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 FringeFood & Drink: Vladimir McTavish's whisky haunts
Some of the best places in town to enjoy a dram Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh FringeFood & Drink: Thom Tuck's nightlife
Having lived in Edinburgh for six years (none of this "one month a year" stuff here!), I've had ample opportunity to sample the nightlife. If you want to sta... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Food & Drink: Sammy J's Quick Bite
Edinburgh in August means one thing: Aberdeen Angus Beef Burgers from the van in Teviot Place. Sure, I tell everyone back in Melbourne that I'm heading over... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Food & Drink: Loretta Maine IS drunk
Am I only allowed one? Well then it has to be that pub opposite the jacket potato shop on the curving road down from the Mile. I don't know what it's called.... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Food & Drink: Laura Solon's Coffee Break
I am going to pick 2 places: Urban Angel uses words like "philosophy" and "locally sourced" – plus the menu is all in lower-case font, so it has to be ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh FringeFood & Drink: Maeve Higgins veggies out
Vegetarians, myself included, are often tense weirdos. This is because we think about everything all of the time. If one figures out that eating animals is a... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010
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Edinburgh Fringe
Food & Drink: Hardeep's Hot Choice
Hot Stuff Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Food & Drink: Crêpe Monsieur
Crêpe Monsieur Read more »| 30 Jul 2010 -
Uk Festivals
In the Studio: The Phantom Band
We caught up with The Phantom Band’s Rick Anthony on the day they finished mixing their second (as yet untitled) studio album, to ask how they're coping with the pressure in following up Checkmate Savage, last year’s debut and a magnificently rendered gem Read more »| 27 Jul 2010 -
Uk FestivalsT in the Park 2010 – Sunday
Frank Turner's early bird slot on the Radio 1/NME stage is yet another milestone for the man who just recently warmed up for Green Day at Wembley stadium, es... Read more »| 24 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Clarke Peters: Man on the Wire
It's been 20 years since Clarke Peters last performed in his musical Five Guys Named Moe. The Wire star tells Edd McCracken why he and his show have some unfinished business Read more »| 24 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Confraternity of Neoflagallants: City of Dead
As the festival gets into full swing the living dead take to the streets in a prefiguration of our dark future Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Previews: Comedians doing theatre
Gutted: A Revenger’s Musical A show can get away with murder if it can be described as ‘cult’, so why not set that murder to music? The cr... Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Return of the Samurai
Visual master Tomohiro Sasaki tells Nick Lewis how video games and manga inspired their radical reworking of Shakespeare Read more »| 16 Jul 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Out of the box
Could puppetry be theatre's great new frontier? Legendary puppet-master David Strassman speaks to Honour Bayes about the ventriloquism renaissance Read more »| 16 Jul 2010