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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MusicFoxface @ Hinterland Festival, Glasgow, 1 May
One welcome trend in Scottish music of late has been the demise of the affected transatlantic warble in favour of genuinely native brogues. Some bands &ndash... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
ComedyStu Who? Planet Of The Eejits
I have a genuinely hot tip for the Glasgow Festival! I'm sitting nervously at the preview gig in Edinbugh when Stu Who? rolls up like an ageing rock star. ... Read more »| 18 Mar 2009 -
ComedyRo Campbell: Full Power
It’s Friday the thirteenth, so you might expect a bit of bad luck here and there. But given what happened to Ro Campbell at his Glasgow International C... Read more »| 18 Mar 2009 -
Comedy
Andrew Maxwell
Andrew Maxwell brilliantly juggles a tricky crowd and rules the room with stories of his close shaves. Read more »| 18 Mar 2009 -
Music
First Acts Announced for Stag & Dagger Festival
With performances from over 120 artists (including the likes of Diplo, Jay Reatard, Hot Chip and Duke Spirit), the 'one-ticket-gives-access-to-all' Stag &... Read more »| 11 Mar 2009 -
Festival Guide
StAnza - Poetry, Anyone?
If you've any interest in poetry at all, the StAnza festival should be right up your street. Read more »| 03 Mar 2009
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Comedy
Meet your blogger
The Glasgow International Comedy Festival runs from 12-19 March. Comedian Susan Calman will be online throughout the festival giving us all an insight into its day to day shenanigans. Susan explains below what it is she loves about blogging. Read more »| 02 Mar 2009 -
Festival Guide
MESP Festival
Following on from the successful Middle Eastern Film Festival at The Filmhouse, the full blown MESP gets under way Read more »| 19 Feb 2009 -
Music
Cutting some rug on the cutting room floor
Not content with projecting moving images onto every single flat surface in Glasgow, this year the festival promises to infiltrate the underbelly of the town, with events taking place in the Sub Club and The Arches. Read more »| 11 Feb 2009 -
Music
Celtic Connections: Martha Wainwright @ Old Fruitmarket, 27 Jan
As Teddy Thompson (**) kicks off tonight's festivities, most of the largely middle-aged crowd inside the Old Fruitmarket seem attentive and fairly satisfied ... Read more »| 05 Feb 2009 -
MusicCeltic Connections: Edwyn Collins @ ABC, 23 Jan
There's only one man everyone's here to see tonight. The packed-out ABC greets Edwyn Collins with nothing short of adoration; to paraphrase Darius Danesh, yo... Read more »| 28 Jan 2009 -
Music
Celtic Connections: The Burns Unit @ ABC, 16 Jan
Few bands making their official debut could hope for a rapt full-house in the cavernous ABC, but The Burns Unit aren’t some wet-behind-the-ears whipper... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Music
Celtic Connections: Shoeshine Showcase @ ABC, 17 Jan
Tonight's event showcases Francis MacDonald's (BMX Bandits, Teenage Fanclub) pick of the artists involved with his Shoeshine record label-cum-management/prod... Read more »| 21 Jan 2009 -
Music
Hinterland Music Festival @ Various Glasgow Venues, 30 Apr-1 May
Everyone knows Glasgow is a musical hubbub, an inked-in city for any band that wants a career. But there’s always that pesky business of buying individ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2009 -
MusicT in the Park Revs Itself For 2009
Winters in Scotland are tough. We all sometimes need something to help us through these miserable, wet months. So imagine this: waking up in rolling, unspoil... Read more »| 17 Nov 2008