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Mailbox The Realist News and Opinion

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FEATURES

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hese last few weeks we’ve been gearing up for the Commonwealth Games. No, we haven’t been doing lunges in the office – instead, we’ve been discovering the incredible number of cultural activities that will be taking place in Glasgow at the end of July.

Both Culture 2014 (the Scotland-wide arts programme that continues until the end of August) and Festival 2014 (that’s the Glasgow-set, Games-time, cultural celebrations) ensure that there will be plenty to feed the mind alongside all those physical pursuits.

One of the most thought-provoking to catch our eye is The Empire Cafe (see feature, page 22), taking place at the Briggait and organised by the author Louise Welsh and architect Jude Barber. It will be hosting talks, walks and workshops that explore Scotland’s connections to the North Atlantic slave trade. So as you sip on your (quite possibly Indian-sourced) tea, and take a bite of your cake (with sugar, perhaps, from the West Indies), there’s space to think about the complex history and ideas of the Commonwealth beyond the Glasgow festivities.

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Merchant City Festival KnitWorks!

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FILM GLASGOW 2014 If, by some chance, you’re so sportophobic that even world class athletic tournaments can’t draw you in, worry not – the Commonwealth Games come packaged with an unmissable array of arts and cultural events too. In fact, the Culture 2014 and Festival 2014 programmes are so phenomenal, we reckon they could outshine the Games themselves. Find out more in our feature from page 13 and see our suggestions of how to enjoy the most the city has to offer from page 33.

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It may (or may not) surprise you to learn that The Inbetweeners Movie was one of the most successful British films of all time. We talk to its stars ahead of the follow-up.

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THUMBS DOWN Re: British Red Cross Refugee Week Comedy Night Bruce Morton may want to think twice before commenting on the subjective-ness of comedy before accusing a young woman of texting during his feature (which I wasn't, simply so unimpressed that I was literally twiddling my thumbs) and then threatening to hit her with the microphone if I had been. Wasn't impressed by his performance in the slightest.

Comment posted by Turtle Unicornz on list.co.uk When contacted by The List, Bruce Morton declined to comment.

Last month’s Edinburgh International Film Festival ent inspired a flurry of comment activity on film.list.co.uk.

Dak99 opined that photography doc Finding Vivian Maier was ‘great all y, around. Cool photography, gy, history, twisted psychology, ct mystery’, which we suspect could be our first ever e, rhymed review. Meanwhile, both Steve and Gideon were excited about urban crime drama The Guvnors, pictured (Steve particularly said he was ‘lookin forward to this,’ before reaffirming this sentiment with an ‘oh yes’). Most attentionte user grabbing, however, was site Ashley who, from what we could ascertain on Google, appears to have contributed to literally thousands of online articles that mention Quentin Tarantino (including our EIFF interview with Don Johnson) with the same quote: ‘this is me at my most sadistic – and truthful’.

Simultaneously bewildered and impressed by Ashley’s single-minded dedication to this exceptionally niche form of expression, we were sad to learn it’s actually a misquote – in Tarantino’s Kill Bill, David Carradine’s Bill describes himself as being

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‘masochistic’ at his most ‘masochistic’, not sadistic, when he shoots The Bride – so we fear his or her tireless commentary has been for nought.

Elsewhere on the site, people seem to be having a bit of fun with our headlines. kolly sanni responded to eye-themed horror film Oculus with a snappy ‘see ya soon’, while Vile (which may or may not be an unsubtle alias for one of our writers – check our list of contributors on the right to see if you can figure out which) wryly noted that Lana Del Rey ‘seems like a barrel of laughs’ in response to her ‘I wish I was dead’ remarks. The wag.

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The columnist, author and postergirl for the newest new wave of feminism takes to the road to discuss, among other things, ‘men, women, Sherlock, David Bowie, big hair’ and her new novel, How to Build a Girl. See feature, page 44. Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Fri 11 Jul.

1 Commonwealth Games Opening Concert MUSIC

Belle and Sebastian have been a bit quiet on the home front since the release of their 2010 LP Write About Love, what with Stuart Murdoch filming God Help the Girl (see preview, page 73) and the whole band repairing to the States to work on their ninth studio album. They’re returning home for a one-off gig as part of some sporting event or other – flip to our feature on page 13 to find out more about that, and page 86 for a preview of the concert itself. Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul.

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The ‘carnival of flying and falling’ comes to Glasgow as part of the SURGE festival of street arts, physical theatre and circus. See Big Picture, page 11, and Surge preview, page 108, to find out more.

Rottenrow Gardens, Glasgow, Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jul.

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Another Glasgow 2014 musical highlight, this large-scale outdoor concert will feature over 150 performers (including Miaoux Miaoux, pictured, and Rachel Sermanni), pyrotechnic specialists, aerial artists and the Royal Freaking Navy.

See preview, page 30. River Clyde, Glasgow, Fri 1 & Sat 2 Aug.

Japan’s finest literary export produces another delicately crafted masterpiece, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, ahead of his Edinburgh International Book Festival appearances in August. Published by Harvill Secker on Tue 12 Aug.

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Following his decades-spanning Before trilogy, director Richard Linklater delivers another unique long-form project: a low-key, naturalistic drama charting a boy’s adolescence, filmed over the course of 12 years. See review, page 74.

General release from Fri 11 Jul.

Like Sound to the Sea, The River from Barrowland Ballet is another big-scale, Clyde-based, Festival 2014 event, featuring over 150 performers doing site-specific performances along the riverbank.

See preview, page 108. The Briggait, Glasgow, Sun 20 & Mon 21 Jul.

The Detroit legend makes his first live appearance in Scotland (one of only four across the UK). Expect classics, sounds from Parrish’s Sound Signature label and a Motor City footwork dance crew. See preview, page 65. The Art School, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul.

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Another Festival 2014 spectacular, this one conceived by artist (not singer) Phil Collins and featuring music from Cate Le Bon, Golden Teacher and the RSNO. See preview, page 117. Queens Park, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul.

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This August, the amazingly talented Scottish / Kenyan storyteller Mara Menzies and her company Toto Tales present Nzinga – Warrior Queen, as part of the Just Festival. Through powerful visual imagery, storytelling theatre and live African music, they bring to life the true story of one of the world’s most intriguing yet little-known female rulers. Born into a patriarchal society in Angola in 1583, Nzinga defied tradition to become queen at the age of 50 with the aim of ensuring her people were kept safe from the technologically superior Portuguese and marauding Imbangala slave traders. This true story of unrivalled determination, incredible wit and inspirational resilience examines the challenges Nzinga faced as a woman, questioning femininity, spirituality and the thin line between right and wrong.

Nzinga – Warrior Queen, St John’s Hall, Fri 1–Sat 9 Aug. Africa in Motion Film Festival, various venues across Scotland, until Mon 28 Jul, see preview, page 78.

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READER OFFERS WIN FRINGE BY THE SEA TICKETS

WIN TICKETS TO JANIS JOPLIN: FULL TILT AT ASSEMBLY CHECKPOINT

The first week in August brings the 7th Fringe by the Sea to North Berwick.

There is a brilliant mix of returners from past years, plus some new and surprising big names from both sides of the Atlantic.

Throughout the week, all tastes and eras are taken care of – with a variety in music and comedy that will be guaranteed to sell out fast. The wonderful Julie Fowlis opens the festival – with the last few years since she last visited seeing her become one of Scotland’s folk icons. Eric Bibb performs on Tue 5. A change of offering on Wed 6 sees Zoe Lyons as compere for a night of brilliant comedy from The Umbilical Brothers and Stephen K Amos – all taking time out from their shows in Edinburgh to come down specially as they have heard of Fringe by the Sea’s reputation.

The List are giving away four tickets to each of the following: Julie Fowlis (4 Aug 8pm), Eric Bibb (5 Aug 8:30) and Big Comic Wednesday (Wed 6 9pm). To be in with a chance of winning log on to list.co.uk/offers and tell us:

How many years has Fringe by the Sea been running?

Fringe by the Sea Mon 4 - Wed 6 Aug 2014 The Palais des Glaces Spiegeltent The Harbour, North Berwick, East Lothian

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WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR EVERY QUEEN’S HALL FRINGE 2014 SHOW

This play on the brief and blazing life of Janis Joplin has all the ingredients to be one of this year’s festival hot tickets - Fringe First award winners, writer Peter Arnott and director Cora Bissett (Roadkill, Whatever Gets You Through The Night) and featuring a powerhouse performance from Angela Darcy as Joplin.

We have five pairs of tickets to give away for the opening night of Janis Joplin: Full Tilt. To be in with a chance of winning just log on to list.co.uk/offers and tell us:

In what year was Janis Joplin inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Assembly Checkpoint 31 July, 8pm

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WIN A CHAMPAGNE AFTERNOON TEA FOR FOUR “Its magnificent setting is unbeatable” The Times Now a firm festival favourite, the Pommery Champagne Cafe Bar is open from Fri 1 Aug to Mon 25 Aug 2014. The ideal place to escape festival fever with a glass of chilled champagne, a sumptuous afternoon tea or plate of lobster, this year the pop up bar also has its own Fringe Food & Drink events in the fine surroundings of the Upper Library.

The Queen’s Hall Fringe 2014 line-up is one of their strongest to date featuring 14 nights of the best Scottish indie, folk and jazz acts. Starting on Fri 1 August, his year’s line-up features Dougie MacLean, Broken Records, King Creosote, Orkestra Del Sol, Meursault, Rachel Sermanni, Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock, Withered Hand, Battlefield Band, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, The Chair, Karine Polwart, Richard Thompson and Far, Far from Ypres.

The List are giving away a pair of tickets for every concert worth over £450.

To be in with a chance of winning just log on to list.co.uk/offers and tell us:

What’s the name of Broken Records new album?

The Queen’s Hall Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG 19 July - 30 August

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Heritage Portfolio are giving away a Champagne Afternoon Tea for four, the lucky winner and three friends will enjoy a tempting tower of freshly made sweet & savoury treats, including delicious gourmet sandwiches, irresistible homebaking & freshly baked scones with lashings of organic whipped cream and homemade jam, all accompanied by a pot of tea or coffee and of course a glass of perfectly chilled Pommery Brut Royal.

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Pommery Champagne Café Bar 1 – 25 August 2014 The Signet Library, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 1RF Reservations 0131 226 1064 open 26 July 2014 at 10am TERMS & CONDITIONS: COMPETITION CLOSES 31 JUL 2014. WINNER WILL BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL AND MUST MAKE A RESERVATION IN ADVANCE TO REDEEM PRIZE. THERE IS NO CASH ALTERNATIVE. USUAL LIST RULES APPLY.

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WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE LIST FESTIVAL PARTY The List kicks off the Fringe in style with its award nominated Festival Party at Summerhall on 31 July and we have 10 pairs of tickets to give away.

Uncover a host of exciting hand picked performances designed to get your Festival Buzz going, grab a prime spot outside in the courtyard, find your friends, lose your friends, make new friends, howl a karaoke tune with them, have an intriguing interaction with a fringe act, bust a groove as legendary DJ Trendy Wendy steers the dance floor into the wee hours and go home knowing that the festival has well and truly started . . .

The Edinburgh Dungeon presents Carnivàle, their circus starring a cast of colourful characters ready to amaze and astound.

Supporting the party this year, and bringing a taste of Italian hospitality to all our party guests, is Birra Moretti - quality beer made in the traditional way.

We are also excited to have Drambuie on board, who will give guests A Taste of the Extraordinary with an delicious choice of cocktails.

To be in with a chance of winning just log on to list.co.uk/offers and tell us:

What is the name of the DJ performing at the party?

The List Festival Party 31 Jul 2014 Summerhall 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh

Test your strength on the High Striker – Do you have the bulging biceps of the brutish butcher Burke or are you as weak as the whimpering warrior William Wallace? Meet the Ringmaster and be put through your paces with Pandora’s Boxes. In a true test of mind over matter, use both mental agility and iron clad bravery as you plunge your hands deep into the mysterious boxes and guess what lies within! Once inside The Dungeon there are 11 mesmerising shows to enjoy, bringing 1,000 years of Scotland’s murky past to life. The List have four tickets to Carnivàle at the Edinburgh Dungeon to give away. To be in with a chance of winning just log on to list.co.uk/offers and tell us:

How many shows are there on the standard Edinburgh Dungeon Tour?

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WIN A PAIR OF OUTDOOR THEATRE TICKETS Tickets are now on sale for the National Trust for Scotland’s annual programme of outdoor theatre events. Popular works

by Shakespeare, J.M. Barrie and Lewis Carroll are amongst the family favourites being staged in the shadow of some of Scotland’s finest heritage properties throughout the summer including gardens, castles and mansions. Visitors are encouraged to pack up a picnic hamper, sit back and enjoy the dramatic storylines and the buzz of the show!

The 2014 programme of open-air theatre includes Peter Pan at Newhailes in Musselburgh, Macbeth at Falkland Palace in Cupar, Alice Through the Looking Glass at Kellie Castle in Pittenweem and The Tempest at Greenbank Garden in Glasgow.

The List have a pair of tickets to give away to the performance of your choice. To be in with a chance of winning just log on to list.co.uk/offers and tell us:

Which performance would you like to attend?

Find a performance near you and book tickets today by visiting nts.org.uk/theatre TERMS AND CONDITIONS: COMPETITION CLOSES 30 JUL 2014. USUAL LIST RULES APPLY.

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Messages of support and financial assistance have flooded in following the fire at the Glasgow School of Art on 23 May (above). First Minister Alex Salmond has announced that the Scottish Government will match funds raised to restore the building up to £5 million, and a £750,000 Phoenix Bursary Scheme will go towards helping students create works to replace those that were lost. The UK government is to donate £5 million. Actors Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi have become trustees of the Mackintosh Appeal, launched by the GSA with the aim of raising £20 million. Meanwhile, photography graduate Melissa Maloco has recreated one of her pieces using ash from the fire. Her ‘Negotiation of Space (A Door Opening and Closing)’ will be shown as part of Part Seen, Imagined Part: GSA in Dunoon until 26 Jul. For more info, visit gsa.ac.uk/ support-gsa/the-mackintosh-appeal

Applications are open for the 2014 Fringe Sustainable Practice Award, which celebrates Fringe shows that encourage their audiences to think about sustainability, and that take responsibility for their own environmental impacts.

Applications close on 18 July, with the shortlist revealed in The List on 30 July, and the winner announced on 22 August at Fringe Central. More details at sustainablepractice.org/fringe

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SAY AWA R D FO R M U S I C A N D V I S UA L A RT Edinburgh hip hop trio Young Fathers have won the 2014 Scottish Album of the Year Award for their album Tape Two. The award was announced in Glasgow on 19 June. The SAY Award Art Commission, which celebrates the ties between music and visual art, goes to Edinburgh College of Art graduate Ian Jackson, who will create ten unique pieces of art to be presented to each of the 2014 SAY shortlisted musicians.

I M AG I N AT E AN N OU N C ES 201 5 COMMI SS I ON S A non-stop bouncing performance and a steampunk show performed in its own selfcontained dome are the two commissions announced for the Imaginate children’s performance festival in May 2015. Lou Brodie’s Bounce takes place inside a bouncy inflatable, and The Lost Things is a show for older children that blends puppetry and magic from Edinburgh-based company Tortoise in a Nutshell and writer Oliver Emanuel.

NEW DES I G N E R M ARKE T FOR ED I N B URG H A market has taken up residence in Edinburgh’s Festival Square. Boxsmall brings together food, design and crafts, as well as picnic lawns, and will run until the end of August. Alongside the traders, kids are invited to enjoy the giant Airpuddle, an interactive experience which combines boisterous fun and contemporary art. See boxsmall.com

Following months of speculation over the future of T in the Park, it’s been announced that 2014 is the festival’s final year in Balado. In 2015 the event moves to Strathallan Castle, near Auchterarder in southern Perthshire, where it will take place within the 1000-acre estate of the 19th century castle.

Questions had been raised about T in the Park’s future following safety concerns about an oil pipeline that runs underneath the festival’s current airfield site. Earlier this year, the Health and Safety Executive required promoters DF Concerts to find a new site for next year’s event. Locations including Drumdownie, Gleneagles, Loch Lomond and Stirling had been proposed, but following a period of negotiations, agreements have been signed to move the event to the Strathallan site.

Geoff Ellis, CEO of DF Concerts, said: ‘When it became clear we’d need to leave Balado to safeguard the future of the festival, we became very excited about the prospect of Strathallan becoming the new home.’

A spokesperson for T in the Park added: ‘We’ve been extremely happy in Kinross for 18 years, but the restrictions placed upon us by health and safety protocol meant that we had no real option but to leave. We tried very hard to find a solution, but the site orientation available to us was completely unworkable, plus we would have had to use additional fields which were unsuitable. Rather than seriously damaging the quality of the event, we decided to move on.’

A festival spokesperson added that Strathallan will provide T in the Park with greater flexibility in site layout, and that there is enough space for future expansion of festival content.

However, concerns have been raised by local residents about the impact of the festival’s arrival, especially the current road infrastructure’s ability to cope with the influx of festival-goers.

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OPINION GARETH K VILE What legacy will the Commonwealth Games cultural programme leave?

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efore accepting his honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University this month, Eugenio Barba offered a few thoughts on the purpose of theatre. ‘It is,’ he said, in his lilting accent, accentuating his words with florid hand gestures, ‘about making the familiar strange.’ A legendary director, who has been making imaginative and original work since the early 1960s, Barba has influenced generations, and his style – which utilises a combination of text, vocal dexterity and movement – has helped open up theatre to new ways of communicating and entertaining.

If theatre before this revolution was stuck indoors, it now spends much of its time running about the streets getting people involved. The Commonwealth Games are accompanied by the nation-wide Culture 2014 and Glasgow-based Festival 2014, which have enlisted artists from across the performance spectrum to help celebrate the arrival of the athletes. Despite the occasional pointed response to the influx of sport, the creatives of Scotland have jumped at the opportunity and are taking over the city, and touring the country, with events on a massive scale.

It’s admirable to see so many events, especially those taking an uncompromising moral stance (Drew Taylor’s 44 Stories, pictured, questions the treatment of LGBT people in certain countries) or the efforts of the Touring Network to bring international art, such as the Junk Funk band of Lesotho, into villages that rarely host gigs. But the question that hangs over both Culture and Festival 2014 can still be asked during the fun.

The legacy of Culture 2014 could stop with the

celebration: while it might make Scotland an impressive tourist destination, its value for the people depends on whether it leaves anything behind. The youth dance festival at Tramway has a wonderful programme, offering performances and masterclasses; yet unless it provides a benefit for future generations, it will simply become a set of memories. In the same way that the athletes’ village could either provide affordable housing or expensive residencies, the aftermath of the Commonwealth Games arts programme will define its worth.

On a simple level, this might mean ensuring that young people or communities who have become involved are supported in future years, or that the Touring Network is regarded as a vital organisation in provision beyond the central belt. It might see existing projects, such as Toonspeak, which recently won Scottish Charity of the Year, being helped to take the Games’ spirit forward.

The worst case is if the Games are merely a jamboree, a special occasion, that then undermines on-going activity by spending all of the money.

Returning to Barba’s idea of theatre ‘making the familiar strange’: art is capable of remaking the way we understand the world, revealing either the sublime, even sacred, moments of life or the hidden horrors. The intensity of performance during the next few months has the potential to make the familiar exciting and dynamic, to prove that art is part of daily life and a way of enhancing discussion and community. The social revolution that Barba’s theatre reflects is not yet completed, but events such as Culture 2014, despite their corporate veneer, offer hope.

Its value depends on whether it leaves anything behind

Gareth K Vile is The List’s theatre editor and a freelance critic and performer

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This July Glasgow’s sporting venues will be filled with whoops and cheers as athletes from across the Commonwealth make sporting history. Meanwhile throughout the city the streets will be bursting with things to do. Look out for a Clyde-set musical; a pop-up cafe exploring Scotland’s link to the slave trade; and a roof top aerial show, to name a few. The next 20 pages will help you to navigate your way through all that’s on offer during Glasgow 2014. Turn over the page to find out about the cultural highlights and on page 33 discover how to make the most of the city with our City Guide, which is packed with superlative places to shop, eat, drink and party.

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THE FINAL SPRINT FOR GLASGOW 2014 TICKETS If you want to be part of the atmosphere at the Commonwealth Games, it’s not too late. Even though the opening ceremony is in sight, you can still get tickets for some heart-pounding events like boxing, weightlifting and badminton. You can buy tickets by phoning 0800 458 2014* or visiting glasgow2014.com *Calls are free when calling from a UK landline. For mobiles standard network charges apply.

1 QUEEN’S BATON RELAY SPORT / AROUND TOWN

FESTIVAL 2014 AND THE GLASGOW 2014 CULTURAL PROGRAMME The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme runs until 31 August and is a partnership between the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and Creative Scotland through National Lottery funding. Visit glasgow2014.com/culture for listings of all events and information on how to buy tickets.

Various locations across Scotland, until Tue 22 Jul Look out for additional cultural and sporting events taking place along the route to ensure everyone is part of the build-up to the Games. See feature, page 18.

2 THE MARATHON STORYTELLING CYCLING FAMILY / LITERATURE

CHALLENGE

Various locations, until Sun 3 Aug Actor Tam Dean Burn has been cycling around Scotland regaling small children with Julia Donaldson’s books – all 195 of them. You’ll be able to catch him as he arrives back in Glasgow to finish his grand adventure.

3 THE TIN FOREST THEATRE

MAKE A DIFFERENCE Let’s make a difference. UNICEF and Glasgow 2014 have joined together to Put Children First and make the Games life-changing for children in Scotland and across the Commonwealth. You can support the Put Children First appeal at: unicef.org.uk/glasgow14 or text CHILD to 70800 to give just £3*.

Donations will help provide life-saving food and vaccines and give children the chance to take part in sport – many for the very first time. *UK only. You will be charged £3, plus one message at your standard network rate. The full £3 will be received by UNICEF UK. Registered charity England & Wales (1072612), Scotland (SC043677). To discuss this mobile payment, please call 0300 330 5580.

Various venues, until Sun 3 Aug The National Theatre of Scotland has been collecting stories of Glasgow’s past to produce a series of events reimagining the city’s future. See feature, page 24.

4 GENERATION VISUAL ARTS

Various locations across Scotland, until Nov A Scotland-wide celebration of 25 years of contemporary art, featuring over 60 exhibitions.

5 PHIL COLLINS: TOMORROW IS ALWAYS TOO LONG FILM / VISUAL ART

Old Rose Garden, Queen’s Park, Sat 19 Jul A one-off screening of a raw and eye-opening film describing the scope of human existence, drawing on experiences of people in institutions.

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NMISSABLE EVENTS There’s so much going on during the Commonwealth Games. We round up the highlights that you should sprint along to.

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Rottenrow Gardens, Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jul A dazzling programme of aerial performances in a large-scale outdoor theatre, with over 200 entertainers. See Big Picture, page 11.

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The Briggait, Sun 20 & Mon 21 Jul A performance from Barrowland Ballet inspired by the Clyde and the people of Glasgow, with a 150-strong cast. See preview, page 108.

8 GLASGOW GREEN OPENING CEREMONY MUSIC/FAMILY

PARTY IN SUPPORT OF UNICEF

Glasgow Green Live Zone, Wed 23 Jul Watch the Opening Ceremony in style with an evening of live music, special guests and delicious Scottish food and drink.

9 KELVINGROVE BANDSTAND SILENT CINEMA FILM

Kelvingrove Bandstand, Fri 25 Jul Vist the beautiful, recently-restored Kelvingrove Bandstand for a special silent screening of the swashbuckling classic The Black Pirate starring Douglas Fairbanks, complete with live score.

10 FESTIVAL 2014 CLUB MUSIC

Old Fruitmarket, Wed 23 Jul–Sat 2 Aug Dance the night away at the festival’s late night club - a musical journey across the Commonwealth, programmed in association with Celtic Connections.

11 GLASGOW 2014 COMMONWEALTH GAMES SPORT / FAMILY

14 venues in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Carnoustie, Wed 23 Jul–Sun 3 Aug There are still tickets available for the Games themselves. Watch live sport at its most thrilling as competitors from 71 countries compete in 17 different sports.

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LITERATURE / FOOD & DRINK

The Briggait, Thu 24 Jul–Fri 1 Aug An exploration of Scotland’s involvement in the North Atlantic slave trade, with contributions from leading artists including Jackie Kay. See feature, page 23.

13 MERCHANT CITY FESTIVAL FESTIVAL

Various locations, Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug Glasgow’s annual cultural extravaganza returns for its 13th year with a special extended prorgamme as part of Festival 2014. See preview, page 56.

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ACTION! FILM/THEATRE

Clyde Embankment, Sat 26 Jul Glasgow Film takes over the River Clyde in an outdoor celebration of the city’s heritage, set around and on the water. See feature, page 31.

15 VINTAGE GLASGOW

FILM / FASHION / MUSIC / ART / DESIGN

Various locations, Sat 26–Sun 27 Jul Taking place in quirky spaces, this festival celebrates vintage art, music and culture from across seven decades. See preview, page 35.

16 THE BIG BIG BIG SING MUSIC

Glasgow Green Live Zone, Sun 27 Jul Part of a wider programme aimed at getting everyone singing, regardless of experience (or talent!). This day of musical performance promises fun for all ages. See preview, page 36.

17 NEWS JUST IN MUSIC / THEATRE

The Arches, Tue 22 Jul–Sat 2 Aug Random Accomplice present a newsroom spoof that responds to the day’s Commonwealth news. Expect something different each night. See preview, page 110.

18 MATTHEW HERBERT, 20 PIANOS MUSIC

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sat 2 Aug The stories of 20 unique pianos are explored by the electronic musician and composer in a unique show.

See feature, page 29.

19 GLASGOW GREEN CLOSING CEREMONY CELEBRATION MUSIC / FAMILY

Glasgow Green Live Zone, Sun 3 Aug Relive the highlights of the Games in this fantastic outdoor venue before a live screening of the Closing Ceremony.

20 KELVINGROVE BANDSTAND CLOSING MUSIC/ FAMILY

CEREMONY CELEBRATION Kelvingrove Bandstand, Sun 3 Aug Join the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and a host of other live musicians for a sonic finale to the Games before watching the Closing Ceremony.

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SPORTING CHANCE We grab 5 minutes with three British athletes getting ready to compete at this year’s Games

RORY LAMONT

NICOLA ADAMS

EILIDH CHILD

How’s he involved in Glasgow 2014?

Rory is part of Team Scotland and will compete in the 50m backstroke event.

How’s she involved in Glasgow 2014?

Nicola Adams made history as the first woman to ever win a gold medal for boxing at the Olympics in London 2012. She’s also hoping to win big in the ring this July.

How’s she involved in Glasgow 2014?

Perth-born Eilidh is part of Team Scotland and will compete in the 400m hurdles.

What are you most looking forward to at Glasgow 2014?

I’m looking forward to competing in front of a home crowd for the first time. I’m a swimmer coming from a local club and I need the support of a home crowd to take my swimming up to another level.

When you’re not competing / training what’s your favourite thing to do?

I love going for a coffee. I wanted to replace my daily consumption of energy drinks and recently I’ve been addicted to coffee. It makes my day!

Do you have any pre/post competition rituals you’re willing to tell us about?

I don’t like to speak to anyone before my swim. I’m quite guarded and focused in the call room before it.

Listening to music helps me keep to myself but any other time I am a sociable guy. Honest!

Will you be trying a tattie scone / square sausage / scotch pie when you’re in Glasgow?

Absolutely. Anytime post competition I call ‘the honeymoon period’ where I can eat / drink whatever I like. The national dish of a roll, sausage and tattie scone is definitely on the cards after the Games!

What are you most looking forward to at Glasgow 2014?

This will be the first time I have competed at a Commonwealth Games, so the chance to make history again is what I’m looking forward to the most.

When you’re not competing / training what’s your favourite thing to do?

I love to just chill out and relax. I’m a shopaholic and film buff, so try and squeeze as much of this in as I can. It is important for us to take time away from training so this is the best remedy!

What music will be soundtracking your Games?

You will always find me listening to music when warming up. Nicki Minaj’s Moment 4 Life is always on there, mixed in with a few classics such as Blur’s Song 2. I like listening to music which is fun and uplifting to really feel ready to enter the ring.

What are you most looking forward to at Glasgow 2014?

I’m really looking forward to competing at Hampden Park, in front of a passionate Scottish support.

What do you miss when you’re competing away from home?

I am based in Bath for the large part of the year so I miss my fiancé, Ben, my family and friends but it makes it all the more special when I am with them.

Do you have any pre/post competition rituals you’re willing to tell us about?

I always wear my Hearts FC wristband, it’s probably the only thing that I never take off.

Will you be trying a tattie scone / square sausage / scotch pie when you’re in Glasgow?

Probably not as my events are the last on at the Games and then I’ll be shooting off to the European Championships.

Will you be trying a tattie scone / square sausage / scotch pie when you’re in Glasgow?

I will definitely be embracing Glasgow when I come up for the Games and being a huge food fan already, I would be up for trying them all!

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THE BATON ROUTE Where to catch the Queen’s Baton Relay in the coming weeks

lapool, Lairg, Thurso Wed 9 Jul: Ullapool, (transition nsition day) Thu 10 Jul: Ferry from Scrabster to Stromness, Stromness, Skara Brae, Dounby, Finstown, Kirkwall Fri 11 Jul: Holm, St Mary’s, St Margaret’s Hope, ferry from St Margaret’s Hope to Gills Bay, John o’Groats, Wick, Golspie, Tain, Alness, Dingwall Sat 12 Jul: Inverness, Drumnadrochit, Fort Augustus, Spean Bridge, Fort William (transition day) Sun 13 Jul: Appin, Benderloch, Dunbeg, Oban, Kilmartin, Lochgilphead, Furnace, Inveraray, Strachur, Sandbank, Dunoon Mon 14 Jul: Gourock, Inverkip, Greenock, Quarrier’s Village, Kilmacolm, Port Glasgow

ACTION RELAY As the Queen’s Baton Relay approaches Glasgow Anna Millar speaks to one batonbearer, remarkable yachtsman Gerry Hughes, about why he’s taking part

N

ot for nothing is the Queen’s Baton Relay the precursor to the XX Commonwealth Games. Sure, the athletes are the beating heart of any global sporting event, but community spirit is what makes any such occasion truly soar.

And while the spotlight has inevitably lingered on the more A-list batonbearers from the world of acting and comedy, it’s the stories of the local heroes, nominated for the relay, that truly inspire.

In scale and design, it’s an awesome journey to be part of. By the time it finishes in Glasgow for the start of the Games, the baton will, over 288 days, have visited 70 nations and territories and covered a whopping 190,000 kilometres. Engaging, fact fans, with a third of the world’s population.

For ‘proud Glaswegian’ Gerry Hughes, who picks up the baton in his native turf on 22 July, the relay will be yet another achievement to add to an already impressive stable.

Incredibly, the first deaf yachtsman to solo circumnavigate the world via all Five Great Capes, Hughes has overcome adversity from a young age. Born deaf, beyond his remarkable sailing achievements Hughes has also represented Scotland

six times in the World Deaf Golf Championships.

When he’s not flexing his sporting muscles, he enjoys his day job, teaching deaf children in Glasgow. He’s optimistic that his part in the relay will show people the potential of what the deaf community can do. Hughes explains: ‘I hope that this will help people understand that deaf people have skills and talents.’

‘I have faced many barriers in my life. It has often been hard for me to get people to see beyond my deafness and instead to see my real potential.

Over the years many well-meaning people have tried to save me from the disappointment of failure by discouraging me from pursuing “unrealistic goals”.’

Yet Hughes has excelled time and time again.

‘I have achieved my dream of being on Sir RobinKnox Johnston’s list of solo circumnavigators, not because I am deaf, but because I have demonstrated that I am a skilled yachtsman. I hope that anyone who faces challenges in their lives will see that it is possible for them to achieve their goals if they believe in their own ability and are prepared to work hard.’

Tue 15 Jul: Wemyss Bay, Skelmorlie, Largs, Millport, Kilbirnie, Dalry, Kilwinning, Irvine, Stevenston, Saltcoats, Ardrossan Wed 16 Jul: Eaglesham, Busby, Clarkston, Giffnock, Thornliebank, Newton Mearn, Uplawmoor, Neilston, Barrhead Thu 17 Jul: Howwood, Lochwinnoch, Kilbarchan, Johnstone, Elderslie, Linwood, Brookfield, Bridge of Weir, Houston, Langbank, Bishopton, Erskine, Inchinnan, Renfrew, Paisley Fri 18 Jul: Duntocher, Faifley, Hardgate, Whitecrook, Clydebank, Dalmuir, Old Kilpartick, Bowling, Dumbarton, Renton, Alexandria, Balloch, Jamestown, Bonhill, Milton Sat 19 Jul: Bearsden, Milngavie, Bardowie, Torrance, Lennoxtown, Milton of Campsie, Twechar, Kirkintilloch, Lenzie, Bishopbriggs Sun 20 Jul: Glasgow – Calton, Anderston / City, East Centre, Shettleston, Baillieston, North East, Springburn Mon 21 Jul: Glasgow – Anderston / City, Govan, Hillhead, Canal, Maryhill, Drumchapel / Anniesland, Garscadden / Scotstounhill, Partick West Tue 22 Jul: Glasgow – Linn, Langside, Southside Central, Anderston / City, Pollokshields, Govan, Craigton, Greater Pollok, Newlands / Auldburn Wed 23 Jul: Glasgow Opening Ceremony

(Compiled by Anna Millar)

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Gaelic, Aboriginal and Maori songs, Haka meets highland pipes, Aboriginal dance with step dance.

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23 July Screening of the Opening Ceremony, Old Fruitmarket Glasgow

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GETTING IN THE ZONE Festival 2014, the Games-time cultural celebration, will be focussed in 4 locations across the city. David Pollock rounds up what’s happening where

GLASGOW GREEN LIVE ZONE One of Glasgow’s most iconic city parks will be transformed into a huge home for the duration of the Games. The Living Room hosts the main stage, with themed days celebrating the music of Commonwealth Cultures (Thu 24 Jul), Glasgow’s folk and world festival Celtic Connections (Fri 25 Jul), the cross-cultural sound of Scotland at Mela on the Green (Wed 30 Jul) and the city’s proud history of indie and alternative music at the Chemikal Underground-curated Glasgow Mix Tape (Sat 2 Aug). There will also be storytelling and chat in the spiegeltent Playhouse, daily kids’ events in The Wee House, sports tasters in The Back Garden and a celebration of Scottish produce in The Kitchen (see preview, page 43).

Thu 24 Jul to Sun 3 Aug.

MERCHANT CITY FESTIVAL The annual city centre festival will be bigger and better in its 13th year as part of the official Festival 2014 line-up, with a range of performances and events in some of the area’s best venues and on purpose-built outdoor stages. Among the highlights will be a range of street theatre from around the world, including Scotland’s street arts festival Surge, outdoor play area Scotch Hoppers in the Family Zone and the multi-coloured Laberint II maze, while Merchant Square will host the Dance Stage and the Vintage Hair and Beauty Salon. There will also be a range of family and fashion-based events, while this area is also home to the Old Fruitmarket, information hub of Festival 2014 and host to the late-night Festival 2014 Club.

Wed 23 Jul to Sun 3 Aug.

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SAT 19 JUL –SUN 3 AUG

Restored and brought back to life following its closure 15 years ago due to disrepair, this outdoor amphitheatre in the West End will welcome a host of music, performance, film, family and comedy events. The highlight looks sure to be the first performance in Glasgow in a number of years by Belle & Sebastian (Wed 23 Jul), while other local musical luminaries appearing over the fortnight include James Yorkston, Remember Remember, Roddy Hart and the Lonesome Fire, and the Parsonage Orchestra. There will also be screenings of classic Scottish films, comedy from Fred MacAulay, Jo Caulfield and Phil Nichol, and a literature event with Alan Bissett, Christopher Brookmyre and Denise Mina.

Wed 23 Jul to Sun 3 Aug.

BBC AT THE QUAY

The open-air plaza between BBC Scotland’s headquarters and the Glasgow Science Centre on the south side of the Clyde will turn into a free 16-day festival space over the course of the Commonwealth Games, with food, drink, live Games coverage, exclusive music and comedy performances and a range of live broadcasts. The latter includes The One Show, Radio 2’s Ken Bruce show and various Radio 1, Radio 3, Radio 5Live and 1Xtra broadcasts, while there will be stage versions of A Question of Sport, Mastermind and various CBBC and CBeebies favourites and live appearances from Texas, Simple Minds, Paloma Faith and Amy Macdonald. See bbc.co.uk/thequay for details of ticketed events.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Yasmin Sulaiman finds out whats happening at The Empire Cafe, a week-long event created by author Louise Welsh and architect Jude Barber, that delves into Scotland’s links to the North Atlantic slave trade.

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hanks to the huge success of Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave and the anti-slavery bill currently being drafted in the House of Commons, slavery has hit the headlines once again.

And this month the Empire Cafe brings this timely discussion right to the heart of Glasgow.

The project is the brainchild of author Louise Welsh (The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn) and architect Jude Barber, from Collective Architecture. Based in the Briggait in the Merchant City, the nine-day event will provide a bustling forum for discussing the links between Glasgow and the North Atlantic slave trade.

‘It’s unfortunate that we’re not having this debate until the second decade of the 21st century,’ admits Welsh. ‘You feel we might have talked about it a wee bit earlier.’

