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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FilmWhat 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 -
BooksStAnza 2017 preview: Strong Words, Strange Times
Our poetry columnist provides a run-down on Scotland's international poetry festival, StAnza, featuring such luminaries as Costa Prize-winner Alice Oswald, T.S Eliot prize winner Sarah Howe and our Makar Jackie Kay Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
FilmJohn Waters on bad taste & Multiple Maniacs
John Waters' little-seen sophomore feature Multiple Maniacs is getting a revival. Despite its new polish, it's as outrageously grotesque as ever. The filmmaker takes us back to its making at the tail end of the 60s Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
Dance International Glasgow reveals 2017 line-up
The programme for the second Dance International Glasgow (DIG) festival has been unveiled ahead of the biennial's return this spring Read more »| 08 Feb 2017 -
Music
Father John Misty tops End of the Road line-up
Mac DeMarco, Parquet Courts and The Jesus and Mary Chain also feature at the top of the bill Read more »| 08 Feb 2017
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Art
Super Weird Substance brings Alan Moore to Liverpool
Author John Higgs and playwright Daisy Campbell will also be present for the 14 Hour Super Weird Happening Read more »| 07 Feb 2017 -
Film
Hippodrome Silent Cinema Fest shares 2017 lineup
HippFest is back for its seventh celebration of silent cinema Read more »| 07 Feb 2017 -
Art
Wonder Women feminist festival returns for 2017
Manchester's feminist festival Wonder Women returns this March with a programme of art, music, film, theatre and more. Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
Music
Tramlines announces first bands for 2017
The Libertines, Metronomy, All Saints, The Pharcyde, The Coral, Loyle Carner, Twin Atlantic and Toots and The Maytals all on the bill for this year's Tramlines festival in Sheffield, which returns as an "exclusively outdoor" event. Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
Music
Sounds from the Other City 2017 reveals first acts
The annual celebration of new music, art and performance brings together many of Greater Manchester's best DIY and independent promoters to programme multiple stages along Chapel Street and the surrounding area. Read more »| 06 Feb 2017 -
FilmFirst look at David Tennant as RD Laing
The first Mad To Be Normal trailer drops ahead of its world premiere at Glasgow Film Festival On 26 February, Glasgow audiences will be the first to see new... Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
MusicPixies, Orbital and Alt-J headline Bluedot 2017
Soulwax and Warpaint also lined up for the Jodrell Bank festival Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Film
Alex Kapranos on Glasgow music doc Lost in France
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos discusses his recollections of Glasgow's vibrant indie music scene of the 90s ahead of the release of Niall McCann&rsq... Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Film
Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2017 programme
The tenth edition of Scotland's largest celebration of short film reveals its lineup, from a Virtual Reality strand to a retrospective of Norwegian filmmaker Gunhild Enger to a programme all about vaginas Read more »| 01 Feb 2017