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It's official: British festivals don't cut it anymore. With tickets selling out in a few milliseconds six months before the line-ups are announced and no gua... Read more »

With tickets sold out before the party begins, there is a sense that Kelburn Garden Party has come of age this year, cementing its position as one of the jew... Read more »

You walk down Duke Street in Glasgow, carrying your electric guitar, your effects pedals, heading to your first away gig – a major coup for an Edinburg... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP           THE WEEK AHEAD It's February! Our new issue is o... Read more »

"Whitesnake at Preston Guildhall, 1981. I grew up loving heavy rock.” Eyes lit up with childlike enthusiasm, Stewart Parsons describes his first ever g... Read more »

1. FILM | Take One Action Various venues, Edinburgh & Glasgow. 16-27 Sep, various times, booking here Take... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 24-31 May: James Yorkston, John Peel's Shed + Whisky Stramash     ... Read more »

Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of the best events from the Northwest cultural calendar to provide you with this here top ten guide to the mo... Read more »

Well, that was quite something. I’ve now got a proper-sized keyboard, so hopefully there’ll be less typos in this one [I’ve just read it ... Read more »

Our fourth day at SxSW starts with a fork in the road as half of our team heads off early to follow Honeyblood around town (but not in a creepy way), while t... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 16-23 Feb: Glasgow Film Festival, Rob St John + Vintage Village Fete     ... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 5-12 Sep: Music Language Festival, Cassette Store Day + Street Food Cartel   ... Read more »

The Saturday forecast is a little grim, but what’s T in the Park without a little drizzle? The likes of The Last Shadow Puppets and The 1975 attem... Read more »

Nearly ten years in the making, The Crimson Wing follows the lives and deaths of the flamingos of Lake Natron, a Northern Tanzanian salt lake uninhabitable f... Read more »

BREW AT THE BOG2-3 May; tickets £55 The word ‘boutique’ gets thrown around a lot these days, and strangely often with regards to commodi... Read more »

Books 1) Karl Geary & Samanta Schweblin: Deeply Unsettling Secrets Books Editor Alan Bett’s main reason for turning up at this event will be to ha... Read more »

It is early evening in the basement venue of Glasgow bar Nice N Sleazy and Howie Payne is excitedly talking up the new group he is co-managing. The... Read more »

“I'm learning so much from the things that terrify me,” says Kate Tempest, taking a call in the middle of a rammed few weeks. (She's a new book o... Read more »

Being the first band on at any show can be a daunting experience. Sparse crowds, indifferent punters and the constant din of bar conversations are all obstac... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 16-23 May: Stag and Dagger, Mount Eerie + Southside Film Festival         ... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 16-23 Jan: The Skinny 100, Celtic Connections + The Colour Ham         ... Read more »

As club culture has branched off in various distinct directions over the years, electronic music and DJing have increasingly acquired a more sophisticated st... Read more »

Top Events Scotland 10-17 Jul | T in the Park, Ghostface Killah + Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival Music 1... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 4-11 Jul: Adam Stafford, Iain Banks + Kelburn Garden Party     ... Read more »

The OK Social Club – The Shape of Things to Come (Platform Records, 2 Apr)Paul Mellon: This is like a Scottish Razorlight or something.Raindeer: It&rsq... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 8-15 Aug: Doogie Paul Memorial Concert, Book Festival + Burgher Burger   &... Read more »

Day two began waking wearily from again more revelry in the Headphone Disco tent and the fuzzy memory of standing with fists in the air to John Farham’... Read more »

The Skinny meets Sharleen Spiteri on the morning of Texas' ninth album drop. Over a cuppa outside Facebook’s London headquarters, where the band i... Read more »

The Connect Festival – this year renamed Hydro Connect thanks to a sponsorship hook-up with Scottish Hydro Electric – has got everything going fo... Read more »

But enough already, here's the story so far from one of the bands we dig the most on this year's T in the Park bill. Sunday night in out-patients anyone?Back... Read more »