‘I think it’s just casually accepted that Caribbean slavery was an English problem,’ says historian Stephen Mullen, author of It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery. ‘In fact, Scots have quite a profound involvement across the West Indies.’

Scotland had limited involvement in direct slave trading compared to other Atlantic ports such as Liverpool, Mullen explains, and Glasgow also played an integral role in the abolitionist movement. But Scots did make vast amounts of money from slave labour in the Caribbean, trading directly with plantation owners. Over the course of the 18th century, Scots took over the world trade in tobacco and later on, sugar, cotton and rum became more important.

‘The Glasgow merchants sent over a lot of young men to do business,’ he says. ‘They called them sojourners – they went there, earned as much money as quickly as possible and came back. They think up to 20,000 young Scots went between 1750 and 1800. That’s why 65% of names in a Jamaican phone book today are Scottish.’

And much of the wealth that flowed back went into the grand buildings of Georgian Glasgow, in what we now call the Merchant City.

‘It’s easy to marvel at these buildings,’ says Barber, ‘because the people who accumulated the wealth to build them carried them out in an exceptional way. And because they were built so well, we can still enjoy them today. This isn’t about detracting from that level of craft and design ingenuity – it’s just being aware of those who profited from other people’s labour and how that manifested itself in our city.’

At the centre of the Empire Cafe will be, as its name suggests, a cafe.

Appropriately, it’ll be run by McCune Smith, the Duke Street cafe named after James McCune Smith – an African American abolitionist who studied at the University of Glasgow. Heading up the food programme is artist and food activist Clementine Sandison, who’s been working with several community cooking groups to develop a thoughtprovoking menu.

‘We’re trying to showcase local, sustainable and organic produce as much as possible,’ she explains, ‘as well as looking at how food cuisines have become fused and influenced each other, and the legacy of sugar plantations on how we eat today. If we hadn’t had sugar plantations in the West Indies, our food culture would be completely different. It’s trying to tease out some of those aspects but have a lovely cafe to be in at the same time.’

The changing menu will reflect Glasgow’s diverse communities, promising everything from Thai pastries to Gambian Scotch eggs (‘they’re just like Scotch eggs, but with lamb’). On the Sunday of the event, there’ll also be a series of Food Sovereignty workshops and a special set menu designed by local restaurants Babu Kitchen and Fire in Babylon, inspired by the history of Indian indentured labourers who went to the Caribbean after abolition and influenced the local cuisine.

Most of the events and workshops in the Empire Cafe’s packed programme will be free, though places can be reserved in advance.

Highlights include walking tours run by Mullen and the Glasgow Women’s Library; new work from artist Graham Fagen (Scotland’s representative at the 2015 Venice Biennale); and a reading of Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter at the Tron Theatre. There’s also a free poetry anthology with contributions from nine Scottish and nine Caribbean poets, many of whom will be at the event, and there’ll be an Empire Cafe strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival the following month.

The organisers are hoping it’ll have a broad appeal. ‘You do want to lure the artists, writers and uni folk in,’ says Welsh, ‘but you want everyone else as well. We like the idea that people might come in for a coffee and discover something else is going on.’

‘For the people who want to dig a bit deeper into the nature of the Commonwealth Games and the Commonwealth itself,’ Barber adds, ‘I think the Empire Cafe’s a perfect place to do that.’

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INTO THE WOODS One of Glasgow’s most intriguing buildings is the focal point of an immersive theatre project by the National Theatre of Scotland. Susan Mansfield finds out more about The Tin Forest.

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t’s one of the forgotten treasures of Victorian Glasgow, a roundhouse in brickwork and tiling that has sat boarded up on the banks of the Clyde for more than 25 years. Now the South Rotunda is being brought back to life as the focal point for The Tin Forest, created by the National Theatre of Scotland as part of the Commonwealth Games cultural programme.

‘It feels like one of the great found spaces anywhere in the world,’ says Graham McLaren, associate director of NTS who is overseeing this final stage of the marathon project, one of largest NTS has ever mounted.

‘Inside, it’s truly breathtaking. The fact that it’s in the heart of Glasgow, and in such an intact form, is incredible.’

The North and South Rotundas were built in the 1890s as access points for tunnels under the Clyde. Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles reached the tunnels by hydraulic lifts in the two buildings, an expression of the city’s engineering prowess at the height of its industrial golden age. Now, appropriately, the South Rotunda is becoming a focus for re-imagining and regeneration.

The Tin Forest is inspired by the children’s book by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson in which an old man builds the detritus of the industrial world into a tin forest, only to find it transformed into something much more beautiful. The NTS Learn team worked for the first six months of this year in four Glasgow communities affected by industrial decline to create large-scale local performances prompted by the story.

The final stage of the project, the Tin Forest Festival, will be launched on 22 July with an open-air concert of spoken word and music that draws on some of the heroes of Glasgow’s industrial past. Over the period of the Games, NTS will facilitate pop-up performances around the city by a 90-strong

international youth company, and will host shows from young Commonwealth theatre-makers at the Rotunda. But the central focus is in the Rotunda itself, which becomes home to an immersive promenade performance directed by McLaren.

He says the simplicity of the story has allowed him plenty of room to flex his theatrical muscles, and plans to use live performers and musicians, puppets (by Gavin Glover, with whom he collaborated on his award-winning production of A Christmas Carol for NTS), aerial performers and digital installation to create his own version of the story. ‘I could do it with one actor, a little one-man show, but I thought that was a missed opportunity, that we could put ourselves through the character’s experience in some way and get a greater sense of that regeneration, that hope for the future.’

McLaren sees the project as a jumping-off point for practical discussion, and has programmed a special evening on 31 July to concentrate on the exchange of ideas. ‘The message of The Tin Forest is: if you want the world around you to change, you must do something about it. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind in the world, and certainly in the UK, that we’re looking for things to change – no matter what side of the referendum question you’re on. I think all of that energy is there in this story. It asks people to imagine where we might be, and what can we do to make the place that we’re in a better place?’

It’s a discussion that he believes will strike a chord with international visitors. ‘People in a favela are asking absolutely the same questions about how are they going to improve where they live. Or in India – or in England: how do we make things better, how do we move things on?’

The Tin Forest Festival, Mon 21 Jul–Sun 3 Aug, thetinforest. com

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TRIPLE JUMP Several of Glasgow’s galleries have been inspired by the Commonwealth Games. Here are three shows we recommend IN COMMON Various locations across Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul–Sun 3 Aug Glaswegian design studio Recoat have invited artists from Commonwealth countries to paint large-scale murals (picture, below) on five sites in Glasgow.

‘We selected artists that we had followed for some time and had seen their work at other mural festivals,’ explains Amy Whiten, managing director of Recoat. The majority of the work will be figurative and inspired by the local community.

STATE OF THE ART Rachael Cloughton speaks to Max Slaven at the David Dale Gallery, which is preparing to showcase artist-led activity from across the Commonwealth

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nternational Artist Initiated’ (IAI) is a collaborative art project organised

by David Dale Gallery in Glasgow with contributions from six other artist-led organisations from Commonwealth territories.

Together they will transform the east end of Glasgow into a vibrant hub of exhibitions, performances and public art during the Commonwealth Games.

While ambitious in its scale – both in the amount of participants and the distances they have worked across, IAI chimes comfortably with the David Dale Gallery’s international outlook. In the past year the space has hosted Swiss artist Claudia Comte’s first UK solo show and established an off-site residency programme with Artistes en Residence in Clermont Ferrand.

‘We’ve increasingly become interested in the diversity and multiplicity of artist run activity internationally,’ explains Max Slaven, one of the gallery’s directors. ‘The idea [for IAI] was to bring together a diverse group of people working in similar fields and see what the possibilities for discourse and collaboration were. The opportunity of the Commonwealth Games seemed an ideal situation to attempt this.’

Artist-led initiatives in Barbados, Canada, Cyprus, India, Nigeria and New Zealand are all scheduled to exhibit work as part of the programme. ‘We tried to select groups who were international in their focus, outstanding within their geographical field, and tried to ensure that there was a diversity in practices and approaches across the groups,’ says Slaven.

The initial research stage posed the greatest difficulties for the committee: ‘We had the problem of finding a point from which to start

and then primarily relying on the web presence of organisations, which varies widely,’ Slaven explains. However, beyond this point Slaven feels the organisation of the work actually benefited from the huge distances the groups worked across: ‘there has been a certain separation between us and the artists – though I think this has been important in allowing each organisation to maintain its curatorial voice.’

The IAI programme is as diverse as you would expect from a project that encompasses so many different people, places and cultures. There will be a multi-channel film installation by Video Art Network Lagos, daily performances by RM, an artist-run space from Auckland, New Zealand and public art paintings and posters by Barbados based Fresh Milk Art. Canadian arts publication Fillip will host a debate focused around current and past institutional practices, while Cyprus Dossier are scheduled to present a multidisciplinary group show exploring Cypriot identity. Clark House Initiative will bring an exploration of radical protest languages to Glasgow’s east end, taking shape through texts, sculpture and printmaking.

Glasgow’s art scene is synonymous with successful artist-led activity, but for Slaven this project stresses that such activity can (and does) flourish anywhere: ‘I think in every cultural context there are the individuals with the intention and self-determination to create situations for art to exist and be seen…Certain conditions aid this and make it more prevalent, though it does really exist everywhere in some capacity.’

BELOW ANOTHER SKY Glasgow Print Studio, Fri 18 Jul–15 Aug Ten Scottish artists and ten artists from Commonwealth countries participated in residencies organised by the Scottish Print Network between 2013 and 2014.

Artists from Scotland visited Antigua, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Malawi and New Zealand while artists from Australia, Canada, India and Pakistan participated in residencies across Scotland. Below Another Sky presents the outcomes, capturing the diversity of the Commonwealth’s influences through an eclectic group show.

ALL SIDED GAMES Off-site projects commissioned by the Collective Gallery Since October 2013 the Collective Gallery has produced a programme of off-site commissions in venues built for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970 and 1986, and in venues to be used for the Glasgow Games this year. For the next All Sided Games commission in August, artist Dennis McNulty will work in and around the MOD’s Barry Buddon Training Centre, the venue for this year’s Commonwealth Games’ Shooting Events. McNulty’s works often take hybrid forms, on this occasion he will be working with groups and individuals from the neighbouring towns of Barry and Carnoustie.

(Rachael Cloughton)

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5 MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS More sonic delights to discover in Glasgow this summer

PIANO MAN Claire Sawers speaks to the boundary-pushing musician Matthew Herbert about his latest project, which records the sounds of 20 different pianos, each one with its own story

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atthew Herbert remembers his grandad playing church hymns at home on an art deco piano, his black patent shoes tapping out accidental percussion on the wooden pedals. That same piano was sampled for a new work by his grandson – 20 Pianos – which will be played in Glasgow as part of a mini tour.

‘It’s not just the sound of 20 pianos – it’s 20 different stories, and 20 different rooms,’ says Herbert, the prolific – and freakishly multidisciplined – electronic producer, composer and DJ who over the years has made deep house records, glossy pop productions and more recently, recorded the sounds of a pig, from farmyard to slaughterhouse on One Pig. He founded his own virtual country once online too.

But today he’s talking pianos. ‘That art deco piano immediately makes me think of my grandad – such an interesting and important man to me,’ says Herbert. ‘He was a conscientious objector during the war, and I remember him giving me a copy of Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto – I was only ten!’

In the past, Herbert – a restless experimentalist, who is also creative director at the relaunched New Radiophonic Workshop – has made music and sound art from crisp packets (his first live performance), birdsong (for a recent Boiler Room session of the British Library’s Sound Archive), apples (on 2005’s Plat du jour) and human skin (on 2002’s Bodily Functions). But for 20 Pianos he was interested in sampling a ‘disparate, democratic spread’ of pianos.

‘I knew I wanted a very expensive one, a royal one, a really battered school one, one that had witnessed some really difficult times . . . I think the selection is pretty amazing in the end.’

The witnesser of ‘difficult times’ ended up being a prison piano, recorded in situ in Wormwood Scrubs and at one time tinkled on by inmate Ivor Novello; the expensive one was used

by John Lennon as he wrote ‘Imagine’; and other oddities popped up unexpectedly too. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall supplied a tiny ship’s piano that was played on a yacht that sailed to New York, and Finchcock’s Musical Museum in Kent unearthed one that was played by a Victorian cult leader – who ran a harem of 60 women disciples.

Once recordings had been made of all 20, Herbert sampled them and wrote a composition, for solo pianist. It will be played on a small wood block, that Edinburgh-based Yann Seznec (also of the New Radiophonic Workshop) has turned into a virtual piano, making a MIDI keyboard from touch-sensitive copper tape.

‘I wanted it to look really simple, domestic and plain, with not many wires,’ says Herbert, who met Seznec collaborating on a project about ‘a musical virus’, and invited him to work on his One Pig project.

‘Ever since then we’ve been friends. Yann’s like the missing piece in my jigsaw – before, if I wanted to do something particular on stage I’d have to track down the right hardware. Now I just ask him, and he’s able to make it himself.’

The end result, when performed live, is a bit like, ‘one pianist walking through a piano museum’, says Herbert, who just released a house EP on Accidental Records (see review, page 88) a few days after DJing in Ibiza.

‘It’s designed so you can hear two pianos at a time, or five, or ten – there are 20 fragments, and the pianist improvises with them. When you hear all 20 played altogether, it sounds pretty special.’

‘Music shouldn’t be about making ready meals – I try never to repeat myself,’ he says. ‘I try and make music that pushes outwards, and helps create a new language. And when I’m not doing that – I make deep house, because it’s fun!’

East End Social Chemikal Underground’s spotlight on the East End’s charms continues, with Mogwai and Hudson Mohawke playing the Last Big Weekend in Richmond Park (Sat 30 & Sun 31 Aug); two RM Hubbert shows – one with the reunited El Hombre Trajeado (Sat 12 Jul), the other supported by marvellous oddball Richard Dawson (Fri 8 Aug); plus a Neu! Reekie! date in Easterhouse, with The Pastels. (Sat 19 Jul). Various venues, until Sun 31 Aug. From Scotland with Love The Scottish Screen Archive was raided for black-and-white footage of 1960s dancehalls, post-war donkey rides on the beach, peat turf cutting and rioting in the streets. King Creosote has written an album to soundtrack it at this live performance/screening (see album review, page 87). Glasgow Green Live Zone, Thu 31 July.

Where You’re Meant to Be Aidan Moffat (above) has been touring the north, with help from members of the Twilight Sad, Bdy_Prts and Alasdair Roberts, updating the traditional Scottish folk song, with bawdy, sweary and beautiful results. And now their road trip has been turned into a film by Paul Fegan. Glasgow, Sun 31 Aug. Panning for Gold The missing link between the Caribbean and . . . tropical Northumberland. Youth steel bands from the UK and the West Indies perform this piece by composer and squeezebox player Alistair Anderson, accompanied by a clog dancer and visuals filmed during Trinidad’s carnival season. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sat 2 Aug. Away With the Birds An all-female choir perform ‘Guth an Eòin’ (Voice of the Bird) in Canna harbour, in the Small Isles. It’s a composition by Hanna Tuulikki, illustrator, bird obsessive, keening vocalist, member of Two Wings and here, observer of ‘the mimesis of birds in Gaelic song’, as she weaves archived traditional songs into a site-specific soundscape. Isle of Canna, Fri 29–Sat 30 Aug. (Claire Sawers)

For more info on the Games’ opening ceremony see preview, page 86.

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PUSHING THE BOAT OUT Innovative performance company Cryptic have teamed up with the Royal Navy for a Clyde-built musical. Gareth K Vile stretches his sea legs in preparation

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lthough the precise details of Sound to Sea have been guarded with an almost military secrecy, Cryptic’s entry for Glasgow 2014’s cultural programme promises a stunning fusion of music (from opera to rock), spectacle (aerialists All or Nothing will be swinging from the Science Centre) and naval precision (the Royal Navy have provided the vessels). Appropriately for Cryptic’s 20th anniversary, artistic director Cathie Boyd has assembled a team of collaborators that will fulfill the company’s mission ‘to ravish the senses’.

‘Since moving here in 1990, I have always wanted to do something on the Clyde,’ says Boyd. ‘I was in the Science Centre having a meeting with chief executive Dr Stephen Breslen – I was thinking about how to combine music while embracing the history of Glasgow shipbuilding. And once my imagination starts . . .’

Boyd has deliberately invited performers from across the spectrum: from local beatboxing hero Bigg Taj and cellist Oliver Coates (a familiar Cryptic associate, and presenting an original composition) to soprano Marie Claire Breen and the Glasgow Phoenix Choir, the lineup represents the broad history of Glasgow’s musical scenes in a striking new context.

Boyd was looking for an original approach: ‘There are so many events on water that have a fixed stage. I said: let’s have boats as a stage.

Which I might be regretting . . .’ She laughs.

‘Most of the artists come in on boats from various angles. There is a huge range of boats in the same way there is a range of music – some acoustic, but most with sound engineers on board. And we’re even going to have some dancers with Tigerstyle [the Scottish bhangra group], which is lovely.’

The Royal Navy might appear an unlikely partner in such a grand aesthetic display. Captain Chris Smith, Naval Regional Commander for Scotland & Northern Ireland, agrees. ‘The Royal Navy is recognised as an agile, can-do organization, but it is not often we get asked to ravish the senses! This is a first in the way that we are engaging with Cryptic: it was an opportunity to expose the Royal Navy to a new audience.’

However, the alliance makes sense. Given the scale of the production, Boyd’s obsession with detail and the need for exact timings, the Royal Navy could deliver. ‘I am completely in my element,’ Boyd says. And Smith adds: ‘It’s the military mind. We love being precise.’

Sound to Sea is scheduled for two nights on the Clyde, and another partner, Inner Ear, is filming the event, which will then tour the country in

cinemas. Boyd is keen that her work for Festival 2014 will have a legacy, and with the rise of the cinema as a place where theatre can be seen, as in the National Theatre’s various broadcasts, Sound to Sea will have an extensive afterlife.

Yet this detracts nothing from the live event itself. Boyd notes that they have already had 8000 requests for tickets (‘We’ll have to do a lucky dip,’ she muses) and it is unlikely that the Clyde will experience another performance on quite this scale. Boyd is co-directing with Josh Armstrong, whose The Little Match Girl Passion show is still touring the world, and has come back ‘from retirement’ to lead this project.

Her enthusiasm – which Captain Smith suggests was an encouragement for the Royal Navy to get involved – extends from the overall structure to individual artists.

‘The music provides the narrative,’ she explains, before describing how the aerialists from All or Nothing will be taking to the skies and Walk The Plank will provide special effects.

‘There will be lots to look at! Josh’s attention to detail is superb, and Miaoux Miaoux’s electronic music is just glorious. That’s the point when I hope that everyone is dancing.’

While Boyd dismisses the suggestion that the Commonwealth Games were deliberately invited to Glasgow to celebrate Cryptic’s 20th anniversary, the Games have provided an opportunity for the company to remind the world how far they have come. Originally a vehicle for Boyd’s theatrical productions, they have steadily expanded their remit, conquering the Fringe with Orlando and regularly touring the world with productions that now grow in the fertile space between music, visual art and drama. Along the way, Boyd has engaged with science – both in using advanced technology on stage and in the content of shows – as well as with opera and contemporary composition.

In 2010, she announced a new direction for the company – her ‘retirement’ from directing – and began developing the Sonica festival.

Sonica is now a bi-annual jamboree of composition that demands visual engagement, and Sound to Sea shares both its complex organisation and evocative aesthetic. From the touches of distinctive humour (‘One of the things I adore is that we have Bigg Taj who is physically huge on the wee spark,’ she giggles.

‘And we have opera on Scotland’s response to a Viking ship’) to the grandeur of the ambition, this is a show that matches the scale of the Games and the depth of Cryptic’s vision.

5 THINGS TO EXPECT AT CARGO, CAMERA… ACTION! David Pollock finds out what’s in store at 85A’s all-day cinematic event playing out on the Clyde Embankment

1. A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats Inspired by the viral story of an abandoned Russian ship heading for Britain’s shores earlier this year, Glasgow’s mighty exponents of the all-in-one film screening / art installation / largescale outdoor event the 85A Collective have devised a scenario that fuses the shipbuilding history of the Clyde with a nightmarish vision worthy of their hero Jan Svankmajer.

2. Some of Glasgow’s finest and most eclectic bands The specially created ghost ship will play host to five performances of the ‘Cargo, Camera…

Action!’ show throughout the day. We only know vague details, but they’ll involve circus performers, freestyle football and a different band each time, including dub reggae from Mungo’s Hi-Fi and MC Diggy Dang, garage rock from Halfrican and disco-funk from Golden Teacher.

3. A daytime festival atmosphere Outside of the set, the area alongside the river will play host to an open-air selection of entertainments including DJs, games, performances (among them Eilidh McAskill’s Lady Cyclist), a ‘catering trailer’ featuring street food from the SCRAN Collective, and a ‘crew bar’ stocked by the Williams Bros brewery.

4. An evening of short films from Scotland and beyond After 10pm, the boat becomes a cinema, showing new commissions from Scots artists and filmmakers Chris Leslie, Torsten Lauschmann, Nick Millar and Minty Donald, and classic seafaring shorts including Seawards the Great Ships, the first Scottish-made film to win an Oscar.

5. A live film going on all around you Part of the performance will involve a roving fictional film crew making a movie of the day’s events, and all of the audience will be extras in this presentation. In other words, when the cameras start rolling expect anything to happen. (David Pollock)

Cargo, Camera… Action!, River Clyde Embankment, Glasgow, Sat 26 Jul.

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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES Glasgow’s top exhibits in some of the city’s finest buildings – both old and new

THE BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, Southside, G43 1AT, 0141 287 2550, glasgowlife.org.uk/ museums In the heart of leafy Pollok Country Park is this impressive and extensive collection of art in a custom-built setting. Featuring works by Degas, Rodin and Cézanne as well as ancient and medieval artefacts, it was all donated to the city in 1944 by shipping tycoon Sir William Burrell, who collected the 8000 objects in his lifetime.

GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, City Centre, G1 3AH, 0141 287 3050, glasgowlife.org.uk/museums The city’s artistic accolades can be sampled at GoMA, Scotland’s most visited modern art gallery, housed in a striking former exchange building. Changing exhibits feature

artists from around the globe as well as local names including, for summer 2014, the entire collection of Glaswegian Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon’s video work.

HUNTERIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, West End, G12 8QQ, 0141 330 4221, glasgow.ac.uk/hunterian Scotland’s oldest public museum, founded in 1807, houses collections relating to science and medicine, archaeology, geology and more, as well as works by James McNeill Whistler and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The permanent Mackintosh House is the reassembled interior of his home, and a major exhibition of his architecture runs from mid July 2014 until early 2015.

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM Argyle Street, West End, G3 8AG, 0141 276 9599, glasgowlife.org. uk/museums This exuberant piece of Edwardian architecture in gleaming red sandstone by the River Kelvin has an eclectic appeal – few museums can

offer a stuffed elephant, a Spitfire and an outstanding collection of French Impressionists. Twenty-two collections and over 8000 artefacts cover natural history, weaponry, paintings and a huge, regularly played organ.

RIVERSIDE MUSEUM 100 Pointhouse Place, West End, G3 8RS, 0141 287 2660, glasgowlife.org.uk/museums A paradise for public transport fans, the Riverside houses over 3,000 objects in an award-winning building

by Zaha Hadid. The collection includes bicycles, cars, trams and a 100-ton steam engine built in Glasgow, plus interactive exhibits and recreated streets. Moored outside is the Tall Ship, Glenlee, a restored 1896 Clyde-built sailing ship, now a floating museum.

ATTRACTIONS The best spots for outdoor explorations, and where to stretch your mind – and your wallet

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For the bouncy floor and the roof that sweats and the fact you can buy 16 cans of Tennent’s off a guy at a desk. For the fact that every single important band has played there and it is simply the best music venue in the entire world.’

MARK NELSON COMEDIAN

End, G12 0UE, 0141 339 6964, glasgowbotanicgardens.com A great place to relax in summer or take a brisk walk in winter, with a programme of events including stargazing, gardening talks and even Shakespearean theatre with the annual summer Bard in the Botanics thespfest. Also look out for exotics and exhibitions in the beautifully restored Kibble Palace Glasshouse and the vegetable, herb and flower gardens.

GLASGOW NECROPOLIS 50 Cathedral Square, Glasgow, G4 0UZ, 0141 552 3145, glasgownecropolis.org Literally a city of the dead, this vast hilltop burial ground behind Glasgow Cathedral pays tribute to the city’s wealthier 19th century departed. Influenced by Paris’ Père Lachaise, it may not have Jim Morrison, but it has plenty of spectacularly ornate gravestones and mausoleums, some designed

by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, and also the first solo work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh – a Celtic cross on the monument to Alexander McCall.

GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE 50 Pacific Quay, Southside, G51 1EA, 0141 420 5000, glasgowsciencecentre.org The £75 million Science Centre features hundreds of interactive exhibits, a planetarium, theatres, the country’s largest IMAX and the 127m Glasgow Tower. After years closed, the top of the tower is set to reopen in summer 2014 in time for great views of the Games and the neighbours’ BBC at The Quay festival.

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and most successful shopping district outside London’s West End. This square mile, mainly Buchanan Street and around, has a concentrated hit of spending temptations, from unique boutiques and designer goods to flagship stores, plus the ever-expanding Buchanan Galleries and upmarket Princes Square.

SHARMANKA KINETIC THEATRE & GALLERY 103 Trongate, Merchant City, G1 5HD, 0141 552 7080, sharmanka.com Sharmanka (Russian for barrelorgan) is the creation of two St Petersburgers, now based in Glasgow, who produce moving sculptures from bits of scrap, old junk and carved figurines. It’s a unique, mesmerising performance of kinetic objects, music and light, enchanting with occasional and wonderful creepiness.

COMEDY Laugh your socks off at some of Glasgow’s top funny spots

AT THE STATE The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, City Centre, G2 4NG, 0141 332 2159, comedyatthestate.co.uk This granddaddy of Glasgow comedy venues was one of the first in the city to host regular nights.

The cosy basement setting in the traditional pub off Sauchiehall Street showcases local talent as well as established funny people. The regular Glasgow Gong Show is a stern test to see who can stay on stage for the full five minutes before the gong sounds.

VINTAGE GLASGOW

Various venues (Merchant City, Glasgow), Sat 26–Sun 27 Jul. We predict the 2014 look du jour over at the Athletes’ Village will be going very big on Lycra singlets, techfilled running shoes and racerback sports bras. Meanwhile, down in the Merchant City, the fashion will be feeling far more nostalgic. Over two days, as part of the Merchant City Festival, streets and venues in this part of town will be taken over by Vintage Glasgow, a festival run by fashion designer Wayne Hemingway which debuted (and sold out) last summer, and returns to tie in with Glasgow 2014.

Dressing up is strongly encouraged – and according to festival assistant producer, Sophie Crabb, ‘People go to so much trouble with their outfits. Just walking in, you sense you’re entering somewhere really special.’

It’s a celebration of British fashion, design and dance culture from the 1920s to the 1980s (think mink stoles, wartime tea dresses or Mod suits – 90s shellsuits or scrunchies may well be disqualified) so the organisers are laying on a cocktail-soaked Charleston Brunch, rock ’n’ roll dance classes, retro food stalls and ‘flash-mob’ catwalks, alongside a massive vintage clothes marketplace, mini car boot sale, and two themed club nights.

The Hair and Beauty Salon in Merchant Square will be dolling customers up with a variety of 40s fingerwaves, 60s bouffants and backcombs, which can then be paraded at Soul Casino (featuring DJs playing Northern Soul and disco from the 70s and 80s), the Devil’s Music (featuring unlikely guest DJ Martin Compston playing ‘wild surf and vintage garage’), or the Torch Club, with live music from the Bratislava Hot Serenaders orchestra.

It’s a tribute to the elegance, rebellion and escapism of bygone eras, so for those about to rock – or jitterbug, peabody, foxtrot, twist, jive or do the mashed potato with a Paul Weller hairdo – we salute you. (Claire Sawers) See merchantcityfestival.com for more info. Tickets from ticketsoup.com

THE HALT BAR 160 Woodlands Road, West End, G3 6LF, 0141 353 6450, thehaltbar.co.uk A long-standing West End classic whose recent new owners have continued the fine tradition of music and gigs in the neighbouring venue Halt Two. Pop-Up Comedy is a free weekly night of new and rising talent.

THE STAND 333 Woodlands Road, West End, G3 6NG, 0844 335 8879, thestand.co.uk Opened in 2000, this muchloved comedy club, housed in an old school, has sister venues in Edinburgh and Newcastle and attracts top national and international comedians. Regular nights also help nurture local newcomers with spots next to some of the big names on the circuit.

VESPBAR 14 Drury Street, City Centre, G2

5AA, 0141 204 0060, vespbar. com This cool, compact venue down Drury Street’s cobbles is renowned for its good food, prosecco on tap and five-nights-a-week comedy offerings. From Vespbar Virgins letting raw talent take to the stage to its popular 10 o’clock show, it’s a relative newcomer getting the laughs.

CLUBS Dance till the small hours at Glasgow’s finest nightspots

THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, City Centre, G2 8DL, 0141 565 1000, thearches.co.uk If you’re wondering where the edgy, arty hipsters of the city spend their time, you’ll likely find them here. A

cavernous underground mishmash of bars and stages offering a renowned theatre programme, including its own cutting-edge festivals, plus larger-scale indie shows, a variety of club nights and DJ sets.

THE ART SCHOOL 20 Scott Street, City Centre, G3 6RQ, theartschool.co.uk Despite the tragic fire that damaged the original Rennie Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art building in May 2014, the legendary student union opposite is open for business of the nightlife variety. It has a different home in the recently completed new building but the same focus on events, club nights and gigs that have seen it as a focus for Glasgow’s alternative culture.

THE GARAGE 490 Sauchiehall Street, City

Centre, G2 3LW, 0141 332 1120, garageglasgow.co.uk Scotland’s biggest club has been around for two decades, providing big and brash tomfoolery every night of the year. The large, friendly space houses five rooms, mixing it up from indie and alt.rock to chart and pop. Expect everything from space invader nights and hot tubs to bouncy castles.

THE SUB CLUB 22 Jamaica Street, G1 4QD, 0141 248 4600, subclub.co.uk This bad boy has been servicing Glasgow’s eclectic electronic needs since 1987, and has shaped much of the local scene in that time. With plenty on almost nightly, the finest house DJs across the city get together for the flagship Saturday’s Subculture, the longestrunning house and techno night in Scotland.

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LIVE MUSIC The best places to experience pop, indie and classical sounds

BARROWLAND BALLROOM 244 Gallowgate, East End, G4 0TT, 0141 552 4601, glasgow-barrowland.com Don’t let the garish neon sign fool you – the Barrlowlands is not a cheesy casino but rather one of Glasgow’s leading music venues.

The former 1960s dancehall with its sprung floors and ace acoustics provides a backdrop for some of the biggest acts, including upcoming gigs from The Libertines, Jesus & Mary Chain and The Specials.

GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL 2 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, G2 3NY, 0141 353 8000, glasgowconcerthalls.com Located at the meeting point of two of Glasgow’s busiest streets, the Royal Concert Hall is home to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and offers a diverse programme of classical concerts and musical theatre, as well as being the main venue for popular annual music festival Celtic Connections.

KING TUT’S WAH WAH HUT 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5RL, 0141 221 5279, kingtuts. co.uk Many a famous foot has walked the

hallowed halls of King Tut’s – from Franz Ferdinand to Coldplay to the Breeders – with the names of the most notable literally inscribed into its architecture. Hosting local up-and-comers, hotly tipped indie acts and established international bands most nights of the week, it continues to be Glasgow’s small rock venue of note.

NICE ’N’ SLEAZY 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, G2 3LG, 0141 333 0900, nicensleazy.com With almost 25 years in the business of entertaining the discerning music lovers of Glasgow, this bar has successfully (if not quietly) been going about its business. In the affectionately named Sleazy’s,

upstairs is for thinking while downstairs is for dancing to a range of live bands, DJs and other esoteric happenings.

THE SSE HYDRO Exhibition Way, West End, G3 8YW, 0141 248 3000, www.thehydro.com The latest mega venue to open in Glasgow, the Hydro sits impressively like an invading alien spacecraft next to the old SECC and Armadillo. A range of entertainments cover kids shows, sports events, comedy and upcoming gigs from music’s biggest names such as Madness, Kylie Minogue, Jack White and Robbie Williams.

MARKETS From vintage crafts to seasonal foods, our selection of Glasgow’s alternative shopping locations

BLOCHAIRN CAR BOOT SALE 130 Blochairn Road, G21 2DU, 0141 287 2500, citypropertyglasgow.co.uk/ markets For car boot sale lovers, this is Scotland’s biggest, taking place every Sunday within the wholesale markets complex on Blochairn Road. It’s no place for the feeble, with up to 500 sellers and 15,000 visitors each week – get there early (real early, say 6am) to grab the bargains.

GLASGOW FARMERS’ MARKET

COMMONWEALTH GAMES ACTIVITIES Various venues, Wed 23 July–Sun 3 Aug

With music, theatre, art, dance and more all crammed into Glasgow’s Commonwealth cultural celebrations, it’s tempting to sit back, observe and absorb as a passive spectator. But get out there and get involved as an active participant, and you’ll be sure to have a far more memorable experience.

It’s not as if there’s any lack of choice – for all talents, and all ages. Even if you’ve never sung before, you’ll be welcome at the Big Big BIG Sing at Glasgow Green Live Zone on Sun 27 July. It’s a full-day event, from 8am to 9pm, and the culmination of a UK-wide singing project throughout 2014, with sessions teaching different singing styles (from Gaelic to Indian to beatboxing), hits from the musicals, and a grand geteveryone-involved singalong of popular classics and Commonwealth songs.

For any budding dancers – again, previous experience not expected – Get Scotland Dancing has three days of free performances, workshops and throw-yourself-in ceilidhs on Fri 1 to Sun 3 August at Merchant Square.

And for the ceilidh to end all ceilidhs, head to Glasgow Green on Sun 3 August for a huge celebration in the run-up to the Games’ closing ceremony.

For something a little less boisterous, The Shed, also on Glasgow Green, will put you in the capable hands of Scottish makers and designers and allow you to get involved in jewellery-making, printing, painting and upcycling discarded treasures, and you’re invited to lose yourself in Laberint II, a maze of coloured walls and crossroads that takes over South Brunswick Street from Tuesday 29 to Thursday 31 July (pictured).

Kids can sing, dance, paint and upcycle too, of course, but they’ve got their own zone near The People’s Palace, called The Wee House, from Sat 26 July to Sun 3 August, with immersive theatre (fancy getting swallowed by a whale?), circus, storytelling and even a show in an ice-cream van. And taking the celebrations back to their sporting roots, the Back Garden at Glasgow Green Live Zone allows youngsters to try out everything from judo to hockey, as well as getting their speed and accuracy scientifically tested. (David Kettle) See glasgow2014.com

• 1st and 3rd Saturdays: Queens Park, Southside, G42 9QL • 2nd and 4th Saturdays: Mansfield Park, Hyndland Street, West End, G11 5QE 0141 287 2500, citypropertyglasgow.co.uk/ city-property-markets/farmersmarkets This market brings the taste of rural Scotland to the city. With up to 40 producers assembling, there’s also Scottish music, take-away food stalls and face-painting for kids.

From Lanarkshire meats, free-range eggs and local organic bread to Galloway beef, ice cream and more, food lovers will find plenty to fill them up.

LITTLE BIRDS MARKET Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, G2 8BG, 0141 221 8886 Taking place on the second Sunday of every month, this market has a tantalising selection of vintage, craft and design vendors – including clothes, jewellery, handmade, up-cycled furniture, accessories, homewares, food, cakes, millinery, stationery, art and lots more.

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PETER ROSS AUTHOR, DAUNDERLUST: DISPATCHES FROM UNREPORTED SCOTLAND (SANDSTONE)

inside Sloans provides space for burgeoning new traders every Saturday.

INDEPENDENT SHOPS Boutiques to satisfy your senses

GOOD SPIRITS CO. 23 Bath Street, City Centre, G2 1HW, 0141 258 8427, thegoodspiritsco.com With staff whose passion for all things alcohol covers the whole spectrum, this spirits-, champagne-, sometimes beer- and generally alcohol-focused shop is as much an education as a place to grab an exciting bottle. A 30-seater custommade tasting room hosts regular samplings of anything with an ABV. Meat Bar

MERCHANT SQUARE CRAFT & DESIGN FAIR

LOVEMUSIC

Merchant Square, 71–73 Albion Street, Merchant City, G1 1NY, 0141 552 3038, merchantsquareglasgow.com Every Saturday and Sunday, this fair under the protective roof of the attractive Merchant Square courtyard showcases the work of some of Glasgow’s best crafters.

Stalls range from handmade jewellery and cupcakes through to artworks, clothes and gifts.

34 Dundas Street, City Centre, G1 2AQ, 0141 332 2099, lovemusicglasgow.com Near-legendary record shop specialising in new and used indie and alternative vinyl and CDs. An essential part of the Glasgow muso experience, with a great selection of local acts. They specialise in indie, rock, punk and Americana, but are good for 1960s and 70s reissues too. Look out for in-store live appearances (Moby played here once).

