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 FestivalsFestival 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 FestivalsThe 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 Festivals
YDance: 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 FestivalsFestival 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 FestivalsEdinburgh 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
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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 -
Uk Festivals
Festival Watch: British Sea Power for Lunar Festival, plus Eastern Electrics, Nozstock, Flow Festival
British Sea Power join folk legend Donovan to headline this year's Lunar Festival, plus we reveal lineup additions for Flow, Nozstock, Eastern Electrics and more Read more »| 14 Mar 2014 -
International Festivals
The SxSW Diaries #1: Keeping Austin Weird
In search of the indie super bowl, we report back from SxSW 2014 Read more »| 13 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail reveals the lineup for Lost Map's Howlin' Fling
Label boss Johnny Lynch aka The Pictish Trail tells us about the lineup for Lost Map's Howlin' Fling, which will see Beth Orton, Steve Mason and the whole Lost Map roster descend on the Isle of Eigg for 3 days of carousing Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Festival Watch: Queens of the Stone Age for Reading & Leeds, Public Enemy for Tramlines, and more
A round-up of festival lineup editions, including Queens of the Stone Age for Reading & Leeds, Public Enemy for Tramlines, Poliça and Andrew W.K. for VISIONS, and much more Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Glasgow International Comedy Festival: Hurricane LOLbag
Over the last decade, Glasgow International Comedy Festival has established itself as the host of the single highest concentration of laughs on the west coast per annum. We take a look at what this year's programme has in store Read more »| 12 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
Festival Watch: Live at Leeds, Oya, EXIT, Latitude, Wide Days and more
A round-up of festival lineup additions, including Damon Albarn for EXIT, The Prodigy for Gkobal Gathering, plus Live at Leeds, Latitude, Creamfields, and Edinburgh in-the-city showcase Wide Days Read more »| 10 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
StAnza 2014: Q&As with Andrew Sclater and Marion McCready
As this year's StAnza Festival begins, we follow up our feature taking a look at this year's highlights with a series of exclusive Q&As with the performers, presenting our full interviews with Andrew Sclater and Marion McCready Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Uk Festivals
StAnza 2014: Q&As with Ross Sutherland and Sophia Walker
As this year's StAnza Festival begins, we follow up our feature taking a look at this year's highlights with a series of exclusive Q&As with the performers, presenting our full interviews with Ross Sutherland and Sophia Walker Read more »| 07 Mar 2014