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
Control
There are scenes in Control that we might never know the truth about; the signing of record deals in blood by late Mancunian culture mogul Tony Wilson makes ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Best Picks
This week's best picks from the International Book Festival Alan Guthrie & Stuart Macbride 27/08 18:00 two up and coming novelists who trade in ... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Not So Tartan Terrors
Nick Garrard investigates the dark world of Tartan Noir Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rich Hall
There are few comedians on any circuit or in any city in the world that have the reputation and talent of Rich Hall. As far as stand-up is concerned he's jus... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Documentaries at the EIFF
Can documentaries tell us the truth? Natalia Baal discusses the fine line between fact and fiction, and explores the art of the “the creative treatment... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hallam Foe
A swathe of hype is forming around this, the latest film from Young Adam helmsman David Mackenzie - with good reason. It is an unfeasibly handsome product,... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007
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Edinburgh Fringe
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
“Fuck them, they don’t need to know everything about me,” scoffs Kurt Cobain, having a conversation he probably didn’t conceive could... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Italian
Orphans, snow and dodgy looking potato soup are usually a failsafe method of aptly tugging at the old heart strings. Certainly, director Aleksandr Burov does... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
To Die In Jerusalem
When the 17 year old Palestinian girl Ayat al-Akharas tied a belt of explosives around her waist and blew herself up on a suicide mission in Jerusalem, Israe... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Blackbird
All is dark in Adam Rapp’s brooding Blackbird, a gloomy tale of addiction, insecurity and love in a hard place. The film follows the lives of self-titl... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Strange Culture
Strange Culture brings to the foreground the very real implications of the Bush administration's post 9/11 policies. It tells the story of Steve Kurtz, a... Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tony Woods
Woods is the guy with the non-stop supply of funny stories that someone invited round Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Paul Kerensa
If the concept sounds tired, that’s because it is Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dearly Deported
Dearly Deported never manages to win the attention of the audience, but proves to be alienating due to its poor script and unconvincing acting Read more »| 15 Aug 2007 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Mark Watson's 24 Hour Jamboree To Save The Planet
A combination of tiredness and possible repetitive strain injury mean that by the end of the day, my facial muscles are actually frozen uncomfortably into a happy, proud and mildly bewildered grin Read more »| 15 Aug 2007