Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh Fringe
Wendy Wason: Things I Didn't Know I Didn't Know
When a stand-up comic has uttered the words “I’m a single mother of two” within the first five minutes of her set, you have a fair notion i... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mark Watson 2008 Review
Mark Watson, at the reasonably sprightly age of 28, is already a Fringe legend.Winner of the inaugural if.comedy panel prize and nominated for the 2005 Perri... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mick Sergeant: Ah Shit! It's Mick Sergeant
Mick Sergeant used to build ships. Vocationally and spiritually, Mick is a ship-builder throughout every fibre of his lanky, moustachioed frame. Unfortunatel... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders (Shown in Detail)
I’ve been an admirer of Josie Long’s comedy for some time. She provides a real challenge to the laziness and negativity of much of modern stand-u... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Clever Peter at Edinburgh Fringe: Review
For the eagle-eyed, Clever Peter poses a mysterious question: what happened to the green girl? In the Fringe programme, four comedians line up cheerily in br... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Phil Kay 2008
Phil Kay’s comic mojo is a notoriously elusive beast. He has built up something of a cult following over his twenty-year career, but even his most arde... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008
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Edinburgh Fringe
Phil Nichol: 8 Nights Only
“So we walked past the midget Hitler into the Cock Ring,” begins one of Phil Nichol’s more outlandish anecdotes. This is clearly a man who ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Caesar Twins Q&A
Do you think alike? Pierre: Every single human thinks in different ways. We think what we want to think, and we do what we want to do. But somewhere in the ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Susan Calman - Maybe It's Your Fault
Measuring in at 4' 11'' tall, Susan Calman is exactly the same height as Kylie Minogue. This is, by her own admission, as far as the resemblance goes; an ab... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Nina Conti: Evolution
The history of showbiz is littered with the evidence of a simple fact: one trick ponies don’t last. Bernie Clifton and Oswald, Ken Dodd and Charlie Bro... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jason Byne: Cats Under Mats, Having Chats With Bats
Jason Byrne is one of the Fringe superstars who will sell out whichever expansive venue he chooses to grace with his show. Now in his sixth year at the Fring... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Danny Bhoy: By the Way
Homecomings are desperately important to artists on the make, and for a boy from Moffat it doesn’t get much bigger than coming home to headline at the ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Andrew Maxwell: This Is Ten Years From Now
As anyone who has seen Andrew Maxwell in his 14 years at the Fringe can testify, the laidback Irishman can definitely do ‘funny’. Indeed, catch h... Read more »| 16 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Joan Rivers: Work in Progress by a Life in Progress
Hollywood's merciless obsession with youth is at the heart of Joan Rivers' autobiographical show, Work in Progress by a Life in Progress, in which she recoun... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Bite the Dust
This bleak and forceful study of warfare interrupts the jollity of the Fringe Read more »| 15 Aug 2008