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THE SHOP OF INTEREST

62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, G2 8BG, 0141 221 8886, www.sloansglasgow.com/ market Well-heeled weekend outdoor shopping market tucked just off Buchanan Street, with stalls stuffed full of gourmet treats, vintage one-offs and classy crafty things.

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1058 Argyle Street, West End, G3 8LY, 0141 221 7316, theshopofinterest.co.uk An integral part of the Finnieston revival over recent years, this gallery and shop sells artworks (often Glasgow-themed), prints, homewares, unique gifts and jewellery from local artists and designers.

VINTAGE GURU 195 Byres Road, West End, G12 8TN, 0141 339 4750, vintageguru.co.uk With an eye-catching canopy and ever-changing window display, this compact but packed shop offers quality vintage goods for men and women. There’s a good supply of shoes, racks of coats, dresses and suit jackets, plus the occasional designer gem to be unearthed.

VOLTAIRE & ROUSSEAU 12–14 Otago Lane, West End, G12 8PB, 0141 339 1811, voltaire-rousseau.co.uk A silent, dusty, temple to the pleasures of reading, Voltaire and Rousseau represents second-hand book-shopping in its most perfect form. Piles upon piles upon piles of books, arranged in a vague order, fill every corner and nook, spilling out from the shelves into the secretive lane.

BARS Our pick of the city’s finest drinking venues

DRYGATE BREWING CO. 85 Drygate, East End, G4 0UT, 0141 212 8810, drygate.com This vibrant tie-up between Williams Bros, one of Scotland’s foremost crafters, and mass-market lagermakers Tennent’s is a keenly branded, media savvy ‘experiential’ brewery housed in a renovated box factory. Enticing food comes courtesy of V at Drygate, sister to Edinburgh’s successful The Vintage.

A roof terrace beer garden, 24 taps in the bar, and brewery shop add to the enticement.

MEAT BAR 142 West Regent Street, City

Centre, G2 2RQ, 0141 204 3605, themeatbar.co.uk Meat is key here – burgers are a stacked gravitational marvel, while flash skirt steak or smoky ribs will have carnivores howling at the moon.

The bar stocks lots of bottled world beers and serves expertly made cocktails featuring meaty garnishes.

THE POT STILL 154 Hope Street, City Centre, G2 2TH, 0141 333 0980, thepotstill.co.uk A fine selection of beers, ales and wines at this traditional pub are surpassed by a whisky collection that would make Johnny Walker himself weak at the knees. First-time punters gawp at the whisky bottles that loom spectacularly over the bar, served up by knowledgeable staff along with plenty of Glasgow patter.

THE TIKI BAR 214 Bath Street, City Centre, G2 4HW, 0141 332 1341, tikibarglasgow.com Predominantly grey and rainy Glasgow may seem an unlikely place for this retro-funky Hawaiian beach hut with killer cocktails.

Amid the 1950s surf chic décor, mixologists focus on rum classics and contemporary twists utilising homemade creations such as Irn Bru syrup.

WEST BREWERY Building 4 Templeton Building, Glasgow Green, G40 1AW, 0141 550 0135, westbeer.com Set in a Venetian-inspired former carpet factory on Glasgow Green, WEST Brewery’s excellent Bavarian beers are served across the city and beyond. The vast, wood-heavy interior, huge bar and views of the on-site brewery create a beguiling venue, with Germanic food to match the excellent beverages on offer.

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KIRSTY LOGAN AUTHOR, THE RENTAL HEART AND OTHER FAIRYTALES (SALT)

CITY WALKING

Routes through Glasgow’s top spots With a name derived from Gaelic meaning ‘dear green place’, it’s no wonder that Glasgow is heralded as one of the greenest cities in Europe. It’s dotted with over 70 recreational parks and gardens, so those wishing to explore this city on foot (or bike) have a wealth of choices.

Glasgow’s biggest parkland at 360 acres is Pollok Country Park, a former estate with walled gardens to explore and woodland walks to get lost in. Stop by at the 18th century Pollok House for a snack in the Downton Abbey-style Edwardian Kitchen Restaurant.

The West End’s Kelvingrove Park is Victorian leisure at its best, with ponds, fountains, monuments and great views to the University and Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Saunter around the undulating landscape, taking in the newly renovated Bandstand, or, for a longer walk, carry on north up the Kelvin Walkway as it leaves the park and passes by the Botanic Gardens (pictured).

Established in the 15th century, Glasgow Green is the oldest and biggest green space in the city and the choice for city-wide events from Bonfire Night displays and political protests to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games 2014. It’s perfect for a thoughtful meander – just as James Watt was doing in 1765 when he figured out improvements to the steam engine that ushered in the industrial revolution.

For those who like things on the level, the Forth and Clyde Canal can be joined via an offshoot just north of the city centre at Port Dundas. It’s a welcome watery artery through the north of the city, well used by locals (who call it the Nolly) for stretching the legs, with Maryhill’s series of locks and viaduct over the River Kelvin a highlight.

Walks around Glasgow can’t avoid the rich heritage of a once great religious and industrial city. For those who like a helping of history, the City Council produce a series of informative Heritage Trails to help explore the fascinating past of this green city. (Jay Thundercliffe) See glasgow.gov.uk/heritagetrails

PLACES FOR COFFEE Top spots for caffeine shots

AVENUE G 291 Byres Road, West End, G12 8TL, 0141 339 5336, avenue-g.com Avenue G’s very skilled baristas deliver coffee in all shades and forms – served with accompanying tasting notes, with a sister café and roastery at Kelvinbridge doing the business with the beans. Excellent food options cover breakfast, light dishes, hearty offerings and homemade bakes.

ARTISAN ROAST 15–17 Gibson Street, West End, G12 8NU, 07449 325247,

artisanroast.co.uk No matter how serious you are about coffee, the staff of Artisan Roast are more serious, serving up some of the best coffee in Glasgow. No fancy syrups, no litre lattes, just high-quality coffee, all roasted on site. Food-wise there’s a high-quality selection of soup, sandwiches, brioche and cake – all made in house, all delicious.

GORDON STREET COFFEE 79 Gordon Street, City Centre, G1 3SQ, 0141 221 1367, gordonstcoffee.co.uk This latest addition to Glasgow’s vibrant bean scene is advantageously positioned at the main exit of Central Station. Kitted out in metal, tile and marble with sacks of coffee, it feels like stepping into a bygone era.

Coffee is roasted on site, with cakes and filled rolls completing an enticing pitstop.

KEMBER & JONES FINE FOOD EMPORIUM 134 Byres Road, West End, G12 8TD, 0141 337 3851, kemberandjones.co.uk Long-standing favourite Kember & Jones offers a wide and varied menu along with excellent deli offerings and all manner of homebaking. Trained baristas serve up excellent homeblend coffee, roasted off site and manipulated wonderfully to act as the ideal partner to the espresso cake – or any other cake for that matter.

RIVERHILL COFFEE BAR 24 Gordon Street, City Centre,

G1 3PU, 0141 204 4762, riverhillcafe.com/coffee-bar With its city centre location, imaginative sandwiches, and incredible cakes, this coffee bar is worthy of daily visits. There’s a commitment to high-quality, locally sourced ingredients, including Glasgow’s own Dear Green coffee, roasted nearby.

BREAKFAST & BRUNCH Where to kick off your day with some stylish nosh

CAFÉ GANDOLFI 64 Albion Street, Merchant City, G1 1NY, 0141 552 6813, cafegandolfi.com The long-standing, artfully quirky and Scottish-inspired favourite has an enticing breakfast menu and an interior made for lingering.

Eight different egg dishes, French toast, pancakes, scones and full breakfasts in meat and veggie versions mean early diners are well catered for.

CAFEZIQUE 66 Hyndland Street, West End, G11 5PT, 0141 339 7180, delizique.com With its scuffed shop front and cool interior, Cafezique is a popular café and bistro with imaginative dishes and a dedication to making everything on site, including fabulous bread from sister Delizique next door. Popular with brunchers tempted in by eggs various ways, top-quality local produce in the full monty and tasty home-made bakes.

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‘Whenever we get off tour, my first stop is Mother India’s Cafe for tapas-style Indian food. Everything is fresh and cooked to order with lots of great vegetarian options (the saag paneer is one of the finest I have ever eaten).’

LAUREN MAYBERRY MUSICIAN, CHVRCHES

stravaigin.com Maintaining a reputation for creative and interesting food, this bistro, under the same umbrella as the famous Ubiquitous Chip, offers an unpretentious yet undeniably swanky brunching experience.

Options range from eggs Benedict and the full Scottish with quality essentials and outstanding black pudding, to more unusual nasi goreng and an Asian-inspired bacon-filled steamed bun.

GREAT VALUE FOOD Where to fill up on good food without emptying your purse

COTTONRAKE

ASIAN GOURMET

497 Great Western Road, West End, G12 8HN, 07910 282040, cottonrake.com A passionate bakery at heart, producing all manner of patisserie delights and breads as you linger over breakfast. Morning pastries, croissants and scones hit the shelves early, with various toasted options and homemade jam also available, savoury tarts and rolls starting from mid-morning.

17 West Princes Street, West End, G4 9BS, 0141 332 1639 Appearances can be deceptive at this unglamorous basement Chinese diner near St George’s Cross, especially when the first waft from the kitchen reaches you. The salt and chilli squid is among Glasgow’s best, and huge main dishes all burst with simple, classic Asian flavours.

When the bill comes you’ll wonder how so much that was so good cost so little.

MCCUNE SMITH CAFÉ 3–5 Duke Street, East End, G4 0UL, 0141 548 1114, mccunesmith.co.uk Named after Dr James McCune Smith, the black intellectual and abolitionist, and first African American to hold a medical degree (from Glasgow), this café is a lesson in Scottish Enlightenment as well as a top spot for breakfast. Quality, local produce means classic rolls, French toast, pastries and porridge are a cut above – with great coffee, too.

STRAVAIGIN CAFÉ BAR 28 Gibson Street, West End, G12 8NX, 0141 334 2665,

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COOK AND INDI’S WORLD BUFFET • 90 Renfield Street, City Centre, G2 1HG, 0141 332 3215 • 410 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, G2 3JD, 0141 333 9933, cookandindisworldbuffet.com Cook and Indi’s serves the ‘world on a plate’ in speedy, super cheap (eg £10.99 midweek dinner), allyou-can-eat buffet style. There’s Italian, Indian, Chinese, Thai and Japanese, with recently added Mexican and Spanish in their seeming plan for world (cuisine) domination. Dishes are regularly replaced and are remarkably good for such staggeringly low prices.

Loch Lomond

DAY TRIPS

Head out of the city and admire Scotland’s natural treasures Within touching distance of Scotland’s Highland hills, expansive golden beaches and historical treasures, Glasgow is well placed for days out beyond the city.

Scotland’s first of its kind, the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park is a 30-minute drive away and is packed with stunning scenery, activities and events. The loch itself serves as a watery playground for Glasgow: take an informative cruise, hire canoes to explore the islands or, for the more high-octane, try a jet-ski.

Landlubbers can hire bikes, visit picturesque Luss, climb Conic Hill near Balmaha, or walk a stretch of the West Highland Way. For a spectacular insight into Scotland’s industrial past, the World Heritage Site of New Lanark, situated in a gorge by the Clyde, is an impressive 18th-century cotton mill complex. It became a model of utopian socialism under Robert Owen whose care of the social and welfare needs of his workers was decades ahead of the rest of the industrialised world.

Those wanting to sample one of the nation’s 790 islands can catch a train to Ardrossan and then a ferry to one of the country’s best: the Isle of Arran. Known as ‘Scotland in miniature’, the island is split by the Highland Boundary Fault that crosses the entire country, giving Arran the characteristic lowlands in the south and hills in the north.

Ayrshire’s coastline is a popular destination for Glaswegians looking to be beside the seaside. Ayr, Troon and Irvine all have excellent, expansive sands, while a visit to nearby Largs should include a stop at one of the UK’s best ice-cream parlours, the art deco Nardini’s of Largs.

Despite little love lost between the two cities, given the proximity and easy 45-minute journey to Edinburgh from Glasgow, it’d seem rude not to visit Auld Reekie. Assume absolutely everyone else will be there, too, during the Fringe; at other times soak up the historic Royal Mile, visit excellent galleries and restaurants, or take a ride on the muchbedevilled new tram system. (Jay Thundercliffe)

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LUCKY 7 CANTEEN 166 Bath Street, City Centre, G2 4TB, 0141 331 6227, lucky7canteen.co.uk In a street packed with competitors, an appealing mix of value and quality keeps this bistro up with the best. Standout value lunch has an attractive selection of £7.77 mains. Gourmet burgers and fish and chips are done simply and served fresh, plus veggies will welcome five choices daily.

Mismatched wallpaper panels, booth seating and long canteen tables create a laid-back late-night ambience.

MARTHA’S 142a St Vincent Street, City Centre, G2 5LQ, 0141 248 9771, mymarthas.co.uk Martha’s will make you wonder why more cafés don’t emulate this simple ethos of quick, healthy

and hearty fast food at good-value prices. Seasonally responsive menus, ethically sourced local suppliers and a range of global culinary influences mean that food served in (biodegradable vegware) disposable containers has never tasted so good.

RICCARDO’S ITALIAN KITCHEN 512 St Vincent Street, West End, G3 8XZ, 0141 248 9174, riccardoskitchen.com It’s not just its retro stylish looks that make this café-bar pizzeria stand out among Finnieston’s burgeoning diners, but also its great-value food that’s befitting of a high-end bistro – neither skimping on quality ingredients nor fresh flavours. Soups, stews and seafood keep things dynamic beyond signature pizza and pasta options.

SMART EVENING MEAL Splash out with our pick of Glasgow’s finest dining

BRIAN MAULE AT CHARDON D’OR 176 West Regent Street, City Centre, G2 4RL, 0141 248 3801, brianmaule.com Glasgow doesn’t currently have a Michelin-starred restaurant, but Le Chardon d’Or delivers an experience that many argue is worthy. Maule’s 11 years with Michel Roux Jr show in elegant, precisely constructed dishes. Fish is a strong point, as are fashionable cuts of meat, while vegetarians get their own interesting menu. Service is formal without being stuffy, with lunch and pre-theatre deals offering equally fine dining at good value.

CAIL BRUICH 725 Great Western Road, West End, G12 8QX, 0141 334 6265, cailbruich.co.uk Cail Bruich is a special place to dine – a unique combination of informal yet sophisticated atmosphere, skilled staff and the incredible standard of food. An impressive tasting menu is available, while the market menu, at £17 for two courses, is a steal. Chef Craig Charlambous plunders Scotland’s natural larder to create culinary art in a restaurant that goes way beyond what is expected.

THE GANNET 1155 Argyle Street, West End, G3 8TB, 0141 204 2081, thegannetgla.com Of all the new openings within the last couple of years in the altogether transformed Finnieston area, the Gannet is arguably the most roundly welcome – an affordable fine-dining restaurant with an unpretentiously very stylish air. Local produce is manipulated by enthusiastic chefowners into a tantalising range of sophisticated dishes and twists on classic British flavours.

UBIQUITOUS CHIP 12 Ashton Lane, West End, G12 8SJ, 0141 334 5007, ubiquitouschip.co.uk The Chip is still one of Glasgow’s quintessential fine dining experiences after over 40 years.

The setting is unique, relaxed and stylish, in a greenery-draped covered cobbled courtyard with delightful little design quirks. The service exudes confident authority and down-to-earth charm. The wine list is long, and the sophisticated, imaginative food is near flawless.

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Banish all thoughts of big event catering where prices are high, food quality is low and waste is mountainous.

Glasgow 2014 is dedicated to showcasing the breadth and depth of quality produce from Scotland’s larder with a focus on sustainable and ethical practice with the aim of a lasting legacy for the nation’s well-being.

As part of Glasgow 2014’s obligations for a Games with responsible environmental and sustainability standards, a strict Commonwealth Food Charter has been drawn up to ensure that the food on offer during the Games is sourced in Scotland from sustainable and traceable sources wherever possible. Other commitments include the use of Fairtrade products when available. Genetically modified is out, and a ‘low to zero waste to landfill’ focus means compostable containers and a dedicated food waste treatment facility.

The Charter and related sourcing code cover every minute aspect, from insisting that all meat comes from animals born, reared and slaughtered in Scotland and that the ingredients in breads can be traced back to source, to the aesthetic appeal of the mobile units dishing out the delights.

Of course, the proof is in the pudding, or, more likely at the Games, in the gourmet hand-shaped Aberdeen Angus burger in homemade brioche bun. The Kitchen, at Glasgow Green Live Zone, will be focusing on fresh, seasonal and affordable healthy eating and, given Scotland and Glasgow’s burgeoning food scene with all manner of artisans creating top-quality, ethically minded produce, there will be plenty of good eating and drinking to be had.

Expect caterers who have made it through the gruelling grilling to be offering some of the most righteous and tastiest food any major event has ever witnessed. Confirmed vendors include nearby cooperative Food from Argyll, featuring the world-famous Loch Fyne seafood (pictured), Churchill’s venison and expert brews from Home Ground Coffee, plus Genius Gluten Free will be officially providing gluten-free bakes.

(Jay Thundercliffe) See glasgow2014.com

‘I live in the west end of Glasgow but I’m actually a Govanite. Sometimes when I venture south of the river to my old hood to visit family or friends I take in a visit of Govan Old Church.

I’m not religious but the church interestingly is the oldest place of worship in Glasgow and boasts a unique collection of medieval stones from the 11th century.’

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CAITLIN MORAN

3.3 BILLION

FEMINISTS That’s what journalist and author Caitlin Moran would like to see, and she’s continuing her crusade in Edinburgh as part of a comedy tour promoting her debut novel. Claire Sawers talked to her about hangovers, Marxism and Tina Fey

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ptions for teenage girls can be limited when it comes to role models,’ Caitlin Moran is explaining, while battling a hangover that she says is threatening to bring on a ‘tiny ladylike vomit’ any minute. A female journalist came to Moran’s house the night before to interview her for Dutch Elle and they ended up draining a few bottles of wine. ‘I need a crisp sandwich – that usually helps,’ she adds, bulldozing on with her chatter – which, like her prolific writing and tweeting, has the ebullience of an agitated can of lager. And perhaps the same potential for fun, or carnage.

Moran is smart, insta-matey (‘Let’s suffer through our hangovers together, darling!’) and never far from an anecdote about crotches/trade unions/feminism/her heroes.

‘Options for teen girls seem to be: “Be sexy”, or “Be a bit stupid”, or “Be a lesbian”,’ she eyerolls. ‘I need way more options than that.

Come on!’

Moran’s clearly given it a lot of thought – not only is she mother of 11 and 13-year-old girls, but she’s also just published her first novel, How to Build a Girl, written from the point of view of a 14-year-old ‘fat girl in a council house’. Moran’s author’s note states: ‘Like Johanna I came from a large family, in a council house in Wolverhampton and started my career as a music journalist as a teenager. But Johanna is not me. [...] It is all fictitious.’

Moran’s synopsis of the book goes a bit like this: ‘You know that awkward and uncomfortable feeling when you’re a teenage girl? You think it’s all about your thighs? It’s not about your thighs. You need to change the world.’ (The last bit would probably get caps lock if she was tweeting.)

Moran’s on a literary tour just now. The first half of her show covers the book. ‘Perfect hobbies for Johanna, besides masturbation and listening to rock’n’roll, are fermenting a revolution,’ she soundbites.

Part two is Moran’s ‘raucous, dirty comedy’ and childhood memories

– for example, the time teenaged Moran wrote a regular column for The Observer. When they failed to publish her column for four weeks, she faxed The Times, who took it, and have published her ever since. ‘I love The Observer but you expect to read about Marxism and feminism there. It feels more naughty writing about them in The Times.’

Moran is bringing her feminist politics to Edinburgh, with accompanying merch, displaying the Rules of Feminism. ‘Rule No 1: Women = Men. No 2: Don’t Be a Dick. That’s It.’ (Proceeds go to a women’s refuge, of course – she’s not a dick.)

Speaking of heroes, she still can’t get over that Girls creator Lena Dunham is a huge Moran fan. Dunham halted filming in Brooklyn when they met to announce to the crew, ‘This is a very important feminist from the UK!’ Tina Fey is another comedy and feminist role model for Moran.

‘Who’d have believed ten years ago she’d be debating massive feminist issues on Saturday Night Live, making it incredibly funny, while getting huge ratings? Good on you fucking Fey. I love you, man!’

Now it’s Moran’s turn to rally the troops. It’s been fairly effective so far, apparently. ‘People have got married, and started up feminist societies after meeting at my book signings,’ she beams.

‘There are 3.3 billion women in the world,’ she continues. ‘So potentially 3.3 billion different forms of feminism. Some want to campaign against genital mutilation, others to talk about relationships and pants. I see it as a big patchwork quilt – we all need to take a little square and contribute a small bit in making things better for women. Feminism isn’t something you read about. You take part in it.

Come along and be a feminist with me! Admittedly in a very drunken environment . . .’

Caitlin Moran appears at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 11 Jul. How to Build a Girl is out now, published by Ebury Press.

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JD Twitch and JG Wilkes will play a set inspired by the exhibition. Also performing from Optimo Music (the record label branch of the celebrated clubnight) is high energy afro! disco collective Golden Teacher. After the success of their first EP Bells from the Deep End, featuring the spectacular Dinosaur L! echoing track ! Dante and Pilgrim! , they put out Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and recently released a third EP, Party People/ Love.

See an extensive range of artworks by artists such as Charles Avery, Kate Davis, Jonathan Monk, Victoria Morton, Jonathan Owen as well as installations by Ross Sinclair (Real Life Rocky Mountain), Graham Fagen (Peek! A! Jobby), and Simon Starling (Burn! Time). There are also a number of newly commissioned installations which have been created especially for the exhibition by Claire Barclay, Toby Paterson, Ciara Philips and Alex Dordoy, showing alongside Douglas Gordon! s celebrated 24 Hour Psycho.

FRI 12 SEP 2014 | 7.30pm! 10pm The event is free but ticketed, visit nationalgalleries.org for more details

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THE INBETWEENERS

NUDE AWAKENINGS

The first Inbetweeners movie became the most successful British comedy ever.

Matthew Turner talks to its four stars about the upcoming sequel which sees the foursome head to Australia for more painfully awkward high jinks

L-R James Buckley, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison

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’m ushered in to meet the Inbetweeners boys (it’s impossible not to think of them as boys, despite the fact that they are all in their late 20s / early 30s) just a few minutes after Andy Murray crashes out of Wimbledon, so I break the news to them and they react with uniform disappointment. Our tennis dreams crushed, we get down to the business at hand – Joe Thomas (who plays Simon), Simon Bird (Will), Blake Harrison (Neil) and James Buckley (Jay) are all here to discuss The Inbetweeners 2, the inevitable sequel to 2011’s surprisingly massive hit. So what was their reaction to the success of the first film?

‘We didn’t know [it was going to be a huge hit]’, says Thomas. ‘It’s not that we didn’t care how it went, but we were just so happy to be making it and it felt like a vindication of the success of the series to be doing it at all.’

Given the enormity of the first film’s box office, there was obviously a certain amount of pressure to deliver on the sequel. Buckley pipes up: ‘I mean, we put pressure on ourselves – we’re our own worst enemies.

We’re obsessed with it being as funny as possible and that attitude has done us well so far – we’re confident in that we genuinely feel we’ve made a better film than the last one’.

So what can audiences expect from the second film? The short version is: The Inbetweeners Go To Australia. None of us have seen the finished film and the boys are understandably wary about revealing any plot details. However, fans of excruciatingly awkward nudity (something of

an Inbetweeners trademark at this point) can rest assured – according to Bird, ‘There’s a high penis count,’ the mention of which gives rise to a discussion about ‘stunt penises’, the prosthetics involved and the slightly disturbing revelation, from Bird, that ‘Iain and Damon (cowriters / directors Iain Morris and Damon Beesley) had very set ideas of what size and shape each one of our penises should be. It’s really quite weird.’

Given the age differences between the actors and their characters, I ask them how they stay so youthful. Thomas laughs, ‘I think we bring out the worst in each other in terms of immaturity – we have a kind of infantile regression when we get back together, we become the boys again.’ But do they worry about looking too old? Bird says no: ‘We’ll worry about it when other people start worrying about it.’

As for the prospects of a third film, Harrison says, ‘At the moment, as far as we’re concerned, this is it,’ with Thomas adding that ‘This is the farewell film, I think,’ though they concede that none of them expected to be making a second film, so anything is possible. In the meantime, each of them seems happy to be moving on with different projects and there’s a sudden burst of their onscreen relationship as Buckley teases, ‘It’s impossible to keep up with Blake’s many sitcoms,’ and they all laugh.

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LIFE AFTER DEATH

As Season 4 of the US version of The Killing premieres on Netflix, Henry Northmore looks at the growing trend of cancelled TV series returning via on-demand streaming services

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he US remake of The Killing might not have had the same cultural impact as the Danish original (which sparked the UK obsession with Nordic Noir) but it was still an absorbing and atmospheric crime thriller. Transposing the action from Denmark to Seattle with Mireille Enos stepping into Sofie Gråbøl’s shoes as the lead detective (now called Sarah Linden), the first two seasons roughly followed events of the first series of Forbrydelsen but in Season 3 it took its own path, heading into fresh territory with new plots and storylines.

The show suffered low ratings and was cancelled after Season 2 on AMC, but Netflix negotiated a deal where they split production costs in exchange for video-on-demand rights.

Broadcast ratings continued to slide, however,

and now the online distribution service is funding the fourth and final series as a Netflix exclusive.

‘I’m just so excited about being on Netflix,’ showrunner Veena Sud said in an interview with TV Guide. ‘It’s created this new national pastime for many of us, where you get to spend a weekend, an evening or many evenings on a journey with characters in a way that’s very intense and very participatory. You’re not waiting for a week to find out what happens next. You can just click on “next” and you’re immersed again in the world. For The Killing that’s an ideal place for us to be.’

It also offers creatives a larger canvas with less restrictions (eg on swearing, gore and sexual content) and one without the intrusion of ad breaks. ‘We haven’t altered anything,

but what we’ve been able to add is more time,’ Sud continued. ‘Each episode of Season 4 is longer without commercial breaks, which, as a storyteller, is such a huge gift.’

It’s part of a trend where cancelled series are finding new life beyond network TV. Online broadcasters now have the power and money to produce their own content that can compete with the networks in terms of story and production values. On-demand has become the new battleground for viewers, so streaming services need their own exclusive content to lure in customers. Netflix has been particularly proactive with original series, such as the critically acclaimed House of Cards, while cult comedy Arrested Development was revived for a fourth season on Netflix seven years after it went off air. Yahoo! recently

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STAYING IN REVIEWS

The landscape is shifting and television production is evolving with it

TV and DVDs to enjoy from the comfort of your sofa TV

UTOPIA

Channel 4, Mon 14 & Tue 15 Jul

David Fincher is currently working on an American adaptation of Utopia for HBO, and you can see exactly why Dennis Kelly’s thriller would appeal to the director of Se7en and Fight Club, with its mix of conspiracies within conspiracies, bleak comedy and graphic violence (including a particularly memorable scene involving a teaspoon and an eyeball).

There’s no respite in Season Two, with someone’s brains blown out within the first five minutes.

The second series deliberately wrong-foots viewers by opening in Rome in 1979, then jumping back to London in 1974, a backdrop of strikes, blackouts and the three-day week (with close attention paid to period detail, from fashion to film stock). It’s the perfect breeding ground for the inception of the Janus Project, a drug which sterilises the majority of humanity to preserve the planet and combat the exponential population explosion. Series 2 delves into the background of Milner (here played by Rose Leslie of Game of Thrones), Jessica and her father (played by Tom Burke), who wrote the original graphic novel which everyone was chasing in the first season.

Episode two takes us back to the present day. Ian (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) is finding it difficult to readjust to normal life; The Network have Jessica (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) in custody while monosyllabic hitman Pietro (Neil Maskell) is called back into action. The bold use of intense, queasy colours makes Utopia an almost surreal experience. Dark, fierce, compelling and addictive, it’ll be intriguing to see how Fincher handles this very British mystery. (Henry Northmore)

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ADULT WORLD

announced they would be producing a sixth series of US sitcom Community after it was dropped by NBC. Amazon started producing their own programming in 2013, stepping in to save Ripper Street from the axe on BBC. ‘This is an exceptional opportunity to bring back Ripper Street for a third series by working with the right partners,’ explained Ben Stephenson, the BBC’s controller of drama commissioning. ‘This deal gives fans another series of the show they love at excellent value to the licence fee payer.’ This new working model for the BBC will see episodes premiere on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service then screen on the BBC a few months later.

The landscape is shifting and television production is evolving with it. Viewers are watching on tablets, phones and computers rather than gathering in the living room.

Importantly, the networks no longer hold all the cards, which could be good news when your favourite TV show goes off air. If the fans demand it, there’s now a very real chance it could return from the cancellation graveyard.

The Killing Season 4 is available to stream via Netflix on Fri 1 Aug.

Ignore the tacky cover art which suggests John Cusack is Emma Roberts’ favourite customer at a pole dancing club – the film contained within is a far more appealing comedy drama set on the fringes of the porn industry. In a bid for independence, aspiring writer Amy (Roberts) takes a job behind the counter at a sex shop. She moves in with sassy straighttalking transvestite Rubia (Armando Riesco) and obsesses over brooding local poet Rat Billings (Cusack) in a desperate bid to get published.

It’s probably Roberts’ strongest performance yet, effortlessly engaging and charismatic. The requisite love interest, while a little rushed, is believable (less surprising when you consider Roberts’ American Horror Story co-star Evan Peters is her real-life boyfriend). Cusack, who seems to be drifting into the ‘where are they now’ file, brings suitable bile and melancholy to the vitriolic poet whose star has faded. It’s a bit self-consciously ‘indie’ but Adult World is a surprisingly charming story of friendship and connections amongst a group of loners, dropouts and outsiders. (Henry Northmore)

HAUNTER

There have been so many variations on the ghost story of late. Usually the one where the main character is already dead, à la The Sixth Sense, but we learn early doors in Haunter that Lisa (Abigail Breslin aka Little Miss Sunshine herself) and her family are caught in limbo, trapped in a monotonous loop living the same day over and over again. Cooped up in their home and shrouded in fog, only Lisa seems to be aware of this spooky Groundhog Day as voices try to contact her through the gloom.

Vincento Natali directed Cube and Splice with a real visual flair, but this is grey and dreary.

Haunter brings nothing new to the table, peppering the runtime with a pick and mix of tired tropes (faces in mirrors, mysterious noises, etc). The structure means it is necessarily repetitive, even when Lisa purposefully starts trying to disrupt the routine and uncover a deeper mystery that echoes through the decades. Stephen McHattie makes a great villain but otherwise Haunter is just another exceedingly average entry in an already overcrowded genre. (Henry Northmore) 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014 THE LIST 49

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SIDE DISHES

News to nibble on

Having made its foray into Scotland in Dumfries last year, Marco Pierre White’s restaurant will be seen shortly in Glasgow when a Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill opens in late August in Hotel Indigo on Waterloo Street. Other openings this month include an Edinburgh branch of Burger Meats Bun, a caffè at the top of the Royal Mile from Victor & Carina Contini, and Enzo, an Italian-style bar restaurant in Edinburgh’s Quartermile.

NEWS & REVIEWS

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HIP HOPS

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GLASGOW Rare & Old Whisky Tasting Fri 11 Jul, 7pm. £50. The Good Spirits Co., 23 Bath Street, 258 8427.

Including a Laphroaig from the 1970s.

Commonwealth ‘Uncorked’ Wine Tasting with Johnny Walker Sun 20 Jul, 2pm. £10.

House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Global tasting adventure.

Heverlee Belgian Beer Bikes FREE Thu 24 & Fri 25 Jul, 12–6.30pm. Various venues, heverlee.com Fancy a refreshing beer?

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Glasgow Gin Club Fri 8 Aug, 8pm. £12.50.

The Hidden Lane Tearoom, 8 Argyle Court, 1103 Argyle Street, 237 4391. Try four different gins – The Botanist, Strathearn Heather Rose, Caorunn and London No. 3 – and learn a little about each one.

Scotland – Land of Food and Drink FREE Fri 15 Aug, 1pm.

The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365.

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EDINBURGH Taster Day at The Tram Stop Market FREE Sat 12 Jul & 9 Aug, 11am–5pm. Corner of York Place and Broughton Street, 667 4058. Discover new tastes from local food and drink businesses.

New to Edinburgh this summer is Boxsmall, a market made up of cleverly designed, customisable boxes, which will be set up in Festival Square through the summer. More than just another food and craft market, it includes an Airpuddle, or arty bouncy castle for kids, plus some picnic lawns for impromptu al fresco feasts. Daily at Festival Square, Lothian Road, 10am–8pm.

Heverlee Belgian Beer Bikes FREE Thu 17 & Fri 18 Jul, 12–6.30pm. Various venues, heverlee.com See Glasgow, Food & Drink.

Randolph Crescent, 220 7230. Taste four brews directly from I&G headquarters and learn more about the brewing process. Ages 18+.

Innis & Gunn Beer Tasting Sat 26 Jul, 2–3.30pm. £15. Innis & Gunn Brewing Company, 6

Airpuddle and Boxsmall FREE Mon 28 Jul–Thu 21 Aug, 10am–8pm. Festival Square, Lothian Road.

Foodies Festival Fri 8 Aug, 11am–7pm.

Sat 9 Aug, 10am–7pm. £10–£12 (£10; vip £35–£38; festival pass £15–£18). Inverleith Park, Arboretum Place, 0844 995 1111. Michelin-starred and award-winning chefs cook up a storm at this year’s festival dedicated to epicureans, as well as offerings from local producers and workshops for food lovers young and old.

Crayfish Party Mon 18 & Tue 19 Aug, 7pm. £25. Joseph Pearce’s, 23 Elm Row, 556 4140. A taste of the Nordic tradition of slurping up a healthy serving of delicious sea critters while singing schnapps songs.

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OUTSIDE THE CITIES Dinner at Jupiter Artland Sat 12 Jul & 9 Aug, 7pm. £45 for five courses. Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. A seasonal woodland dining experience from Leo’s in collaboration with chef David Millar.

Iron Age Gourmet Day Sat 19 Jul, 11am–4.30pm.

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Scottish Crannog Centre, Kenmore, Loch Tay, 01887 830583. Cook and taste natural, nutritious food prepared as our ancient ancestors would have done.

Arbroath Sea Fest Sat 9 & Sun 10 Aug, times vary.

Prices vary. Various venues, Arbroath, arbroathseafest.co.uk Festival of maritime heritage, including the Smokie Trail with stalls of fresh seafood along the harbour.

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LOCANDA DE GUSTI 102 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, 0131 558 9581, locandadegusti.com Average price two-course meal: £16

The best of the new restaurant, café and bar openings in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Prices shown are for an average two-course meal for one.

Glasgow ALSTON BAR AND BEEF STEAKHOUSE AND GIN BAR Central Station, 79 Gordon Street, City Centre, 0141 221 7627, alstonglasgow.co.uk, £12 (set lunch) / £28 (dinner) Bucking the usual avoidat-all-costs nature of train station eating, this beef and gin specialist is one of the hot dining tickets in town. The doorway at the station’s main entrance is possibly the most transformative in town, propelling diners from the bustle of commuters into a dazzlingly lit stairwell leading down to a greatlooking venue occupying double arches. Named after the nearby street that was cleared away for the station in the 1870s, Alston is a slick operation, with expertly mixed cocktails from a mouthwatering gin selection (14 from Scotland alone) and excellent Borders-reared beef in various cuts, grass fed and dry-aged for 35 days, producing exceptional flavour in a perfectly cooked sirloin.

THE HYNDLAND FOX CAFE & BISTRO 43 Clarence Drive, West End, G12 9QN, 0141 341 6633, thehyndlandfox.co.uk, £15 (lunch/dinner) A union between Peckham’s and restaurant group G1 may seem like one made far from heaven, but the granddaddy of Glasgow delis and the style-obsessed operator have enlivened a well-heeled corner of Hyndland. This enjoyable café-bistro on the site of

Peckham’s old shop is spread across bright ground floor and mezzanine with aproned staff whisking about.

Much of the early popularity is down to the top quality and locally sourced ingredients that go into decently priced breakfasts, lunches and bistro offerings of coq au vin, steak frites, chargrilled burger and the like. Williams Bros on draught, Bloody Marys and small-batch, single-origin coffee roastings are notable beverages.

NY AMERICAN GRILL NORTH AMERICAN Princes Square, City Centre, 0141 221 7667, nyamericangrill.co.uk, £11.95 (set lunch) / £20 (dinner) Another operation from the owners of neighbouring café Cranachan and tapas bar Barca, this top-floor diner does US food and drink in a comfortably stylish setting where the Americana is concentrated in the menu more than on the walls. From the impressive US cocktail offerings, great selection of bourbons and craft beers, and classic transatlantic food from deli sandwiches to burgers and dogs, it’s an intriguing newcomer offering decent dining, though food may occasionally feel by the numbers – and it’s hard to discern the benefits of its much-lauded Josper grill, especially on the less-than-juicy burgers.

Edinburgh C-SHACK SEAFOOD BISTRO 3 Pier Place, Newhaven, 0131 467 862, cshack.co.uk, £20 (dinner) Twelve months ago, snug wee Thai diner Port of Siam expanded into town by opening a branch off Broughton Street. Now the original has reinvented itself under the same ownership as a jaunty seafood shack with creels in the window display and gleaming white and blue paintwork. It summarises its offer as ‘Seafood, Burgers, Bieres’ and it’s the first that’s most convincing, with a

strong line-up of simple, fresh dishes including ceviche, seafood tempura and crab and lobster options sourced from the remaining commercial creeler working out of the charming stone harbour right across the road.

