchester, 19 Jul
A church is the unlikely setting for an awkward reunion between two old school acquaintances in Bump, a new play from Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013