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 FestivalsEIFF 2015: The Stanford Prison Experiment
The results of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s famous and controversial 1971 psychological study, in which various Stanford University-attending males play-acted... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
EIFF 2015: Sleeping with Other People
It’s hard to settle on a low point of this scumbag manifesto from writer-director Leslye Headland, but one scene in particular springs to mind. It invo... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIFF 2015: Amy
Prior interest in the life, music and untimely passing of Amy Winehouse is not required for Asif Kapadia’s second documentary to floor you completely. ... Read more »| 18 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
EIFF 2015: The Legend of Barney Thomson
Fifty-something barber Barney Thomson (Robert Carlyle, playing the lead in his directorial debut) lives a life of desperate mundanity and awkward interaction... Read more »| 17 Jun 2015 -
Videos
FutureEverything 2015: Koreless & Emmanuel Biard – The Well
Even for a producer who revels in fracturing recognisable electronic tropes into loosely connected flotsam, Young Turks-signed producer Koreless aka London-b... Read more »| 15 Jun 2015 -
Uk FestivalsEast India Youth and Happy Meals join The Skinny stage at Electric Fields
SAY Award-nominated Glasgow duo Happy Meals and Bournemouth electronic producer East India Youth are amongst the final announcements for Electric Fields... Read more »| 12 Jun 2015
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Uk Festivals
Patti Smith @ Field Day, 7 June
Forty years ago, Patti Smith released her debut album Horses, a slim eight tracks of distinctive poet-punk rock. Four decades on and the sheer exuberanc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
24:7 Theatre Festival reveals its 2015 programme
Back at the start of the year, it looked like 24:7 wasn’t going to happen; after losing its regular funding, Manchester’s always vital festival o... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
Videos
FutureEverything 2015: Memo Akten – Simple Harmonic Motion for 16 Percussionists
The result of an artistic residency at FutureEverything, Simple Harmonic Motion for 16 Percussionists by digital artist Memo Akten featured 16 percussionists... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
Uk Festivals
Ride @ Field Day, 7 June
Just before shoegaze veterans Ride launch into the galvanizing opening notes of Seagull, frontman Mark Gardener prefaces the opening track from their 1990 de... Read more »| 11 Jun 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh 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 Festivals
Bringing 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 Festivals
Gottwood 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