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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FilmMy 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 -
FilmLady 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
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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 -
Books
StAnza 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 -
Film
John 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 -
MusicFather 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