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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Uk FestivalsBehaviour Festival: In May @ Tramway
Performed by the Ligeti Quartet with Samuel Rice, Fredrik Holm at the piano, and sung by Leentje Van de Cruys, In May follows a dying man's journey over the last few months of his life Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Uk FestivalsBehaviour Festival: Hate Radio @ The Arches
The intelligently constructed play is framed on either side - at the start and end - by video testimonies of survivors. While the videos are short, they seem to counter-balance the main body of the live part of the show Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Behaviour Festival Launch: Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel and Sister @ The Arches
Behaviour Festival 2014 launches with Bryony Kimmings' Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel and Rosana and Amy Cade's Sister Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
Uk FestivalsFestival Watch: T Break deadline approaches, lineup additions for Roskilde, Electric Picnic and more
A round-up of summer festival news, with lineup additions for Roskilde, Electric Picnic and Radio 1's Big Weekend in Glasgow, plus a reminder: just one week until T in the Park's T Break closes for submissions Read more »| 24 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Northwest Festival Watch: Threshold and FutureEverything
As we keep an eye on the Northwest’s homegrown fests, two programmes steal the limelight this month – Liverpool’s Threshold, and FutureEverything in Manchester Read more »| 21 Mar 2014 -
Uk FestivalsUtopian Dreams: Threshold festival's visual arts programme
This year, the visual arts programme of Liverpool's grassroots Threshold Festival invites artists to respond to visions of the future as imagined in the 50s and 60s. We quiz director Chris Carney and exhibiting artists on their ideas of retro-futurism Read more »| 21 Mar 2014
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Uk Festivals
Bobby Mair – Obviously Adopted
This is an odd show. From a suitably odd man. Mair wanders on stage embodying the spirit of self-proclaimed scruffy flunkee, looking part-scarecrow, part cra... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Hardeep Singh Kohli: Hardeep is Your Love?
It seems bizarre that a comic as articulate and insightful as Hardeep Singh Kohli ever appeared on anything as pedestrian as The One Show. Prone to roun... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Festival Watch: BBK Bilbao, Pukkelpop, Liverpool Sound City, Blissfields and more
The vast Bilbao BBK Festival (10-12 Jul) this week confirmed The Prodigy as a headliner – also added to the bill for 2014 are Dawes, Skaters and P... Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
International Festivals
The SxSW Diaries #3: Beyond Tartan and Shortbread
As our Texan adventure hurtles to a close, the away team knock it clean out the park Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Uk FestivalsYDance: Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival 2014 reveals its lineup
As part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural programme, YDance are organising the first Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival, which will take place at Tramway from 10-12 July. We announce the companies taking part Read more »| 20 Mar 2014 -
Edinburgh Festivals
A Story of Children and Film
As its mimetic title might indicate, A Story of Children and Film plays more like an appendix to Mark Cousins’ encyclopaedic The Story of Film than a f... Read more »| 19 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Festival Watch: EXIT, Y Not, Big Day In
A round-up of festival lineup additions, including Carl Cox's back-to-back DJ showcase at EXIT Festival, lineup additions for the Y Not Festival, and a look at Edinburgh's Big Day In showcase event Read more »| 18 Mar 2014 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Festival's Jonathan Mills announces 2014 programme
A look at the highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, announced today, featuring theatre, opera, music, film and events, with comments from departing Festival Director Jonathan Mills Read more »| 18 Mar 2014 -
International Festivals
The SxSW Diaries #2: Insomnia Afterhours
The Skinny is already firmly in the grip of sleep deprivation’s hallucinogenic effects by day two; did we really help Kurt Vile over a fence last night? Read more »| 15 Mar 2014