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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FilmHigh-Rise
Ben Wheatley delivers a ferocious adaptation of JG Ballard’s classic dystopian novel High-Rise It’s the near future, though it (deliberately) se... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
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James White
Searing character study from Borderline Films, the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene and Simon Killer A troubled, white 20something New Yorker, also an a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Film11 Minutes
Veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimovski delivers a dazzling multi-strand thriller concerned with chance and chaos Read more »| 12 Feb 2016 -
Music
Festival No. 6 announces first acts for 2016
The first acts for this year's Festival No. 6 in Portmeirion in North Wales have been announced. Read more »| 11 Feb 2016 -
FilmCharlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman is the king of the oddball movie premise, but he plays it relatively straight with new film Anomalisa. The surprise comes from the fact it's ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2016 -
Film
2016 Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema line-up
The programme for the sixth Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema (aka HippFest) was announced today, with films from China, Russia, Germany and the USA, as well as those from the Scottish Screen and BFI archives, screening over the five day festival Read more »| 09 Feb 2016
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Music
Parklife announces 2016 line-up
The first acts for this year's Parklife weekender in Manchester have been confirmed, with the Chemical Brothers among the headliners. Read more »| 09 Feb 2016 -
MusicStag & Dagger to return for 2016
The Stag & Dagger mini-festival has announced the first bands for its 2016 edition in Glasgow this May. Edinburgh hip-hop outfit Stanley Odd and fo... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
FilmNo Home Movie
The final film from Belgian innovator Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal documentary about her own mother. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
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The Witch
Robert Eggers’s horror film about a Puritan family under attack from dark forces in a 17th century New England settlement has shades of the Salem witch trials. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Film
Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Film
Fifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival 2016
Sandwich between the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! and Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is 12 days of cinematic delights. Here are fifthteen films not to miss.... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016 -
Music
Electric Fields announces first bands for 2016
Primal Scream, Everything Everything and The Twilight Sad are among the first names announced for this year's Electric Fields festival at Drumlanrig Castle, ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Folk Like Us: Aidan Moffat on Where You're Meant to Be
It may have started life as a tour diary – a celebration of traditional Scottish folk music, looking for a story – but as Aidan Moffat explains, new film Where You’re Meant to Be discovers much more Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Film
Glasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2016 programme
Lydia Lunch presenting the Cinema of Transgression at The Glue Factory, classic Universal horror movies given the 16mm shorts treatment and a focus on the short films of Syria are among Glasgow Short Film Festival's new programme Read more »| 03 Feb 2016