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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MusicWickerman 2010
Ever since its inception in 2001, Scotland’s Wickerman festival has drawn parallels with festival Godfather, Glastonbury, both for its free-flowing, re... Read more »| 18 Jun 2010 -
MusicThe Edge Festival
Edinburgh’s The Edge festival returns in 2010 with an eclectic line-up, including some chart-dominating names; however it’s the strong undercurre... Read more »| 11 Jun 2010 -
Music
Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Revolution
As Broken Social Scene plot their way through the festival calendar, Andrew Whiteman explains how he and his myriad of bandmates have a plan to make us all better people Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
Music
Primavera Sound 2010: In A Nutshell
We could talk for hours and hours about Primavera, if you're not careful. Here's a brief summary of how things went down in Barcelona this May Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
MusicÒran Mór @ West End Festival, 10-27 June
Standing under its own tall spire on the corner of Byres and Great Western Road, the converted church that is Òran Mór will be a highly visible... Read more »| 03 Jun 2010 -
ComedyComedy at the Leith Festival
Before the overwhelming kaleidoscopic festival of art, music and everything else hits Edinburgh in August there is the Leith Festival - a smaller, better groomed, more Scottish wee festival Read more »| 24 May 2010
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Festival Guide
Heaps of Fun
If the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team has taught us anything it’s that even the sun can’t stop the Winter Olympics. In Heap and Pebble two athletes are determined to prove this once more by bringing figure skating to a world left iceless by global warming. Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
Music
Stag & Dagger Festival @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 22 May
If Hinterland wasn’t enough to sate your spring multi-venue festival fix, then day long genre mash up and prevalent Shoreditch export Stag and Dagger s... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Comedy
Mark Nelson: Offending the Senses
From his black-hearted humour and his no-holds-barred topicality to his stiff-jawed, narrow-eyed demeanour and distinctly Scottish sardonic style, it’s... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
Comedy
Neil Innes: A People's Guide to World Domination
It's apparent that Neil Innes is performing his current show before an established fanbase. When he asks if the audience remembers The Rutles, his query is m... Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
Comedy
How Do I Get Up There?: Avant Garde
As audience members take to their seats for How Do I Get Up There?'s inaccurately titled Avant Garde show, they are treated to pre-recorded video footage of ... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
ComedyJohn Gavin: A-Z of Parenting
Standing in a sold-out, bustling Glaswegian pub, listening to the parenting alphabet according to tormented father of three John Gavin, it is easy to see why... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Dave Gorman's Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop and Stand Up Tour
Unusually for a Dave Gorman show the Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop and Stand Up tour has no particular theme – even the cycling aspect is dispensed with... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
David Heffron: Don't Think Because I Understand, I Care
‘Random bullshit’ (his own words) proved to be quite an accurate synopsis of David Heffron's Glasgow show. After a late start and disappointing w... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Bratchy: Fear, Loathing and Lost Wages
Tonight’s offering from Glaswegian Bratchy was a joyous outing for the entire family; well the Bratchpiece family anyway. Introduced by his Dad Mark, a... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010