MILLER & CARTER STEAKHOUSE Cramond Brig, Cramond, 0131 339 4350, millerandcarter.co.uk, £10.50 (lunch) / £23 (dinner) The latest incarnation of the Cramond Brig pub on the northwest fringes of Edinburgh is as the most northerly outpost of the Miller & Carter empire, the steakhouse chain treating the 18th-century coach house to a sixfigure facelift in early 2014. The hustle and bustle of the restaurant at the front, with a two-level bar at its heart, is in contrast with the more secluded rear. A rack of ribs, smothered in a glossy BBQ sauce, is a sizeable challenge for even the most ardent of appetites, and there are plenty more crowd-pleasers elsewhere on the menu to placate all generations.

HEADS & TALES GIN BAR AND DISTILLERY 1a Rutland Place, West End, 0131 229 3402, headsandtalesbar.com Having launched Edinburgh Gin in 2010, Alex and Jane Nicol of Spencerfield Spirit have brought it home in the creation of a bespoke micro distillery in a gin bar and gin visitors centre in the heart of Scotland’s capital. It’s located in the suitably subterranean Heads & Tales bar beneath the Rutland Hotel, where you can see the gin in production, use mini-stills to create your own spirits, or simply enjoy the final product (and many other gins and spirits too) at the bar run by Bruce Hamilton, which also serves cheese, charcuterie and fish boards.

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International Tartan Festival Check out all the famous textiles Scotland has to offer – tartan, tweed, wool – at this international tartan fashion fest. Along with the catwalk show, there’s a chance to check out exhibitions, trade stalls and workshops. Thistle Hotel, Glasgow, Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jul. Glasgow Wee Doors Open Day Part of Festival 2014, this is the perfect excuse to peek behind doors normally firmly shut to the public. There are 18 buildings opening up, many of which explore the city’s links to the Commonwealth. Various venues, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul.

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n established fixture of Glasgow’s summer, the Merchant City Festival will expand dramatically this year thanks to its official association with the Commonwealth Games. It will be one of four Live Zones across the city and, for one year only, it will be boosted to 11 days from four. Its usual combination of arts, food and fashion will be pitched to capture the attention of as many of the city’s new visitors as possible.

‘In a way, we’re just building on what the festival has always done,’ says the event’s producer Lorenzo Mele, ‘which is to make the centre of Glasgow feel as international as possible.’

He points to the Brunswick Hotel’s music stage and to a range of continental-themed food markets, as well as a greater focus than ever on dance this year. Merchant Square will again be hosting Get Scotland Dancing and

there will be much more street dance than usual.

‘Partly these [dance events] will reflect on the physicality of the Games themselves,’ says Mele, ‘so they’re more physical dance performances, almost acro-dance. We also have a local company running a dance treasure hunt.’

Also under the wing of Merchant City Festival this year will be the Surge street theatre festival (see preview, page 108), which brings physical theatre, comedy and interactive shows together, and Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway’s weekend-long retro feast, the Vintage Festival (see page 35), featuring a ‘soul casino’ and a Bratislavan swing band. (David Pollock) Various venues, Glasgow, Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug

The Commonwealth Games One of the largest sporting events ever to be held in Scotland, plus a packed cultural programme alongside. See feature, page 13. Various venues, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul–Sun 3 Aug. Merchant City Festival See preview, left. Various venues, Glasgow, Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug. Scotland’s National Airshow Loops, rolls and precision flying from the Red Arrows as the headline act at Scotland’s National Airshow. Also keep your eyes open for the Breightling Wingwalkers defying gravity and common sense on vintage biplanes, as well as the RAF’s incredible supersonic Typhoon. See preview, page 57. National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, near Edinburgh, Sat 26 Jul. Vintage Glasgow Everything your little retro heart desires, as Vintage Glasgow presents an array of music, fashion, film, design and dance events to take you back to the good old days.

See preview, page 35. Various venues, Glasgow, Sat 26 & Sun 27 Jul.

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GLASGOW BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550, glasgowlife.org.uk/museums Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm.

Free. In the heart of Pollok Country Park is this collection of art, including work

by Degas, Rodin and Cézanne, as well as ancient and medieval artifacts. It is named after shipping tycoon Sir William Burrell, who amassed much of its collection of over 8000 objects in his own lifetime.

GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 339 6964, glasgowbotanicgardens.com Gardens open daily 7am–dusk; glasshouses open daily 10am–6pm; tea room 10am– 4.15pm. Free. A great place to relax in summer or take a brisk walk in winter, with a programme of events including stargazing, gardening talks and even theatre. Also look out for exotics and exhibitions in Kibble Palace Glasshouse and the vegetable, herb and flower gardens.

GLASGOW NECROPOLIS 50 Cathedral Square, 552 3145, glasgownecropolis.org Daily 7am–dusk.

Free. Standing on a hill behind Glasgow Cathedral, the necropolis is the city’s own Père Lachaise with an obelisk to John Knox, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s first solo work and breathtaking views to boot. Tours are offered by the Friends of Glasgow Necropolis, advance booking essential.

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART 164 Renfrew Street, 566 1472, gsa. ac.uk/visit-gsa/gsa-shop Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s astounding architectural masterpiece (and still a working art school). Due to the fire, the building is closed and tours cancelled until further notice; check website for updates.

GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000, glasgowsciencecentre.org Daily 10am– 5pm. £10.50 (£8.50; under 3s free); Planetarium, Glasgow Tower or IMAX Science films £2.50 extra. The home of Scotland’s first IMAX cinema, as well as fun exhibits, science shows, workshops and talks.

BodyWorks Until 2018. Exhibition all about the human body, with the chance to run in a giant hamster wheel and become a ‘snot ninja’ (lovely). Compare your physiological stats with other visitors and find out about all the latest scientific research into your very own body.

HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY 82 Hillhead Street, 330 4221 (museum) / 330 5434 (gallery), gla.ac.uk/hunterian Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm; closed Mon. Free; Mackintosh House £5 (£3; under 18s free). Scotland’s oldest public museum, founded in 1807, houses collections relating to science, medicine, archaeology, geology and more, as well as art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (including the Mackintosh House – the reassembled interior of his home) and James McNeill Whistler.

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599, glasgowlife. org.uk/museums Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. Free.

Twenty-two collections and over 8000 artifacts, from natural history, armour and weaponry to art from many different eras and touring exhibitions, all housed in a grand red sandstone building on the

banks of the River Kelvin. See Visual Art section for more exhibition details.

How Glasgow Flourished, 1714–1837 Until Sun 17 Aug. Major

exhibition looking at the rise of Glasgow up to the beginning of Victoria’s reign, growing from a provincial town to one of the great industrial and commercial hubs of the British Empire.

NATIONAL PIPING CENTRE 30–34 McPhater Street, 353 0220, thepipingcentre.co.uk Mon–Fri 9am–5pm; Sat 9am–1pm; closed Sun. £4.50 (£3.50; under 16s £2.50; family £11). Home to the Museum of Piping as well as a reference library, shop and restaurant.

PEOPLE’S PALACE & WINTER GARDENS Glasgow Green, 276 0788, glasgowlife. org.uk/museums Palace open Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon; Winter Gardens open daily 10am–5pm. Free. Located on Glasgow Green, the Palace gives an insight into how the people of Glasgow lived from the 1750s to the late 20th century, while next door the Winter Gardens house exotic plants and a café.

The Road from Delhi Until Jun 2015.

Display celebrating the collaboration between Delhi and Glasgow at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Flag Handover event.

POLLOK HOUSE 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 0844 493 2202, nts.org.uk/property/pollok-house Daily 10am–5pm (last entry 4.30pm). £6.50 (£5; family £11.50–£16.50). Set within Pollok Country Park, this 18th century house holds one of the best collections of Spanish art in the UK, as well as traditional Edwardian furniture and decoration.

PROVAND’S LORDSHIP 3 Castle Street, 276 1625, glasgowlife. org.uk/museums Tue–Thu & Sat 10am– 5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon. Free. The oldest house in Glasgow, and one of only four surviving medieval buildings. Restored to its 17th century finest, there is also a medicinal garden with the intriguing Tontine Faces stone masks.

10am–5pm; Sun 11am–5pm. Stadium tour £8 (£3.50); museum entry £7 (£3); combined ticket £11 (£5); under 5s free. Located inside Scotland’s national football stadium a couple of miles south of the city centre, this museum displays all kinds of memorabilia and offers tours of the stadium itself.

ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF RELIGIOUS ART & LIFE 2 Castle Street, 276 1625, glasgowlife. org.uk/museums Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon. Free. Situated across the road from the Provand’s Lordship, this museum holds artwork and historical artifacts exploring the role of religion in people’s lives, promoting understanding and respect between faiths.

In Honour’s Cause: Glasgow’s World War I Memorials Until

Apr 2015. Photographic exhibition documenting the city’s WWI memorials.

THE TALL SHIP AT RIVERSIDE 150 Pointhouse Place, 357 3699, thetallship.com Daily 10am–5pm (last entry 4.30pm). Free. Step aboard the Glenlee, one of only five Clyde-built ships still afloat today. Learn about the maritime history of the area through talks, tours and costume days.

EDINBURGH CAMERA OBSCURA & WORLD OF ILLUSIONS Castlehill, 226 3709, camera-obscura. co.uk Daily 9.30am–9pm. £12.95 (£10.95; under 16s £9.50; under 5s free). The ‘camera’ is a giant periscope inside a Victorian rooftop tower on the Royal Mile, giving a spectacular 360° perspective on Edinburgh, plus there’s interactive optical fun galore. The building also contains three galleries and lights up at night.

DEEP SEA WORLD Battery Quarry, North Queensferry, 01383 411880, deepseaworld.com Daily 10am–6pm (last entry 5pm). £13.50 (£11.50; under 13s £9.50; under 3s free; family £40–£44). Home to everything from seals to piranhas, this marine life centre has a petting area and underwater tunnel so you can get to grips with the deep. Approximately a 20-minute drive from Edinburgh.

GREAT DAYS OUT IDEAS

RIVERSIDE MUSEUM 100 Pointhouse Place, 287 2720, glasgowlife.org. uk/museums Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. Free.

A rebooted version of the Transport Museum housed in a cutting edge piece of architecture by Zaha Hadid. The recently acquired South African locomotive is the largest exhibit in the Glasgow Museums’ collection.

Adventurers Until Mar 2015. See and learn about the machines that have been the choice mode of transport for rebellious types.

Doon the Watter Until Jun 2015.

Discover how families have enjoyed the river for the past 50 years.

SCOTLAND STREET SCHOOL MUSEUM 225 Scotland Street, 287 0500, glasgowlife.org.uk/museums Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon. Free. Another wonderful building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the museum details the history of the country’s education system from the time of Queen Victoria right through to the swinging 60s.

The Games We Play Until Sun 7 Sep. An exhibition looking at the culture of game playing across centuries and countries.

THE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL MUSEUM Hampden Park, 616 6139, scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk Mon–Sat

EDINBURGH CASTLE AND NATIONAL WAR MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Castlehill, 225 9846 (info) / 668 8081 (bookings), edinburghcastle.gov.uk / nms.ac.uk/war Daily 9.30am–6pm (last entry 5pm). £16 (£12.80; children £9.60; under 5s free). Perhaps Edinburgh’s most visible landmark, the Castle perches on top of a rocky outcrop at the head of the Royal Mile, and includes ceremonial rooms, fortifications, dungeons and Scotland’s Honours or crown jewels. Inside, the National War Museum delves into the past 400 years of the country’s military history.

Next of Kin Until Mar 2015. A look at Scotland at war, and how people at home deal with the absence or loss of loved ones.

THE EDINBURGH DUNGEON 31 Market Street, 240 1001 (info) / 0871 423 2250 (bookings), thedungeons. com Daily 10am–5pm until Fri 18 Jul; from Sat 19 Jul 10am–7pm. £10.95–£16.50 (£10.50–15.60; under 16s £9.50–£12.60; family £39–£49.80).

A grizzly look into historical Edinburgh, with actor-led tours and rides, just above Waverley Station. With special opening hours around Hallowe’en.

5 REASONS TO GO TO . . .

KNITWORKS! 1. Knitting is the new black They say so themselves. Crafting is cool and there’s no sign of this abating, so throw away any notions you hold about it being for your gran and succumb to its twee charms. At the very least, learning this new skill will take you away from Facebook and get that grey matter churning again.

2. You’ll be learning from the best Who else knows more about woolly jumpers than the Scandinavians and Scots?

Organised by the Danish Cultural Institute as part of Edinburgh International Fashion Festival, there are exhibitions, a symposium and workshops in crochet and knitting, plus a twoday-long knitathon to create a communal masterpiece.

3. Unleash your inner hippy Take a leaf out of Reykjavik-based fashion label STEiNUNN’s book – a chilled-out workshop (Sun 20 Jul, 11am–1pm) encourages you to let the drumbeat take over and teaches the art of knitting without needles.

4. Could be a moneymaker The Nordic Knitathon (Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jul, 11am–4pm ) allows for anyone, experienced or beginner, to take up their needles and get knitting. Your 15x15cm square contributes to a massive blanket, and with friendly tutors on hand to make sure your skills are as sharp as possible, you’ll be a master in no time which can only mean one thing: Etsy, here you come.

5. It’s just plain cute As demonstrated by Norway’s Arne & Carlos whose workshop (Sun 20 Jul, 1.30–3.30pm) is nothing less than a bundle of fun.

Focused on storytelling through knitted dolls, they are guiding participants through their own pattern to create a little crocheted flower. (Kirstyn Smith) National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jul.

EDINBURGH ZOO Corstorphine Road, 334 9171, edinburghzoo.org.uk Daily 9am–6pm (last entry 5pm). £16.50 (£14; under 16s £12; under 3s free; family £36.45– £62.10). Visitors can see the headlinegrabbing giant pandas, the famous Penguin Parade and over 1000 other rare and interesting animals and birds at this site three miles west of the city centre.

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AROUND TOWN | Museums & Attractions HOLYROOD PARK Holyrood Park Road, 652 8150, historicscotland.gov.uk Open at all times; Holyrood Lodge Information Centre daily 9.30am–3pm. Free. The main entrance to this large royal park, east of the city centre, is flanked by the Palace of Holyrood House and the Scottish Parliament Building. Its main feature is Arthur’s Seat, an 823-foot hill which has a number of smaller peaks and ponds surrounding it.

70 acres and are just one mile from the city centre. There are glasshouses and cafés within the grounds, as well as highprofile art exhibitions at Inverleith House.

ROYAL OBSERVATORY VISITOR CENTRE Blackford Hill, 668 8404, roe.ac.uk/ vc Entry by arrangement or at Public Astronomy evenings (weekly, Fri 7.30–9pm). Public Astronomy evenings £4 (£3). See the stars through the research centre’s magnificent copper domes at weekly astronomy evenings.

MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD 42 High Street, 529 4142, edinburghmuseums.org.uk Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. Free. Kids can learn about the toys, clothes and lifestyles of children of the past in this Royal Mile museum. Nostalgia for grown-ups guaranteed.

MUSEUM ON THE MOUND The Mound, 243 5464, museumonthemound.com Tue–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun 1–5pm; closed Mon. Free. Hosted inside the Bank of Scotland’s head office, this museum is all about money. Learn how money has evolved over the past 4000 years or try cracking a safe.

NATIONAL MINING MUSEUM SCOTLAND Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, 663 7519, scottishminingmuseum.com Daily 10am–5pm. £8.50 (£6.50; children free). Nine miles south of Edinburgh, this museum is one of the best-preserved Victorian collieries in Europe. Learn about the life of a miner by taking a tour around the site.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789, nms. ac.uk Daily 10am–5pm. Free. Renovated in 2011, this national beacon of culture has exhibitions on natural history, science and technology, Scottish history, art and design and world cultures in galleries surrounding a beautiful naturally lit atrium space.

Ming: The Golden Empire Until Sun 31 Aug. £10 (£6.50–£8; under 12s and members free). An overview of the legacy of the Ming Dynasty, which ruled China from 1368 to 1644 and which presided over an era of unprecedented national stability. See original artefacts from the Nanjing Museum in the only UK showing of this major exhibition.

FREE Scotland Creates: A Sense of Place Until Sun 31 Aug. Young people from across Scotland showcase what is important where they come from, spanning art, music, dance and films.

FREE Common Cause:

Commonwealth Scots and the Great War Until Sun 12 Oct. To

commemorate the outbreak of war in 1914, this exhibition looks at the relationship between Scottish identity and the emerging national identities of the former British Empire.

ROYAL YACHT BRITANNIA Ocean Terminal, Leith, 555 5566, royalyachtbritannia.co.uk Daily 9.30am–4.30pm. £12.75 (£11.50; under 18s £7.75; under 5s free; family £36.50).

Take a guided tour of the ornate floating royal residence (and the naval quarters below) and learn about life aboard the yacht, which served the royal family for almost 50 years.

DAY OUT

SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL AIRSHOW

National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, near Edinburgh, Sat 26 Jul ‘It’s all about the excitement of the aircraft themselves, isn’t it?’ asks Steve McLean, on the enduring appeal of an airshow. ‘It’s very rare you can get that close to an aircraft because they never fly as low, and at an airshow they really get put through their paces, you get to see what they can do.’

This year, Scotland’s National Airshow will be even bigger and better, says McLean, general manager of the National Museum of Flight along the Forth from Edinburgh in East Fortune. That’s partly because the Red Arrows will be flying overhead, something he’s ‘fantastically pleased about’. The Battle of Britain memorial flight will also be special. ‘We have a Spitfire and a Hurricane,’ he says, ‘and a Lancaster bomber as well, which we haven’t had in the last five years. There’ll also be an RAF Typhoon, as well as a range of helicopters and some aerobatic display teams, including wing-walkers. There will also be chances to meet many of those involved on the ground.’

Beyond the wealth of interesting things going on in the sky, there’s plenty happening on terra firma, with a family fun-day atmosphere including circus and community events, a pipe band and a bouncy castle. ‘What’s also great is that you have a team of expert commentators,’ says McLean. ‘They’ll tell you what the plane is doing and what the pilot’s thinking, and that’s a big aspect of the museum’s work, to show people what flight is about and what it’s like to fly. We’d all like to be up in that Typhoon, we know it would be fantastic fun.’

(David Pollock)

OUR DYNAMIC EARTH Holyrood Road, 550 7800, dynamicearth.co.uk Daily 10am–6pm (last entry 4.30pm). £11–£12.50 (£9.25–£10.50; under 16s £7.25–£7.95; under 3s free). Take an interactive journey through the history of the earth.

Go to the tundra or the bottom of the ocean, never being more than a stone’s throw from the Scottish Parliament and Arthur’s Seat.

PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE Royal Mile, 556 5100, royalcollection. org.uk Daily 9.30am–6pm (last entry 4.30pm). £11.30 (£10.30; under 17s £6.80; under 5s free; family £29.40). The official Scottish residence of the Queen, this baroque palace was once home to Mary, Queen of Scots and now houses the great artworks and tapestries of its regal residents.

Poetry for the Palace: Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy

Until Sun 2 Nov. Exploration of the relationship between the poet and the monarch, with original manuscripts and images of poets including Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson and current Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

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REAL MARY KING’S CLOSE 2 Warriston’s Close, High St, 0845 070 6244, realmarykingsclose.com Daily 10am–9pm. £12.95 (£11.45; children £7.45). Beneath the Royal Mile lies a warren of hidden closes where citizens of Edinburgh lived and died in the 16th and 17th centuries. The underground tours are led by guides in the character of real people who lived in the close.

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH Inverleith Row, 552 7171, rbge.org.uk Daily 10am–6pm. Free; glasshouse entry £5 (£4; children free). These gardens, founded in the 17th century, cover over

SCOTCH WHISKY EXPERIENCE 354 Castlehill, 220 0441, scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk Daily 10am–6pm; entry is as part of a tour.

Tours £12.75–£52 (£10.25–£26; under 18s £6.50). Learn more about Scotland’s tastiest export with a tour and tasting session. There is also a bar and restaurant if you need a few more drams to help decide which is your favourite.

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Horse Wynd, 0800 092 7500, scottish. parliament.uk Opening hours vary according to whether Parliament is in session, see website for details. Free.

See Spanish architect Enric Miralles’ magnificent (and controversial) Holyrood building, take a tour of the interior, sit in on a debate or look at the artwork on display.

The Great Tapestry of Scotland

Until Sep 2014. Potentially the world’s longest tapestry in the world (at 143m), it tells the story of Scotland’s history from the geological formation of the land to the re-convention of the Scottish Parliament in 1998.

SCOTT MONUMENT Princes Street Gardens East, 529 4068, edinburghmuseums.org.uk Daily 10am– 7pm. £4. Commemorating Sir Walter Scott, this is the largest monument of any writer in the world. Take all 287 steps to the top for a great view of the city, plus occasional exhibitions.

SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE AND JOHN KNOX HOUSE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579, scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk Mon– Sat 10am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm. Free entry to SSC; John Knox House £5 (£4; children £1; under 7s free). A stylish contemporary building appended to the 15th century home of Protestant reformer John Knox, housing materials relating to Scotland’s rich oral culture.

EVENTS Events are listed by city, then type. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk. Listings compiled by Jaclyn Arndt.

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GLASGOW Activities & Events

East End Social Thu 10 Jul–Fri 8 Aug,

times vary. prices vary. Various venues, eastendsocial.com Part music showcase, part community-engagement project, East End Social brings a diverse range of music to Glasgow’s East End venues, as well as tea dances, a gala day and music workshops. Part of Culture 2014.

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FREE International Tartan Festival Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jul,

times vary. Thistle Glasgow Hotel, Cambridge Street, 07810 125767. Check out all the famous textiles Scotland has to offer – tartan, tweed, wool – with a catwalk show, exhibitions, trade stalls and workshops. Booking essential. Part of Homecoming Scotland.

FREE Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves Sat 12 Jul, 6.30pm.

Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 113– 117 Trongate, 553 0840. A look at Africa and Britain’s relationship with each other and the Commonwealth via sports, film and discussion. Part of Africa in Motion Film Festival.

FREE These Charming Worms Fri 18 Jul, 11am–1pm. Parkmanor Green, 577 4053. Worm charming. It’s like snake charming, but with worms. Equipment provided; wear sturdy shoes.

Pride Glasgow Sat 19 Jul, noon. £5.

King Street, King Street, prideglasgow. co.uk See LGBT listings.

Neu! Reekie! Presents: The Summer Sizzler Sat 19 Jul, 7pm.

£12.50. Platform, The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. Neu! Reekie! curates a line-up of spoken word, music and visual art for East End Social. With the Pastels, Broken Records, Jock Scot, Jackie Kay and Rachel Maclean. Plus, a free whisky for all!

FREE Glasgow’s Wee Doors Open Day Wed 23 Jul, 10am–4pm.

Various venues, 554 4411. Discover the architectural landmarks that make Glasgow unique, and see how they connect the city to the Commonwealth, through a programme of talks, tours and more.

Merchant City Festival Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug, times vary. Prices vary. Various venues, Merchant City, 287 9808. A lively programme of comedy, theatre and art events, crammed together into the area’s fashionable buildings, while street performers add to the upbeat atmosphere.

FREE The Empire Café Thu 24 Jul–Fri 1 Aug, times vary. The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890. Explore the context of Scotland and the North Atlantic slave trade at this week-long series of talks, films and activities during the Commonwealth Games.

Vintage Glasgow Sat 26 & Sun 27 Jul, times vary. £10. Various venues, 0844 395 4000. Hemingway Design brings its Vintage Festival format to Glasgow, featuring music, fashion, film, design and dance that celebrates British creativity from the 1920s to 1980s. In the evening, things get fancy dress with Vintage Nightclubs-themed Soul Casino and the Torch Club.

Sound to Sea Fri 1 & Sat 2 Aug, 9.30pm. Free but ticketed. River Clyde, River Clyde, 420 5003. See feature, page 30. Part of Glasgow 2014.

FREE Art on the Exchange Fri 8– Sun 10 Aug, 11am–6pm. Royal Exchange Square, 07889 797022. Artists and performers – including in visual art, street theatre and music – show off their talent.

Presented by Art on Scotland.

Women’s Heritage Walks Sat 9 Aug, 2pm. £7.50. Merchant City, 550 2267. Glasgow Women’s Library hosts these walks, which unearth oft-ignored histories. Today: Women of the Merchant City – explore the scandal, vice, radicalism, regeneration and revival of Glasgow’s famous quarter.

FREE Themed Tour Thu 21 Aug, 12.30pm. Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Today: Medical Interests at the Burrell.

Fairs & Markets

FREE Sloans Market Every Sat & Sun, 11am–5pm. Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, 221 8886. Well-heeled weekly outdoor shopping market.

FREE Merchant Square Craft Fair Every Sat, noon–6pm. Merchant Square, 71–73 Albion Street, 552 3038. Arts and crafts market, with everything from cupcakes to candles.

FREE Little Birds Market Sun 13 Jul & 10 Aug, noon–4pm. Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, 221 8886. A tantalising selection of vintage, craft and design vendors.

FREE Afternoon Twee Local Artisan Market Sun 3 Aug, 11am–4pm. Maryhill Burgh Halls, 10–24 Gairbraid Avenue, 0845 860 1891.

Scottish handmade, upcycled, repurposed and locally sourced goods.

Sport

FREE Glasgow Riverside Masters Beach Volleyball Sat 12 Jul, 10am–

5pm. Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Place, 287 2660. Watch the Scottish pros play before having a go at 1pm.

Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Wed 23 Jul–Sun 3 Aug, times

vary. Prices vary. Glasgow, glasgow2014. com See feature from page 13.

Cycle Glasgow Sun 17 Aug, 10am–2.30pm. Earlybird £9; children £3.50. University of Glasgow, University Avenue, 330 3593. Sponsored cycle to raise funds for leukaemia research.

Talks

The Glad Academy: Humza Yousaf on Dreaming Sun 13 Jul, 2pm. £5. The

Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. This edition of Glad Academy features words from Humza Yousaf, the young Scottish National Party MSP for Glasgow.

The Tour to Settle the Score: An Audience with ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper Tue 15 Jul, 7pm. £20. The Garage,

490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120.

The WWE Hall of Famer hosts a live uncensored Q&A. FREE Science Meets Art Mon 4 Aug, 7pm. Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. George Donald talks through his drawing of a life model.

FREE Glasgow Café Scientifique Mon 11 Aug, 7pm. Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 3748. Today: ‘Athlete preparation: What can we learn for our own health?’ with Stuart Gray, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at Aberdeen Uni. FREE Scotland – Land of Food and Drink Fri 15 Aug, 1pm. The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365.

Talk reflecting on Scotland’s unique food landscape and discussing what is being done to use big events – Homecoming, the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup – to boost Scotland’s reputation as a Land of Food and Drink. Booking essential.

FREE Glasgow Skeptics Mon 18 Aug, 7pm. The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, 221 7705. Today: Dr Martin Poulter, who has been a Scientologywatcher since 1995, presents ‘Create Your Own Cult, The Scientology Way’.

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Workshops

FREE The Reluctant Commuter Cyclist Thu 10 & 17 Jul, 12pm. The

Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 556 6699.

Workshops delivered in collaboration with the Bike Station designed to help nervous cyclists get on the road.

Kalopsia Collective: Words, Pattern and Coding Fri 18 & 25 Jul,

12.30pm. £5 (£3). CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Explore contemporary textile practice with the Edinburgh-based art collective.

Masterclasses with the Makar Sun 20 & 27 Jul, 2.45pm. £15. Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Work with the Scots Makar, Liz Lochhead, to develop your writing skills. Writing on Sun 20 and performance poetry on Sun 27.

Booking essential. Culture 2014.

Moku Hanga Course Fri 15–Mon 18 Aug, 10am. £180 for four days. House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Elspeth Lamb leads this class in the intricate craft of Japanese woodblock printing.

The price includes materials, equipment, lunch and refreshments. Ages 16+.

Booking essential.

Review Writing Fri 15–Thu 21 Aug, 1pm. £2 (free). Glasgow Women’s

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AROUND TOWN | Events Library, 23 Landressy Street, 550 2267.

Writer and GWL Reader-in-Residence Magi Gibson helps you craft a lively and engaging review in your own voice.

Bring along a book by a woman author to review.

FREE Bengal and Beyond Sat 16 Aug, 1pm. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, South Nitshill Industrial Estate, 276 9300. A chance to explore South Asian culture by doing some hands-on arts and crafts with coffee. Yes, coffee! Booking essential.

Devising within a Democracy

Sat 2 Aug, 10am–noon. £25 (£18).

Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Brooklyn-based ensemble the TEAM immerses participants in a minidevising process, working through issues of collaboration and authorship. Aimed at both emerging and established artists.

Delicate Paper Sculptures Sat 9 Aug, 10.30am–3.30pm. £20. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Create sculptures from vintage text-covered paper. With artist Tessa Asquith-Lamb.

Our Celtic Flora Sat 9 Aug, 1–4pm. £30 (members £27). Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909.

Session exploring Scotland’s native plants and their relationship with the nation’s cultural heritage. Booking required.

EDINBURGH Activities & Events

An Audience with Bannockburn!

Thu 10–Sat 19 Jul, times vary. Prices vary. Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Immerse yourself in Scottish history with this multi-arts commemoration of the Battle of Bannockburn, with live storytelling, painting, costumed battles and more.

Imagine A Better Scotland Thu 10–Sat 12 Jul, times vary. Free but ticketed. Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. The Yestival tour from National Collective (artists and creatives for Scottish independence), examining the Scottish Referendum via talks, exhibitions and more.

Edinburgh International Fashion Festival Thu 17–Mon 28 Jul, times

vary. Prices vary. Various venues, edinburghinternationalfashionfestival. com A festival incorporating runway shows and glam afterparties, plus more intellectual talks on fashion-linked topics.

FREE Knit Works! Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jul, 11am–4pm. National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. See preview, page 57.

Celtic Summer School Fri 1–8 Aug, 12.30–1.20pm & 2.30–4.30pm. £13 for a day pass (£9); £75 for a week pass (£55). Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. An exploration of the literature, languages, history, music, art and politics of Scotland, with a programme of discussions, workshops, talks and explorations.

Just Festival Fri 1–Thu 21 Aug, times vary. Prices vary. Various venues, 228 4249. Just Festival offers a programme to help people explore their spirituality by engaging with others and promoting peace with live music, talks, dance shows and exhibitions.

The Royal Edinburgh Military

Tattoo Fri 1–Thu 21 Aug, times vary. £25–£62. Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, 225 1188. Crowds swoon for the massed pipes and drums, display teams, dancers and the haunting lament of the Lone Piper set against the magnificent backcloth of Edinburgh Castle.

Truckfest Scotland Sat 2 & Sun 3 Aug, 8am–5pm. Prices vary. Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, 01775 768661. See preview, above.

FREE Festival Colombiano Sun 3 Aug, noon–5pm. Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Celebrate the amazingly diverse plant life of Colombia and learn about the country’s culture.

Whisky Fringe Fri 8–Sun 10 Aug, times vary. Mansfield Traquair, 15 Mansfield Place, 5249380. Held in the magnificent Mansfield Traquair, this much-anticipated annual event from Royal Mile Whiskies features exhibitor stands and hundreds of whiskies to sample each day.

FREE Invisible People Wed 13 & Thu 14 Aug, 11am–4pm. Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909.

Exchange counters for one-to-one performances of poems, short stories, jokes, magic tricks and more .

Fairs & Markets

FREE Platform 2 Market Every Fri, 11am–7pm. Waverley Station, Waverley Bridge, 558 9644. Fifty stalls offering ethical and local products from fresh produce to crafts.

FREE Stockbridge Market Every Sun, 10am–5pm. Saunders Street,

Scottish Dance Theatre: Improvisation Workshop Mon 11

TRUCKFEST 2014 TruckFest Scotland is back. The annual gathering of trucks and large vehicles comes complete with the added bonus of jaw-dropping bike stunts for 2014. Celebrity driver Mark Dixon and surprise truck fans Joey Essex (The Only Way Is Essex, I' m A Celebrity . . . ) and Michelle Keegan (Coronation Street’s recently deceased Tina) will be on hand to bring a bit of glamour to the the two-day event. There will also be plenty to keep the little ones entertained, including a fairground and inflatables, if you’re making it a family day out. (Laura Donaldson) Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Sat 2 & Sun 3 Aug.

Stockbridge, 551 5633. Artisanal food and craft market set by the Water of Leith.

FREE Bohemia Sat 26 Jul, 10.30am–4.30pm. Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place, nottycherub@gmail. com Handmade art, crafts, vintage items, upcycled furniture and goodies from local makers.

FREE Quartermile Market Fri 1 Aug, 11am–6pm. Lister Square, Quartermile, 0845 000 2525. Products by local designers, makers and artists as well as street food, plus keep your pooch happy with a stall specialising in cupcakes for dogs.

Sport

The Carole Nash Great Scottish Bike Show Sat 9 Aug,

10am–5pm. £6 in advance tickets; £8 on the gate (under 12s free). Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, 01507 529529. Bike show for fans of classic and modern motorcycles, with guest of honour, 15 times world champion Giacomo Agostini.

Talks

The War Hospitals Fri 11 Jul,

10.30am. £8. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Yvonne McEwen illuminates the history of auxiliary hospitals set up in stately homes during WWI.

John Byrne in Conversation with Edi Stark Sat 12 Jul, 2pm. £5 (£3).

Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. The artist, dramatist and set designer talks about his career and creative process.

Spotlight On: Common Cause Thu 17 Jul, 2pm. Free but ticketed. National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. A look at the experiences of those in the Scottish diaspora during WWI and their complex approach to nationality, from co-curator David Forsyth.

FREE Edinburgh Skeptics Thu 17 Jul, 7.30pm. The Banshee Labyrinth, 29–35 Niddry Street, 07896 745991.

Tonight: ‘Writing the World’ with Pippa Goldschmidt, author of The Falling Sky, about an astronomer who discovers the Universe and loses her mind.

American Impressionism Opening Lecture Sat 19 Jul, 2pm. Free but

ticketed. Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. Katherine Bourguignon of the Terra Foundation for American Art talks about the impact of

French impressionism on American art at the end of the 19th century.

The Scots in Poland Mon 21 Jul, 11am. Free but ticketed. Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Billy Kay traces the history of Scottish folk in Poland.

Basil Zaharoff: The Wickedest Man in the World? Fri 25 Jul,

10.30am. £8. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963.

Historian Robin Barnes illuminates the life of Anatolian-born arms dealer Basil Zaharoff – who was also a linguist, pimp, arsonist and hobnobber with royals.

FREE Katie Paterson: Ideas – Artist’s Talk Sat 2 Aug, 11am. Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road, 556 4441. The cosmologically-minded artist discusses her exhibition Ideas.

Wee Science: How Do Children Understand the World? Fri 8 Aug,

10am. Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Dr Rabagliati and Dr Doumas discuss the brains of wee ones.

The Latest Unicorn: From Fragments to Finish Mon 18 Aug,

10.30am. £8. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Learn more about a new tapestry, 13 years in the making, based off of remaining fragments of the 15th century Hunt of the Unicorn series. Lead weaver Ruth Jones speaks.

Scottish Emigres in World War

One Wed 20 Aug, 10.30am. £8.

Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Alistair McEwen discusses the Scots émigrés who enlisted in new world forces during WWI. FREE Artist as Healer: The

Relationship between Art and the Health Service Thu 21 Aug, 8–9pm.

Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Two art facilitators discuss the role of art in health services.

Workshops

Inspired by Ruskin: Little Things Made Large Mon 14–Wed 16 Jul,

10.30am–4pm. £90 for three days (£80).

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Artist David Forster leads this workshop in finding the hidden details in architecture and bringing them to light. Booking essential.

Leatherwork – Make Your Own Wallet or Phone Case Sun 20 Jul,

3–6pm. £22 (£18). Remade in Edinburgh, 17 Guthrie Street, 261 5904. Punch, rivet and stitch until you have a brand spankin’ new scrap leather item.

Aug, 10am–noon. £10. Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Workshop exploring the sensitivity of touch and the body’s weight as a way into physicality.

Hand Sewn Patchwork Workshop

Sun 17 Aug, 2–4.30pm. £25. myBearpaw, 50 Lochrin Buildings, Gilmore Place, 269 1000. Beginners can learn traditional patchwork technique and make a start on an heirloom quilt.

How to Draw the Human Head

Thu 21–Fri 22 Aug, 10.30am–4pm. £60 (£55). Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Graham Flack leads this two-day workshop, with special reference to John Byrne’s and other artists’ portraits. Booking essential.

OUTSIDE THE CITIES Activities & Events

Heavy Horse Show Sun 20 Jul, 10am–5pm. £8 (£7; children £4.50; under 5s free; family £23). National Museum of Rural Life, Wester Kittochside, Stewartfield Way, East Kilbride, 0300 1236789. One of Scotland’s biggest heavy horse shows, offering the chance to get up close to nearly 200 horses, from tiny Shetlands through to giant Clydesdales.

Scotland’s National Airshow

Sat 26 Jul, 10am–5pm. £17–£20 (£15.50–£18; children £8.50–£10; family £42.50–£50; under 5s free). National Museum of Flight, East Fortune Airfield, North Berwick, 0300 123 6789. Over two hours of high-octane aerial displays ranging from historical warbirds to contemporary military jets. There are also family activities and displays to enjoy.

