The Skinny April 2023
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It’s a Music Festivals Special! We once again pray to the magazine gods that this one is less cursed than the March 2020 Summer Music Festivals edition. We open with a look at some of the festivals celebrating Scotland’s avant-garde and experimental music scenes. Much-loved Tectonics and Counterflows both arrive in April to open the festival season, making accessible spaces to share ideas and push boundaries. We take a look at the other programmes platforming innovative thinking in the coming months. Next up, paying tribute to a Scottish greenfield festival institution – as Knockengorroch turns 25 we take a look back at its Celtic roots, rainbow gathering origins and ambitions to continue stewarding the land sustainably for the next generation. A vision of ethical consideration! Speaking of ethically-minded festivals, Lost Map’s Johnny Lynch, aka Pictish Trail, shares his first-hand experience of the total opposite and so much more...