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 FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Ian Rankin
After the release last year of Standing in Another Man's Grave, Rebus fans were thrilled to see the curmudgeonly detective back on the trail of killers, gang... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Alasdair Gray
Predictably, the newspaper coverage of Alasdair Gray's talk at Edinburgh International Book Festival focuses on just a single word in a far-reaching and... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeAirnadette @ Underbelly Cowbarn
I’m struggling with what just happened here, so, from the top - six very talented physical performers bound on to the stage and begin to mime & lip... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Rap Battles @ Bannermans
The Wee Man and Ro Campbell have invented one of the most exciting late-night formats since Set List with their Rap Battles, in which two comedians duke it o... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Yianni: Think Big @ The Dram House
One of the most outrageous stunts of this Fringe is the relatively-unknown Yianni booking himself in for a night at the cavernous EICC. Most acts struggle to... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeFor Their Own Good @ Summerhall
As the audience take their seats in the crescent shaped spectator area of the former vet school’s dissection room at Summerhall, gazing down at the per... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013
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Uk Festivals
Beacons Day Two @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 17 Aug
In the second of our live reports from Beacons, a riotous set from Gold Panda proves the stealth highlight of Saturday, while Bicep and Bondax bring the party, and Local Natives soothe frayed nerves with their calming brand of swoon-gaze Read more »| 18 Aug 2013 -
Uk Festivals
Beacons Day One @ Heslaker Farm, Skipton, 16 Aug
Our five intrepid reporters are broadcasting live – well, as live as you can get allowing time for sleep and gin – from this year's Beacons festival. Here's the lowdown on Friday's events, from a sputtering Ghostpoet to a spluttering Fucked Up Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Jekyll & Hyde @ Assembly Roxy
Fringe First Award-winning playwright Jonathan Holloway has not given himself an easy task. On top of adapting one of the most well-known and influential sto... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Three Little Pigs @ Assembly One
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf is a staple of many a bedtime story, but this production, brought to the festival as part of the Assembly’s ... Read more »| 17 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Secret Agent @ Traverse
"Something must be done" is the overall message The Secret Agent by theatreO urges the audience to remember. While the acting is strong, the songs in betwee... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Muriel Spark, 50 years on
A mostly silver-haired audience was in attendance at the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre on Tuesday evening for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Muriel ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: AL Kennedy, Toby Litt & Rachel Cusk
Hosted by Ian Jack, the chair of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists panel in 2003, the year AL Kennedy, Toby Litt and Rachel Cusk were all featured, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Adam Marek & Rodge Glass
Adam Marek's second volume of short stories, Stone Thrower, has recently been published by Comma Press. Rodge Glass has recently written LoveSexTravelMusik, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chalk Farm @ Underbelly Cowgate
Set to the backdrop of the 2011 London riots, Chalk Farm is a two-hander piece by Kieran Hurley and AJ Taudevin, in collaboration with Thick Skin. It focuses... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013