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 FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival announces 2015 programme
The line-up for the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival has been announced ahead of this year's festival in August. The 2015 Festival once again take... Read more »| 10 Jun 2015 -
Food And Drink
Feeling Festive: 6 of the World's Most Unusual Food Festivals
Summertime is festival time, and in the world of food that means smoked meat, happy monkeys, oversized breakfasts and the chance to throw things at each other Read more »| 10 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Party in the Park: Esa sets the mood at Africa Oyé
Africa Oyé favourite Esa returns to this year's festival to DJ the main stage, joining a stellar lineup. He talks to us about travel and discovery; plus, we select four further acts to catch at the UK's biggest free celebration of African music Read more »| 08 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsBringing Up Bogdanovich: Peter Bogdanovich on his new comedy She's Funny That Way
Once the 70s wunderkind of American filmmaking, now one of its elder statesman, we chat to Peter Bogdanovich, whose new film, She's Funny That Way, an effervescent screwball throwback, heads to Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 05 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsGottwood 2015: Four acts not to miss
Gottwood returns to the Anglesey woods this year with yet another roster of tantalising talent. Here are the organisers’ top four picks to look out for… Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Speaking Out
Ameena Atiq performs at Liverpool Arab Arts Festival this month. The Skinny talks to the rising star of spoken word Read more »| 04 Jun 2015
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Uk Festivals
Action Movie Poet: Walter Hill on his EIFF Retrospective
Today's cinema owes a great debt to the stylish action pictures of Walter Hill. He talks about the trials of being a genre director and his influence on filmmakers like Nicolas Winding Refn ahead of an Edinburgh International Film Festival retrospective Read more »| 04 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Ten to see at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival
We suggest ten films to seek out at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Dot to Dot 2015 – Manchester
Now in its sixth-year, the city centre festival makes a bold move across town - and reaps the rewards Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Balancing Act: we speak to EIFF's new artistic director Mark Adams
EIFF has a new artistic director in Mark Adams. We pick his brains on what to expect from the festival under his tenure Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Traversing the Fringe
With Traverse Theatre's Fringe programme launching this week, we ask artistic director Orla O'Loughlin for an overview of what's in store Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsTake to the Road: ¡Viva! Presents New Mexican Cinema (18-22 Jun)
Mexican cinema comes to HOME (or should that be CASA?) with the second of this year's ¡Viva! weekenders Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Dutch Uncles, Errors to play The Skinny stage at The Garden Party
Manchester art-pop quintet Dutch Uncles and Glasgow electro trio Errors will play The Skinny's new music stage in association with Now Wave and Eat Your Own ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Northwest Festival Watch – June 2015
Get stuffing the chill bags for a civilised few weeks at Oyé, Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and MIF Read more »| 02 Jun 2015 -
Music
Listen: Flamingods' Supersonic podcast
As a prelude to this year's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham (running 11-14 June), we present this cosmic podcast carefully crafted by Flamingods. The... Read more »| 01 Jun 2015