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 Guide
Weird Science
The Edinburgh International Science Festival raises the city's IQ for two weeks of nerd awesomeness Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
The Tony Law Show
It's immediately apparent from Tony Law's loosely structured hour long set that he's a performer of entirely left-field sensibilities. Though he frequently s... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Laura Solon: Rabbit Faced Story Soup
Solon’s 2010 show Rabbit Faced Story Soup is an exhaustively inventive one-woman play set in a publishing house. She breaks and rebuilds the fourth wal... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
David Kay Gets Dynamic
Self-proclaimed ‘fireball’ David Kay meekly witters on in the conversational style of an old lady for just over an hour. Dynamic it certainly is ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Pappy's: Pappy's' World Record Attempt: 200 Sketches in an Hour
Pappy's current tour finds the if.comedy-nominated sketch troupe performing a reconfigured version of last year's Edinburgh Fringe show; the four man Fun Clu... Read more »| 22 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
In profile: Miles Jupp
Miles Jupp is a bit of a polymath, with a sizable CV of television and radio appearances as a stand up, an actor and part of sketch team The Lost and Lonely ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2010
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Comedy
Alex Horne: Wordwatching
Having once written to the Oxford English dictionary to remark on the absence of the word 'karmically', I was very much looking forward to Alex Horne's tales... Read more »| 18 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Brendon Burns: 2010 AD
These days, Brendon Burns is known as one of the most established performers on the UK circuit – and he isn't afraid to acknowledge it. Since his Perri... Read more »| 17 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Keir McAllister: Inadequate
Strutting out onto the stage sporting glasses, converse trainers and a casual suit, Keir McAllister could be mistaken for a university lecturer. For his firs... Read more »| 17 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Marcus Brigstocke - God Collar
Marcus Brigstocke plays to a packed-out audience in the Merchant City’s Old Fruitmarket, many of whom are expecting an hour of bite-sized satirical set... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn
The title of Henning Wehn's show is reflective of a certain amount of gimmickry in the way he markets himself, as is his decision to stage it in the raucous ... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Maxwell's Fullmooners
If the mark of a worthy comedian is how expertly they can cope with a persistent heckler, then Glasgow must be one the most testing cities in the world. Toni... Read more »| 16 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Barry & Stuart: Powered by Demons
Come dare yourself to spend an hour or more with Barry and Stuart, where black and bloody magic comes tinctured with devilish humour. This devious pair of ma... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Billy Kirkwood: Comedy Fizzbomb
As far as names go, few standup shows hit the nail quite so precisely on the head as this one. Seemingly raised on a diet of sherbet and artificial colouring... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010 -
Comedy
Benjamin Crellin: Apocalypse Soon
It’s the opening night of the Glasgow Comedy Festival and, somewhat perversely, Benjamin Crellin kicks things off with the end of the world. Peddling c... Read more »| 15 Mar 2010