FREE Dare Protoplay Thu 7–Sun 10 Aug, 10am–6pm. Caird Hall, City Square, Dundee, 01382 434940. Dundee capitalises on its digitally-capable status with Scotland’s biggest free video gaming education and consumer festival with games, talks, conferences and workshops for the general public as well as those in the games industry.

Fairs & Markets

Scotland’s Festival of History Sat 16 & Sun 17 Aug, times vary. Prices vary.

Chatelherault Country Park, Carlisle Road, Hamilton, 07963 128365. The largest history and re-enactment festival in Scotland features more than 500 costumed specialists to recreate 2000+ years of history from the Picts to WWII. The Kirkintilloch Canal Festival

Mon 18–Thu 21 Aug, times vary.

Prices vary. Forth and Clyde Canal, Kirkintilloch, 578 0144. A week of fun at Scotland’s canal capital, with boat trips, arts and crafts, a range of live bands and a gala Sunday.

Workshops

Jencks Landforms Adult Workshop

Sat 26 Jul, 2–5pm. £12. Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston, 01506 889900. A chance for adults to get in on the vibrant education at Jupiter Artland. Sketch Charles Jencks’ iconic Life Mound, create clay models and build your own landform. Ages 16+.

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Louise Welsh The ever-popular Glasgow authoradelivers Caitlin Moran: How to Build Girl a lecture ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Tourentitled Much-loved How to Be a Woman the Theatre of the Brain’.

If that wasn’t intriguing author and columnist stops off in Scotland – enough, let us hit you with the event’s subtitle: she’ll be talking feminism plus reading from her ‘An Exploration of. new novel, which gives its name to this tour.

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 11 Jul. Louise Welsh

GRAEME MACRAE BURNET Crime writer found in translation

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he publication of his debut novel, The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau, hasn’t quite sunk in for Graeme Macrae Burnet.

‘There’s been so much disappointment,’ he says, ‘and I’ve got that Scots mentality of holding back, but I’m fairly confident it’s happening now.’

Burnet, who received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013, has reason to be wary. After rejections from a number of publishing houses, his novel was eventually bought by Saraband and is one of the first to be published under its new crime fiction imprint, Contraband.

Set in a small French town, The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau is an intelligent and stylish crime thriller. Loner Manfred Baumann spends his evenings drinking in the Restaurant de la Cloche, observing the attractive waitress Adele Bedeau. But when she disappears without

a trace, Manfred is forced to confront some very dark secrets from his past.

Inspired by his own experiences in France, Burnet has made every effort to ensure the book is authentic, to the point of devising an ‘original’ French author, Raymond Brunet.

‘I wanted it to be read like a novel in translation,’ says Burnet. ‘My French is bad, and I was conscious that I was writing a translation of the characters’ French dialogue anyway, so I really wanted it to come across as being authentic and to have that immersive sense of reality.’ (Jen Bowden) The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau is published by Contraband on Thu 17 Jul, when there will be a launch at Waterstone’s Argyle Street, Glasgow.

The Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards are open for applications until Fri 5 Sep.

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Presents: The Summer Sizzler The spoken word / music / art night teams up with East End Social this month: SAY-award nominees The Pastels, Broken Records, writer Jackie Kay and video artist Rachel Maclean come along for the ride. There’s free whisky too. Platform, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul. In Process: Christopher Brookmyre The author of Quite Ugly One Morning and Flesh Wounds talks about his 17 published novels and his life as a crime writer. CCA, Glasgow, Tue 22 Jul. The Night Hunter Caro Ramsay launches her new Anderson and Costello thriller. She’ll also be at Stirling’s Bloody Scotland in September. Primavera Bistro, Newton Mearns, Wed 30 Jul. Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage The eagerly anticipated English translation of Haruki Murakami’s (pictured)latest novel – his first since sensational three-parter 1Q84 – comes out ten days before his Edinburgh International Book Festival appearance. Released Tue 12 Aug (Harvill Secker).

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KERRY HUDSON

Thirst (Chatto & Windus)

NICK TUCKER

It’s been two years since Kerry Hudson’s fantastic debut, Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma, shook readers from the cushy, Booker-induced, middle-class coma of the preceding years.

And her second book, Thirst, delivers on that early promise, giving us another booze-soaked, sex-stained, bittersweet tale of love and tragic disappointment. This time, Hudson swaps grey Aberdeen and faded Great Yarmouth for greasy Dalston and isolated Siberia.

Alena, a young Russian woman, is shoplifting and sleeping rough in London when she meets south London lad Dave, who’s working as a security guard at a posh shop on Bond Street. They’re lost souls, drawn to one another like magnets.

But as they fall in love, they struggle to come to terms with the dark secrets they’re hiding from each other.

Thirst alternates between Dave and Alena’s unfolding love story and flashbacks to their murky histories. It’s a testament to Hudson’s stellar writing that the plot strands sit so snugly together. As she proved with Tony Hogan, she’s a master at creating strong, authentic voices, and this book fizzes with the thronging sounds of east London in the summer and the bustling streets of an unknown Siberian town.

It’s billed as a ‘will-they-won’t-they love story’, but Thirst is much more terrifying than that. The scarier aspects of their individual tales resonate just as much as their romance.

As the last few chapters crescendo into a breathless, sobinducing finale, Hudson marks herself out once again as a terrifically talented storyteller who, luckily for us, is here to stay. (Yasmin Sulaiman)

FICTION

NON-FICTION SHORT STORIES

DEBUT NOVEL

FICTION

In Search of Solace (Sceptre)

The Moth: This is a True Story (Serpent’s Tail)

The Glasgow Coma Scale (Corsair)

He Wants (Salt)

EMILY MACKIE

Following an existential crisis, Jacob Little goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Solace in this accomplished second novel. Armed only with the painting of a female nude he believes looks like his erstwhile lover, and not sure if Solace is even her real name, he finds himself in the small Scottish town she grew up in. Here, his life intertwines with four of the town’s inhabitants.

Although the characters are a fascinating bundle of quirks, archetypes and meticulously original characterisation, Mackie’s unique narrative voice is the real highlight – the sly asides prevent Jacob from becoming unbearably solipsistic and lift the novel through the occasional necessary exposition.

Of the characters that get drawn into his orbit, most memorable are his self-delusional landlady, forever writing to a husband who never responds, and Max, a young genderqueer child whose layers of burgeoning identity Mackie peels back with expert precision. A nuanced look at identity, memory and modern Britain, In Search of Solace is a novel in the vein of Iain Banks at his best. (Kaite Welsh)

VARIOUS WRITERS

Although it immodestly describes itself as a ‘storytelling sensation’, it’s hard not to indulge The Moth's powerful sense of self. Named in honour of the days when stories were for the porch as the sun went down, the New York literary event is billed as a home for ‘real life’, where participants famous and unknown tell their true stories to an audience. This book is a selection of the best of those stories.

Malcolm Gladwell ruins his best friend’s wedding in mean-spirited fashion and Sebastian Junger sees a dead body for the first time, a toe-curling, gut-punching moment. A Jewish girl from Jersey joins the Sultan of Brunei’s harem, while a man relives a small slice of the 18 years he wrongly spent on death row. Elsewhere, Bill Clinton’s press secretary recounts the heart of the Lewinsky affair.

Many of these stories are vignettes of a much longer tale and the writing quality varies (and some beg to be read aloud), but at their finest, they transport the reader to the intense heart of another’s most vivid experience. (David Pollock)

NEIL DA STEWART

As she makes her way along Sauchiehall Street, call-centre manager Lynne is astonished to encounter Angus, her old art teacher (and long-time object of desire), begging for change in a doorway. Despite his protestations, she insists on taking him home with her, and in the process sets both their lives on a new course.

The Glasgow Coma Scale is an engaging study of two very different but equally lost souls. Lynne has little in her life but a thankless job and a recently dead relationship, while Angus still mourns for his artistic mojo and is locked in a constant battle against alcoholism. Their unlikely friendship is the heart of the story, a classic odd couple pairing – uptight and sensible meets uncouth free-spirit – that never feels clichéd thanks to the insightful characterisation. Angus, in particular, is a delight, always knowing exactly the wrong thing to say in any situation.

Aside from the odd bit of clumsy social commentary and an unsatisfying conclusion, this is a confidently written and enjoyable novel, and well worth checking out. (Ally Nicholl)

ALISON MOORE The best novels are the ones that leave you with a sense of yearning, and in He Wants, Alison Moore proves her mastery of the medium. Lewis Sullivan is a retired RE teacher whose restraint has kept him in the same village his entire life. Only now, with the return of an old friend, does he begin to question his choices.

Like Moore’s previous novel, the 2012 Booker shortlisted The Lighthouse, this is a meditation on memory and character-moulding moments. The title of chapter one asks ‘What do you want?’ and each subsequent chapter heading pinpoints something Moore’s characters are longing for, from the mundane ‘He does not want soup’ to the sublime ‘He wants to be seen’.

As Lewis’s desires are revealed, the reader is drawn into a compelling series of regrets, coincidences and reminders that life doesn’t often bestow second chances. At fewer than 200 pages, this is a short novel, and Moore’s tightly wreathed prose and assured plotting ensure a bittersweet longing for more once the final page is turned. (Lynsey May)

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BIOGRAPHY AMY PASCALE

Joss Whedon: Geek King of the Universe – A Biography (Aurum Press) With his genre-changing series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon shaped the face of television in the 1990s. Nearly 20 years on, having written and directed 2012’s The Avengers, which became the third highest grossing film worldwide, he now plays a key role in the creative direction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The time is ripe for biographies and publishers have not demurred.

Granted generous interview access to Whedon and his collaborators, Amy Pascale offers a compelling narrative through Whedon’s private life and creative endeavours to explain his success. Fittingly, a large number of the chapters chronicle Buffy, the feminist icon that put him on the televisual map, with the story continuing until TV spin-off Marvel' s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. hit the airwaves in autumn 2013, and including critical insight and eyebrowraising factoids along the way.

It emerges that Whedon’s power resides in a lifelong love of story, forging strong bonds with his actors, crew and fans, and a commitment to each project that was, in the beginning, described as looking for ‘the Buffy of it’. While Pascale at times oversimplifies the narrative in the service of giving shape to Whedon’s career, she sticks close to ‘the Whedon of it’, searching for his ineffable quality. Her willingness to delve into why some of his creations have been less successful than others lends the biography a refreshing candidness.

As a companion to the many academic publications on his work, you could not do better than Pascale’s consideration. This entertaining read will leave fans reaching for their Buffy DVD box sets. (Suzanne Black)

FLASH FICTION CHARLIE LOVED THE CIRCUS

by Simon Sylvester

Charlie loved the circus. He liked the clowns best of all. He liked to sneer at them, and hurl insults. Caught between terror and exhilaration, he fired spitballs at them through a straw.

Giddy with power, he flicked peanuts at their stupid misshapen clown faces. He liked to watch the fury boiling beneath their greasepaint, knowing there was nothing they could do to touch him.

After the Saturday matinee, with time to kill before the next performance, Charlie left the tent. He ducked between two caravans, taking a shortcut to buy more peanuts. With all the clatter of the circus, he barely heard the scuff and squeak of outsized shoes gathering around him. And with the wet reek of elephant dung and the burnt sugar of candyfloss, he never noticed the acetone stink of the chloroform . . .

When the circus arrived into the next town, a new clown had joined the troupe. He was shorter than the rest, and even uglier.

Throughout the routine, he was the target of all their jokes. The other clowns tripped him up. They poured custard down his trousers, and kicked his arse. They slammed pies into his face.

Between the pratfalls, it almost looked as though he was trying to run away, but they always caught him. Whenever he was snatched back into the centre of the ring, he gave a little joke howl, his face amusingly contorted with pain, and all the children screamed with laughter.

It was so funny, even the sadface clowns seemed to be smiling.

Although, beneath the facepaint, it was very hard to tell.

Simon Sylvester is the author of 140 Characters (Cargo) and The Visitors (Quercus). He tweets at @simonasylvester

Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Jaclyn Arndt.

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Thursday 10

Glasgow

An Evening with Rainbow Rowell

Edinburgh

Brush with Burns: Poems of Robert Burns Blackwell’s, 53–59

South Bridge, 622 8218. 6.30pm. Free but ticketed. Professor Ian Campbell, a specialist in the works of the Bard, talks about Burns’ work.

Friday 18

Glasgow

FREE Born Under a Union Flag:

Rangers, the Union and Scottish Independence Waterstones, 174

Waterstones, 153–157 Sauchiehall Street, 332 9105. 6.30pm. £3 (£2). The American young adult novelist talks about and signs copies of her latest novel, Landline.

Argyle Street, 248 4814. 7pm. Alan Bissett and Alasdair McKillop launch a new collection of writing.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh

FREE Liam Murray Bell and Nina de la Mer: Life on the Margins

Waterstones West End, 128 Princes Street, 226 2666. 6pm. De la Mer launches her Layla and Bell launches his The Busker – which both explore life on the margins.

Friday 11

Edinburgh

Caitlin Moran: How to Build a Girl Tour Edinburgh Festival

Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £20. The columnist and author is off on tour to get lairy and talk about men, women, Bowie, feminism and massive hair. See feature, page 44.

The Portobello Poetry Circus

Dalriada, 77 Promenade, Portobello, 454 4500. 8pm. £3. Wordsmithery from poets and spoken word performers, plus a few open-mic slots.

Saturday 12

Edinburgh

FREE Literature Tour – Language and the Land The Scottish Parliament, Horse Wynd, sp.bookings@scottish. parliament.uk 2.30pm. A tour of the parliament building with an eye to its literary past.

Tuesday 15

Edinburgh

RAA! The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street, 225 3784. 8pm. Pay what you want at the door. Spoken word, poetry and comedy all to raise funds for Agnes Torok’s Fringe show Sorry, I Don’t Speak Culture and Ross McCleary / Andrew Blair’s Knife Whimsy.

Wednesday 16

Glasgow

FREE Weegie Wednesdays CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, weegiewednesday.org 7.30pm. Forum offering anyone with a literary interest the chance to get together socially to talk about books and publishing. First timers, please contact the organisers via the website.

Edinburgh

Ken MacLeod: Imagining Future Scotlands Scottish Storytelling Centre,

43–45 High Street, 556 9579. 7pm. £6 (£4; SWC members free). McLeod reads from his new book, Descent, which is set in an independent Scotland in the near future.

Thursday 17

Glasgow

FREE Sir Kenneth Calman: A Doctor’s Line Mitchell Library, North Street, 287 2999. 2pm. Sir Calman discusses his book, A Doctor’s Line: Poetry and Prescriptions in Health and Healing.

FREE Graeme Macrae Burnet:

The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street,

248 4814. 7pm. Help celebrate the launch of Burnet’s debut novel – a literary mystery. See preview, page 61.

Paul Carter: Ride Like Hell and You’ll Get There Blackwell’s, 53–59

South Bridge, 622 8218. 6.30pm. Free but ticketed. Carter discusses his fourth book about ‘alpha male’ life.

Saturday 19

Glasgow

Neu! Reekie! Presents: The Summer Sizzler Platform,

The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. 7pm. £12.50. See Around Town listings.

Edinburgh

Divergent Voices of the First World War Scottish Storytelling Centre,

43–45 High Street, 556 9579. 7pm. £7 (£5). The poetry, memoirs, letters, journals and prison papers of WWI set to a backdrop of images.

Sunday 20

Glasgow

Masterclasses with the Makar

Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

Also Sat 27 Jul. 2.45pm. £15. See Around Town listings.

Monday 21

Edinburgh

The Polish-Scottish Relationship: Stories and Reflections of Love and Loss Summerhall, 1 Summerhall,

0845 874 3001. 1pm. Free but ticketed.

Martin Stepek reads from his book For There Is Hope and Jenny Robertson reads from her short story collection, From the Volga to the Clyde. Part of Polish Scottish Heritage Festival.

Tuesday 22

Glasgow

FREE Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur Issue 5 Launch Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, 550 2267.

5.30pm. Launch of the fifth issue of the feminist queer zine.

In Process: Christopher Brookmyre CCA, 350

Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7pm. £6 (£3; SWC members free). Glasgowborn crime writer Brookmyre talks about his novels (all 17 of them) and the writing life.

Wednesday 23

Edinburgh

Parley for Power Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579.

8pm. £8 (£6). Solo music and spoken word performances from Alan Bissett, Eugene Kelly (The Vaselines), Michael Pedersen (Neu! Reekie!) and Carla Easton (TeenCanteen), followed by Pedersen and Bissett’s short play Parley for Power.

Thursday 24

Glasgow

An Evening of Poetry with Liz Lochhead Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate,

552 4267. 9pm. £5. The Makar introduces work from a host of top writers and performers. Part of Culture 2014.

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Word Power Bookshop, 43 West Nicolson Street, 662 9112. 7–8pm. Taking place in radical bookshop Word Power, the Book Fringe brings together writers and activists from around the world for a host of daily readings and discussions, all of which are free. Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Janet Brennan-Inglis: Scotland’s Castles – Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied Blackwell’s, 53–59 South

Bridge, 622 8218. 6.30pm. Free but ticketed. Launch of an illustrated book from Brennan-Inglis, who bought and restored Barholm Castle over seven years.

FREE Stranger Than Fiction The Jolly Judge, 7 James Court, High Street, 225 2669. 7pm. Friendly writers’ group for those interested in writing non-fiction.

Saturday 9

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Book Festival Charlotte Square Gardens,

Friday 25

Charlotte Square, 0845 373 5888. Until Mon 25 Aug. Times vary. The world’s largest public celebration of the written word takes place in the first UNESCO City of Literature in the beautiful Charlotte Square Gardens.

Edinburgh

Guid Crack Club Waverley Bar, 1 St Mary’s Street, 557 1050. 7.30pm. £3 suggested donation. Storytelling club involving song and music aplenty.

Tonight, Frances Logan shares ‘A Common Wealth of Stories’.

Monday 11

Glasgow

Sunday 27

Laydeez Do Comics Pearce Institute, 840 Govan Road, 445 6007.

6.30–9pm. £2. A worldwide graphic novel forum led by women, open to all, with a focus on topics of the domestic and the everyday.

Glasgow

FREE Jim Murphy and Archie MacPherson in Conversation

Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street, 248 4814.

3pm. Murphy and MacPherson discuss iconic moments in football, as captured in Murphy’s book The 10 Football Matches that Changed the World: . . . And the One that Didn’t

Monday 28

Glasgow

FREE Gaelic Writing Group CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7pm.

See Mon 14.

Edinburgh

FREE Golden Hare Book Group Golden Hare, 102 West Bow, 629 1396.

6.30pm. Get your book on with some fellow bibliophiles.

Tuesday 29

Glasgow

Commonwealth Poetry Slam Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Also Wed 30 Jul. 9.15pm. £5. Cabaret duo Rally & Broad present talent from across the Commonwealth. There are heats on Tue 29 and the final on Wed 30. Culture 2014.

Wednesday 30

Edinburgh

Alan Cochrane and George Kerevan: Scottish Independence – Yes or No? Blackwell’s, 53–59

South Bridge, 622 8218. 6.30pm. Free but ticketed. Two of Scotland’s leading political commentators examine both sides of the issue, as laid out in their new book.

Newton Mearns

FREE Caro Ramsay: The Night Hunter Primavera Bistro, The Avenue Shopping Centre, 639 8092. 7pm.

The Glasgow author launches her latest Anderson and Costello thriller. Tickets from Waterstones, Newton Mearns.

Saturday 2

Glasgow

An Evening of Poetry with Liz Lochhead Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate,

552 4267. 9pm. £5. See Thu 24.

Edinburgh

FREE Literature Tour – Language and the Land The Scottish Parliament, Horse Wynd, 0800 092 7500. 2.30pm.

See Sat 12.

Monday 4

Edinburgh

ALOUD – Inky Fingers Minifest

Various venues, inkyfingers.org.uk Until Fri 8 Aug. Times vary. Prices vary.

Grassroots performance poetry maestros Inky Fingers bring their minifest back for a fourth year, with a programme

Wednesday 13

Glasgow

ANNA CALTABIANO

Seventeen-year-old Californian Anna Caltabiano self-published her first novel, All That Is Red, when she was just 15, gaining her a massive teen audience and an enormous Twitter following. But, she says, she’s no different to the average teen: ‘I wouldn’t call myself famous. It’s been wonderful to have all this social media and press attention, and it’s such an exciting thing for me to see a stranger on the street with a copy of my book. I walk back and forth in front of them trying to see if they will look up and recognise me from the back cover. They usually don’t!’

It is the perception and maturity of Caltabiano’s writing that makes her notable; she is an astute observer of her own generation. ‘I think growing up in the 21st century, you can have a thousand Facebook friends but not be able to talk to them, save for one or two people, on a personal level,’ she says. ‘So that’s scary because it provides this illusion that we’re really connected and talking to diverse people, when in fact we may be seeking out people who are very similar to us, more so than we were a generation ago.’

Of her own status as a teen Twitter celebrity, she is equivocal: ‘As a teenager, it’s a time in your life when you’re not sure about things, and it’s kind of like having 124,000 people looking over your shoulder at that time. But it’s also a support group!’

Her major publisher debut The Seventh Miss Hatfield, the first in a trilogy, is out this month and Caltabiano has sound advice for young writers keen to emulate her success. ‘I used to think that good, effective writing was describing the world and reality as it actually is,’ she says. ‘It took me a long time to realise that that essentially doesn’t do anything, because it’s almost impossible; describing the world the way you see it is a lot more fun, a lot more effective and a lot more meaningful.’ (Paul Gallagher) Anna Caltabiano’s The Seventh Miss Hatfield (Gollancz) is out on Thu 31 Jul. She tweets at @caltabiano_anna

FREE Linda Huber: The Cold, Cold Sea Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street, 248 4814. 7–8.30pm. Huber launches her powerful new novel about coping with loss.

FREE Weegie Wednesdays CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900.

7.30pm. See Wed 16.

Thursday 14

Edinburgh

FREE The Other Tongues Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. 7–9pm. Celebrate the launch of Scots and Gaelic anthology The Other Tongues.

Friday 15

Glasgow

Review Writing Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, 550 2267.

1–3pm. £2 (free). Writer and GWL Reader-in-Residence Magi Gibson helps you craft a lively and engaging review in your own voice.

Edinburgh

Jimmie McGregor: An Illustrated Talk The Brunton, Ladywell Way, 665

2240. 7.30pm. £11.75 (£9.75; under 18s £6.75). Radio presenter McGregor talks about John Muir and his own travels

Tuesday 19

Glasgow that celebrates the spoken word in all its forms.

FREE Blackwell’s Book Quiz Blackwell’s, 53–59 South Bridge, 622 8201. 6pm. Test your literary credentials in teams of up to five members. Booking essential.

North Berwick

Fringe by the Sea Various venues, 01620 890787. Until Sun 10 Aug. Times vary. Prices vary. With a spot of sea air and an entertaining line-up, North Berwick’s multi-arts festival offers a respite from the madness of Edinburgh in festival season. Authors booked for this year include Alex Gray, Caro Ramsay, Roy Gill and Carina Contini.

Tuesday 5

Glasgow

In Process: Anne Donovan CCA,

350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7pm. £6 (£3; SWC members free). The Canongatesigned author (Hieroglyphics, Buddha Da) talks about the writing life.

Edinburgh

Northern Idyll: New Poetry and Fiction from Europe’s Northern Islands Summerhall, 1 Summerhall,

0845 874 3001. Until Sun 10 Aug. 9.30– 10.45pm. £10. Work from contemporary northern voices, translated from Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian. Tarfika Europe presents.

Friday 8

Edinburgh

FREE Edinburgh Book Fringe

In Process: John Menaghan and

Andy Jackson CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7–8.30pm. £6 (£3; SWC members free). The two poets regale you with their work and speak about the ups and downs of being a professional writer.

Wednesday 20

Glasgow

FREE Ross King and Shari Low: Taking Hollywood Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street, 248 4814. 7–8.30pm. Los Angeles-based writers King and Low launch their jointly-authored novel.

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THE BEST DANCEFLOOR ACTION

Theo Parrish See preview, left. Art School, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul. Numbers with Paul Johnson Birthday celebrations with the Chicago / ghetto house legend, whose tracks helped shape Numbers’ direction as a label. See preview, page 68. Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 18 Jul. Technasia Jackhammer take advantage of a seven-hour special with the longstanding Parisian techno producer. Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Sat 19 Jul.

THEO PARRISH: TEDDY’S GET DOWN Detroit producer leaves his comfort zone with new five-piece live band

S

ay hello to the Theo Parrish you’ve never met before. Familiar to audiences in Scotland – where he plays regularly – as a techno producer, musician, DJ and innovator active during the fertile 1990s Detroit scene and from the era when he and fellow 3 Chairs project members Moodymann, Rick Wilhite and Marcellus Pittmann were some of the city’s dominant forces, this will be the first time he’s brought his five-piece live band and their Motor City footwork dance crew to these parts. In fact, the Teddy’s Get Down show and tour represents his first live set with a full band for ten years.

‘I started the band to take myself out of my comfort zone and it took me really far out of my comfort zone,’ he explains (via email – he tends to avoid the phone). ‘A DJ hides behind the selections he makes of pre-recorded material, and it’s easy to forget that at some point a person or group

of people created those sounds in unison, in real time. In modern music there’s less of this phenomenon but when you are put into a position of being human in rhythm, in sync with other humans in public, you really get to face how special and how difficult that is.’

Asked what audiences can expect from a live show which features Parrish and Amp Fiddler (a prolific producer in his own right) squaring off on beats and keys alongside a bassist, drummer and guitarist, he tells us to ‘expect fun, expect musicianship, expect to hear interpretations of some of my prerecorded songs and expect to see those songs being interpreted in dance. Expect to get down!’ Will we see this set again?

‘We’ll leave that up to the future. But if people keep asking us back, we’ll be back.’

(David Pollock)

David ‘Ram Jam’ Rodigan The veteran broadcaster and much-revered reggae selector makes a rare appearance, playing reggae, dub, ska and dancehall, with support from Scotland’s proudest dub export, Mungo’s Hi-Fi. The Arches, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jul. Awesome Tapes From Africa From hip hop to juju, griot to ethiojazz, Brian Shimkovitz’s choice of tunes are united by their provenance – collected from his travels across the African continent – and their unwavering ability to raise energy levels. See preview, page 66. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul, and Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug. Shoot Your Shot A new, hi-NRG jolt to the Glasgow scene, celebrating the more outrageous side of clubbing. See column, page 67. The Poetry Club, Glasgow, Sat 2 Aug. Ostgut Ton showcase Techno collective Animal Farm present the first label showcase in Scotland for the Berlin behemoth, extending the dancing hours to fit in a wealth of names including Marcel Dettmann, Function and more. Art School, Glasgow, Sat 2 Aug.

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GLASGOW Events are listed by day of the week then sorted alphabetically.

Submit listings at least 14 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Glasgow listings are compiled by Claire Hoyda.

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Thursday Glasgow Awesome Tapes From Africa at CCA. 31 Jul, 11pm. £5–£7. Since 2006 Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure sounds from across the continent.

As a DJ he brings the blog to life with sets that blend folkloric pop, dancefloor gems and hip-hop. See preview, right.

FREE Beat Surfing at Stereo. 24 Jul, 9.30pm–1am. Funky electro, swing, nu jazz and balkan.

Jelly Baby and Rubbermensch

at O2 ABC. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5 in advance; £6 on the door. A night for indie, electro and pop lovers.

Sub Rosa at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. House-led student night from residents Spittal, Junior G and Ray Vose. Upcoming guests include Groovement (16 Jul) and Moxie (23 Jul).

Walk ‘n’ Skank with Mungo’s Hi Fi at Berkeley Suite. Weekly 11pm–3am.

£3 before midnight; £5 after. Reggae and dancehall session with residents Mungo’s Hi Fi and guests.

Friday Glasgow Argonaut Sounds Reggae Soundsystem at the Poetry Club. 11

Jul, 10pm–2am. £5. The Argonaut Sounds team return playing roots, reggae and dancehall all on vinyl.

Cymatic Response at the Poetry Club. 1 Aug, 10pm–2am. £5. All analogue party with Perseus Traxx and Marco Bernardi.

David Rodigan at the Arches. 25 Jul, 10pm–3am. £12. Reggae from the MBE award holder.

Fantasma and Auntie Flo at the Arches. 18 Jul, 10pm–3am. £5. South African supergroup Fantasma and Highlife’s Auntie Flo join together to celebrate Nelson Mandela.

Glue at the Flying Duck. 25 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Indie, old and new punk and electro with the Glue lads.

Gui Borrato at SWG3. 15 Aug, 10pm–2am. £15. Electronic music from the Brazilian.

Intergalactic at the Flying Duck. 18 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5 (£3). Far out dancing.

No Klingons allowed.

Numbers at the Sub Club. 18 Jul, 11pm–4am. £10. One of Glasgow’s most eclectic clubbing successes goes from strength to strength and celebrates their 11th birthday with Paul Johnson & Spencer. See preview, page 68.

Strangeways at the Admiral. 1 Aug, 8pm. £5. A regular tribute night to The Smiths and Morrissey, with a proud fan club atmosphere and aesthetic, uninhibited dancing and more daffs/ gladioli than you can shake a stick at. All proceeds raised go to charity.

Too Nice at the Art School. 11 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Phonk, hip hop and R&B party with Bessa, J Leslie and Heckter.

We Should Hang Out More at La Cheetah. 1 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. Expect a night of disco in all forms.

Saturday Glasgow Birdcage at Saint Judes. 19 Jul, 9pm–3am. £5–£7 in advance; £10 on the door. See LGBT listings.

Crimes of the Future at Berkeley Suite. 19 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Andrew Weatherall associates Scott Fraser and Timothy J Fairplay embark on a new project, playing Krautrock, electronica, dub and everything in between.

WORLD

AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA

Saramago Café, CCA Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul; Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug. Awesome Tapes From Africa began when ethnomusicology student Brian Shimkovitz decided to share the music he’d collected on his travels. ‘When I first went to West Africa in 2002, there were almost nothing but tapes in the markets,’ he explains. ‘When I heard something cool on the radio and asked what it was and searched for it, it was always on tape. After I spent a year in 2004 / 2005 doing research on hip hop in Ghana, I moved to Brooklyn. I was sitting in my apartment one day with my roommate looking at these hundreds of tapes I’d brought back from West Africa and I just said, “I am gonna start a blog called Awesome Tapes From Africa”.’

The blog, and now label, has become a portal to obscure and amazing sounds from across the continent: hip hop to juju, griot to ethiojazz, gospel to house. ‘Bottom-line for me is I love music that has this indescribable energy. It can be acoustic or electronic, modern or traditional. But my focus on posting tapes revolves around these questions: is this music famous where it comes from? Does this music sound completely different from what we normally get on our record store shelves outside the continent?’

Shimkovitz never imagined he’d become a DJ, but he loves ‘taking the sounds to humans in a live context.

I play 100% on tapes and it’s a pain sometimes to get good decks at clubs but it’s super fun!’ Having played Optimo’s New Year party, he’s looking forward to these latest Scottish dates. ‘Everyone was happy and friendly and dancing like crazy. I guess that’s New Year’s Eve, but it’s also Glasgow and Scotland from what I can tell. So I have a feeling Edinburgh and Glasgow this time around will be pretty exciting.’ (Stewart Smith)

David Guetta at Bellahouston Park. 16 Aug, 4pm. £55. Big hands in the air dance beats from one of the biggest names in EDM. Part of Glasgow Summer Sessions.

Deception’s First Birthday at Audio. 2 Aug, 7pm–3am. £8–£10. Help them celebrate in style.

Heartbeat at 69 Below. 26 Jul, 9pm–4am. £6. Number 81 in the top 100 DJs in the world.

Hollywood Boulevard at Blackfriars Basement. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. Boogie on down to soul, electro, funk and celebrate the music no matter what time of year.

Melbourne bOz at 69 Below. 19 Jul, 11pm–4am. £6–£10. Scotland’s first night dedicated to Melbourne bounce presents Uberjak’d.

Ostgut Ton Showcase at the Art School. 2 Aug, 6pm–3am. £2030. Techno collective Animal Farm present the first label showcase in Scotland for the Berlin behemoth Pretty Ugly at the Admiral. 9 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5–£6. The Pretty Ugly girls play sexy, glamorous indie rock’n’roll, electro beats, 60s soul and experiment with some new artists to get everyone in the mood for dirty dancing.

Subculture at the Sub Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £10. Glasgow’s wellestablished house institution continues to reign supreme, with residents Harri and Domenic and occasional big-name guests.

Upcoming guests include Jasper James (19 Jul).

Shoot Your Shot at the Poetry Club. 2 Aug, 10pm–2am. £4. A new, hi-NRG jolt to the Glasgow scene, celebrating the more outrageous side of clubbing. See column, page 67.

TYCI at Bloc+. 19 Jul & 16 Aug, 11pm– 3am. Free before midnight; £2 after. A club and live event from TYCI, a Glasgow collective run for women by women. Live sets from pop outfits Thee AHs (19 Jul) and Swim Team (16 Aug).

FREE Valhalla at Ivory Blacks. Weekly 11.30pm–3am. Heavy metal, power metal, black metal and death metal. Basically all the metal you could ever want.

The Warehouse at SWG3. 9 Aug, 10pm–2am. £8–£10 in advance.

Guest nights from good DJs including Dopplereffekt and Objekt (9 Aug) and Jimmy Edgar & Sensu (23 Aug).

Sunday Glasgow Disco Badger at Bamboo. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £tbc. DJ Kash, Alfredo

Crolla, Dominic Martin and Gerry Lyons play hip hop, house, funk and electro.

For the Record at La Cheetah. 10 Aug, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after. House and techno night featuring Dominic Martin (Lost My Dog) back-toback with Illyus & Barriento.

Sunday Roaster at the Garage.

Weekly 11pm–3am. £4. DJs chuck tunes at you while you dance wildly.

Monday Glasgow Burn at the Buff Club. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3 (free with trade wage slip).

Burn provides all the disco songs you’ve forgotten about and the ones you can’t forget. Presented by Normski, Zeus and Mash.

Heat at Viper. Weekly 9pm–2am. Free before 10.30pm; £5 after (£3). Urban, house and student anthems from DJ Ross McMillan.

FREE Soul at Ad Lib. Weekly 11pm–3am. Felmonious Munk spins 45s from the 60s and 70s.

Tuesday Glasgow #tag at the Garage. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £6 (£4). Party anthems to cure the soul.

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Juicy Tuesday at Kushion.

Weekly 10pm–3am. £6 (£4). A night to entertain the masses across two rooms featuring hip hop, indie pop, electro and R&B.

Wednesday Glasgow Disco Riot at the Garage. Weekly

11pm–3am. £6 (£4). DJ Craig Guild plays the best of the charts, house and R&B. FREE Not Moving at Nice’n’Sleazy. 16 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. DJs from Glasgow’s underground music scene.

FREE So Weit So Gut at Nice’n’Sleazy. 23 Jul, 11.30pm–3am. All vinyl club night of tropicalia and leftfield house.

Theo Parrish at the Art School.

16 Jul, 7pm. £18. House legend and Detroit-based producer Theo Parrish swerves between house, funk, disco and techno. See preview, page 65.

Events are listed by day of the week then sorted alphabetically.

Submit listings at least 14 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Edinburgh listings are compiled by Claire Hoyda.

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Thursday Edinburgh FREE Boteco Salsa Club at Boteco do Brasil. Weekly 9.30pm–12.30am.

Salsa club night with Yamil Ferrera and Yainer Carbonell from Cuba.

FREE Camp at CC Blooms. Weekly 11pm–3am. Deejay Bird spins camp classics from Hi-NRG and disco to pop.

I AM at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm–3am. £tbc. Electronica and house supplied by Beta and Kappa, this time on the East Coast.

FREE Juice at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. Trap, dubstep and grime from Floating Boy and Dan Juice. Upcoming guests include Martyn (31 Jul – £10 entry fee).

Lone at Sneaky Pete’s. 10 Jul, 11pm– 3am. £tbc. The Nottingham producer plays a late-night set of stark, blissed-out tracks to help celebrate Sneaky Pete’s sixth birthday.

Route 94 at the Liquid Room. 14 Aug, 11pm–3am. £12.50. Enigmatic young dance producer.

FREE Smash & Grab at Pilgrim.

Weekly 9pm–1am. Mash-up of deep house, electro and rock anthems by DJ Mike Young.

Friday Edinburgh Bixon at Sneaky Pete’s. 15 Aug,

11pm–3am. £10 in advance. Slick hip house night featuring Prosumer. The Panorama bar resident at Berlin’s infamous Berghain delivers a long long set of fathoms-deep house where emotions rule.

DJ Rankin at City Nightclub. 1 Aug, 10.30pm–3am. £3. Save the rave with DJ Rankin.

Fly at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm– 3am. £5–£7. Night of house, dubstep, garage and UK funky from a selection of Edinburgh DJs. FREE Friday Night at the Parlour Bar. Weekly 9pm–1am. Old school R&B, soul classics, rock’n’roll and garage punk.

In Deep at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. Selection informed by Bill Brewster’s three and a half decades of writing about dance music. Upcoming guests include Yves, Cheers and Wasabi (11 Jul), Jasper James and Huggy (18 Jul), House of Traps (1 Aug) and Deep Shit (8 Aug).

GLASGOW

Admiral 72 Waterloo Street, 221 7705.

Arta 62 Albion St, 552 2101.

Bamboo 51 West Regent Street, 332 1067/8.

