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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FilmJuho Kuosmanen on The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is about an unassuming Finnish boxer who has his nation's hopes pinned on his success. We speak to its directo... Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
MusicCarnival Fifty Six festival unveils 2017 line-up
The new festival is headlined by Mark Ronson, with a host of great Scottish bands on the undercard Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
Music
John Grant to play at North Atlantic Flux festival
The singer-songwriter has announced he will perform at the event, which he has curated to celebrate Hull's Nordic connections Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
FilmLipstick Under My Burkha
An unflinching drama observing the depths of women’s suffering in contemporary Indian society. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
FilmThe Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
A quartet of essay film portraying the great writer, artist and critic John Berger Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
FilmBodkin Ras
Documentary and fiction collide in this tale of a mysterious stranger's arrival in a Scottish town Read more »| 21 Feb 2017
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Film
Headshot
Brutal action flick from Indonesia featuring Raid star Iko Uwais Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Film
Angry Inuk
Documentary looking at seal hunting from the point of view of an Inuit community who see it as a way of life Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Film
Graduation
Great Romanian new wave director Cristian Mungiu returns with another beautifully structured film about a family mired in a suspenseful web of compromises Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Music
BBC 6 Music Festival coming to Glasgow in 2017
The multi-venue music festival hits Glasgow this March, following previous editions in Manchester, Newcastle and Bristol Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
Music
The Cribs added to Sound City 2017
The Amazons and Vant have also been added to the bill for the festival's tenth anniversary edition Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
Illegitimate
A black comedy-infused drama from Romania taking on two tough subjects: abortion and incest Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
In Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
Film
In the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017