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 FestivalsWhat Lies in Wait: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010
Edinburgh’s annual film soiree gets underway on 16 June. We shine a spotlight on three sections of the festival that are ripe for discovery Read more »| 01 Jun 2010 -
Uk FestivalsComedy at the Leith Festival
Before the overwhelming kaleidoscopic festival of art, music and everything else hits Edinburgh in August there is the Leith Festival - a smaller, better groomed, more Scottish wee festival Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Uk FestivalsHeaps of Fun
If the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team has taught us anything it’s that even the sun can’t stop the Winter Olympics. In Heap and Pebble two athletes are determined to prove this once more by bringing figure skating to a world left iceless by global warming. Read more »| 05 May 2010 -
International Festivals
Preview: Cannes Film Festival 2010
From the 12-23 May the biggest films of the year will show at Cannes Film Festival. Here is our choice of the ones you should be looking out for. Read more »| 03 May 2010 -
Uk FestivalsStag & Dagger Festival @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 22 May
If Hinterland wasn’t enough to sate your spring multi-venue festival fix, then day long genre mash up and prevalent Shoreditch export Stag and Dagger s... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
INto The Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival makes its first foray into interactive audience participation with IN, a new membership scheme Read more »| 27 Apr 2010
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Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Benefits
Radical Theatre that pushes the format without frightening the audience? The Microfestival is something new under the arches Read more »| 23 Apr 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Mark Nelson: Offending the Senses
From his black-hearted humour and his no-holds-barred topicality to his stiff-jawed, narrow-eyed demeanour and distinctly Scottish sardonic style, it’s... Read more »| 12 Apr 2010 -
International Festivals
Sonar 2010: LuckyThem
Scotland's visionary collective LuckyMe are taking over one of the night-time stages at Sonar in Barcelona this year. Lynchpin Dominic Flannigan tells The Skinny how did the ballers' dream became a reality Read more »| 07 Apr 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Microfestival
The Forest Fringe begins to plant the seeds of new theatre, as they move from Edinburgh towards fertile ground on the West Coast Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Neil Innes: A People's Guide to World Domination
It's apparent that Neil Innes is performing his current show before an established fanbase. When he asks if the audience remembers The Rutles, his query is m... Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
Uk Festivals
How Do I Get Up There?: Avant Garde
As audience members take to their seats for How Do I Get Up There?'s inaccurately titled Avant Garde show, they are treated to pre-recorded video footage of ... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Uk Festivals
John Gavin: A-Z of Parenting
Standing in a sold-out, bustling Glaswegian pub, listening to the parenting alphabet according to tormented father of three John Gavin, it is easy to see why... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Dave Gorman's Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop and Stand Up Tour
Unusually for a Dave Gorman show the Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop and Stand Up tour has no particular theme – even the cycling aspect is dispensed with... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Uk Festivals
David Heffron: Don't Think Because I Understand, I Care
‘Random bullshit’ (his own words) proved to be quite an accurate synopsis of David Heffron's Glasgow show. After a late start and disappointing w... Read more »| 30 Mar 2010