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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FilmThe Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is a relentless piece of maritime madness, with transcendent performances from Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
FilmCannes 2019: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood sees the Pulp Fiction director at his most emotional and reflective in a film that intersects the life of a TV actor with the Manson Family in the Hollywood of 1969 Read more »| 23 May 2019 -
MusicGreat Danes: SPOT Festival 2019 report
Sometimes you have to get lost to find what you're looking for, and at Denmark's SPOT Festival getting lost leads us to some pretty great moments Read more »| 22 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsEight acts to catch at All Points East 2019
With only a few days to go until the second edition of All Points East kicks off, we take a look at the eight acts we're most excited to see on its opening weekend Read more »| 22 May 2019 -
International FestivalsCannes 2019: Little Joe
Little Joe is an unnerving horror movie about a flower that's been designed in a lab to help curb depression, but it turns out to have sinister side-effects Read more »| 20 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh Film Festival 2019: Scottish films and talent
Edinburgh Film Festival announces the lineup of Scottish talent included this year’s programme, including a sequel to Braveheart and a TV show based on work by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Read more »| 20 May 2019
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MusicThe Skinny goes to The Great Escape 2019
Three days, 15 bands, Day-Glo underwear and a whole fleet of Slush Puppies, The Skinny reports back from this year’s Great Escape Festival in Brighton Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsLeithLate reveal 2019 weekender plans
Art festival LeithLate has launched details of its LeithLate19 Weekend, including an all-female music line-up at Leith Gala Day, an all-female graffiti artist jam and the return of LeithLate's Mural Tours Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsAlchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: 2019 Report
We look back at the highlights from the ninth edition of Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, where melancholic woodland creatures wandered the high street and hallucinatory work was playing on screen Read more »| 17 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeGilded Balloon reveals full Edinburgh Fringe programme
There are Fringe comebacks for Craig Ferguson and Angus Deayton, Sage Francis and B. Dolan bring their brand of indie-rap, there’s a Belle & Sebastian musical (kinda) and Eric Andre brings his stand-up to Edinburgh for the first time Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeBelle & Sebastian play heading to Edinburgh Fringe
Belle & Sebastian’s iconic 1996 album If You’re Feeling Sinister is being turned into a "play with songs" at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
Edinburgh FringeSummerhall launches its 2019 Fringe programme
Extinction Rebellion take over two spaces, Kathryn Joseph headlines Nothing Ever Happens Here, Rachael Young brings her Grace Jones celebration NIGHTCLUBBING and the mighty Trevor Lock delivers his stand-up sermon COMMUNITY CIRCLE Read more »| 16 May 2019 -
Uk FestivalsKing Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Summer Nights Festival line-up announced
The King Tut’s grassroots music festival returns for its eighth year and with a new format. This year the festival will be running for seven weeks, rather than just two Read more »| 15 May 2019 -
International FestivalsCannes 2019: The Dead Don't Die
The star-studded The Dead Don't Die is exactly the kind of zombie movie you would expect from Jim Jarmusch, for better or for worse Read more »| 15 May 2019 -
International FestivalsAnything Can Be News: Venice Biennale 2019 review
The Venice Biennale 2019 is a (mostly) topical and politicised edit of artists' practices from across the world, and its best artworks challenge audiences' complacent world views borne of hands-off and uncritically smartphone-based spectatorship Read more »| 14 May 2019