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 FestivalsA Night of Sex in the Gutter!
That's Gutter Magazine, so don't get too excited. Or maybe you should, because they've a very unusual event planned... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Uk FestivalsT in the Park 2010: The New Blood
Wherever you lay your comical festival headwear, the granddaddy of Scottish festivals shows no sign of slackening its commitment to spotlighting new acts Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2010: Love, Death and Bird-Watching
Director Karl Golden and actor Emma Booth discuss love, suicide and bird-watching for their latest film Pelican Blood, currently showing at Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 23 Jun 2010 -
Uk Festivals
The Dangers Ahead
Ahead of his appearance at the Bass Camp at Wickerman Festival, Fabio talks about how garage died and the dangers facing dubstep Read more »| 22 Jun 2010 -
International Festivals
Sonar 2010: 17 June
Sonar festival and the sheer volume of offshoot parties that surround it can make Sonarweek almost impossible to navigate. Best to just keep your ear to the ground and keep an open mind Read more »| 21 Jun 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Wickerman 2010
Ever since its inception in 2001, Scotland’s Wickerman festival has drawn parallels with festival Godfather, Glastonbury, both for its free-flowing, re... Read more »| 18 Jun 2010
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Uk Festivals
The Edge Festival
Edinburgh’s The Edge festival returns in 2010 with an eclectic line-up, including some chart-dominating names; however it’s the strong undercurre... Read more »| 11 Jun 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Broken Social Scene: Forgiveness Rock Revolution
As Broken Social Scene plot their way through the festival calendar, Andrew Whiteman explains how he and his myriad of bandmates have a plan to make us all better people Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Primavera Sound 2010: In A Nutshell
We could talk for hours and hours about Primavera, if you're not careful. Here's a brief summary of how things went down in Barcelona this May Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
International FestivalsPrimavera Sound 2010
Even when it gets little things wrong, Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival never really fails Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
Uk Festivals
Òran Mór @ West End Festival, 10-27 June
Standing under its own tall spire on the corner of Byres and Great Western Road, the converted church that is Òran Mór will be a highly visible... Read more »| 03 Jun 2010 -
International Festivals
The Road to Sonar
The line up at this year's Sonar festival is the usual mixture of well-known acts and emerging talent that bridge the gap between electronic music and art. Here are The Skinny's recommendations for ten performances to see this year Read more »| 02 Jun 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
What 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 Festivals
Comedy 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 Festivals
Heaps 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