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 Festivals
John Simpson @ EIBF
Who among us wouldn’t covet John Simpson’s air miles? His destinations we might not relish quite so much. Just back from Afghanistan and ... Read more »| 29 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Susan Morrison @ The Stand
It's a refreshing change from visiting comedians' token tartan gags to see a home-grown performer doing largely Scottish material. A regular on the local sce... Read more »| 28 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Vanishing Point @ Tramway
Vanished and Back Again Read more »| 28 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Steve Bloomfield @ EIBF
Steve Bloomfield is the author of Africa United, a book subtitled ‘How Football Explains Africa’ and was a journalist in Africa from 2006... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Hanif Kureishi @ EIBF
Hanif Kureishi appeared in the largest tent, the RBS Tent, and drew a large crowd for this event, promoting his new volume of collected short stories... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
David Mitchell @ EIBF
I wasn’t prepared for quite how funny David Mitchell would be. Reading from his new novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, to a packed cr... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010
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Edinburgh Festivals
Jonathan Bate and Kathleen Jamie: Poetry and Landscape @ EIBF
The two writers here were each qualified to talk about poetry and landscape in a different way. The poet Kathleen Jamie is, of course, a very accompl... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Tim Vine @ The Pleasance
To be clear: Tim Vine isn't cool and he isn't cutting-edge. But his show is so much the better for not even trying. Despite the Fringe's reputation for break... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Greg Davies @ The Pleasance
Rather than a mediocre student joke, the title of this show is a beautifully philosophical moment in Greg Davies' life, and the basis for his first solo ende... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Susan Calman @ Underbelly
As the gathering crowd winds through the Underbelly's stairways and passages, you can't help noticing the eclectic mix of people here to see Susan Calman. He... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Storm Large @ Underbelly
This is a strange one: the show title, its genre, attitude and my own response all being rather difficult to pin down. Storm Large is the (real) name, Crazy ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
It Is Rocket Science V2 @ The Gilded Balloon
Helen Keen's one-woman show about the history of rockets has already been commissioned by the BBC. It's easy to see why. The show is fascinating and hil... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Alan Moore @ EIBF
Alan Moore was interviewed by the Guardian’s political cartoonist Steve Bell, who said that he’d interviewed the master of the graphic st... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Keith Farnan @ Underbelly
Keith Farnan approaches feminism from the humble perspective of a man who loves women. It's a risky thing to do; after all, who is he, a man, to talk about t... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Seamus Heaney @ EIBF
Have you ever been spellbound? It was only when I emerged from the Book Festival tent after listening to Seamus Heaney read poems from his latest col... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010