Basura Blanca at the Brunswick Hotel 106–108 Brunswick Street, 552 0001.

WNB: Wednesday Night Bamboo

EDINBURGH

VENUES The Arches 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000.

at Bamboo. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £tbc.

Bamboo’s big Wednesday night party, with Gavin Sommerville, Andy Wilson and DJ Toast.

Blackfriars 36 Bell Street, 552 5924.

Box 431 Sauchiehall Street, 332 5431.

SHOOT YOUR SHOT Could this be the funnest club night to hit Glasgow for a long time? Embracing the flamboyant, the eccentric and the downright outrageous, the music policy is quite simply one of taking you HIGHER – caps lock on – with a vibe nestled somewhere between the debauchery of an underground NY disco and the anything-goes freedom of early 90s rave. When club founder Suzanne Bonner tells you to come as you are, she really means it.

What inspired you to start the night?

I wanted to bring an element of fun to the Glasgow dancefloor.

There’s always room for that.

What can we expect?

A night incandescent with nonsense. Bring your party poppers – although, there will be some provided at the door. One punter said that he wouldn’t feel out of place turning up in a pair of Speedos.

Please do.

What about the music?

A smelting pot of hi-NRG, Italodisco, and every other form of fist-pumping, energetic music that gets you shaking your bahookie.

What other nights have inspired you?

I’ve always admired any night that has a strong sense of community and party spirit, and Glasgow has provided many. Optimo, Supermax, Utter Gutter and Hot Mess are all standouts. I was too young to recall Love Boutique but have heard only superb anecdotes.

What’s happening at the next one?

On Saturday 2 August, we’ll be collaborating with two artists at Obstacle 17 – Katie Shambles and Blobby Depp – on their exhibition Cyberjunkie, before providing a concoction of local seducers in the form of DJs, performance artists and visuals prior to the night.

(Rosie Davies) Shoot Your Shot takes place bi-monthly at the Poetry Club, Glasgow, with the next night on Sat 2 Aug.

Venues | CLUBS

Braehead Arena Kings Inch Road, 886 8300.

The Buff Club 142 Bath Lane, 248 1777.

Bunker 193–199 Bath Street, 229 1427.

Carnival Arts Centre 34 Albion Street, 946 6193.

The Cathouse 15 Union Street, 248 6606.

Classic Grand 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820.

Club 30 22 Cambridge Street, 332 3437.

Common 25 Royal Exchange Square, 0845 166 6003.

Distill 1102–1106 Argyle Street, 337 3006.

O’Couture 373–377 Sauchiehall Street, 333 3940.

The Ferry Anderston Quay, the Broomielaw, 01698 360085.

The Old Fruitmarket Candleriggs, 353 8000.

Firewater 341 Sauchiehall Street, 354 0350.

Òran Mór 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200.

The Flying Duck 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450.

Polo Lounge 84 Wilson Street, 0845 659 5905.

The Garage 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120.

Queen Margaret Union University Gardens, 339 9784.

Ivory Blacks 56 Oswald Street, 248 4114.

The Shed 26 Langside Avenue, 649 5020.

Karbon 4 Buchanan Street, Springfield Court, 221 8099.

Stereo 20–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254.

Karibu 95 Hope Street, 221 7002.

Kushion 158–166 Bath Street, 0845 166 6031.

Cav 3 West Toll Cross, 228 3252.

The Caves Niddry Street South, 557 8989.

CC Blooms 23–24 Greenside Place, 556 9331.

The Citrus Club Grindlay Street, 622 7086.

City: Edinburgh 1a Market Street, 226 9560.

Club Tropicana 23 Lothian Road, 0844 891 0855.

Electric Circus 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

Universal 157 Sauchiehall Lane, 332 8899.

Nice’n’Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900.

O2 Academy 121 Eglinton Street, 08744 477 2000.

Castle Club 3 Queensferry Street Lane, 467 7215.

The Tunnel 84 Mitchell Street, 204 1000.

Milan 42 Queen Street, 548 8002.

The Courtyard 84–86 West Nile Street, 352 9977.

The Bongo Club 66 Cowgate, 558 7604.

SWG3 Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246.

Maggie May’s 50 Trongate, Merchant City, 548 1350.

Corinthian Ingram Street, 552 1101.

EDINBURGH

Sub Club Jamaica Street, 248 4600.

La Cheetah 72 Queen Mary Street, 221 4851.

O2 ABC 300 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232.

Strathclyde Students’ Union University of Strathclyde, Students Association, 90 John Street, 567 5023.

Viper 500 Great Western Road, Kelvinbridge, 334 0560.

The Winchester Club 49 Bell Street, 552 3586.

Espionage 4 India Buildings, Victoria Street, 477 7007.

GHQ 4 Picardy Place, 0845 166 6024.

Henry’s Cellar Bar 8–16a Morrison Street, 629 4101.

Potterrow Teviot, Bristo Square, 650 9195.

Shanghai Le Monde, 16 George Street, 270 3900.

Silk King Stables Road, 229 7986.

Sin Wilkie House, Cowgate, 07788 756258.

Hive 15–17 Niddry Street, 556 0444.

Sneaky Pete’s 73 Cowgate, 225 1757.

The Jazz Bar 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

Studio 24 Calton Road, 558 3758.

The Liquid Room 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564.

Lulu (under Tiger Lily) 125b George Street, 225 5005.

Mood Omni, Greenside Place, 550 1640.

Opal Lounge 51 George Street, 226 2275.

Opium 71 Cowgate, 225 8382.

Third Door 45–47 Lothian Street, 225 6313.

The Voodoo Rooms 19a West Register Street, 556 7060.

The Wee Red Bar Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 14 42.

Why Not? 14 George Street, 624 8311.

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CLUBS FREE Latin Connection at Boteco do Brasil. Weekly 10pm–3am. Party the South American way with DJ Don Salazar from Colombia.

Lux at Why Not? Weekly 10pm–3am.

Free before 11pm; £6 before midnight; £8 after. Joe XO, Robbie Tolson and Johnny Frenetic provide dance, house and electro with monthly special guest DJs. FREE Out of the Closet at CC Blooms. Weekly 8–11pm. Belle and Bird set the decks up in the bar and play chilled out Balearic beats to bring the essence of Ibiza to CC Blooms.

Planet Earth at Citrus Club. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £6 after. Music from 1976 through to 1989.

In other words, a healthy dose of punk, new wave, new romantic and electro-pop (now with added 90s).

Propaganda at the Liquid Room.

Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5. The UK’s biggest indie club night comes to Edinburgh.

Road Trip at Electric Circus. Weekly 10pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 after.

An audio-visual vacation with the best mixtapes to match.

FREE The Soundbank at Pivo Caffè.

Weekly 10.30pm–3am. An eclectic mix of indie, punk, hip hop and more.

Substance at the Bongo Club. 11 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5. Edinburgh’s longrunning underground techno party with special guest MGUN. Unpop! at Wee Red Bar. 15 Aug, 11pm–3am. £4. ‘Indie pop dance party’ of C86, twee and janglesome indie from the likes of Camera Obscura, Pavement, Felt, Belle & Sebastian and many more.

Warm Fuzzy at Wee Red Bar. 1 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. A night for dancing, art and making friends with a deep house and funky electronic soundtrack.

XY at 511. 25 Jul, 10.30pm–3am. £tbc.

Adrenaline fuelled house, electro, garage and techno night.

FREE iKandy and Hip Pop at CC Blooms. Weekly 11pm–3am. Resident Dejay Bird is your mixologist who creates a cocktail of tunes for your dancing pleasure on the ground floor while DJ Shazza expects you to throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just DO care in the basement.

Saturday Edinburgh FREE Automatic at CC Blooms. 12 Jul, 11pm–3am. Resident DJ Jon Pleased Wimmin plays bouncy house and electro disco screams.

Beep Beep, Yeah! at Electric Circus. 12 Jul & 9 Aug, 10.30pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £6 after. A staunchly retro soundtrack of 50s rock, 60s grooves and 70s psychedelia.

The Egg at Wee Red Bar. 19 Jul & 16 Aug, 11pm–3am. £2 before midnight; £5 after. Indie, 60s garage, electro, northern soul, ska, 70s punk and new wave at this Edinburgh institution.

Gasoline Dance Machine at Cabaret Voltaire. 19 Jul & 16 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5–£7. A night of mixed genres and mutant disco at this night from Cheap Picasso and Rob Ralston.

Jackhammer at the Liquid Room.

19 Jul, 10pm–5am. £10 in advance; £13 on the door. Techno night with residents Wolfjazz and Keyte and some big names guesting. Seven hour special featuring Technasia, Hans Bouffmyhre and Neil Landstrumm.

Karnival at the Liquid Room. 2 Aug, 10.30pm–5am. £17.50. Forward thinking house night with a four-hour set from techno legend Ben Klock.

Messenger Sound System at the Bongo Club. 12 Jul, 11pm–3am. £6 before midnight; £7 after. The mighty Messenger Sound System blasts out the best in righteous reggae, dub and roots with MC Ras Echo. This session presents special guest Earl Sixteen.

Ministry of Sound Presents: Ibiza Annual at City Nightclub. 26 Jul,

10.30pm–3am. £5–£7. DJs play house, electro and dance.

Monkee Mickee. Edinburgh’s longest continually running indie night.

Think Twice at Cabaret Voltaire. 12 Jul & 9 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5–£7. Deep soulful house and electronic funk from residents Gareth Sommerville, Martin Valentine and Kev Stevens.

Thunder Disco Club at Cabaret Voltaire. 2 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5–£7.

Nineties house, techno and ‘sex disco’ from Jube and Rory at one of Glasgow’s finest young parties.

WN Saturdays at Why Not?. Weekly 10pm–3am. £6 before 11pm; £8 after.

Pedro Baptista (Dirty Sexy) and Nick G (Tipsy) lay down the beats for a Saturday night of dancing.

Wasabi Disco at Sneaky Pete’s. 19 Jul & 16 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. Another dose of disco, new wave, punk and New York grooves at this ‘no holds barred disco death match’.

Sunday Edinburgh

HOUSE

NUMBERS 11 WITH PAUL JOHNSON Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 18 Jul.

That’s the thing about Numbers: they know how to throw a party.

Turning 11 this summer, the label, founded in Glasgow but now straddling Glasgow and London in terms of the scope and attitudes of their parties and records, is enjoying another busy year, with huge releases from Deadboy, Darq E Freaker and Doc Daneeka. Thankfully, they’re not so busy as to overlook an excuse to book one of their longtime inspirations for dates in Glasgow and London to help celebrations along.

Releasing his first record 24 years ago – Overload on Dance Mania – Paul Johnson is one of the true Chicago originals to emerge from the city’s hallowed turn-of-the-decade scene. Whilst his first two albums, Bump Talkin and Feel The Music, were two of the most talked-about records of the time – one of the first to sample R&B tracks over his own beats, retrospectively tagging him as one of the founders of ghetto house – he was also releasing scores of underground EPs, the sort of records everyone in the scene had in their bags, but didn’t necessarily know came from Johnson.

And whilst for many in Europe it was the still-enormous house hit Get Get Down that cemented his name in their psyche, for Numbers it was another Dance Mania release, A Nite Life Thang, and in particular a track called Feel My M.F. Bass – ‘a jacking monster of a track which was the soundtrack to many a party for us’ says label head Richard Chater. ‘The B-Side, U So Silly, is also one of the most perverse things out there’.

With Numbers co-founder Spencer acting as DJ for the night, this will be a happy birthday indeed. (Rosie Davies)

Motif at 511. 26 Jul, 10.30pm–3am. £6 in advance; £8 on the door. Fresh new club night event dedicated to bringing the finest underground house music to the capital’s subterranean party hotspot with special guest Kevin Over from Germany.

Outcasts at Sneaky Pete’s. 2 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5. We Own residents Kottis and Kirk Douglas launch their new shindig.

Pocket Aces at Cabaret Voltaire. 26 Jul, 11pm–3am. £5–£7. At Pocket Aces dancing is a priority with high energy disco, 80s electro, Afrobeat and house to the fore.

Pop Rocks at Electric Circus.

19 Jul & 16 Aug, 10.30pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £6 after. Night of 80s classics and 90s pop hits from the Beep Beep, Yeah! DJs. Rewind at the Liquid Room. 12 Jul, 10.30pm–3am. £5 (£3). Mick Cool, Stevie C and Shuggy Bear return for this Edinburgh favourite of 70s, 80s and 90s hits.

Ride at Sneaky Pete’s. 26 Jul, 11pm–3am. £3. Electro, indie and hip hop from Lil Checks and Larry Grillz.

Run the Groove at the Mash House. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £3–£5.

Two rooms of disco, breaks and mad funky joints from Anything Disco and Fabrika de Funk.

Saturday Night Beaver at the Annexe at the Liquid Room. 19 Jul, 10.30pm–3am. £3 before 11.30pm; £4–£5 after. SNB is back in the safe hands of Trendy Wendy, Mama D, The Funky Diva and Wee Taco Mel. Souloco at 511. 19 Jul, 10.30pm– 3am. £5. Deep techy house and underground electronica.

Speaker Bite Me at Electric Circus. 2 Aug, 10.30pm–3am. £5 before midnight; £6 after. The Evol DJs take charge at this alternative disco night of indie, hip hop and a dash of electro, which features everything from Dizzee Rascal to The Cribs.

Tease Age at Citrus Club. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. Free before 11pm; £5 after. This indie stalwart dishes up everything from swinging 60s hits to baggy Manchester faves as well as a host of current NME chart botherers with DJ

Cav Sundays at Cav. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3–£4 before midnight; £4–£5 after. Edinburgh’s longest running studenty charty party.

FREE The Club at the Hive. Weekly 10pm–3am. Big student chart, pop and indie anthems.

Coalition at Sneaky Pete’s. Weekly 11pm–3am. £5. Drum & bass, breaks, dubstep, techno and electro from the resident team. Upcoming guests include Just Kiddin’ (17 Aug – £5 entry fee).

FREE Dive! at Henry’s Cellar Bar. 27 Jul, 8pm. Eclectic underground queer party, blending spoken word, live music and comedy with a kaleidoscopic soundtrack and a filthy disco to finish.

Dive! is only blimmin’ one year old!

Celebrate by getting in for free and dancing til you cannot stand.

Monday Edinburgh Flare at Why Not?. Weekly 10pm– 3am. £4–£5. Cheesy music old and new with a little bit of house and electro thrown into the mix.

FREE The Disc Co at CC Blooms.

28 Jul, 11pm–3am. Dale Lush plus DJ Michelle and guests a mash-up of kitsch and current house and disco.

FREE Rockeoke at Opium. Weekly 10pm–3am. A metal/rock take on karaoke.

Tuesday Edinburgh FREE Deliverance at Opium. Weekly 10pm–3am. Industrial and EBM night for a mix of metal and dance beats.

Hector’s House at Cabaret Voltaire. Weekly 11pm–3am. £3–£5.

Dedicated to house in its many forms, from vocal to progressive via disco, electro and Chicago grooves.

FREE Soul Jam at Sneaky Pete’s.

Weekly 11pm–3am. Old school, real deal soul, funk and hip hop.

Wednesday Edinburgh FREE Cookie at the Hive. Weekly 10pm–3am. Wednesday night cheesy pop and indie.

Tribe at the Liquid Room. Weekly 10.30pm–3am. £5 (£4). Students’ night for partying.

FREE Witness at Sneaky Pete’s.

Weekly 11pm–3am. The freshest cuts in bass music, house, garage, funky & grime with residents Ross Blackwax and Fault Lines plus a big guest every month.

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Caitlin Moran The popular newspaper columnist, author and now sitcom writer pops into town to tell us how you build a girl.

Expect frank and funny observations. See feature, page 44. Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Fri 11 Jul. Frankie Boyle A single night of this guy’s work in progress is superior to some comedians’ entire careers. That’s the kind of sweeping statement that Frank would probably hate. True though. The Stand, Edinburgh, Sun 13, 20, 27 Jul.

LEE EVANS A physical comic who can fill vast stadia with ease

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t’s an incredible 21 years since Lee Evans won the Perrier Award, and here he is back drenching the capital’s stages in the month of August with his high-energy brand of physical comedy. Although the humble art of stand-up was cultivated for a dimly lit and smoky cellar / basement / dungeon, you really do not want to be too up-close and personal with this rubbery Essex-raised lad.

If you had the choice, would you rather be in the front row of a 50-seater cabin or in Row YYY of an enormodome? The latter, thanks.

And Evans himself is quite the fan of those vast spaces. ‘When I was starting out, people said that arenas were too big,’ he says. ‘But I think you can still have a great night in an arena. It’s a real event. It’s not just about the comedy, it’s about the music, the lighting, and the set design. All of those things can make

you feel a certain way. I want to reach the very back of the arena with this show: that’s what it’s about. It’s about doing a big, sod-off gig that touches everyone in the venue.’

Although he believes he now has a solid connection with his audience, he won’t ever take them for granted. When you emerge from a Lee Evans show, you know you’ve watched someone hard at work. ‘I aim to put on a show where people say, “I really, really enjoyed that. For three hours, I forgot about all the rubbish going on in the rest of my life.”

I want them to come out afterwards saying: “Wow!”’ And, depending on where they were sitting, not wiping someone else’s sweat off their clothes. (Brian Donaldson) Edinburgh Playhouse, Sun 3 & Mon 4 Aug.

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Derren Brown When he’s on form (which is most of the time) there really isn’t anyone to touch Dezza for pure entertainment. Infamous is his latest bafflingly brilliant stage show. See My Comedy Hero, page 71. King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Mon 14–Sat 19 Jul. Stewart Francis The Canadian gag machine drops by to his local (sort-of) for a set full of cracking one-liners and future award-winning jokes (probably). The Stand, Edinburgh, Thu 17–Sat 20 Jul. Funny in Falkirk A stirringly strong lineup for the good people of F’kirk including Andrew Lawrence, Janey Godley and Phill Jupitus. Various venues, Falkirk, Fri 18–Tue 29 Jul. Lee Evans See preview, left. Edinburgh Playhouse, Sun 3 & Mon 4 Aug. Best of the Fest to the West Embra goes to Glesga with Stephen K Amos introducing some hot Fringe acts, including Jason Cook and the Umbilical Brothers (pictured) on 9 Aug with Abandoman and Frisky & Mannish a mere one week later. Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Sat 9 & Sat 16 Aug.

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COMEDY 7272. 8.30pm. £2. Weekly beginners’ showcase, this week featuring Iain Stirling and Stuart Murphy.

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Tuesday 15

Glasgow

Derren Brown: Infamous King’s

Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. 7.30pm. £25–£45. See Mon 14.

FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450.

8.30pm. Chris Henry hosts some of the Scottish comedy scene’s freshest talent.

Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £2.

Weekly beginners’ showcase. With Iain Stirling.

Thursday 10

Glasgow

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. Graham Barrie hosts some up-and-comers.

The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Billy Kirkwood MCs, with Gavin Webster, Felicity Ward and Keiron Nicholson.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

Weekly special guests and MC Janey Godley at this new comedy night.

Edinburgh

The Comedy Club 4 Kids Workshop The Bongo Club, 66

Cowgate, 558 8844. 2.30–5pm. £20. A special workshop for kids to hone their comedy skills before testing them in front of an audience. Ages 7–11 from 10am; ages 12–15 from 2.30pm.

Comedy Night Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £3. Six of the city’s top comedians road-test new funnies.

Men With Coconuts The Canons’ Gait, 232 Canongate, 556 4481. 8.30pm. £5 (£4). Improv comedy from Fringe alteregos Impro FX. The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£7; members £5). With impro-a-go-gos Stu & Garry, plus Ro Campbell.

Friday 11

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. Patrick Rolink headlines with support from Ross Leslie, Daisy Earl and Brendan Breslin.

The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 10 for line-up.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. With Brendan Riley, Larry Dean, Phil Walker and David Hadingham.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10.

Patrick Rolink headlines with support from Ross Leslie, Daisy Earl, Rob Crosbie and MC Viv Gee.

Edinburgh

Caitlin Moran Festival Theatre,

Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £20. Want to know how to build a girl?

Our Caitlin shows / tells you how. See feature, page 44.

The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £9. Ben Verth presents top local and visiting comedians.

FREE Second Friday of the Month Improv Show The Kilderkin, 67 Canongate, 556 2101. 8.30pm. The A to Z Players make up comedy right in front of your very eyes.

The Friday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 10 for line-up.

Saturday 12

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Paul McDaniel and Chris Thorburn standing in for Daisy Earl and Brendan Breslin.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 11.

Edinburgh

Work in Progress: Des Clarke, Kai Humphries, Susie McCabe, Keir McAllister and Vladimir McTavish The Stand, 5 York Place,

LIVE REVIEW

ADAM BUXTON PRESENTS BUG O2 ABC, Glasgow, Thu 26 Jun

Paying homage to the XL Recordings label, this fond tribute inhibited the nerdily enthusiastic Adam Buxton from showcasing any terrible music videos. But they weren’t missed. Instead, between groundbreaking promos for the likes of the Prodigy, Radiohead and the White Stripes, Dr Buckles indulged his appetite for digital mischief with a brutally hilarious re-dub of the Beach Boys and wicked Rolf Harris visual gag.

Dusting off some vintage Baaad Dad commentary on the Prodigy from The Adam and Joe Show and giving his kids’ (manipulated) take on the Essex pyros, the only seriously duff sequence came from his po-faced singer / songwriter character Tim Fuckit at the XL offices in the noughties. It was a stilted, mirth-free exchange that ought never to have seen the light of day.

Regardless, the affection Buxton is still held in was reflected by the patience this audience extended his sporadic technical cock-ups, and by the tipsy guy who unexpectedly accepted the invitation for someone to charge the stage. As ever, Buxton quipped with semijoking envy about his sometime comedy partner Joe Cornish’s film success, and spoke with a curator’s knowledge on his favoured artists like Tyler, the Creator.

Of course, the show reiterated the brilliant invention of video directors such as Hammer & Tongs and Michel Gondry, even if they can’t hope to compete with the YouTube comments beneath their films for entertainment value. Just what it is about the misanthropy, stupidity and renegade spelling of these posts that always makes me weep with laughter, I’m not sure. But Buxton has a connoisseur’s eye and inhabits them with impish wit and glee, capturing the internet as a shouty bellend’s festival of ignorance and self-entitled opinion.

(Jay Richardson)

Comedy @ The State The State

Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159.

9pm. £9 (£6). Bruce Fummey and Chris Broomfield are among the acts playing the basement of joy tonight.

The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 10 for line-up.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but Paul McDaniel and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd replace Daisy Earl and Rob Crosbie.

Edinburgh

The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £9. See Fri 11.

The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 11 for line-up.

Sunday 13

Glasgow

Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands

Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). Lo-fi comedy from resident Redmond.

Edinburgh

FREE Stu and Garry’s Free Improv Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. More improv from Stuart Murphy and Garry Dobson.

Frankie Boyle: Work in Progress The Stand, 5 York Place,

558 7272. 5pm. £7. A pretty special chance to catch The Boyle in a new work in progress show.

FREE Capital Comedy Club Moriarty, 161 Lothian Road, 228 5558.

6pm. A night of established and new stand-up comedians.

Footlights Comedy Edinburgh Footlights, 7 Spittal Street, 229 6466.

7.30pm. £3. New and experienced comedians for a Sunday night.

The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). Generally relaxed comedy, this week with Ray Bradshaw.

558 7272. 8.30pm. £7. The five comedians test-drive their new shows.

Wednesday 16

Glasgow

New Material Night Vespbar, 14

Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. Julia Sutherland hosts a night for comedians to try out their latest gags.

Benefit for Quarriers The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £8. Gary Little, Scott Agnew, Ashley Storrie and Raymond Mearns band together to raise cash for Quarriers.

Thursday 17

Glasgow

Derren Brown: Infamous King’s

Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. 7.30pm. £25–£45. See Mon 14.

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. See Thu 10.

The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

8.30pm. £10 (£7; members £5). With Bruce Morton, Andrew Bird, Mat Ewins and host Raymond Mearns. See 5 Things, page 71.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

See Thu 10.

Edinburgh

Comedy Night Beehive Inn, 18

Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £3. See Thu 10.

The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Jojo Sutherland is joined by Stewart Francis, Foil, Arms & Hogg and Davey Connor.

Friday 18

Glasgow

Glasgow

Derren Brown: Infamous King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. 7.30pm. £27.50–£45. See Mon 14.

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Chris Forbes, That Funny Blind Guy, Ally Houston and Jeannie Bottle-Jones.

The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

8.30pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 17 for line-up.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. With Bruce Devlin, Vladimir McTavish, Ray Bradshaw and Gary Little.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10.

See Fri 11, but with Chris Forbes, That Funny Blind Guy, Ally Houston and Paul McDougall.

Edinburgh

The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £9. See Fri 11.

Monday 14 Derren Brown: Infamous King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. 7.30pm. £25–£45. The master of mentalism takes his newest show on the road. See My Comedy Hero, page 71.

The Colour Ham The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £5 (£3). Magical-comedy sketch group, comprising Colin McLeod, Gavin Oattes and Kevin McMahon, mix absurdity, magic and mentalism. See preview, page 72.

Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558

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5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 17, but with Davey Connor.

Falkirk

Funny in Falkirk Various venues, Falkirk, 08444 818108. Times vary.

Prices vary. Falkirk delivers the mirth via live comedy, films and art with a top-notch line-up of familiar comedy faces, including Andrew Lawrence, Des Clarke, Janey Godley, Fred MacAulay and Phill Jupitus. Until Tue 29 Jul.

Saturday 19

Glasgow

Derren Brown: Infamous

King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. 7.30pm. £27.50–£45.

See Mon 14.

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Chris Forbes, That Funny Blind Guy, Joe McKeown and Bruce Fummey.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 18.

The Saturday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

8.30pm. £15. See Thu 17 for line-up.

Comedy @ The State The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 9pm. £9

(£6). See Sat 12, but with Gary Little, Chris Forbes and Chris Broomfield.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10.

See Fri 11, but with Chris Forbes, That Funny Blind Guy, Joe McKeown and Bruce Fummey.

Edinburgh

The Beehive Comedy Club

Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171.

8.30pm. £9. See Fri 11.

The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15.

See Fri 18 for line-up.

Sunday 20

Glasgow

Footlights, 7 Spittal Street, 229 6466.

7.30pm. £3. See Sun 13.

The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). See Sun 13, but with Nick Revell.

Monday 21

Glasgow

Aye Right? How No’?: Comedy Countdown to the Referendum

The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £7 (£5). Vladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister take on the independence debate with special guests Gary Little, Susan Morrison and Alan Bissett.

Edinburgh

Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands

Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). See Sun 13; acts tba.

Edinburgh

Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558

7272. 8.30pm. £2. See Mon 14, but with Nick Revell.

Tuesday 22

FREE Stu and Garry’s Free Improv Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. See Sun 13.

Glasgow

Frankie Boyle: Work in Progress The Stand, 5 York Place,

558 7272. 5pm. £7. See Sun 13.

FREE Capital Comedy Club Moriarty, 161 Lothian Road, 228 5558.

6pm. See Sun 13.

Footlights Comedy Edinburgh

FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450.

8.30pm. See Tue 15.

Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £2. See Tue 15; acts tba.

Wednesday 23

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Glasgow

New Material Night Vespbar, 14

Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 16.

Variety Club The Stand, 333

Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

8.30pm. £10 (£8). Entertainment like they did it back in the good old days.

Thursday 24

Glasgow

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. See Thu 10.

The Thursday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

8.30pm. £10 (£7; members £5). With Nick Revell and Joe Heenan.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

See Thu 10.

Edinburgh

Comedy Night Beehive Inn, 18

Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8pm. £3. See Thu 10.

Men With Coconuts The Canons’

Gait, 232 Canongate, 556 4481. 8.30pm. £5 (£4). See Thu 10.

The Thursday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £10 (£7; members £5). Bruce Devlin hosts Silky and Dan Nightingale.

MY COMEDY HERO

DERREN BROWN

King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Mon 14–Sat 19 Jul Hopefully not being a comedian gives me licence to name someone who is well established. I can’t offer the names of any cool, underground subversives. He may still not be quite a household name in the UK but he’s undoubtedly at the top of the tree: my comedy hero is Louis CK. The best comedians, of course, make us look at life anew. They teach us something worthwhile, but tend to offer themselves as a foil to avoid the sin of preachiness. Likewise, the quality of the message justifies the most indelicate jokes. The figure of the vulnerable sage is a potent one, and when this balance between high and low status is masterfully effected by an unassuming artist like Louis CK, it can leave us improved and stunned.

Carlin did it in spades, so did Hicks and Lenny Bruce. Carlin I saw in Vegas, and I found myself smiling rather than really laughing, but his penetrating power was indubitable. Louis CK, meanwhile, leaves me weeping every time. I have never met him, and am not sure I would want to: it’s easier to bask in someone’s work when you haven’t been inevitably disappointed by them in the flesh. It’s nice to have heroes, but stars only twinkle when viewed from afar.

(As told to Brian Donaldson)

Friday 25

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Susie McCabe, Tony Coffey, Jonny Seaton and Benet George.

The Friday Show The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

8.30pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 24 for line-up.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. With Billy Kirkwood, Bryan Lacey and Stuart Mitchell.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but with Susie McCabe, Tony Coffey and Jonny Seaton and Joseph Goss.

Edinburgh

The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £9. See Fri 11.

The Friday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £12 (£10; members £6). See Thu 24 for line-up.

5 THINGS . . .

YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT . . .

BRUCE MORTON 1 In 1988, Bruce Morton became the inaugural winner of the So You Think You’re Funny? crown, a title claimed the following year by Phil Kay. Rhona Cameron and James Kirk are the other Scots who have taken that particular prize, and we could add Edinburgh-educated Miles Jupp as an honorary local victor if we’re feeling frisky.

2 Four years later, Morton was shortlisted for the Perrier Award alongside Jo Brand, John Shuttleworth and Mark Thomas (whatever became of those three?), and ultimate winners Steve Coogan and John Thomson (where are they now, etc?).

3 That show, Sin, grabbed the attention of the telly folk and in 1993 he had his own four-part Channel 4 series based on the deadly sins. For the channel’s Pot Night two years later, he presented Amsterdam by Night in which he stotted around the city’s cannabis cafés. To give you a bit of context, around that time Channel 4 aired the first episodes of Friends, ER and Father Ted. A decade later Morton was on the wireless interviewing fellow standups for Comic to Comic, featuring Julia Morris, Jenny Eclair, Andy Parsons and Jeremy Hardy.

4 Alongside Andrew Learmonth, Morton has been fronting the regular ‘satire cabaret’ of Greater Shawlands Republic. ‘We seek autonomy for the Southside of Glasgow’ is their ultimate aim. Or maybe it’s just to make people have a good old laugh. Morton also likes to wear a beret and shades from time to time.

5 He’s recently been learning to play the mandolin.

(Brian Donaldson) The Stand, Glasgow, Thu 17– Sat 19 Jul.

Saturday 26

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Susie McCabe, Tony Coffey, Ed Whitley and Struan Logan.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 25.

Glasgow Gong Show The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 9pm. £5.

See if you can go the full five minutes against the audience.

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The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but with Tony Jameson, Jonathan Pelham, Hamish Tennant and Graham Barrie.

Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 9pm. £15. See Thu 24 for line-up.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but with Susie McCabe, Tony Coffey, Ed Whitley and Marc Jennings.

Saturday 9

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Inn, 18 Grassmarket, 225 7171. 8.30pm. £9. See Fri 11.

The Saturday Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 9pm. £15. See Thu 24 for line-up.

Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park. 12pm. £10. Stephen K Amos, Hannah Gadsby, Pete Firman, Jason Cook and the Umbilical Brothers offer a taste of the Edinburgh Festival in Glasgow.

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Sam Avery, Jonathan Pelham, JD and Seppi Preston.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 8.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but with Sam Avery, Jonathan Pelham, JD and Seppi Preston.

The Beehive Comedy Club Beehive

Best of the Fest to the West

Sunday 27

Glasgow

Michael Redmond’s Sunday Service The Stand, 333 Woodlands

Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). See Sun 13; acts tba.

MAGIC / SKETCH

Edinburgh

The Stand, Glasgow, Mon 14 Jul; The Caves, Edinburgh, Thu 31 Jul– Sat 23 Aug (not Tue 12)

FREE Stu and Garry’s Free Improv Show The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 1.30pm. See Sun 13.

Frankie Boyle: Work in Progress The Stand, 5 York Place,

558 7272. 5pm. £7. See Sun 13.

FREE Capital Comedy Club Moriarty, 161 Lothian Road, 228 5558.

6pm. See Sun 13.

Footlights Comedy Edinburgh Footlights, 7 Spittal Street, 229 6466.

7.30pm. £3. See Sun 13.

The Sunday Night Laugh-In The Stand, 5 York Place, 558 7272. 8.30pm. £6 (£5; members £1). See Sun 13, but with Silky.

Monday 28

Edinburgh

Red Raw The Stand, 5 York Place, 558

7272. 8.30pm. £2. See Mon 14, but with Tony Jameson and Silky.

Tuesday 29

Glasgow

FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 8.30pm.

See Tue 15.

Red Raw The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10. See Tue 15.

Wednesday 30

Glasgow

New Material Night Vespbar, 14

Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 16.

Andrew Lawrence: Reasons to Kill Yourself The Stand, 333 Woodlands

Road, 0844 335 8879. 8.30pm. £10.

Vitriolic humour from the former double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee.

Please note: this is a preview show.

Thursday 31

Glasgow

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. See Thu 10.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked

Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

See Thu 10.

Friday 1

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Dave Williams, Owen MacGuire, Michael David Cameron and Alan Goldie.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. With Alan Anderson, Geoff Norcott and Jamie Dalgleish.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but with Dave Williams, Owen MacGuire, Michael David Cameron and Ryan Dooley.

THE COLOUR HAM

A comedian, a mentalist and a magician walk into a club. What happens next? ‘The lines are all blurred now,’ says Gav Oattes. ‘It’s not so much about the comedian, the mind reader and the mentalist any more – it’s about the Colour Ham. We’re all doing comedy; we’re all doing magic; we’re all doing mind-reading.’

The Ham trio’s prime comedy element is explaining the group’s modus operandi. Although the three members originate from distinct backgrounds in their chosen field, this coming together of different styles has melded into a sketch show that happens to feature moments of mind-reading and magic, rather than three separate entities. Not for nothing is it dubbed ‘a sketch show with special effects’.

The Colour Ham have a bi-monthly residency with the Stand in Glasgow and continue to carve their own unique place in the country’s comedy scene, helped, undoubtedly, by an enthusiasm for what they do. ‘It’s not just silliness,’ Oattes insists. ‘While it is a comedy show, we’re very, very serious about actually nailing the moment of magic and mind-reading. If we tell someone we’re going to guess their PIN, we’ll guess their PIN and they’ll shit themselves. You can take the silliness and use it to blow people’s minds a little bit.’

Their 2014 Fringe show – the third as a trio – promises a fair amount of mind-blowing, built up from their time at the Stand into something major. As Oattes advises, ‘turn up, leave your brain at the door and come and have an hour of absolute nonsense with some lovely moments of magic.’ (Kirstyn Smith)

Saturday 2

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Dave Williams, Owen MacGuire, Kalonde Kasengele and Mad Mitch.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 1.

The 10 O’Clock Show Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 10pm. £10. See Fri 11, but with Dave Williams, Owen MacGuire, Kalonde Kasengele and Mad Mitch.

Sunday 3

Edinburgh

Lee Evans: Work in Progress

Edinburgh Playhouse, 18–22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. 7.30pm. £31. An Edinburgh show in August, but not part of the Fringe: amazing! See preview, page 69.

Monday 4

Edinburgh

Lee Evans: Work in Progress

Edinburgh Playhouse, 18–22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. 7.30pm. £31. See preview, page 69.

Tuesday 5

Glasgow

FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450.

8.30pm. See Tue 15.

Wednesday 6

Glasgow

Gladstone’s Bag Presents:

Comedy Cine-Variety Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 113–117 Trongate, 553 0840. 7pm. Two programmes of silent films with live music. The 2pm show is Chaplin shorts and the 4pm line-up includes Laurel and Hardy’s You’re Darn Tootin’.

New Material Night Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 16.

Thursday 7

Glasgow

Best of West Brewery Comedy Club WEST Brewery, Building 4

Templeton Building, Glasgow Green, 550 0135. 8pm. £7. Jamie Dalgleish hosts some alumni of the West’s monthly standup gigs.

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. See Thu 10.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

See Thu 10.

Friday 8

Glasgow

Laughter Eight Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £8. See Fri 11, but with Tony Jameson, Jonathan Pelham, Hamish Tennant and Grant Tinney.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. With Geoff Norcott and Stu Who?.

Tuesday 12

Glasgow

FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 8.30pm.

See Tue 15.

Wednesday 13

Glasgow

New Material Night Vespbar, 14

Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 16.

Thursday 14

Glasgow

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. See Thu 10.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked

Lounge , 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

See Thu 10.

Friday 15

Glasgow

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. With Bryan Lacey, Ria Lina and Stu Who?.

Saturday 16

Glasgow

Best of the Fest to the West

Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park. 12pm. £10. See Sat 9, but with Stephen K Amos, Frisky & Mannish, Jarred Christmas, Gamarjobat and Abandoman.

Peter Powers Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm & midnight. £12.50–£16 (family £7.50 per person Fri only). See Fri 8.

Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, The Glasshouse, 20 Glassford Street, 0870 011 1960. 8.30pm. £16. See Fri 15.

