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 GuideAye Write! A Most Succesful Festival.
Audiences were agreeably mixed, with a number of different age groups in evidence at virtually every event I attended. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Festival Guide
Beltane Festival: Ready to Burn
Off with the extra pair of socks: Spring is slowly seeping in. These last few weeks have seen daylight lingering for longer, signs of blossom sprinkl... Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Festival Guide
Arches Theatre Festival
All the companies have some kind of edge to them, something challenging and courageous. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
FilmFrench Film Festival
Breaking rules and pushing boundaries is what French cinema is all about. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
Music
Burnsong Festival @ Queen's Hall
Ziggy Campbell emerges as the curator of some of the evening's finest moments Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Film
Glasgow Film Festival
The perfect excuse to get square eyes in the name of culture Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Music
Winter's Love Mini Festival, SPK Polish Club, Falkirk, 14 Dec
The inaugural Winter's Love Mini-Festival could be your last chance to spend a few quid wisely in 2007. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Festival Guide
Reality and Stick it in My Party Hole, Q Gallery
Ranging from sardonic humour to eerie menace, O'Connor brings his characters to vivid, sympathetic life. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Film
Africa In Motion Film Festival Preview: 2007
Africa is no longer the poor cousin. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Festival Guide
Glasgay! 2007 Preview
As another season of Glasgay! approaches, Gareth K Vile looks at the evolution of queer arts in its programme. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Music
T In The Park @ Balado
Thank you Glasgow, utters a poker faced Brian Wilson. And just so we know he's not joking, he says it again. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Music
My Festival's Better Than Yours: Loch Lomond
Guitars and decks reunite as the rock DJ heads for the Bonnie Banks... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
My Festival's Better Than Yours: Latitude
The realisation that there might just be leverage in staging intimate and relaxed events in surroundings that don't resemble a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah is worthy of a few Hosannas.
Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
Leith Festival Sessions: St Judes Infirmary @ LE3 @ Ocean Terminal
The most enduring themes are of innovation and eclecticism... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Music
The Waterboys @ Festival Theatre
Displays of vitality and exertion like this are usually reserved for juvenile talent contests or, closer still, Everest expeditions. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007