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 FringeThe Road to Riches
Last year, in an unassuming Portakabin behind the Pleasance Courtyard, a little-known comedian named Adam Riches unveiled one of the most original and entert... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeMinchin Mouths Off
Tim Minchin has two radically different approaches to handling criticism. Firstly, he no longer reads his reviews. Secondly, he’s written a song that c... Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Kult of Kristen
Kristen Schaal is a comedian with a difference. Emma Lennox investigates the chaos she is creating in the alternative scene. Read more »| 28 Jul 2008 -
Edinburgh FestivalsMan On Wire Interview - Edinburgh Film Festival
Man On Wire is the astonishing true account of how French high wire artist and performer Philippe Petit walked across a rope suspended between New York's Twin Towers. Its director James Marsh took some time out during the Edinburgh International Film Festival to speak to The Skinny. Read more »| 24 Jul 2008 -
Uk FestivalsThe Edge Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 1-31 Aug
The Edge Festival will be supplying Edinburgh's culture-soaked droves with a smorgasbord of tune-churning local and international talent Read more »| 24 Jul 2008 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams
Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by ... Read more »| 23 Jul 2008
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Edinburgh Festivals
The Book Festival of Book Festivals...
The massive names sell out quickly, so here's a few others you might want to consider... Read more »| 23 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
T in the Park 2008 @ Balado, 11-13 Jul
After breaking the undercarriage of the Skinnymobile on its rocky exit from T in the Car Park last year, much to the peculiar amusement of an onlooking polic... Read more »| 21 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
Putting the Attitude into Latitude
It's a little beyond our usual threshold, geographically speaking, but the Latitude Festival could be just the ticket to justify a jaunt down south for a bank holiday weekend of music, comedy and poetry slamming. Here, some of the performers make their picks... Read more »| 16 Jul 2008 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Gloss: The Director's Cut
Billed as somewhere in the ballpark of a Russian Federate Ugly Betty - a Slavic cousin, perhaps, of The Devil Wears Prada - Gloss: The Directors' Cut was sup... Read more »| 14 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
Five to Jive to at T in the Park
From Will Young to Holy F**k, the line-up for this year's annual shindig in Balado certainly can't be accused of one-dimensionality. Here's five acts from a ... Read more »| 10 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
Hot Chip: Bombarding the Senses
Hot Chip shouldn't be a high-charting pop group. Just look at them. But they are, and that's something to be celebrated, Nick Mitchell says, after a chat with beats man Felix Martin Read more »| 10 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
Vampire Weekend: Hot, then not...now what?
Can New York's favourite preppy kids find a way to belie their Zack Morris appearance and step out of Paul Simon's shadow? Ally Brown corners Vampire Weekend in the desert to pose the question personally Read more »| 09 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
Primal Scream @ ABC 2, 7 Jul
This intimate 'secret' gig highlights the sheer charisma of one of the finest bands we’ve known Read more »| 09 Jul 2008 -
Uk Festivals
Battles Park it in Balado
It's been a tough 14 months for Brooklyn's chief spasmodic melody makers, but shit's about to get ten times heavier when Battles share a tent with Will Young in a field just outside Kinross. Dave Kerr asks Ian Williams whether he thinks he'd better leave right now Read more »| 08 Jul 2008