Tuesday 19

Glasgow

FREE Pop-Up Comedy The Halt Bar, 160 Woodlands Road, 353 6450. 8.30pm.

See Tue 15.

Wednesday 20

Glasgow

New Material Night Vespbar, 14

Drury Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £3. See Wed 16.

Thursday 21

Glasgow

Vespbar Virgins Vespbar, 14 Drury

Street, 204 0060. 8pm. £2. See Thu 10.

Just Comedy Wild Cabaret & Wicked

Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165. 9pm. £5 (£10 with a sharing plate and drink).

See Thu 10.

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THE BEST FILM RELEASES & EVENTS

Begin Again Hugely likeable New York fairytale from the director of Once, starring Keira Knightley, James Corden and Mark Ruffalo. See review, page 75. General release from Fri 11 Jul. Boyhood Richard Linklater’s latest film is a coming of age drama that was filmed over 12 years and captures young actor Ellar Coltrane as he grows up. See review, page 74.

General release from Fri 11 Jul.

GOD HELP THE GIRL Stuart Murdoch’s debut film gets a Glasgow outing

I

t’s a good summer for Belle and Sebastian fans. Not only is the Glaswegian indie pop group kicking off the Commonwealth Games festivities with a gig in the recently restored Kelvingrove Bandstand (Wed 23 Jul, see preview, page 85) but the much-anticipated film God Help the Girl from frontman Stuart Murdoch also reaches cinemas.

Some might remember that the God Help the Girl project initially took the form of a girl group singing songs written by Murdoch.

A self-titled album was released in 2009, and shooting for the film started a few years later in 2012. Described as a ‘musical feature’ (expect plenty of songs, of course), it stars actors Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray in a story about a girl called Eve who starts writing songs after being released from hospital where she was been dealing with mental health issues.

The film premiered at the Sundance

Festival in January, with the Guardian’s Xan Brooks saying ‘If you’re a fan of Murdoch’s whimsical, maundering music then no doubt you’ll relish his whimsical, maundering picture.’ It looks like God Help the Girl is set to delight Belle and Sebastian fans.

The feature itself is released in late August, but there are a handful of preview screenings taking place at the Glasgow Film Theatre before then, with one offering the chance to pose questions to Stuart Murdoch about the making of the film. (Gail Tolley) GFT, Glasgow, Sat 16 Aug–Thu 28 Aug (not 18, 19, 20, 21). The screening on Sat 16 Aug is accompanied by a live satellite performance and the screening on Sun 17 Aug will be followed by a Q&A with Stuart Murdoch and cast from the film. On selected release from Fri 29 Aug.

Finding Vivian Maier In 2007 John Maloof discovered hundreds of film negatives that turned out to be the work of unknown photographer Vivian Maier. In this poignant documentary he pieces together her extraordinary life. See review, page 76. Selected release from Fri 18 Jul. Grand Central Authentic-feeling love story set against the backdrop of a nuclear power plant. See review, page 76. Selected release from Fri 18 Jul. Joe Moody, backwater drama from US director David Gordon Green with a powerful performance by Nicolas Cage. See review, page 75. Selected release from Fri 25 Jul. God Help the Girl See preview, left. GFT, Glasgow, Sat 16 –Thu 28 Aug. Found Footage Festival VHS fans Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher guide you through the gems they’ve picked up at second hand shops and car boot sales. Expect a helluva lot of laughs (and 80s hair dos). See column, page 77. Grosvenor, Glasgow, Tue 22 Jul; Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Wed 23 Jul.

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FANTASY DRAMA

MOOD INDIGO (12A) 125min

DRAMA

BOYHOOD (15) 166min

Patience is the name of the game for writer and director Richard Linklater. Fresh from charting the romantic ups and down of Celine and Jessie over two decades in his Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy, he unveils another slowly gestated project that shows how willingness to play the long game can create a true cinematic original.

Shot in instalments over a 12-year period, Boyhood is a fictional drama charting the changes in the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane). Raised by his mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) while his largely absent father (Ethan Hawke) checks in and out of his life, Mason goes through childhood and puberty in Texas, captured in a series of lightly but accurately drawn scenarios, pinned down with pop culture references (Star Wars, Harry Potter) and political background (September 11, Iraq, Barack Obama). From backyard games to starting college and sexual awareness, Mason’s story is deliberately unexceptional and ducks any accusations of melodrama; it’s an authentically awkward, ordinary life, scrupulously observed.

The 166-minute running time is the only real problem with Boyhood; Linklater seems to be too much in love with the material to throw anything out. Coltrane gives a wonderfully natural performance, rising to the standard set by Hawke and particularly Arquette, who makes the role of Olivia both frustrating and deeply sympathetic as she struggles to make a secure family unit for Mason and his sister Samantha, played by Lorelei Linklater, the director’s daughter.

Boyhood is another deeply personal film from Linklater, a director whose bigger films (School of Rock, Me and Orson Welles) remain true to his gift for natural dialogue and uncontrived set-ups. Boyhood is a deliberately minor pleasure, unsparing of the tougher lessons to be learned from parenthood, for child and adult alike. The punishing length aside, it’s a triumphant experimental film that offers a unique cinematic one-off.

(Eddie Harrison) General release from Fri 11 Jul.

Adapted from a novel by French writer Boris Vian, Michel Gondry’s return to France after the bloated Hollywood excess of The Green Hornet is a bittersweet love story overburdened by directorial tricks.

Colin (Romain Duris) is a wealthy man who doesn’t have to work, preferring to inhabit his swish Parisian apartment and enjoying the meals cooked for him by chef Nicolas (The Intouchables’ Omar Sy). Venturing out to a party, Colin meets Chloe (Audrey Tautou), and they enjoy a whirlwind courtship and marriage. But Chloe’s health starts to deteriorate, and despite Colin’s willingness to help, his supply of cash is quickly running out.

Gondry’s visual flair worked well in pop videos and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but Mood Indigo is chaotic with unexplained ideas, from the transparent car Colin drives to the mechanical cloud that transports him and Chloe around Paris. When the mood becomes darker, subtle touches like the accumulation of cobwebs in Colin’s apartment are drowned out by silly inventions such as the insect-like doorbell.

Taking its name from the classic Duke Ellington track, Mood Indigo aspires to be a timeless classic of lost love, but the jokes are only occasionally funny, and Colin and Chloe never seem real – just figments of an over-active imagination.

(Eddie Harrison) General release from Fri 1 Aug.

ANIMATION

THE CONGRESS DRAMA

WELCOME TO NEW YORK (18) 125min

The (dis)honourable traditions of the film á clef true-life stories fictionalised for legal reasons in the fashion of Citizen Kane, The Greek Tycoon or Velvet Goldmine - are spottily maintained by Abel Ferrara’s drama Welcome to New York.

Gerald Depardieu brings his not-inconsiderable bulk to bear on the role of Devereaux, a financier with one eye on the French presidency, and the other on any woman who crosses his path. He comes spectacularly unstuck when he sexually assaults the maid who unwittingly disturbs his shower in a hotel room during a business trip to NYC. Few will miss the clear parallels to the much publicised court-case of IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who stood for a similar crime in 2011.

Ferrara sticks closely to the known facts of the Strauss-Khan case, although casually throwing in a second attempted rape by Devereaux makes the director’s agenda somewhat bald. Such embellishments sit uneasily with scenes of him being stripped and humiliated by prison guards.

Such balance seems redundant in a film that says little of consequence beyond fictionalising its target; only the presence of Jacqueline Bisset as Devereaux’s wife hits an appropriately hysterical note for this tabloid-trashy film which quickly chokes on its pretensions. (Eddie Harrison) Selected release from Fri 8 Aug.

(15) 122min

Robin Wright hasn’t had a good part in 15 years; her entire career has been blighted by poor choices, in relationships as well as in roles, and at this point in time it’d be better for her if she retired from showbiz entirely. This is the rather harsh starting point for Ari Folman’s The Congress, in which Wright (playing herself) is offered a way out: a studio will map Wright’s likeness into a computer and use it to make as many movies as they like, while she retires on a hefty severance package.

Occupying similar territory to Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, The Congress asks profound questions about performance and identity. While it may occasionally lack Synecdoche’s fingertip grip on coherence, it more than makes up for it with visual fireworks.

In a lengthy animated second act, future Wright attends a summit on image-mapping technology, a fantastical world inspired in equal parts by Japanese anime, vintage Disney and the psychedelia of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. It’s a feast for the eyes that bewilders and entrances, and while the extreme visuals may serve only to distract from a somewhat muddled storyline, they’ll stay in your mind long after the credits have rolled. (Niki Boyle) General release from Fri 15 Aug.

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DRAMA

ANIMATION

(15) 117min

(U) 85min

SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON

Like last year’s Free Birds, in which enterprising turkeys built a time machine in an attempt to stop the first Thanksgiving, The Nut Job feels like an archly contrived excuse to justify the groaning pun of the title. The story of an eccentric squirrel who gets involved in an elaborately planned bank robbery, it’s a high concept that offers low entertainment.

Will Arnett provides the voice of Surly, an outcast Liberty Park squirrel who hopes to win the respect of his community. Chancing upon a gang of crooks organising a bank heist from behind the cover of a nut shop, he discovers a potential reservoir of treats that could end the squirrels’ famine.

Writer / director Peter Lepeniotis pulls together an oddly outdated 50s gangster B-movie vibe, while falling back on violent slapstick and weary pop-culture references. Featuring a full range of nut-related jokes that are likely to provoke allergic reactions in all but the most undemanding audiences, The Nut Job has enjoyed US box office success that illuminates nothing more than the public’s currently insatiable appetite for animated fare of any quality. (Eddie Harrison) General release from Fri 1 Aug.

Actor Mike Myers makes his directorial debut with this engaging documentary about talent manager Shep Gordon, whose eclectic list of clients included Alice Cooper and Groucho Marx. The obvious affection Myers feels for his subject is extremely touching, though you do wonder just how full a picture you’re getting as a result.

In a series of relaxed interviews, Myers allows Gordon to tell his story in his own words, with illustrative archive material and occasional input from famous talking heads, including Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas and Myers himself.

Unfolding chronologically, the film begins with Gordon’s arrival in Hollywood in the 1960s, whereupon he immediately got punched in the face by fellow motel guest Janis Joplin and advised to go into management by Jimi Hendrix.

Gordon makes for a likeable and engaging subject, and the film is packed full of entertaining anecdotes. However, there are notable omissions (ex-girlfriend Sharon Stone is conspicuous by her absence) and the film doesn’t allow Gordon to expand further on his unexpectedly negative views on the value of fame. (Matthew Turner) Limited release from Fri 18 Jul.

JOE

David Gordon Green’s biggest hit, urban-stoner comedy Pineapple Express, is very much untypical of the moody, backwater dramas he directs on an annual basis, from George Washington to Prince Avalanche. Joe is another entry in his canon of accomplished miserablism, adapted from a novel

by Larry Brown, with a vigorous, charismatic performance by Nicolas Cage at its centre.

With a rare chance to play an ordinary Joe in an extraordinarily violent community, Cage paints the working man at the centre of this film as a noble savage, bedding prostitutes and drinking without care in the evenings, then pulling himself together in the early mornings to lead a team of labourers in the forest. But Joe places his reputation on the line when he reluctantly takes an interest in Gary (Tye Sheridan), a teenage boy whose relationship with dad G-Daawg (Gary Poutler) shows the darker side of father issues.

Spare, lean and tough as a swampland snake, Joe is a powerful, grimy drama. It may be too bleak and unsparing for some tastes, but it’s an adult, accomplished film that elevates an ordinary story to near-operatic heights. (Eddie Harrison) Selected release from Fri 25 Jul.

DOCUMENTARY

THE NUT JOB

(15) 85 min

MUSICAL DRAMA

BEGIN AGAIN (15) 104min

How do you follow an Oscar-winning charmer like Once? It hasn’t been easy for director John Carney (did anyone see the comedy Zonad?). He is back on form with Begin Again, a quasisequel to Once. Twice maybe? Once More with Feeling?

Begin Again is equally sweet and endearing and definitely not for the cynical as it gathers together another unlikely couple. Greta (Keira Knightley) is a winsome English singer/ songwriter left high and dry in New York after her boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) hits the big time and decides to opt for some conscious uncoupling. Fortunately, cheery busker pal Steve (James Corden) is on hand to offer shelter and confidenceboosting. At the same time, washed-up recording executive Dan (Mark Ruffalo) stumbles into an East Village bar where Greta is performing and decides that she deserves a shot at an album that he will personally produce on the streets of the Big Apple.

Begin Again is a New York fairytale but a fairly irresistible one thanks to the actors. Knightley is such a variable, unpredictable performer but really fits the character on this occasion and can sing quite pleasantly in a Katie Melua / Norah Jones manner.

There’s also a nice, dry humour to some of her comments as she declares, ‘I’m not Judy Garland off a Greyhound bus’. Mark Ruffalo is even better as a scruffy, roguish hustler who still has the passion to follow the music wherever it might lead him. He is charmingly disreputable whether trying to sustain a relationship with his weary daughter Violet (Hailee Steinfeld) or create an album that flies in the face of all the bland product championed by an industry he has grown to despise. His creative rebirth is the element of Begin Again that brings the biggest smile to your face. (Allan Hunter) General release from Fri 11 Jul. 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014 THE LIST 75

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BLACK COMEDY

GOD’S POCKET (15) 88min

DOCUMENTARY

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) 84min

By turns amusing, poignant and disturbing, this documentary investigation into the work and life of the previously unknown but now posthumously celebrated street photographer is never less than thoroughly intriguing. Looking for some visual material to illustrate an urban history book project about the Chicago neighbourhood he grew up in, co-director John Maloof chanced upon a big box of photo negatives being sold off for peanuts in a local thrift sale. Maloof was astonished to discover a treasure trove of images taken on the streets of 50s and 60s America that were as accomplished as the work of the nation’s greatest 20th century photographers. Intrigued, Maloof began researching the woman responsible for the pictures and found they were only a fraction of a hoard of 100,000 images boxed up and lying forgotten in a storage facility. Spurred on by this revelation, he decided to make a documentary film about his investigation into the life of Vivian Maier.

That Maier turned out to be a mystery woman who went to great lengths to conceal the details of her life only further motivated Maloof, and what he found makes for riveting viewing. Without giving too much away – for much of the film’s pleasure lies in the succession of revelations about its subject – Maloof and Siskel discovered that Maier moonlighted as a photographer while working a day job as a nanny. Much of what we subsequently learn comes through interviews with Maier’s former wards, all of whom note how private she was, which raises an ethical question about her life being documented through this film. The filmmakers address that question, but, perhaps wholly appropriately, they are ultimately unable to provide a full portrait of their secretive subject. They have, however, brought a startling artistic talent to the attention of the public. (Miles Fielder) Selected release from Fri 18 Jul.

Mad Men star John Slattery makes his directorial feature debut with this bleak black comedy based on the novel by The Paperboy scribe Pete Dexter. Set in the fictional bluecollar neighbourhood of God’s Pocket, the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman (in one of his final screen performances) as Mickey Scarpato, an outsider who’s been accepted into the community by virtue of his marriage to the beautiful Jeanie (Slattery’s Mad Men co-star Christina Hendricks). When Jeanie’s lowlife son Leon (Caleb Landry Jones) is killed at work, she correctly suspects a cover-up, so Mickey asks his shady best friend Arthur (John Turturro) to investigate, setting off a chain of shockingly violent events. Meanwhile, sleazy newspaper columnist Richard Shelburn (Richard Jenkins) takes an interest in both the story and Jeanie.

Having cut his teeth on five episodes of Mad Men, Slattery’s direction is assured, achieving an over-arching sense of melancholy, aided by Lance Acord’s deliberately dark cinematography. Slattery draws terrific performances from his superb cast: Hoffman and Turturro make an appealing bestbuddies double act, while Hendricks is heartbreaking as the grief-stricken mother, and her scenes with Jenkins are quietly devastating. (Matthew Turner) Limited release from Fri 8 Aug.

ACTION

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (12A) 157min

DRAMA

GRAND CENTRAL (15) 94min

A love-triangle set in the imposing shadow of a nuclear power station may not sound like an automatic must-see – indeed, it’s probably the worst date movie set-up ever conceived. But that’s not to say Rebecca Zlotowski’s film should be overlooked.

Tahar Rahim plays Gary, a labourer who travels to the lower valley of the Rhone to pick up work in a nuclear plant. The dangers are clearly outweighed by a regular wage, and it becomes even more appealing when he meets the alluring Karole (Lea Seydoux), wife to his colleague Toni (Denis Ménochet).

Almost immediately sparks fly between Gary and Karole, as they fall into a passionate affair. Even a workplace incident involving a particularly high-dose of radiation exposure fails to shake him from his reverie.

Showing the dizzying sickness that love can cause, and the way it can contaminate our bodies, Zlotowski has found almost the perfect metaphor by basing her film in a power plant. Set in a unique sub-culture that feels authentically represented, it’s a film about the infectious nature of love, and how it burns brightly, violently and sometimes too quickly. (James Mottram) Limited release from Fri 18 Jul.

The fourth film in the Transformers franchise may mark a freshening-up of sorts but it still suffers from the same problem as both previous sequels: the presence of Michael Bay. Here, Bay outdoes his own ridiculous standards by delivering a movie that clocks in at close to three hours.

Picking up four years after the climactic events of Dark of the Moon, the film finds the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, on the run from a shady CIA official (Kelsey Grammar), who is hunting them down to use their metal to create his own robot army with the help of an egotistical technology mogul (Stanley Tucci). Standing in their path are all-American father and daughter Cade and Tessa Yeager (Mark Wahlberg and Nicola Peltz), as well as the latter’s Irish immigrant boyfriend (Jack Reynor).

Early on, Bay’s film just about entertains as it introduces new characters, puts the Transformers on the run, and drops in some impressive set pieces. But once the first hour has passed, the bombardment begins to take its toll – and not just from the nausea-inducing camera-work but also from the shameless product placement, the logic-defying storytelling and the idiotic dialogue. (Rob Carnevale) General release from Thu 10 Jul.

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Films screening in the next four weeks are listed below with certificate, star rating, credits, brief review and venue details. See list.co.uk. for the most up-to-date screening times. Submit details of special screenings at least 10 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Film index is compiled by Murray Robertson.

Indicates Hitlist entry

NEW RELEASES All is by My Side (tbc) (John Ridley,

UK/Ireland, 2013) André 3000, Hayley Atwell, Burn Gorman. 116min. Biopic of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, focusing on the period 1966-67, around the time of his breakthrough. Selected release from Fri 8 Aug. All This Mayhem (tbc) (Eddie Martin, UK/Australia, 2014) Tas Pappas, Ben Pappas, Tommy Caudill. 96min. A look at the dark underbelly of extreme sports, this documentary explores the lives of two skateboarding brothers as their lives spiralled out of control in the late 1980s.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 15–Thu 21 Aug. Begin Again (R) (John Carney, US, 2013) Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine. 104min.

See review, page 75. Genera; release from Fri 11 Jul. Blood Ties (15) (Guillaume Canet, France/US, 2013) Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup. 127min. Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s. Selected release from Fri 15 Aug. Boyhood (R) (Richard Linklater, US, 2014) Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke.

163min. See review, page 74. Selected release from Fri 11 Jul, incl Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow.

The Congress (tbc) (Ari Folman, Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg/ France/Belgium, 2013) Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm. 122min. See review, page 74. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 15–Thu 21 Aug. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

(12A) (Matt Reeves, US, 2014) Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Andy Serkis.

130min. Earth’s dominant species – man and ape – battle for ultimate supremacy.

General release from Thu 17 Jul. Earth to Echo (PG) (Dave Green, US, 2014) Teo Halm, Astro, Reese Hartwig.

89min. After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help. Selected release from Fri 25 Jul. The Expendables 3 (tbc) (Patrick Hughes, US, 2014) Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li. The Expendables return for a third throwback-style action thriller. General release from Thu 14 Aug. Finding Vivian Maier (PG) (John Maloof/Charlie Siskel, US, 2013) Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Mary Ellen Mark. 84min. See review, page 76. Selected release from Fri 8 Aug, incl Filmhouse, Edinburgh; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow.

From Scotland with Love (tbc) (Virginia Heath, UK, 2014) A film journey into Scotland’s past exploring love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Selected release from Sat 19 Jul. Grand Central (15) (Rebecca Zlotowski, France/Austria, 2013) Tahar Rahim, Léa Seydoux, Olivier Gourmet. 94min. See review, page 76. Selected release from Fri 18 Jul. Guardians of the Galaxy (tbc) (James Gunn, US, 2014) Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista. 122min.

An American pilot forms an alliance with a group of alien oddballs, first for protection and then to prevent a villain from seizing a powerful orb. General release from Thu 31 Jul.

Hector and the Search for Happiness (15) (Peter Chelsom,

Germany/Canada, 2014) Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Toni Collette.

120min. A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.

Selected release from Fri 15 Aug. Hemalkasa (tbc) (Samruddhi Porey, India, 2014) Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe. A doctor couple devote themselves to the development of tribal people of Maharashtra, India. Selected release from Thu 17 Jul. Hercules (tbc) (Brett Ratner, US, 2014) Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane. Following his 12 labours, Hercules becomes a sword-for-hire for the King of Thrace, who needs him to defeat a warlord. General release from Fri 25 Jul. The House of Magic (U) (Jeremy Degruson/Ben Stassen, Belgium, 2013) Cinda Adams, Edward Asner, Emily Blunt. 85min. Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos.

Selected release from Fri 25 Jul. I Am Divine (tbc) (Jeffrey Schwarz, US, 2013) 90min. A filmic portrait of John Waters’ muse, Divine. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 25–Sun 27 Jul. The Inbetweeners 2 (15) (Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, UK, 2014) Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Blake Harrison. The second movie spin-off from the popular TV series sees the four teenage boys go on holiday to Australia.

See feature, page 47. General release from Wed 6 Aug. Joe (15) (David Gordon Green, US, 2013) Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter. 117min. See review, page 75. General release from Fri 25 Jul. Love Me Till Monday (15) (Justin Hardy, UK, 2013) Sarah Barratt, Sarah Jayne Butler, Charlotte Gallagher.

93min. A young woman who has recently finished university is working a dead-end office job whilst looking for ‘the one’. Why can’t she find the man of her dreams? Selected release from Mon 11 Aug. Mood Indigo (L’écume des jours)

(Michel Gondry, France/ (tbc) Belgium, 2013) Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh. 125min. See review, page 74. Selected release from Fri 1 Aug. Mr Morgan’s Last Love (12A) (Sandra Nettelbeck, Germany/Belgium/ USA/France, 2013) Michael Caine, Michelle Goddet, Jane Alexander.

116min. A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman. General release from Fri 11 Jul. Norte, the End of History (Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan) (tbc)

(Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2013) Archie Alemania, Angeli Bayani, Soliman Cruz. 250min. Masterful four hour epic inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Selected release from Fri 15 Aug. Planes: Fire & Rescue (tbc) (Roberts Gannaway, US, 2014) Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen. Sequel to Disney’s poorly received Cars-with-wings film.

General release from Fri 1 Aug. A Promise (12A) (Patrice Leconte, France/Belgium, 2013) Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden. 98min.

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centred on a married woman who falls in love with her husband’s protégé. General release from Fri 1 Aug. The Purge: Anarchy (15) (James

DeMonaco, US/France, 2014) Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford.

103min. A young couple work to survive on the streets after their car breaks down right as the annual purge commences.

General release from Fri 25 Jul.

Supermensch: The Legend of (Beth Aala/ Shep Gordon (15)

Mike Myers, US, 2013) Shep Gordon, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas.

85min. See review, page 75. Selected release from Fri 18 Jul. The Nut Job (PG) (Peter Lepeniotis, US, 2014) Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson. 100min.

See review, page 75. General release from Fri 1 Aug. Transformers: Age of Extinction

(MichaelBay,US,2014)Mark (12A) Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor.

165min. See review, page 76. General release from Thu 10 Jul. The Unbeatables (Metegol) (tbc) (Juan José Campanella, Argentina/ Spain/India/US, 2013) Rupert Grint, Anthony Head, Peter Serafinowicz.

97min. A young man named Amadeo sets off on an unexpected adventure with the players of his beloved Foosball game.

Selected release from Fri 8 Aug. Welcometo New York(18) (Abel Ferrara, US, 2014) Jacqueline Bisset, Gérard Depardieu, Drena De Niro.

125min. See review, page 74. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 8–Thu 14 Aug. Who Is Dayani Cristal? (tbc) (Marc Silver, UK/Mexico, 2013) Gael García Bernal. 82min. An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for identity leads back across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 25–Tue 29 Jul.

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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret (Felix och försvann) (15)

Herngren, Sweden, 2013) Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg. 114min. On his 100th birthday, former explosives expert Allan (Gustafsson) skips his old folks’ home and goes on an adventure, narrating his remarkable and ridiculous life in flashback. Selected release.

22 Jump Street (15) (Phil Lord, Chris Miller, US, 2014) Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube. 112min.

Hilarious sequel which manages to surpass the crowd-pleasing original by embracing its sequel-ness and going one better, with inspired gags, pumped-up action and scene-stealing support from Ice Cube as the duo’s perpetually angry boss. General release.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (12A) (Marc Webb, US, 2014) Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx.

142min. Peter Parker (Garfield) goes up against new supervillains Electro (Foxx) and Harry Osborn (DeHaan). Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 9 Aug. The Anomaly (15) (Noel Clarke, UK, 2014) Noel Clarke, Ian Somerhalder, Brian Cox. 95min. A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has a few moments to figure out how he got there. Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Showcase Cinema Glasgow, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Showcase Cinema Paisley, Paisley, Thu 10 Jul. Bad Neighbours (15) (Nicholas Stoller, US, 2014) Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron. 96min.

Kelly (Byrne) and Mac (Rogen) are adjusting to life with a baby when a college fraternity moves in next door, led by buff, glassy-eyed Teddy (Efron).

Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul; Cineworld Parkhead, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul.

Q&A FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL High school friends Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have trawled the charity shops of America in search of dated and esoteric VHS videos, resulting in the critically acclaimed comedy show The Found Footage Festival. Nick Prueher tells us what we can expect.

Is there one stand-out video that started the whole project?

What really got us looking was when I found an old McDonald’s training video in the break room of the restaurant I worked at in high school. Totally nonsensical and ridiculous in all the right ways.

For those who don’t know about your show, what can they expect from your UK tour?

We take audiences on a guided tour through our VHS collection, explaining where and how we found them and offering commentary while they play. We also try to track down the people in the videos, and in this tenth-anniversary show we found two people from an early home shopping video we discovered in the mid90s and reunited them!

As the VHS is used so little today, do you ever worry about running out of material?

So much material was committed to VHS in the 80s and 90s that we’ll have enough to last us at least another ten years. That said, several thrift store employees have told us they’re not even accepting VHS donations any more. That scared us to death because second-hand VHS is our livelihood!

Would you ever open up the show to digital footage?

We’ve started looking at the occasional DVD at charity shops and I have to say, we’re not proud. When you’re in Memphis, Tennessee, and you see an instructional video for Elvis impersonators on DVD, how can you say no? The formats may change but the bad ideas are here to stay, and that’s really encouraging. (Maud Sampson) The Found Footage Festival is at Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow, Tue 22 Jul and the Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Wed 23 Jul.

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FILM | Index Belle (12A) (Amma Asante, UK, 2013) Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson. 104min. The mixed-race, illegitimate daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral goes to live with her uncle, amid a frosty reception from the English aristocracy. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul. Bicycling with Molière (Alceste à bicyclette) (15) (Philippe Le Guay,

France, 2013) Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa. 104min. Two actors, one play. Can the two egocentric men put aside their differences for the sake of friendship and theatre?

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul.

The Bridge Rising (An Drochaid)

(tbc) (Robbie Fraser, Canada/UK, 2013) 79min. Scottish islanders take on the government, big industry and the Bank of America to fight against the Skye Bridge tolls. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Jul. Bright Days Ahead (15) (Marion Vernoux, France, 2013) Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais.

94min. Caroline discovers that retirement is a new beginning in itself and not just the beginning of the end when she joins her neighbourhood’s senior club. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 11–Thu 17 Jul. Camille Claudel 1915 (PG) (Bruno Dumont, France, 2013) Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Emmanuel Kauffman. 95min. Biopic covering the later life of the French sculptor.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Tue 29–Thu 31 Jul. Chef (15) (Jon Favreau, US, 2014) Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson. 115min. A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to recreate his creativity, while piecing back together

his estranged family. General release.

Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête (Cédric Klapisch, chinois) (15)

France, 2013) Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cécile De France. 117min. A 40-year-old father of two finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can’t bear them growing up far away and so he decides to join them. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 18–Thu 24 Jul. Cold in July (15) (Jim Mickle, US/France, 2014) Michael C Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson. 109min.

A protective father and an ex-con find themselves headed into a downward spiral after they meet. General release.

Dummy Jim (tbc) (Matt Hulse, UK, 2013) Marie Denarnaud, Samuel Dore, Nille Hannes. 90min. Film about the 1951 expedition by James Duthie, who cycled alone from his Scottish village to the Arctic Circle. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 17 Jul. Edge of Tomorrow (12A) (Doug Liman, US, 2014) Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton. 113min. With Earth under attack from aliens, cowardly soldier Cage (Cruise) is killed, only to wake up the day before, stuck in a time loop. Selected release.

Escape from Planet Earth (U) (Cal Brunker, Canada, 2013) Brendan Fraser, Rob Corddry, Jessica Alba. 89min.

Animated adventure. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul. The Fault in Our Stars (12A) (Josh Boone, US, 2014) Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff.

125min. Big screen take on John Green’s best-selling book following the romance of Hazel and Gus – two teenagers who have in common an acerbic wit and terminal illness. General release.

Fruitvale Station (15) (Ryan Coogler, US, 2013) Michael B Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer. 85min. The

purportedly true story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old who crossed paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 25–Mon 28 Jul. God’s Pocket (15) (John Slattery, US, 2014) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks.

88min. See review, page 76. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 8–Thu 14 Aug. Godzilla (12A) (Gareth Edwards, US, 2014) Aaron TaylorJohnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen. 123min. Another big screen outing for the scaly one, this time with Monsters’ acclaimed British director Gareth Edwards in charge. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 11–Wed 16 Jul. The Grand Budapest Hotel (15) (Wes Anderson, US, 2014) Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton. 100min. Perhaps Anderson’s most uncompromisingly eccentric and perfectly realised film to date. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) (Dean DeBlois, US, 2014) Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig. 102min.

Sequel to the 2010 hit film with the original cast returning. General release.

Jersey Boys (15) (Clint Eastwood, US, 2014) Christopher Walken, Francesca Eastwood, Freya Tingley. 134min. Clint Eastwood directs a film version of the hit Broadway musical, which traces the career of the Four Seasons. General release.

Jimmy’s Hall (12A) (Ken Loach, UK/Ireland/France, 2014) Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott.

109min. Based on a true story, Loach’s film is a bit muted and lacks drama.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul. Keeping Rosy (15) (Steve Reeves, US/UK, 2014) Blake Harrison, Maxine Peake, Christine Bottomley. 93min. A

woman is passed over for a promotion and proceeds to get her rage on. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Tue 15 Jul.

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return

(Will Finn/Dan St Pierre, (PG) US, 2014) Voices of Lea Michele, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Stewart. 88min.

Cheerless and cynical cash-grab, riding on the coattails of previous and far better Oz adaptations. Vue Glasgow Fort, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Vue Ocean, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul; Vue Omni Centre, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul. Lilting (15) (Hong Khaou, UK, 2014) Ben Whishaw, Morven Christie, Leila Wong. 86min. In contemporary London, a Cambodian woman mourning the loss of her son has her life disrupted by a stranger – the man who loved her son.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 8– Thu 14 Aug. Maleficent (PG) (Robert Stromberg, US, 2014) Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley. 97min. Hollywood’s preoccupation with revamping fairytales continues with this star-spangled adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. General release.

Mistaken for Strangers (15) (Tom Berninger, US, 2013) 75min. Documentary about US indie band The National. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 11–Sun 13 Jul. Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie

(15) (Ben Kellett, UK/Ireland, 2014) Brendan O’Carroll, Nick Nevern, Robert Bathurst. 94min. The popular TV family gets the big screen treatment, as developers try to close down Mrs Brown’s fruit and veg stall. General release.

Muppets Most Wanted (U) (James Bobin, US, 2014) Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey. 112min. A world tour goes awry when the Muppets find themselves accidentally caught up in a jewel heist. Selected release.

SPORTS STORIES FROM AROUND THE AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH This year’s Africa in Motion film festival is heading out on the road, showcasing 30 sporting films from Africa in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games. Among the highlights is Rwandan cycling doc Rising From Ashes, Ethiopian athletics biopic The Athlete (pictured) and Streetball, which depicts the story of South Africa’s entry in the 2010 Homeless World Cup. In addition to the screenings, there will also be special site-specific events, such as a film-and-food feast at House for an Art Lover and bike-powered screenings at the Riverside Museum, plus in the festival’s own travelling pop-up cinema, the AiM Shebeen Screen. (Niki Boyle) Various venues across Scotland, until Mon 28 Jul, africa-in-motion.org.uk

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list.co.uk/film Of Horses and Men (15) (Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland/Germany, 2013) Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Helgi Björnsson.

81min. A country romance about the remarkable bond between human and horse. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 18– Thu 24 Jul. The Other Woman (12A) (Nick Cassavetes, US, 2014) Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton,.

109min. Cassavetes’ film squanders its subversive wronged-women-seekrevenge premise in clichés, weak gags and an all-round lack of sass. Vue Glasgow Fort, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. Postman Pat: The Movie (U) (Mike Disa, UK, 2014) Stephen Mangan, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint.

88min. An all-star cast help Postman Pat in his big screen CGI adventure as he enters a TV talent competition. Selected release.

Rio 2 (U) (Carlos Saldanha, US, 2014) Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann. 101min.

Amiable sequel to the macaw-themed 2010 original. Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. Tammy (15) (Ben Falcone, US, 2014) Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates. 96min.

McCarthy is at it again, this time as a woman who loses her job and her husband and decides to hit the road with her badass g-ma (Sarandon). General release.

Tarzan (PG) (Reinhard Klooss, Germany, 2013) Kellan Lutz, Spencer Locke, Robert Capron. 94min. Tarzan (Twilight’s Lutz) and Jane take on a big energy company – the same one that Tarzan’s parents ran before they died in a plane crash – in this CGI version of the classic tale. Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul; Cineworld Parkhead, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. Under the Rainbow (Au bout du conte) (15) (Agnès Jaoui, France, 2013)

Agathe Bonitzer, Agnès Jaoui, Arthur Dupont. 112min. Comedy which cuts between two romances and explores some uncomfortable truths present in all relationships. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 25–Tue 29 Jul. Under the Skin (15) (Jonathan Glazer, UK, 2013) Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Robert J. Goodwin. 108min. An alien in human form picks up unwary travellers in Scotland. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul. Walking on Sunshine (12A) (Max Giwa/Dania Pasquini, UK, 2014) Hannah Arterton, Annabel Scholey, Greg Wise. 97min. Musical romance featuring 80s hits. General release.

We Gotta Get Out of This Place

(SimonHawkins/ZekeHawkins, (15) US, 2013) Ashley Adams, Mackenzie Davis, William Devane. 90min. Three Texas teens hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 15–Thu 21 Aug. X-Men: Days of Future Past (12A) (Bryan Singer, US, 2014) Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen. 130min. When the mutants of the future face extinction, they send Wolverine (Jackman) back in time to change destiny. Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Showcase Cinema Glasgow, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul; Showcase Cinema Paisley, Paisley, Thu 10 Jul. The Young and Prodigious T S (Jean-Pierre Spivet (tbc)

Jeunet, France/Canada, 2013) Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet, Callum Keith Rennie. 105min. A ten-year-old prodigy secretly hitches a ride on a

MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) The new show Monty Python Live (Mostly) marks the first time that comedy troupe Monty Python have reunited on stage in 34 years. The five remaining stars all boast remarkable solo careers, but they return to their comedy roots here as they play out some of their classic sketches. The show runs for ten nights at London’s O2 Arena before being broadcast in cinemas across the UK. Expect special laughs, special guests, special effects, and a little twinkle of emotion as comedy elders show the youngsters how it’s done.

(Thomas Brent) Various cinemas across Scotland, Sun 20 Jul.

freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian for his cartography work.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 11–Thu 17 Jul.

ONE-OFFS, SEASONS AND FESTIVALS Africa in Motion Film Festival

Audience-based festival, founded in 2006, which aims to introduce Scottish audiences to the brilliance of African cinema. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow and various other venues, until Mon 28 Jul, africa-in-motion.org.uk.

American Interior (tbc) (Gruff Rhys, UK, 2014) 92min. Experimental documentary from Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Thu 21 Aug. L’Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)

(Cédric Klapisch, France, (15) 2002) Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Audrey Tautou. 120min. Feelgood film about a man who exchanges student life, his girlfriend and his family for the chance to learn Spanish and live in Barcelona. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 20 Jul. The Banquet (15) (Xiaogang Feng, Hong Kong, 2006) Ziyi Zhang, You Ge, Daniel Wu. 131min. Chinese 10th century historical drama tracing the violent rivalries of the palace. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul. The Big Picnic (tbc) (Derek Bailey, UK, 1996) Gary Bakewell, Lawrence Crawford, Morag Hood. 120min.

