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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MusicThe Bug vs Dylan Carlson's Earth to make live debut at Supersonic Festival
Birmingham's Supersonic Festival has today announced plans to host the debut live performance between two uncompromising and quite naturally aligned masters ... Read more »| 15 Apr 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Share your photos at Sounds from the Other City to win a festival goody bag!
Capture the spirit of Sounds from the Other City and you could win yourself a bundle of prizes, kindly donated by the festival's promoters, plus a pair of tickets to next year's event... Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
Uk FestivalsDundead Horror Film Festival announces 2015 schedule
The lineup for this year’s Dundead festival at Dundee Contemporary Arts has been announced. The UK premiere of American kidnap thriller The Badger Gam... Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
Uk FestivalsGlasgow Short Film Festival 2015: Teen angst, guerrilla screenings and outrunning capitalism
We look back at another great Glasgow Short Film Festival, which offered plenty of teen angst, an opportunity to take cinema on to the streets of Glasgow and a possible escape from the "shithole" of mainstream narrative cinema Read more »| 08 Apr 2015 -
Uk FestivalsNorthwest Festival Watch – April 2015
The avant-garde invade Blackpool, Manchester goes punk, and we get set for a busy bank holiday in early May Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Five of the Best from Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015
As ever, Glasgow Short Film Festival offered up a fascinating snapshot of the most interesting and innovative short films from across the world. Here are five of the best from its International Competition Read more »| 02 Apr 2015
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International Festivals
The Twilight Sad – 'I Love The Living You' (in session at SxSW)
For the first time on record, The Twilight Sad perform an acoustic cover of Austin native Roky Erickson's track 'I Love the Living You', taken from his 1999 ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Books
Aye Write! All Write: 10 Years of Literature in Glasgow
We discover how literary festival Aye Write! has become a key date in the Glasgow cultural calendar, speaking to its guest programmer and the writers who have grown with it: Louise Welsh, Christopher Brookmyre, Alan Bissett and his birthday suit. Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Videos
Hector Bizerk – 'Skin & Bone' (in session at SxSW)
Glasgow hip-hop quartet Hector Bizerk took time out from their heavy gig schedule at the recent South by Southwest festival to play us an acoustic versi... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Uk Festivals
PINS, Horsebeach, O>L>A join Dot to Dot line-up
All-female four-piece PINS, Mancunian rockers Horsebeach and dream-pop pair O>L>A have been added to the line-up for the Dot to Dot festival in Ma... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Holly Herndon joins Supersonic Festival line-up
Experimental sound manipulator Holly Herndon will bring her challenging new live show to this year’s Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. The Tennessee-r... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015 -
VideosLuckyMe on Baauer, Hudson Mohawke and bringing Scotland to SxSW
We follow Martyn Flyn and Dominic Flannigan, co-founders of forward-thinking electronic label LuckyMe, as they navigate this year’s South by Southwest ... Read more »| 27 Mar 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Liverpool International Music Festival announces first events for 2015
A rare UK appearance from hip-hop legend Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def, and free outdoor shows from Echo and the Bunnymen and Basement Jaxx lead the line-up for th... Read more »| 26 Mar 2015 -
International Festivals
Underworld, Joey Bada$$, Father John Misty join Lowlands line-up
Dance legends Underworld and US folk singer Father John Misty have joined the line-up for this August’s Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. Underwor... Read more »| 26 Mar 2015 -
Comedy
Iain Stirling: Everything
Everything is a jangly show that never quite seems to start properly. Then again, this doesn't seem too much of a problem. Tonight, watching Iain S... Read more »| 25 Mar 2015