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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MusicTerminal V: 50:50 gender split in 2020 line-up
Terminal V's April edition is shaping up pretty nicely, with its latest artist announcement including Avalon Emerson, Ben UFO, Honey Dijon, Octo Octa and many more Read more »| 04 Dec 2019 -
FilmAll change at EIFF as artistic director Mark Adams steps down
After five years, Mark Adams steps down from his role as artistic director of Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s an opportunity for a fresh start for a festival that’s in need of reinvention Read more »| 29 Nov 2019 -
MusicNo Bounds 2019: Festival Report
Sheffield's No Bounds Festival explores the intersection of light and sound and highlights great originality and creativity across both artforms Read more »| 28 Nov 2019 -
MusicThe Great Western Festival, Glasgow, 23 Nov
We don our finest raincoats and hit the slippery streets of Maryhill for the debut edition of the Great Western Festival Read more »| 28 Nov 2019 -
MusicTRNSMT's 2020 line-up: Stale, pale and male
As TRNSMT announce the first wave of acts for its 2020 edition, the festival's line-up fails to show any improvements on past criticisms Read more »| 27 Nov 2019 -
FilmAtlantics
Mati Diop's feature debut Atlantics feels like the work of an experienced master Read more »| 18 Nov 2019
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FilmFokus: Films from Germany Preview
German film celebration Fokus returns this winter – we dive into the programme, which takes us back to the hope and creativity of the Weimar era, the darkness of National Socialism and to the most daring works of New German Cinema today Read more »| 12 Nov 2019 -
ArtArika Episode 10: Experimental Science, Radical Politics
Cutting-edge maths and physics is paralleled with experiences of Black, POC, Queer, Trans and Indigenous communities in Arika's latest programme in Glasgow Read more »| 11 Nov 2019 -
TheatreBright Sparks: Traverse's First Stages festival
This month, the Traverse will give six new writers, plucked from a pool of 400 open submissions, an opportunity to showcase their work as part of the new First Stages Festival. The Skinny speaks to three of the playwrights selected Read more »| 04 Nov 2019 -
FilmCage-a-rama announces 2020 programme
Matchbox Cineclub's annual love letter to Nicolas Cage returns with a new lineup of Cage movies, including two UK premieres Read more »| 31 Oct 2019 -
FilmAlejandro Landes on blistering war thriller Monos
We speak to Alejandro Landes about the extraordinary Monos, a war thriller set during an unnamed conflict. He discusses creating an allegorical film that's fluid in terms of genre and political ideology as well as its characters' gender identities Read more »| 25 Oct 2019 -
FilmDocument Human Rights Film Festival: 2019 preview
The annual human rights film festival is back for its 17th edition with a mouthwatering lineup that includes the new film from Ai Weiwei and opens with a performance from Ted Hughes-winner Jay Bernard Read more »| 24 Oct 2019 -
FilmFrench Film Festival 2019: Five highlights
Another eclectic mix of old and new titles from across the Channel arrives in UK cinemas courtesy of the French Film Festival. Highlights among the 2019 crop include love story Portrait of a Lady on Fire and submarine thriller The Wolf's Call Read more »| 17 Oct 2019 -
FilmBertrand Bonello on Zombi Child
French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (House of Tolerance, Nocturama) talks zombie movies, composing his own scores, and the importance of young people in his movies Read more »| 17 Oct 2019 -
FilmThe Irishman
Martin Scorsese reunites with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci for this enthralling mob epic that's full of echoes of Scorsese’s earlier films Read more »| 15 Oct 2019