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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MusicEdenFest @ AE Forest, Dumfries & Galloway, 4-6 Sep
The family-friendly Eden festival taking place in the picturesque meadows of Ae Forest in Dumfries and Galloway will be a welcome change from the money-grabb... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
MusicBiffy Clyro @ Corn Exchange, 21 Aug
Mancunian quintet Oceansize and their self-proclaimed progressive death indie live up to their name. It takes a good four songs of predominantly new material... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Festival Guide
The Arches Comes Alive
A new monthly feature gives you the Skinny on a Scottish venue. This month: The Arches Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Festival Guide
Bad Behaviour
Margaret Kirk heads underground to enjoy the experiment Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
ComedyMike Wozniak: Clown Shoes
Józef Wozniak is 60 years of age. Seemingly inconsequential, but in the hands of Portsmouthian comic Mike Wozniak, it appears logical that his sexagen... Read more »| 12 Aug 2009 -
Comedy
The Birds and The Bees
Take a situation everyone has had to face and then squeeze every last drop of brilliantly excruciating awkwardness from it. This is what Mark Butler achieves... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009
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MusicPitchfork Music Festival 2009
Jamie Scott heads Stateside to Chicago, the home of the internet generation's most notorious music critic for the Pitchfork Music Festival. Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Music
The Road to Belladrum
Few festivals are in such scenic locations as Belladrum Tartan Heart, which has been described as 'camping in the woods, with bands.' Dylan Reed suggests you make a trip of it Read more »| 01 Aug 2009 -
Music
Wickerman 2009
Strangely, but thankfully, the Wickerman Festival near Dumfries is a Friday-Saturday weekender, not a Saturday-Sunday affair. That's fortunate because when T... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Film
Aberdeen City and Shire Film Festival 2009
The inaugural Aberdeen City and Shire Film Festival has kicked off with fine focus as an opening gala screening of locally born director Mark Stirton’s... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Festival Guide
Glasgow Cabaret Festival
Gareth K Vile continues to have fun at the Cabaret Read more »| 16 Jul 2009 -
Music
T in the Park 2009 - Sunday
Savvy that their back catalogue might as well exist only in ‘best of’ form these days, Squeeze are quick off the mark with the hits. As the only ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2009 -
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T in the Park 2009 - Saturday
The contrast between too-cool-for-school M83’s Anthony Gonzalez (leather jacket, nonchalant je ne sais quoi) plus touring members Mikala Taylor (glitte... Read more »| 15 Jul 2009 -
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T in the Park 2009 - Friday
T in the Park 2009 was largely pre-billed as "the year T went pop", as if it was totally something else before. Bands that write their own songs and play gui... Read more »| 15 Jul 2009 -
Music
The Edge Festival @ Various Venues (Edinburgh), 7-31 Aug
The organisers of Edinburgh's Edge festival have started well by securing several big-name revival acts: ex-Talking Head David Byrne, post-punkers Magazine, ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2009