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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MusicHoneyblood and Pinegrove to play Dot to Dot 2017
The tri-city festival unveils its first wave of acts, including Sundara Karma, Amber Run, The Growlers, Louis Berry, Cherry Glazerr, Tom Grennan and Picture This Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Music2manyDJs & Cat Power for Eden Festival 2017
Eden Festival have revealed their final headliners for this year's festival in June A solo set from Cat Power's Chan Marshall and a DJ spot from Soulwax und... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
FilmEnter David Lynch's Factory Photography with HEXA
A GFF17 highlight looks to be HEXA's sonic response to David Lynch's Factory Photographs, the legendary director's collection of black-and-white st... Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
FilmThe Road to Mandalay
Burmese director Midi Z's vivid new film follows a pair of illegal immigrants in Bangkok. Read more »| 15 Feb 2017 -
Film
My Life as a Courgette
Swiss stop-motion animation following a young orphan from the pen of Girlhood director Céline Sciamma After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival last... Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
FilmFemme fatales, Dangerous Dames & female film archetypes
Ahead of Glasgow Film Festival's celebration of the femme fatale in its Dangerous Dames strand, we consider what's required for the job, along with some of the other movie archetypes offered up to women Read more »| 14 Feb 2017
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Film
Lady Macbeth
Darkly comic Victorian drama featuring hypnotising newcomer Florence Pugh as a disaffected young bride Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Music
Kelburn Garden Party reveals 2017 line-up
The first bands for this year's Kelburn Garden Party festival have been revealed Read more »| 14 Feb 2017 -
Film
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Trollhunter director André Øvredal's first English-language feature begins as a cerebral thriller before losing its way towards the finishing line Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
Film
In Praise of Toshiro Mifune, the last samurai
Toshiro Mifune is a film icon – we take a look at what made him so special. Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
Music
Threshold festival launches crowdfunding campaign
Organisers hope to raise £9,000 to help fund the Liverpool festival Read more »| 13 Feb 2017 -
Music
Gold Panda heads Stag & Dagger 2017 line-up
The first bands for this year's multi-venue festival in Glasgow have been revealed Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Music
Lost Map's Howlin' Fling returns for 2017
The festival on Lost Map's island home of Eigg returns this July Read more »| 10 Feb 2017 -
Film
What Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Music
the xx, Tribe Called Quest headline Bestival 2017
Rob da Bank also welcomes Pet Shop Boys, Jamie T and Dizzee Rascal to the Dorset festival's new site Read more »| 09 Feb 2017