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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MusicCeltic Connections: Giant Sand @ ABC2, 15 Jan
For a band formed in 1985, Howe Gelb’s Giant Sand manage to sound fresher and more unique tonight than most of the acts who have come and gone like the... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
ComedyMagners Glasgow International Comedy Festival 2011
Sometimes it feels like every festival launch you go to these days promises 'More Shows Than Ever Before!'. But, as we all know, it's how good the shows are ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
Festival GuideManipulate Visual Theatre Festival: Performance. Strings. Death. Despair. Puppets
Manipulate returns to Edinburgh in February with a celebration of puppetry and visual theatre Read more »| 11 Jan 2011 -
FilmImogène McCarthery
Highlights from the French Film Festival Read more »| 06 Jan 2011 -
Comedy
In Profile: Russell Kane
We catch up with Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Russell Kane on his way back from the jungle Read more »| 05 Jan 2011 -
Film
Glasgow Youth Film Festival needs your help
Glasgow Youth Film Festival (GYFF) needs your help. The GYFF is unique among festivals aimed at younger audiences in that at every stage, from curating the p... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010
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Festival Guide
Festival Watch: Vikings @ Up Helly Aa
Ah, the Vikings and their renown as history's most hirsute bunch of raping, pillaging murderers. Well, perhaps not. Recent research from some cardigan and co... Read more »| 03 Dec 2010 -
Film
Sheffield Doc/Fest
The Skinny takes a peek at the UK's premier documentary film festival Read more »| 08 Nov 2010 -
Film
AiM: Sex, Okra and Salted Butter
AiM opens with a bang with Sex, Okra and Salted Butter, a comedy of manners about the life of an African family adapting to Western culture Read more »| 04 Nov 2010 -
Film
AiM: Sacred Places
Sacred Places tells the story of a Burkina Faso neighbourhood through three characters: Bouba, the local video club owner; Jules Cesar, the Djembé mak... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Film
Africa in Motion 2010
AiM returns to celebrate the cinema of the continent that continues to be criminally ignored Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Film
Reel Change: Take One Action Film Festival
This month, discover films which inspire and challenge at the Take One Action Film Festival Read more »| 07 Sep 2010 -
Music
Emma Pollock on the relationship between the arts and mental health
The arts, with regards to mental health (whether it be positive or negative) are absolutely crucial. It is through the arts that people tend to show their ch... Read more »| 03 Sep 2010 -
Music
Music Like a Vitamin
Rod Jones and Emma Pollock speak exclusively to The Skinny about the making of First Edition, their contribution to the forthcoming Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
MusicEdge Festival 2010: The Phantom Band
The Phantom Band blew our minds with last year's Checkmate Savage, now they're getting ready to do it all over again Read more »| 01 Aug 2010