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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Music
5 Highlights from the Sonica Glasgow 2019 programme
Glasgow's festival of visual sonic arts returns with new work from Alex Smoke, Robbie Thomson and Ela Orleans among others Read more »| 29 May 2019 -
Music
Eight acts to catch at All Points East 2019
With only a few days to go until the second edition of All Points East kicks off, we take a look at the eight acts we're most excited to see on its opening weekend Read more »| 22 May 2019 -
Music
The Skinny goes to The Great Escape 2019
Three days, 15 bands, Day-Glo underwear and a whole fleet of Slush Puppies, The Skinny reports back from this year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Music
LeithLate reveal 2019 weekender plans
Art festival LeithLate has launched details of its LeithLate19 Weekend, including an all-female music line-up at Leith Gala Day, an all-female graffiti artist jam and the return of LeithLate's Mural Tours Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Film
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: 2019 Report
We look back at the highlights from the ninth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where melancholic woodland creatures wandered the high street and hallucinatory work was playing on screen Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Music
King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Summer Nights Festival line-up announced
The King Tut’s grassroots music festival returns for its eighth year and with a new format. This year the festival will be running for seven weeks, rather than just two Read more »| 15 May 2019
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Uk Festivals
The Rise of Community-Led Festivals in Scotland
The teams behind Southside Fringe and Hidden Door to find out why and how they set up their community-led festivals Read more »| 10 May 2019 -
Festivals
Toy Story 4 coming to Edinburgh Film Festival
The fourth instalment of the much-loved Toy Story franchise will screen at EIFF the weekend before the festival kicks off proper Read more »| 10 May 2019 -
Music
Riverside Festival: La Cheetah introduce their stage
La Cheetah Club's booker and programmer Grahame Ward, aka Wardy, introduces the La Cheetah 10 stage at this year's Riverside Festival in Glasgow Read more »| 09 May 2019 -
Music
Indian Summer returns to Glasgow with Courtney Barnett, The Beths and more
Glasgow is getting a new four-part music festival to round off the summer, headlined by Aussie songwriter Courtney Barnett Read more »| 03 May 2019 -
Festivals
Boyz in the Wood to open Edinburgh Film Festival 2019
The 73rd edition of the long-running festival will kick off with Scottish comedy Boyz in the Wood, the debut film from Ninian Doff, with a cast featuring Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo and Alice Lowe Read more »| 01 May 2019 -
Uk Festivals
Kelburn Garden Party: The Skinny's 2019 line-up revealed
Bossy Love, Callum Easter, Makeness, Pleasure Pool and Heir of the Cursed among others gear up to play The Skinny's stage at 2019's Kelburn Garden Party Read more »| 29 Apr 2019 -
Film
Phil Collins on his new Friedrich Engels film Ceremony
In Ceremony, Berlin-based British artist Phil Collins brings Communist Manifesto co-author Friedrich Engels back to Manchester, a city that helped form his socialist ideas. We ask Collins what Engels would make of the UK today Read more »| 26 Apr 2019 -
Theatre
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2019: Theatre Highlights
Ahead of this year's Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, we pick out five theatre productions from the programme that you need to look out for Read more »| 26 Apr 2019 -
Film
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival: 2019 Preview
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is back in Hawick, with work by Phil Collins, Esther Urlus, Deborah S Phillips and Stephen Broomer among the lineup, as well as the annual film walk which is this year dedicated to Margaret Tait Read more »| 22 Apr 2019