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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Uk FestivalsStag & Dagger to return for 2016
The Stag & Dagger mini-festival has announced the first bands for its 2016 edition in Glasgow this May. Edinburgh hip-hop outfit Stanley Odd and fo... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Uk FestivalsNo Home Movie
The final film from Belgian innovator Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal documentary about her own mother. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Green Inferno
The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s gleefully grim cannibal tribe exploitation movie, is fun... up to a point While The Green Inferno is unlikely to co... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Uk Festivals
The Witch
Robert Eggers’s horror film about a Puritan family under attack from dark forces in a 17th century New England settlement has shades of the Salem witch trials. Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Film
Ben Wheatley on High-Rise
With his latest movie, Ben Wheatley takes on JG Ballard science-fiction classic High-Rise. Ahead of the film's screening at Glasgow Film Festival, the genre ... Read more »| 08 Feb 2016 -
Uk FestivalsFifteen of the Best at Glasgow Film Festival 2016
Sandwich between the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! and Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is 12 days of cinematic delights. Here are fifthteen films not to miss.... Read more »| 05 Feb 2016
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Uk Festivals
Electric Fields announces first bands for 2016
Primal Scream, Everything Everything and The Twilight Sad are among the first names announced for this year's Electric Fields festival at Drumlanrig Castle, ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Music
Folk Like Us: Aidan Moffat on Where You're Meant to Be
It may have started life as a tour diary – a celebration of traditional Scottish folk music, looking for a story – but as Aidan Moffat explains, new film Where You’re Meant to Be discovers much more Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
International Festivals
NOS Primavera Sound unveils 2016 line-up
PJ Harvey, Sigur Rós and Brian Wilson lead the line-up for the NOS Primavera Sound festival in Porto, Portugal this June. Read more »| 04 Feb 2016 -
Uk Festivals
Glasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2016 programme
Lydia Lunch presenting the Cinema of Transgression at The Glue Factory, classic Universal horror movies given the 16mm shorts treatment and a focus on the short films of Syria are among Glasgow Short Film Festival's new programme Read more »| 03 Feb 2016 -
International FestivalsInternational Events Calendar 2016
That February darkness getting you down? We've selected the best cultural treats of 2016 from around the world to help you dream of sunnier adventures. Read more »| 01 Feb 2016 -
Uk Festivals
Leftfield join Tayside's Festival of House line-up
Dance pioneers Leftfield have joined the line-up for Festival of House near Dundee this summer. Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Edinburgh Fringe
18 Edinburgh Fringe shows release tickets
The first tickets have been released for Edinburgh Fringe 2016 today including seven in the comedy section. While rounding up the essentials we also caught up with tireless comedy journalist Fringe Dog. Read more »| 29 Jan 2016 -
Uk FestivalsLost Map's Howlin' Fling! fest returns for 2016
Lost Map have announced the return of their Howlin' Fling! festival to the island of Eigg in the inner Hebrides this July. Read more »| 27 Jan 2016 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh Art Festival calls for 2016 proposals
Edinburgh Art Festival has launched an open call for submissions from emerging artists to appear at this year's festival in August Read more »| 22 Jan 2016