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 FestivalsTheatre at Edinburgh International Festival 2016
Our Theatre editor delves into the Edinburgh International Festival programme, and finds five must-see shows from companies and playwrights from across the globe Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Uk Festivalsbluedot festival adds Air, Brian Eno art and more
A new festival at Jodrell Bank, bluedot, has today announced new additions to the line-up, which already features Jean-Michel Jarre, Underworld and Caribou Read more »| 07 Apr 2016 -
Uk FestivalsThreshold Festival 2016: Photo gallery
Take a look back on this year's Threshold Festival in Liverpool with our photo gallery of the weekend's events Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Festival: 2016 line-up
Gigs from Sigur Rós and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a digital art project at Edinburgh Castle soundtracked by Mogwai are among the highlights... Read more »| 06 Apr 2016 -
Uk Festivals
Brew at the Bog announce 2016 headliners
Idlewild and The Lafontaines have been announced as headliners for this summer's Brew at the Bog festival near Inverness. Read more »| 04 Apr 2016 -
Music
Future of the Left: Falco on The Peace and Truce
In spite of his famously sharp tongue, Future of the Left's Andrew 'Falco' Falkous is trying his best to be a nice guy. Ahead of his band's appearance at Gla... Read more »| 04 Apr 2016
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International FestivalsEurope's best dance music festivals in 2016
Cherry-picking the crème de la crème of this summer's action on the continent, in chronological order Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Uk Festivals
Six Reasons to go to ¡Viva! Festival in Manchester
¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival is now cross-artform. Here are six reasons why you'd be mad not to make it along Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Uk Festivals
¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival: Look South
¡Viva! returns to HOME this month as a cross-artform festival bringing the best of Spanish and Latin American theatre, film and visual art to Manchester. We focus in on the great cinema coming from South America in the programme Read more »| 01 Apr 2016 -
Fashion
Find Your Festival Style
Anyone who has ever navigated the choppy and changeable waters of planning the perfect festival wardrobe knows the distracting twinge of sartorial dread that... Read more »| 31 Mar 2016 -
Film
Couple in a Hole
A mysterious study in the devastating power of loss Read more »| 30 Mar 2016 -
Uk Festivals
Other Worlds 2016: Festival Watch
Sun, sea, sex and sand? Other Worlds festival, this April’s adventure of the senses, can’t promise all four – but it’ll give it a jolly good try. Read more »| 25 Mar 2016 -
Comedy
Greg Proops @ Citizens Theatre, 19 Mar
Best known for his appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway?, stand-up Greg Proops brings his observations to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
International Festivals
Rock en Seine announces first bands for 2016
The first acts for this year's Rock en Seine festival in Paris have been announced, with Massive Attack and Iggy Pop among those confirmed to take the vetera... Read more »| 24 Mar 2016 -
Art
Threshold Festival 2016 & the Baltic Triangle
Ahead of the sixth Threshold Festival in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle, we talk to Baltic Creative’s Mark Lawler and former CUC director Ingi Thor Jonsson about changes in area's cultural ecology and what happens next Read more »| 24 Mar 2016