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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FilmEIFF 2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople & Slash
Two great coming-of-age films from the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival that embrace their outsiders as sympathetic and complicated human beings: T... Read more »| 16 Jun 2016 -
Festival GuideGottwood Festival 2016: review
Gottwood proves once again why it's the undisputed champ of the small festival circuit. Read more »| 16 Jun 2016 -
Film
Tommy's Honour
Edinburgh International Film Festival opens with an earnest golfing drama that's as exciting as you'd expect, but the fine cast save it from being mired in the rough Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Film
A Snapshot of American Independent Cinema in 2016
A report back from Sundance London, where the best of American indie film was on the menu Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
FilmCinema is dead. Long live Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality was all over this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, but is it the future of visual storytelling? Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
MusicField Day 2016: The Review
Field Day rings in 10 years with celebratory headline turns from James Blake, PJ Harvey and some almighty storm clouds. Read more »| 15 Jun 2016
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Uk Festivals
LIMF launches radio station for 2016
Liverpool International Music Festival Radio will reflect both the past and present of the city's thriving music scene Read more »| 15 Jun 2016 -
Film
Michael Moore on Trump, Blair and Brexit
Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK's number one documentary festival, kicked off yesterday with opening film Where to Invade Next and a stirring Q&A with its dir... Read more »| 11 Jun 2016 -
Festival Guide
Yorkshire Festival 2016: What to see
The world's largest disco ball joins a programme of acrobatic theatre shows, River Nile-inspired music, a garden within a garden, a fire garden, street parties and more for Yorkshire Festival. Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Music
bluedot festival announces science line-up
bluedot, the new festival at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, has revealed its science programme, which will see luminaries from across the science and art wor... Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
FilmMeg Ryan & Kevin Smith among stars attending EIFF
Edinburgh Film Festival (15-26 June) reveal some of the big stars and upcoming talent heading to the festival this year, including Meg Ryan, Jonathan Pryce, Brian Cox, Harley Quinn Smith and Robert Sheehan Read more »| 10 Jun 2016 -
Festival Guide
European City of Science festival lineup announced
The programme for Science in the City festival, part of Manchester's year as European City of Science, has been revealed Read more »| 09 Jun 2016 -
Film
Sound + Vision lineup unveiled for EIFF 2016
Badly Drawn Boy and FOUND top a bill of live music at Summerhall, while Glasgow's Chemikal Underground Records gets the documentary treatment Read more »| 09 Jun 2016 -
Music
Brew At The Bog 2016: The Review
Sunshine is here – cue the annual slew of summer festivals vying for our holiday time (and a big slice of our bank accounts). With a multitude of event... Read more »| 08 Jun 2016 -
Film
Michael Caton-Jones: “Pain is temporary, film is forever”
Michael Caton-Jones is back later this year with Urban Hymn, which the Rob Roy director describes as "a sort of Ken Loach musical." Ahead of his "In Conversa... Read more »| 07 Jun 2016