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: The Childhood of a Leader
Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham and Robert Pattinson star in Brady Corbet's operatic period drama centred on an unruly child Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
FilmEIFF 2016: Maggie's Plan
Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore star in Rebecca Miller's offbeat romantic comedy Read more »| 18 Jun 2016 -
Music
Parklife 2016: The Review
Manchester's flagship celebration of dance, electro, pop and rock returns to Heaton Park for a fourth year in fine form Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
Film
EIFF 2016: The Fits
Anna Rose Holmer's beguiling debut, about a young female dance troupe who one-by-one experience mysterious seizures, is more audio-visual poem than traditional sports movie Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
FilmEIFF 2016: Seoul Station & The ReZort
Zombie fever is catching at this year’s EIFF with two distinct strains of horror emerging from Sang-yo Heon’s Korean animation Seoul Station and ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2016 -
Film
EIFF 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
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Festival Guide
Gottwood 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 -
Film
Cinema 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 -
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