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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FilmWhy we need Chris Morris's Brass Eye more than ever
With Manchester TV festival Pilot Light celebrating Brass Eye's 20th anniversary, we look back at Chris Morris's seminal show and realise we need his blister... Read more »| 10 Apr 2017 -
MusicMore Africa Oyé 2017 details announced
Festival favourites from previous years return to Liverpool's Sefton Park for Africa Oyé's 25th anniversary event Read more »| 10 Apr 2017 -
MusicSounds from the Other City: Visuals revealed!
Salford's annual festival of music and art Sounds from the Other City returns this Bank Holiday Sunday 30 April, and we're excited to announce what its art directors have in store for you this year. Read more »| 07 Apr 2017 -
Music
Girl Band set for Manchester Psych Fest 2017
Bo Ningen and Menace Beach also set to take over the Northern Quarter's music venues on 2 Sep Read more »| 07 Apr 2017 -
Music
Everything Everything, Be Charlotte and more join TRNSMT
More acts join the Glasgow festival, including Everything Everything, The Strypes and Be Charlotte Read more »| 06 Apr 2017 -
MusicFive to see at Fat Out Fest 2017
As the countdown begins to Salford's mighty Fat Out Fest, we look beyond the headliners to pick out some of our personal highlights... Read more »| 06 Apr 2017
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Film
John Grant to kick off Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017
The festival opens with Daisy Asquith’s Queerama, featuring music by John Grant, who performs after the world premiere Read more »| 06 Apr 2017 -
Festival Guide
Leeds International Festival's inspiring Tech bill
Yorkshire's cultural calendar gets a shake-up this month with the first ever Leeds International Festival, which boasts an impressive Tech strand. Curator Natasha Sayce-Zelem tells us about a diverse and cutting-edge programme Read more »| 06 Apr 2017 -
Art
Liverpool LightNight 2017: programme revealed
The city's celebration of its arts venues and museums is back again with another busy programme Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
Music
Tuff Love's Suse Bear on Outskirts Festival 2017
We chat to Tuff Love's Suse Bear about her collaboration with Errors' Steev Livingstone for this year's Outskirts festival in April Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
Music
Cabbage headline Leeds' Gold Sounds 2017
The Coathangers, Kagoule and Her's also feature at the Brudenell Social Club weekender Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Film
The Goddess & By the Law, Bo'ness Hippfest 2017
We take in two film screenings at Bo'ness Festival of Silent Film, including a Soviet Western scored by RM Hubbert Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Film
A Quiet Passion
Terence Davies' Emily Dickinson biopic begins as a wry social satire before becoming a Dreyer-esque death crawl Read more »| 03 Apr 2017 -
Music
Safe as Milk festival cancelled
Ticket sales insufficient, say event organisers Read more »| 30 Mar 2017 -
Music
Dot To Dot adds The Big Moon, Josefin Öhrn & more
The Slow Readers Club also join the bill at the tri-city festival Read more »| 29 Mar 2017