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 FestivalsEIFF 2009: The Last Heroes of the Peninsula
In the 1970s, the city of Mérida, in the Mexican peninsula state Yucatán, delivered a series of compact gladiators who conquered the world of b... Read more »| 20 Jun 2009 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2009: The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow takes on the war genre, in this excellent film about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq. Like many films dealing with similar subject matter (for e... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2009: White Lightnin'
Based on the semi-biographical story of Jesco White, White Lightnin' is a brutal and uncompromising example of the trials and tribulations of hillbilly life.... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2009: Little Soldier
Traumatised by her experiences as a soldier in Iraq, Lotte (Trine Dyrholm) returns to Denmark, where she drifts and drinks until she gets a job as a driver a... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2009: Nollywood Babylon
What’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood? No? Nollywood, of course. In less than twenty years, using cheap dig... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
Vladimir McTavish - 50 Greatest Scots Of All Time...Ever!
I’ve always liked comedy gigs where you get a bit extra for your ticket price. With Vladimir McTavish’s ’50 Greatest Scots of All Time&rsqu... Read more »| 18 Jun 2009
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Uk FestivalsKevin Bridges Review
We’d heard he was good, we’d heard he was confident, and judging by the queue that wound up the stairs and into the bar, so had a lot of people. ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
Fit O' The Giggles
Some comedy gigs just fall flat. Its happens to the best comics. And Thursday night at Cruz was just one of those nights. It might have been the mix of the ... Read more »| 17 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
Phil Buckley's Stupid World Tour
Was this weirdest gig I’ve ever been too? Judging by the tales Phil Buckley shared about the life of a roaming stand up, it might not have even made th... Read more »| 15 Jun 2009 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Falkirk talents set to launch debut film at EIFF
The Shutdown is a new short film written and narrated by Scottish author Alan Bissett, known for his novels and plays that have recently been successful acro... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
International Festivals
Benicassim: The Voyage with a Soundtrack
With more and more Brits merging music festivals with a holiday abroad, Gordon Bruce debunks the critics and explores why Benicassim is becoming an essential for any musical zealot. Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
Improv with Stu and Garry
I admit I was dreading this gig. Too many excruciating amateur nights has left me with a horror of improv; that mix of sweat, hyperactivity and desperation w... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
The Edge Festival 2009 announces lineup - David Byrne, The Streets, The Stranglers, Calvin Harris and more
T on the Fringe may be a distant memory, but the second year of The Edge Festival promises a veritable smörgåsbord of local and international acts... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
Bruce Morton
It was definitely a show of two halves. ‘I’m just babbling’ Morton says a couple of times in the first half, and it does seem that way when... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
Uk Festivals
Keara Murphy: Lyre Burd
A weegie take on a Lyre bird, Keara Murphy has a real talent for creating comic characters. You can just about see the man-hating Stacy Broon's beehive and d... Read more »| 10 Jun 2009