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.
-
Festival GuideFive to see at Liverpool Psych Fest 2016
Unsure where to start with Psych Fest's impressively eclectic line-up? Here are some of our favourites Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
ArtManchester Science Festival unveil 2016 programme
Manchester Science Festival has announced the eclectic programme for its tenth edition, which includes over 130 events for all ages in many surprising spaces across Greater Manchester Read more »| 07 Sep 2016 -
Uk FestivalsLiterature festivals in the North this autumn
If the last few months were all about #summerreads, autumn is the season of the literature festival – and the North has some pretty major ones. Here's our guide Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
Art
SMHAFF announces 2016 line-up
Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival announced details of its tenth edition today, which will include a play by Alan Bissett on the life of Syd Barrett, and Emma Jayne Park's new dance work for children, Experts In Short Trousers Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
Film
Take One Action: Kicking against the radical right
With a wave of right-wing rhetoric bringing Donald Trump to within a hair’s breadth of the US presidency, we look at two films from this year’s Take One Action! Film Festival kicking back against America’s lurch to the right Read more »| 06 Sep 2016 -
Music
Get to Know: Peaness
Meet Chester's wonderfully named Peaness (think about it), who play a brand new festival this September Read more »| 06 Sep 2016
-
ArtCCA Highlights - Sep/Oct 2016
We’ve a couple of months of dissidence coming up at Glasgow’s CCA in September and October, with artists, musicians, indie labels and festival curators who are kicking back against the tentacles of capitalism and social inequality in our society Read more »| 05 Sep 2016 -
Uk FestivalsWhy Are Economists Topping the Non-Fiction Charts?
This year’s Manchester Literature Festival has a good number of events looking at economic ideas and how they shape us, from Yuval Noah Harari speaking... Read more »| 02 Sep 2016 -
Film
London Film Festival announces 2016 programme
The programme for the 60th BFI London Film Festival was announced today, with new films from the likes of Ben Wheatley, Andrea Arnold and Xavier Dolan in the lineup, and stars like Cillian Murphy, Nicole Kidman and David Oyelowo expected to attend Read more »| 01 Sep 2016 -
Music
Electric Fields 2016: Saturday 27 August
Blue skies for the newly expanded Electric Fields' debut second day; The Skinny takes in C Duncan, TeenCanteen, Fat White Family & more Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
Music
Electric Fields 2016: Friday 26 August
The music festival may take place in one of the grandest country estates in Scotland, but Electric Fields has a surprisingly egalitarian feel Read more »| 31 Aug 2016 -
Film
5 Reasons to Look Forward to SQIFF 2016
The programme for the second edition of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival was announced today. Here are five reasons to be excited Read more »| 26 Aug 2016 -
Music
Red Bull Music Academy announce UK tour
Red Bull Music Academy UK tour will visit Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow and London this October, featuring Jamie Woon Moodymann, Young Fathers, DJ Harvey and more Read more »| 17 Aug 2016 -
Music
Liverpool Psych Fest announce major launch event
Psych Fest have revealed details of An Opening Dispatch, the launch event for this year's festival which will take place across several venues and involve virtual reality, art, DJs and live performance Read more »| 12 Aug 2016 -
Music
A Carefully Planned Festival #6: Past and Present
We get to know the founder of the Northwest's most ambitious DIY music event – Matthew Boycott-Garnett tells us about his favourite acts to play previous events and who you should catch this year Read more »| 12 Aug 2016