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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ArtAlex Poots on ten years of Manchester International Festival
This year's Manchester International Festival is to be its founding director's last. Alex Poots reflects on ten years of ambitious programming and dream collaborations Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicNorthwest Festival Watch – July 2015
It’s a chocka month, so let’s dispense with setting up camp and get crackin’. Much like at a real festival Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
MusicLiverpool Psych Fest: New wave of artists announced
The Skinny is delighted to exclusively announce the acts playing the Cardinal Fuzz Sonic Attack stage at Liverpool Psych Fest in September. Manchester three... Read more »| 30 Jun 2015 -
MusicAfrica Oyé 2015 @ Sefton Park, Liverpool, 20-21 Jun
Strolling up Liverpool’s Lark Lane to the vibrant green of Sefton Park for the Sunday of Africa Oyé, it is clear that, here, a strong sense of c... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Film
Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve is a master of party scenes – the standout moments from her two previous features (Goodbye First Love and The Father of My ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2015 -
Music
Stewart Lee to curate All Tomorrow’s Parties 2.0
Comedian Stewart Lee is to curate the second of ATP’s revived holiday camp weekend festivals in Prestatyn, North Wales next April. Lee's weekende... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015
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Film
Black Coal, Thin Ice
In Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer-director Diao Yi'nan takes the tropes of a classic noir detective tale – a down-and-out alcoholic cop with a haunted pa... Read more »| 24 Jun 2015 -
Film
Postcard from Auld Reekie – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
Grant McPhee's ten years in the making Big Gold Dream charts the highs and lows of Edinburgh's post-punk scene. Two of its vanguards, Vic Godard and Malcolm Ross, recall those heady days ahead of the film's world premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Music
Gottwood @ Carreglwyd Wood, 12-14 Jun
Gottwood proves once again why it’s easily one of the best UK weekenders going Read more »| 23 Jun 2015 -
Music
Supersonic 2015: The Review
Friday Digbeth sits within Birmingham’s Eastside development. Originally planned around the turn of the millennium, the regeneration scheme set out bo... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Music
In Pictures: Parklife 2015
Originally conceived as the Mad Ferret festival (remember that?), Manchester’s Parklife festival never fails to attract the big guns. Across the weeken... Read more »| 19 Jun 2015 -
Film
Doc to Doc: Doc/Fest 2015 Festival Round-up
Joining the docs at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, from a haunting movie about mass murder in 60s Indonesia to girl gearheads from Palestine Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
FilmEIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
Videos
FutureEverything 2015: Koreless & Emmanuel Biard – The Well
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, Young Turks-signed producer Koreless aka London-b... Read more »| 15 Jun 2015 -
Music
East India Youth and Happy Meals join The Skinny stage at Electric Fields
SAY Award-nominated Glasgow duo Happy Meals and Bournemouth electronic producer East India Youth are amongst the final announcements for Electric Fields... Read more »| 12 Jun 2015