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 FringeDie Roten Punkte
“Does humour belong in music?” asked Frank Zappa. Die Roten Punkte deliver a resounding “yes”. Basically a parody of The White Strip... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeDan Antopolski Fringe Review 2009
Dan Antopolski is a pretty edgy comic, or so he tells us tonight. So edgy, in fact, that a reviewer once remarked that he had "more edge than a hexagonal Tab... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Shane Langan: Not Also But Only
If bad writing is an art, Shane Langan is well on his way to mastering it. An intense literary reading in the cramped Gilded Balloon Turret could only be a r... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Carey Marx: The Doom Gloom Boom at Fringe Fest Review
Carey Marx is the dark heart of the ‘Stand Pack’, that band of Fringe comedians whose names have become synonymous with Edinburgh’s only pe... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeCardinal Burns at Fringe Fest: Review
If Cardinal Burns as a show doesn't really work, it cannot be put down to lack of effort on the part of Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns. They arrive on s... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Brian Gittins: Roadside Cafe Owner
“Knock knock! Who’s there? Linford Christie. Ooh, that’s a nice surprise!” As jokes go, it’s not the punchiest, but then David... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009
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Edinburgh FringeAxis of Awesome
The Axis of Awesome is an Australian troupe of musical comedians. Self-aware and post-modern, their songs are as ironic as their T-shirts. Rather typically, ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Adams and Rea: Blissfully Unaware
One undeniable asset of musical comedy acts is that their tunes can usefully fill any nasty gaps left by the absence of laughter. It’s an uneasy minute... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh FringeAnna & Katy at Edinburgh Fringe: Review
The duo's gorgeous daftness has only lost a little of its shine Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Origin of Species...
In trying to appeal to too broad a church, this appraisal of Charles Darwin's life and times falls a little short of its potential Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House
Brought to the UK by the multi award-winning Richard Jordan Productions, East 10th Street is the autobiographical piece from the former poster-boy of New Yor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Plagiarismo
Richard DeDomenici is a performance artist whose artwork is cerebral, accessible and subversive; traits conspicuously absent in this one-man lecture. Addres... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Wayside/Riff
Cutting edge and complimenting each other perfectly, Sperling and Diallo have succeeded in creating a fresh and exciting showcase of contemporary dance Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Rap Guide to Evolution
Following up on his critically acclaimed reworking of Geoffrey Chaucer's masterpiece in The Rap Canterbury Tales, Canadian actor and rap artist Baba Brinkman... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Chronicles of Long Kesh
For the most part, this story of hardship in HMP Maze (aka Long Kesh) is fairly orthodox in its prison saga methods. Opened in 1971 for the internment of Nor... Read more »| 08 Aug 2009