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 FestivalsLove's Rebellious Joy – A Tribute to Paul Reekie
Irvine Welsh and the Subway Sect's Vic Godard pay tribute to the memory of Paul Reekie, while Gordon Legge shares a new piece of writing in honour of Scotland's most maverick man of letters Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Uk FestivalsT Break: United Fruit
We’ve already noted in these pages the musical kinship that Glasgow's United Fruit share with Texan rockers Trail of Dead. Heck, the excellent Go Away, Don’t Leave Me Alone sounds more like Trail of Dead than Trail of Dead do these days. Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Uk Festivals
T Break: The Contenders
Concluding the annual hunt for the best unsigned talent that Scotland has to offer, just a handful of bands made the cut from over a thousand entrants to play the T Break stage at Balado this July. Here we present the final sixteen Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Uk FestivalsEdinburgh International Magic Festival
Artists from all around the world and the UK will perform at MagicFest 2011, including star of BBC show The Real Hustle Paul Wilson. Kevin McMahon, founder a... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
Uk Festivals
Leftfield: "There’s nothing wrong with being massive, as long as it’s ‘good massive’"
Dance culture pioneers Leftfield show the young 'uns how it's done at the top of this year's Slam Tent lineup Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Stand secures Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms as Fringe venue
Salt ‘n’ Sauce Promotions, the company behind The Stand comedy clubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow, were yesterday confirmed as preferred bidders on a... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011
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International FestivalsSonar 2011 – A Diary
El Raval is littered with fauna typical of June. Wet cans of Estrella Damm exchange hands in the clandestine passageways of Carrer de L'Hostpital. Ears ring ... Read more »| 27 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2011: Ghosted
Prison drama Ghosted sees sinister head-honcho jailbird Clay (Craig Parkinson) and quiet, just-want-to-do-my-time-guv con Jack (John Lynch) vie for t... Read more »| 24 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2011: Polyester - in Odorama
The Skinny's Deviance editor, Ana Hine, previews a special Odorama presentation of Polyester, the 1981 comedy from the biggest deviant of all, John Walters, which is screening in all its fetid glory at the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 20 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Lucy Walker Interview or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb
Countdown to Zero is a chilling documentary tracing mankind's precocious relationship to the atom bomb. The film's director, Lucy Walker, talks to The Skinny about the ever-present nuclear threat Read more »| 14 Jun 2011 -
Art
Venice Biennale: Karla Black & Mike Nelson
For those who don’t know, the Venice Biennale is a massive international contemporary art exhibition that takes place every two years in the city of Ve... Read more »| 13 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2011: The Long (Shorts) Weekend
There may be no closing Gala this year, but the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival is still sure to go out with a bang as it hosts the Nokia Shorts Weekender, Scotland's largest celebration of short films Read more »| 10 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2011: Stranger Than Fiction
Documentaries make up a third of the features showing at this year's EIFF. The Skinny preview this strong doc line-up, which includes Project Nim, the new film from Man on Wire's James Marsh, and Hell and Back Again, the startling war documentary that will close the festival's new Conflict | Reportage strand Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
International Festivals
Festivals 2011: OFF, Poland
So, why pitch your tent at just one amazing August music festival in the Eastern part of Europe (see last month's piece on Sziget, Budapest) when you can hit... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2011: Critical Massive
One of many new introductions to EIFF, Project: New Cinephilia intends to be an "energetic gathering of film lovers engaging in conversations on how to write about cinema" Read more »| 02 Jun 2011