Theatrical drama recounting the

experiences of young Glaswegian men in WWI. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Mon 4 Aug. Big Star: Live in Memphis (12) (Danny Graflund/David Julian Leonard/ Robert Gordon, US, 2014) 71min.

Homecoming performance of Big Star featuring their frontman, the late Alex Chilton, from 1994. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 7 Aug. Bobby Jasoos (tbc) (Samar Shaikh, India, 2014) Vidya Balan, Ali Fazal, Supriya Pathak. 121min. Bobby follows his dream of becoming the number one detective in Hyderabad. Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) (18) (Seijun Suzuki, Japan,

1967) Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa. 98min. When a hit man fumbles his latest job, he finds himself in hot water with several people, including his wife. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 27 Jul.

The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil (PG) (John McGrath,

UK, 1973) John Bett, Alex Norton, Bill Paterson. 100min. Film record of McGrath’s milestone ‘ceilidh play’, about Scottish history. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 10 Aug. Children in the Wind (Kaze no naka no kodomo) (U) (Hiroshi

Shimizu, Japan, 1937) Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Masao Hayama. 88min. A little rascal is sent to live with his uncle after his father is falsely imprisoned for fraud. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 26 Jul.

Chinatown (15)

(Roman Polanski, US, 1974) Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. 131min.

Splendid conspiracy thriller with a handsome period look and a quite superlative cast. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 27 Jul.

CinemaAttic: Spanish and Latin American Short Film Showcase

(tbc) A collection of Spanish language fantasy shorts with English subtitles.

Summerhall, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul.

Classic Cinema: Films for Grownups (tbc) Watch classic films on the big

screen at the Burrell for free. Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul–Sun 17 Aug. Charlie Chaplin A season of films, long and short, celebrating the seven decade career of London-born Chaplin, who rose to global fame from an impoverished childhood.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, until Wed 6 Aug, filmhousecinema.com/seasons/charliechaplin-presented-by-drambuie.

Coast of Death (Costa da morte)

(tbc) (Lois Patiño, Spain, 2013) 81min.

Documentary on a region in the north west of Galicia (Spain) which was considered to be the end of the world during the Roman period. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 25 Jul. Commonwealth Connections (U) (Various) Various. 70min. A showcase of short animated films from around the world. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 27 Jul. The Deer Hunter (18) (Michael Cimino, US, 1978) Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Jon Savage, Jon Cazale.

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Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 3–Tue 5 Aug. Ernest & Celestine (PG) (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner, France, 2012) Pauline Brunner, Anne-Marie Loop, Dominique Maurin.

80min. A bear called Ernest meets a mouse called Celestine in this animated.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 27 Jul. Finding Family (tbc) (Chris Leslie/Oggi Tomic, UK/Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013) 56min.

Documentary about a man born with water on the brain, abandoned at birth and given just months to live. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul. Found Footage Festival (tbc) (Various, Various) 90min. Based on an idea founded in New York City in 2004, this is a unique collection of videos from charity shops and garage sales across North America.

Observations and commentaries are provided by the hosts. See column, page 77. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Wed 23 Jul. The Galapagos Affair: Satan

Came to Eden (tbc) (Daniel Geller/ Dayna Goldfine, US/Ecuador/Germany/ Norway, 2013) Voices of Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann.

120min. A look into a series of unsolved murders on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 3–Wed 6 Aug. The Ghosts in Our Machine (tbc) (Liz Marshall, Canada, 2013) 93min.

Doc about animals whose lives are conducted within the machines of the modern world. Stereo, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul. Gladstone’s Bag Presents: Comedy Cine-Variety (tbc) Two

programmes of silent films with live music. The 2pm programme is Chaplin shorts and the 4pm programme includes Laurel and Hardy’s You’re Darn Tootin’.

Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow, Wed 6 Aug.

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Showcase featuring the six short films chosen among this year’s winners.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 20 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Glyndebourne Opera: La Traviata (tbc) (2014) Verdi’s tragic opera, live from Glyndebourne. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 10 Aug; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 10 Aug. God Help the Girl (15) (Stuart Murdoch, UK, 2013) Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger.

111min. Glasgow-set indie musical.

See preview, page 73. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sat 16 Aug; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 16–Sun 17 Aug. Godzilla (Gojira) (PG) (Ishirô Honda, Japan, 1954) Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada. 96min. The granddaddy of monster movies depicts the fears of a nation still reeling from nuclear attack. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Jul. Goltzius and the Pelican Company (18) (Peter Greenaway, UK/

Netherlands/France/Croatia, 2012) F Murray Abraham, Giulio Berruti, Vincent Riotta. 128min. Film based on the life on the late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints Hendrik Goltzius. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 17–Mon 18 Aug. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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(Sergio Leone, Italy, (15) 1968) Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach. 180min. Third and last of the Dollars trilogy. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 17 Aug. Guys and Dolls (U) (Joseph L Mankiewicz, US, 1955) Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra.

150min. Classic version of the familiar and inventive musical. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 10 Aug. A Hard Day’s Night (U) (Richard Lester, UK, 1964) John Lennon, Paul

McCartney, George Harrison. 87min.

Classic Beatles film. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 18–Mon 21 Jul; Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Jul; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 12–Tue 15 Jul. Hidden Universe (tbc) (Russell Scott, Australia, 2013) Narrator: Miranda Richardson. Explore deep space with high-resolution 3D images of the earliest galaxies. Cineworld IMAX, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. Howl’s Moving Castle (PG) (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2005) Voices of Christian Bale, Lauren Bacall, Billy Crystal. 119min. East meets West awkwardly in Miyazaki’s children’s adventure. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 16 Aug. Hugo and Josephine (Hugo och Josefin) (tbc) (Kjell Grede, Sweden,

1967) Fredrik Becklén, Marie Öhman, Beppe Wolgers. 82min. Swedish summer classic. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 16 Aug. IndyYes (tbc) (Various, Various) A smorgasboard of creative filmmaking and community activism in the run up to the Referendum Vote in September.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sat 12 Jul. Jaws (PG) (Steven Spielberg, US, 1975) Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. 125min. Spielberg’s classic horror/thriller. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 3 Aug. Joaquim Benite’s Last Theatre Production – It’s Not Enough to say ‘No’ (tbc) (Catarina Neves) Award-

winning film about the Poruguese director Joaquim Benite and his failed attempt, upon learning he was terminally ill, to stage one last production of Timon of Athens. Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 11 Jul. Jules et Jim (PG) (Francois Truffaut, France, 1962) Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre. 105min.

Truffaut’s third film, the story of a freewheeling love triangle. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 13 Jul. The Lady From Shanghai (PG) (Orson Welles, US, 1948) Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane.

87min. Irish sailor Welles falls in love with ‘femme fatale’ Hayworth and becomes enmeshed in a deadly game of murder and intrigue. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 25–Thu 31 Jul; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 26–Mon 28 Jul. Leave to Remain (15) (Bruce Goodison, UK, 2013) Jake Davies, Alex Harvey, Toby Jones. 89min. Drama about three teenagers battling the harsh reality of the British immigration system. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 12–Sun 13 Jul. Lekar Hum Deewana Dil (tbc) (Arif Ali, India, 2014) Armaan Jain, Deeksha Seth, Rohini Hattangadi. Hindi comedy.

Odeon at the Quay, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. LIAF Amazing Animations (tbc) (various) A selection of animated short films for ages 0–6. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 12 Jul. Local Hero (PG) (Bill Forsyth, UK, 1983) Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson. 107min.

One of Bill Forsyth’s most sure-footed ventures. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 3 Aug. Mad Max (18) (George Miller, Australia, 1979) Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley. 93min. Postapocalyptic road movie which made Gibson a star. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 17 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Mariinsky

Ballet on Screen: La Bayadere

(tbc) (2014) Screening of a live performance of the French ballet. Odeon Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Mariinsky

Theatre Live: War and Peace

(tbc) (Russia, 2014) 235min. A brand new production of Prokofiev’s epic masterpiece broadcast live from the recently opened Mariinsky II. Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Wed 16 Jul;

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DUMMY JIM - A WEE TOUR Fresh from its success on the international film festival circuit (where it was nominated for a Tiger Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival and picked up a nomination for the Michael Powell Award in Edinburgh), local made feature Dummy Jim is returning home. The film took twelve years to complete and charts the journey of a profoundly deaf Scotsman, James Duthie, who in 1951 cycled over 3,000 miles from Cairnbulg to the Arctic Circle (and back again).

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 17 Jul. For full tour listings see tour.dummyjim.com

Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul; Odeon Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Wed 16 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Metropolitan

Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci (tbc) (US, 2015) Tragic

double bill, set in 1900 Sicily and then moving to 1948, with Marcelo Álvarez playing both lead tenor roles. Fabio Luisi conducts. Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 17 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Monty Python Live (Mostly) (tbc) (UK, 2014) A simulcast of Monty Python’s highly anticipated reunion show. General release.

LIVE SCREENING National Theatre Live: Skylight (tbc) (Stephen Daldry, UK, 2014) Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy. Kyra (Mulligan) receives a visit from her recently widowed former lover (Nighy) out of the blue. Stage production beamed live from London. General release.

Northwest (Nordvest) (15) (Michael Noer, Denmark, 2013) Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Lene Maria Christensen. 91min. Danish crime thriller. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 25–Thu 31 Jul. One and Eight (Yi ge he ba ge)

(tbc) (Junzhao Zhang, China, 1983) Daoming Chen, Xiaoyan Lu, Zeru Tao. 90min. Film based on the epic poem

by Guo Xiaochuan about a group of prisoners held along the front lines during the 1939 second Sino-Japanese war. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 13 Aug. Planet of the Apes Double Bill

(tbc) (Rupert Wyatt/Matt Reeves, US, 2011/2014) Andy Serkis. Back to back screenings of Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Vue Glasgow Fort, Glasgow, Wed 16 Jul; Vue Ocean, Edinburgh, Wed 16 Jul; Vue Omni Centre, Edinburgh, Wed 16 Jul. Portobello Film Club (tbc) Film

screening followed by a discussion. Plus – free popcorn. The Skylark, Edinburgh, Wed 6 Aug. Princess Mononoke (PG) (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1997) Voices of Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka.

134min. Young warrior Ashitaka sets out on a hunt for the cure to his deadly curse and becomes entangled in a battle between humans and animal gods, led

by Princess Mononoke. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 9 Aug. Punjab 1984 (tbc) (Anurag Singh, Canada/India, 2014) Sonam Bajwa, Arun Bali, Daljinder Basran. 125min.

Drama based on real-life atrocities in Punjab in 1984 known as the Sikh Genocide. Odeon at the Quay, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jul. Rabbit Proof Fence (PG) (Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002) Everlyn Sampi, Kenneth Branagh, David Gulpilil.

94min. The true story about the abduction of three aboriginal children from their tribe. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Mon 28 Jul. The Railway Children (U) (Lionel Jeffries, UK, 1970) Dinah Sheridan, William Mervyn, Jenny Agutter.

108min. Pleasing family film with an old-fashioned, comfortably British feel.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 20 Jul. The Red Detachment of Women

(tbc) (Jin Xie, China, 1961) Qiang Chen, Niu Tie, Xin-Gang Wang. 92min. The story of abused housemaid Wu Qionghua who eventually becomes leader of the Red Detachment of Women soldiers.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul.

Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang)

(tbc) (Yimou Zhang, China, 1987) Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten. 91min.

Drama about a young woman forced into an arranged marriage. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 6 Aug. LIVE SCREENING Royal Ballet: La Fille Mal Gardée (E) (UK, 2015)

The Royal Ballet performs Frederick Ashton’s delightful 1959 version of this chipper two-act comic ballet, whose title translates as The Wayward Daughter.

Cineworld IMAX, Glasgow, Sun 10 Aug. Russian Dolls (15) (Cédric Klapisch, France/UK, 2005) Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly, Audrey Tautou. 125min. Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 20 Jul. The Secret of Kells (PG) (Nora Twomey, Ireland/France/Belgium, 2009) Voices of Evan McGuire, Christen Mooney, Brendan Gleeson. 78min.

Luscious and old-fashioned independent 2D animation inspired by Irish medieval manuscript The Book of Kells.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 13 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Shakespeare’s

Globe on Screen: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (tbc) (2014)

Shakespeare’s perennial comedy, screened live from the Globe in London.

Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Mon 28 Jul; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Mon 28 Jul. LIVE SCREENING Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: Macbeth (tbc) (2014) beamed live from London.

Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Jul; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Mon 14 Jul; Vue Omni Centre, Edinburgh, Mon 14 Jul. Silent Film Night with Gladstone’s Bag (tbc) Silent film

night featuring a programme of comedy and drama. Live music and sound effects provided by Gladstone’s Bag. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, Glasgow, Wed 6 Aug. Some Like It Hot (PG) (Billy Wilder, US, 1959) Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe. 120min.

Brilliant, brittle, crackerjack farce.

Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 18–Thu 24 Jul; Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 20

Jul; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 18–Mon 21 Jul. Still Life (PG) (Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong, 2006) Tao Zhao, Sanming Han, Zhubin Li. 112min. Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke’s lyrical study of uprooted lives and human yearning in contemporary China set against a background of change and industrial development. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 20 Aug. The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si) (tbc) (Yimou Zhang, China/

Hong Kong, 1992) Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang. 100min. When her husband is brutally kicked by a local politician, a pregnant woman decides to take legal action. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 30 Jul. Streetball (tbc) (Demetrius Wren, US, 2010) 78min. A look behind the scenes as South Africa prepares to host the World Cup, instead focusing on the ‘Homeless World Cup’ that draws teams of ‘misfits’ from 56 countries. CCA, Glasgow, Fri 11 Jul. To Catch a Thief (PG) (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1955) Grace Kelly, Cary Grant. 106min. Hitchcock directs the story of a retired jewel thief (Grant) who is forced back onto the scene by a copycat criminal. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 10–Tue 12 Aug. A Touch of Sin (tbc) (Zhangke Jia, China, 2013) Wu Jiang, Vivien Li, Lanshan Luo. 133min. Four individual stories about violence set in modern China. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Tue 22 Jul. Trainspotting (18) (Danny Boyle, UK, 1995) Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller. 93min. John Hodge’s screenplay perfectly captures the desperate humour of Irvine Welsh’s novel. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 17 Aug. 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014 THE LIST 81

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GLASGOW Activities & Fun

The Spokesman Pull on a helmet, climb on a mountain bike (both provided) and whizz through Pollok Park with the always entertaining Visible Fictions theatre company (pictured). Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Tue 15– Sat 19 Jul.

The Pokey Hat With over 30 performances in 16 locations between now and 3 Aug, you’ve no excuse for missing Grinagog’s witty and engaging new show set in an ice cream van. See review, right.

Various venues, Glasgow, until Sun 3 Aug. Scotch Hoppers Forget computer games and iPhones, this cornucopia of outdoor games is here to remind adults, and educate kids, on how folk used to have fun in the (not so) olden days. See preview, page 83. Parnie Street, Glasgow, Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug. Scotland’s National Airshow A grand day out for the whole family, with fun and excitement on the ground (fairground rides) and in the skies (aerial displays). National Museum of Flight, North Berwick, Sat 26 Jul. Scarecrows, Superworms and the Gruffalo A new Julia Donaldson book is always cause for celebration, especially when she’s there to read from it in person. Get ready to discover her latest triumph, The Scarecrows’ Wedding. Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 3 Aug.

Books

FREE Marathon Storytelling Challenge Wed 16 Jul, Times tbc.

Eastwood Park Theatre, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4956. Tam Dean Burn follows the Queen’s Baton Relay on his bicycle with the aim of reading all Julia Donaldson’s books and plays to children along the route.

FREE Oh No It’s A Gruffalo Sun 20 & Mon 21 Jul, 12–3pm. Waterstones, 174 Argyle Street, 248 4814. An afternoon of storytelling, face painting and games with a special appearance by the Gruffalo.

FREE Summer Reading Challenge Fri 1 Aug & 8 Aug, 11am– noon. Possilpark Library, 127 Allander Street, 276 0928. Take part in different ‘Mythical Maze’ activities and complete the reading challenge over the holidays.

Ages 5–11.

Scarecrows, Superworms and the Gruffalo Sun 3 Aug, 11am–

noon. £6–£8. Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Julia Donaldson launches her latest picture-book The Scarecrows’ Wedding. Part of Culture 2014.

FREE Summer Reading Challenge Thu 7 Aug, 11.30am– 12.30pm. Maryhill Library & Learning Centre, 1508 Maryhill Road, 276 0715.

See above.

Music

Tonic Tinies Wed 9 Jul, 16 Jul, 23 Jul, 30 Jul, 6 Aug & 13 Aug, 10.30–11.30am. £3. Merry-Go-Round, 32–34 Nithsdale Road, Strathbungo, 07983 588675.

Imaginative play through music and movement.

FREE Glow Arts Traditional Song Workshops Sat 12 Jul, 11am–1.15pm.

People’s Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green, 276 0788. Familyfriendly song workshops exploring traditional Scots music.

Kelvin Music Summer School for Kids Mon 21 & Tue 22 Jul, Thu

24 & Fri 25 Jul, Mon 28 & Tue 29 Jul & Thu 31 Jul & Fri 1 Aug, 12.30–5pm. £45 for two days. Kelvin Music School, 10 Belmont Lane, 630 5000. Two-day music courses in vocals, guitar, ukulele and percussion. Ages 5–8: Jul 21–22; ages 9–11: Jul 24– 25; ages 12–14: Jul 28–29; ages 15–17: Jul 31–Aug 1.

Yellow Valley Wed 23 Jul–Sat 2 Aug, 1.30pm & 2.45pm. £6 adult & child (extra adult £6; extra child £4). Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Musical storytelling performance inspired by Kenyan children’s book Who’s Calling?

by Charity Waciuma.

Theatre & Dance

Peppa Pig’s Big Splash Sat 12 &

Sun 13 Jul, 10am, 1pm & 4pm. £12.50– £21. King’s Theatre, 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. All-singing, all-dancing puppet show.

The Spokesman Tue 15 Jul–Fri 18 Jul, 12.30pm & 6pm. Sat 19 Jul, 11.30am & 3pm. £8. Pollok Country Park, Pollokshaws Road, 276 0924. A theatre experience on two wheels with Visible Fictions. Ages 8+. Bikes and helmets provided.

FREE The Pokey Hat Wed 16 Jul, 1pm & 3pm. Free, unticketed.

Eastwood Park Theatre, Rouken Glen Road, 577 4956. See review, below.

Grimm Tales Tue 22 Jul, 2–3pm. £1–£3. Drumchapel Community Centre, Kinfauns Drive, 944 1009. Playful fairy

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Family Fun Day for CCLASP Fundraising fun with bouncy castles, rides, local DJs whipping you into a frenzy and side shows to frustrate you, all for a good cause. The Meadows, Edinburgh, Sun 20 Jul.

FREE The Games We Play Wed 9 Jul–Sun 17 Aug, 10am–5pm. Scotland Street School Museum, 225 Scotland Street, 287 0500. An exhibition looking at the culture of game playing across centuries and countries.

FREE Games Inside Out Thu 10 Jul, 17 Jul, 24 Jul & 31 Jul, 1–3pm. Cranhill Development Trust, 109 Bellrock Street, 774 3344. Old games with a twist for kids aged 5–11.

Dance with Babies Thursdays, 1.30– 2.10pm. £5 (four classes £15). Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church, Observatory Road, 334 2788. Dancing workshop for parents and newborns.

FREE Toddler Time Fridays, 11.30am. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599.

Songs, stories and fun for under 5s inspired by museum exhibits.

FREE Balanceability Taster Session Fri 11 Jul, 1.30–3.30pm.

Library at The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, 276 9712. Urban Fox staff help banish the stabilisers as they teach kids aged 3–5 how to balance on a bike.

FREE Saturday Art Club Saturdays, 10.30am–12.30pm. Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050.

Art activities and games relating to the displays. Ages 3–12.

FREE Sheep Shearing Sat 12 Jul, noon–2.30pm. Tollcross Park, 254b Wellshot Road, 763 2345. See how to get wool from sheep at this shearing demonstration.

FREE Arts & Crafts Mon 14 Jul, 21 Jul & 28 Jul, 1.30–3pm. Royston Library & Learning Centre, 67 Royston Road, 552 1657. Holiday arts and crafts club for children aged 5–11.

Tweeting Toddlers Tuesdays, 11.30am–noon. £4 suggested donation.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. Songs, stories and outside exploring. Ages 0–3.

FREE These Charming Worms Fri 18 Jul, 11am–1pm. Parkmanor Green, 577 4053. Try different techniques to catch the worms in a worm charming competition.

Blue Block Studio Wed 23 Jul–Sun 27 Jul & Tue 29 Jul–Sat 2 Aug, 10am & 11.15am. £6 adult & child (extra adult £6; extra child £4). Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Creative space for adult and babies under 24 months to create, learn, build and experience.

FREE Scotch Hoppers Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug, 1–5pm. Parnie Street, Merchant City, glasgow2014.com/ culture. See preview, page 83. Part of Culture 2014.

FREE Family Extravaganza Day Sat 26 Jul, 10am–3pm. Pollok Library and Leisure Centre, 100/106 Peat Road, 881 3540. Fun-filled sports themed days with sports, games, arts and crafts as well as activities specially for under 5s.

FREE Family Extravaganza Day Mon 28 Jul, 10am–3pm. Springburn Leisure Centre, Kay St, 557 5878. See above.

SITE-SPECIFIC SHOW

THE POKEY HAT

On tour, various venues across Scotland, until Sun 3 Aug Ice cream. If there is a more suitable subject for a theatrical performance on a sunny Saturday afternoon, in a park in the east end of Glasgow, in front of a three-generation audience, I can’t think what it is.

Grinagog’s delightful show shoehorns in the history of the Italian diaspora, the back-court culture of the city’s tenements, the singular pleasures of a beach holiday on Scotland’s west coast, the names of every penny dreadful sweetie ever invented, and lots of excruciating puns. It makes full use of a converted and customised ice-cream van, which becomes the window of a flat, the serving counter of a café and the orchestra pit for a musical interlude performed on Irn-Bru bottles.

There is a structure: three characters who run an old-school ice cream van receive an important letter informing them that an inspector will be pitching up to test their ice cream experience, a challenge they must make as sweet and cool and delicious as their fine product. The social history and kola cube reminiscence is tied in with this pressing need to come up with a winning way of presenting a cone.

The twist at the end is just delightful. It turns out that one of the children in the audience is the inspector. The cast approach him with a pokey hat (for those not in the know, a Glasgow term for an ice cream cone) and present it to him. He, of course, gives it the thumbs up. They have won. Happy days. (Anna Burnside) Reviewed at Alexandra Park, Glasgow.

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tales adapted by Carol Ann Duffy and dramatised by Tim Supple. Ages 6+.

Grimm Tales Wed 23 Jul, 12–1pm. £1–£3. Bellcraig Community Education Centre, 10 Gorstan St, 945 2710. See above.

FREE The Pokey Hat Thu 24 Jul–Sat 26 Jul, 11am,1.30pm & 3pm. Free, unticketed. Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street. grinagog.co.uk. See review, page 82.

The Worm – An Underground Adventure Thu 24 Jul, 26 Jul 11am–

noon & 1–2pm. £2–£3 (adults free). The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365.

An adventure with Wilma and William as they journey to find the elusive worm species. For ages 3–7.

FREE Magic Den’s Family Cabaret Thu 24 Jul, 1–2pm. Donations welcome. Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 113–117 Trongate, 553 0840.

Magic Den entertains adults and kids with tricks, puppetry and humour. Part of Merchant City Festival.

EDINBURGH Activities & Fun

Bring Your Teddy to Britannia

Thu 10 Jul, 9.30am–4.30pm. Included in admission. Royal Yacht Britannia, Ocean Terminal, Leith, 555 5566.

Celebrate National Teddy Bear Picnic Day with some fun for you and Ted.

The Comedy Club 4 Kids Workshop Thu 10 Jul, 10am–12.30pm

& 2.30–5pm. £20. The Bongo Club, 66 Cowgate, 558 8844. A workshop for kids to hone their comedy skills. Ages 7–11 from 10am; ages 12–15 from 2.30pm.

Animal Antics Thu 10 Jul–Sun 13 Jul, Thu 17 Jul–Sun 20 Jul, Thu 24 Jul–Sun 27 Jul & Thu 31 Jul, 12.30– 3.30pm. £3 per child per hour (babies under six months free). Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. A fun space for kids to go a bit wild, with a ball tent, dressing up, arts and crafts, books and more. Under 5s.

FREE Sports Challenge Afternoon Thu 10 Jul, 1–3pm. Museum of Edinburgh, Huntly House, 142 Canongate, 529 4143. Try out unusual, current, and historical sports, games and challenges.

River Dipping Thu 10 Jul, Thu 17 Jul, Tue 22 Jul, Tue 29 Jul, Thu 7 Aug, 2–3.30pm. Children £3.50. Water of Leith Visitor Centre, 24 Lanark Road, 455 7367. Come splash around and find out what lives in the river. Bring waterproofs and wellies.

FREE Giving Nature a Home Saturdays & Sundays, 11am–4pm. Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Family friendly nature and wildlife activities with RSPB Scotland.

FREE Portrait Detectives! Sun 13 Jul, 2–4pm. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Solve some age-old mysteries from Scottish history. Ages 4–12.

Bonaly Multi-Activity Days Mon 14 Jul–Fri 18 Jul, Mon 21 Jul–Fri 25 Jul & Mon 28 Jul–Fri 1 Aug, 9am–5pm. £25 per day (£110 per week). Bonaly Outdoor Centre, 71 Bonaly Road, 02082 371170.

Kids ages 8–14 can spend their holidays taking part in archery, climbing, assault courses and bushcraft.

Shoebox Running Track Mon 14 Jul, 10.30am–12.30pm & 1.30–3.30pm. £5. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Turn a shoebox into your very own running track with eight lanes and moveable sprinters. Ages 6+.

FREE Arthur’s Amble Mon 14 Jul & 28 Jul, 1–2.30pm. Holyrood Park, Holyrood, 652 8150. Learn all about the folk who lived and worked around Arthur’s Seat on this gentle walk around Hunter’s Bog and St Margaret’s Loch.

Tools From Nature Tue 15 Jul, 10.30am–12.30pm & 1.30–3.30pm. £5.

Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Get the Robin Hood look by making your very own bow and arrows complete with quiver. Ages 8+.

Wild at Art Tue 15 Jul, 2–3.30pm.

£3.50 per child + adult. Water of Leith Visitor Centre, 24 Lanark Road, 455 7367. Take a look at the world around you and get creative with nature.

Parent and Baby Group Art Classes Tue 15 Jul, 22 Jul & 29 Jul,

2–4pm. £6.50. Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7101. Art activities for grown-ups and wee ones.

FREE Family Fun Day for CCLASP Sun 20 Jul, 11am–6pm.

The Meadows, Melville Drive, 07738 154262. A day of fun to raise funds for CCLASP children’s charity, with radio roadshows, dance groups, cartoon characters, side shows, funfair rides and inflatable bouncy castles and slides.

FREE The Generator Mon 21 Jul–Sun 17 Aug, 2–4.30pm. Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. Art lab for kids aged 4+.

Summer Wilderness Survival Skills Thu 24 Jul & Tue 5 Aug,

2–3.30pm. £3.50 per adult + child.

Water of Leith Visitor Centre, 24 Lanark Road, 455 7367. Let your kids learn how to fend for themselves in the great outdoors.

Scrapheap Art Thu 31 Jul, 2–3.30pm. £3.50 per child + adult.

Water of Leith Visitor Centre, 24 Lanark Road, 455 7367. Recycle rubbish into something fun and creative, and take part in the scrapheap boat race.

Pop Lock-In Sat 2 Aug, 2pm. £8.

Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. An afternoon lock-in for 4–11 year olds, with DJs, streetdance instructor and karaoke.

FREE Handling Session Day Thu 7 Aug, 1–3pm. Museum of Edinburgh, Huntly House, 142 Canongate, 529 4143. Get to know some of the objects from historic sports and games such as quoits and tiddlywinks.

Watch Out, Beetles About Sun 10 Aug, 10.30am–12.30pm. £5. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Investigate the undergrowth at Lauriston Castle and learn how to identify the different creepy crawlies so you can create a bug finger puppet.

Books & Storytelling

FREE The Gruffalo’s Birthday Sun 27 Jul, 11am–3pm. Waterstones, 98/9 Ocean Terminal, Ocean Drive, Leith, 554 7732. Meet the Gruffalo at his 15th birthday party.

FREE Mrs Mash: The Storyteller Cook Mondays, 10.30– 11am. The Skylark, 241–243 High Street, 629 3037. Delicious stories and songs for ages 4+.

Tiny Tales Tue 15 Jul, 10am & 11.30am. £5 per child (adults free).

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Magical nature stories, rhymes and songs for wee (and not so wee) ears. Ages 1–3.

The Dragon of the Castle Sun 20 Jul, 10.30am–12.30pm. £5. Lauriston Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 529 3963. Hear stories about dragons and make a clay sculpture of one FREE Talking Trees Storytelling Sun 20 Jul & 17 Aug, 2–2.45pm. Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Place, 248 2909. Talking Trees transport you to a magical land far, far away. Ages 5+.

Sleepover Under the Stars Sat 26 Jul, 6.45pm–8.30am. £35. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. A sleepover in the Gallery’s Great Hall for kids aged 7–11 and their accompanying adults, with art activities, a spy-themed gallery adventure and storytelling.

OUTDOOR GAMES

SCOTCH HOPPERS

Parnie Street, Glasgow, Thu 24 Jul–Sun 3 Aug In an era when having the latest iPhone is top priority for many children, it’s hard to imagine that a piece of string and a stick of chalk ever passed muster. Yet whiling away the afternoon playing hop scotch / peevers / beds (whatever you called it) used to be a wholly acceptable leisure activity.

In a bid to dust off the childhood memories of adults, and to introduce today’s youngsters to the kind of fun that doesn’t require a screen, Brian Hartley has created Scotch Hoppers. Taking over Parnie Street in Glasgow’s Merchant City for ten days, Hartley and his team are giving young and old the chance to engage with traditional outdoor games, but with a new twist.

‘It’s unpredictable who will come along,’ he says, ‘but that was one of our interests in making the work – to try and create a variety of activities for different levels of physicality, interest and skill, and for people of all ages.’ Hartley anticipates people engaging with the games in small groups of friends and family, as individuals, or joining forces with strangers to create large groups.

Simplicity will be the key to much of the activity, with minimal need for materials and no complex rules. Keen to bring the natural world into an urban environment, Hartley has also commissioned special objects (a wood carver is making wooden spinning tops, for example), to bring ‘small, well-crafted, tactile objects’ back into our lives.

Open for public use each afternoon, Scotch Hoppers will also feature weekend performances to inspire the public to engage with the space. ‘The fact that we can close a street in the middle of the city for ten days, and invite people to play in it, is in itself quite powerful,’ says Hartley. ‘And I hope people will use it as a catalyst for sharing their own memories of childhood and playing.’ (Kelly Apter)

Summer Rock Club Mon 14 Jul–Fri

OUTSIDE THE CITIES

contemporary military jets, plus children’s activities, fairground rides and stalls.

Day Out with Thomas Sat 26 & Sun 27 Jul, 10am–5pm. £11–£12.

Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway, Union Street, Bo’ness, 01506 822298. Take a rail journey on one of Thomas the Tank Engine’s friends, and watch the children’s entertainers.

Fringe by the Sea Mon 4 Aug–Sun 10 Aug, Times, prices and venues vary. North Berwick, 01620 890787.

North Berwick’s multi-arts festival offers kids events including music with Mr Boom, dancing with Jo Jingles and drama from Sparkle Arts.

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Theatre & Dance

Jul, 30 Jul, 10–11am. £5–8; £35 for five week block. Calton Centre, 121 Montgomery Street, 07778 117333.

Informal music group for parents and babies with live music, instruments and puppets. Ages 0–3.+

Sat 26 Jul, 10am–5pm. £20 (£18; children £10; family £50; under 5s free). National Museum of Flight, East Fortune Airfield, North Berwick, 0300 123 6789. Aerial displays ranging from historic warbirds to

11am & 2pm; Sun 3 & Sat 9, noon & 3pm. £12.50. Howden Park Centre, Livingston, 01506 777666. The Kettle gang take on the helter skelters and merry-go-rounds of the funfair.

Happy Ears Wed 9 Jul, 16 Jul, 23

18 Jul, 11am–1pm. £60 for one week (£54). Academy of Music & Sound, 1 Grassmarket, 656 0600. Tuition for wannabe guitarists, bassists, drummers and vocalists. Ages 10–16.

Theatre & Dance

Baby Loves Disco Sun 3 Aug, 11am.

£6. Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. A chance for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their parents to get their grooves on and enjoy some dayclubbing.

Scotland’s National Airshow

The Singing Kettle: Fantastic Funfair Fri 1 Aug, 2pm; Sat 2 Aug,

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Events are listed by city, then by type. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to lgbt@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Kirstyn Smith.

GLASGOW Activities & Events

FREE Lock Up Your Daughters Filmmaking Group Tue 29 Jul, 7pm.

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900.

A queer filmmaking group, where everyone is invited to gain hands-on experience in making films on a shoestring budget, discuss film scripts and watch a short or two. Ages 14+.

Pride Glasgow Sat 19 Jul, noon. £5.

King Street, King Street, prideglasgow. co.uk Pride Glasgow returns for 2014 with a 16-day festival of events celebrating LGBT equality including the usual parade and street party, as well as Pride Day which includes a fairground, a community expo, a cabaret stage, marketplace, a youth space, a trans safe space and a great big concert featuring Blue, Heather Peace, Amelia Lily, Lucy Spraggan and Angie Brown.

FREE TYCI Sat 16 Aug, 11pm–3am. before midnight; £2 after midnight; free all night if you write ‘TYCI’ on your knuckles. Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. Live set from theatrical pop outfit Swim Team and All The Rage on the DJ decks.

EDINBURGH Activities & Events

FREE Me & T Monthly Sundays, 2–4pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. A supportive space for people who have

friends, family or partners who are transgender or exploring their gender.

FREE LGBT Centre Drop-in Mondays, 5.30–8pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. Informal drop-in service to meet new people, get info and catch up on the latest goss.

FREE Bi & Beyond Wed 16 Jul, Wed 6 Aug & Wed 20 Aug, 7–9pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. A space for bisexual people to get together for social activities.

FREE Edinburgh Gay Men’s Book Group Wed 23 Jul, 7–9pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. A book club for gents with a lust for reading.

FREE LGBT Film Nights Fri 25 Jul, 6.30–9.30pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100.

Screenings of feature-length films, shorts and unusual offerings with an LGBT focus.

FREE The Big LGBT Music Jam Sat 2 Aug, 1–4pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100. Music-making in a creative and supportive environment. Bring an instrument (which could be your voice) and join in with singing, playing or just listening.

FREE Trans Women Sat 2 Aug, 7.30–9.30pm. LGBT Centre for Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street, 523 1100.

Group meeting for transgender women.

FREE Edinburgh Gay Men’s Chorus Open Evening Tue 12 Aug, 7.30pm. Abbey Mount Centre, 2–4 Abbeymount, 661 2780. Get to know what the EGMC is all about at this open evening.

FREE Just for Men Wed 13 Aug, 6.30–8.30pm. Woodland Creatures, 260–262 Leith Walk, 629 5509. Social group for gay, bisexual and trans men.

Clubs

Saturday Night Beaver Sat 19 Jul,

10.30pm–3am. £3 before 11.30pm; £4–£5 after. The Annexe at the Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Entrance via Cowgate, 225 2564. SNB is back in the safe hands of Trendy Wendy, Mama D, The Funky Diva and Wee Taco Mel, with a kickin’ soundtrack for ladies, their invited male guests and LGBT friendly door policy.

FREE Dive! Sun 27 Jul, 8pm. (Bring a present instead of entrance fee). Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. Eclectic underground queer party only blimmin’ turning one year old.

Celebrate by getting in for free and dancing til you cannot stand.

Arts

Edwin Morgan’s Dreams and

Other Nightmares Thu 24 & Fri 25 Jul & Sun 27 Jul–Fri 1 Aug, 7.45pm. Sat 26 Jul & Sat 2 Aug, 2.30pm & 7.45pm. £12 (£8). Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. A frail, 87-year-old Morgan recounts a series of disturbing dreams and nightmares to his young biographer.

Written by Liz Lochhead. Part of Culture 2014.

Clubs

Menergy Fri 11 Jul, 11pm–3am. £15 (meet and greet £30). Axm, 80 Glassford Street, 552 5761. Celebrate hostess Guillotina Munter’s birthday with Bianca Del Rio, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Drag Queens of London’s girl group, The Buffalo Girls.

Birdcage Sat 19 Jul, 9pm–3am. £5–£7 in advance; £10 on the door. Saint Judes, 190 Bath Street, 352 8800. Presenting Alternative Pride Party Pt II and featuring Rebecca Vasmant, Madame S, Milky, Pearl Necklace, Heavyflo, Lucy Luyds.

TYCI Sat 19 Jul, 11pm–3am. Free before midnight; £2 after; free all night if you write ‘TYCI’ on your knuckles. Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. A live set from Vancouver pop outfit Thee AHs and Natasha Radical (Pelts) on the DJ decks.

Yes! Fri 1 Aug, 8pm–3am. Free before midnight; £5 after (students £3). The Flying Duck, 142 Renfield Street, 564 1450. Gay night that plays indie and guitar bands, the emphasis firmly on music from classic artists and cutting edge acts.

Pretty Ugly Sat 9 Aug, 11pm–3am. £5–£6. The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, 221 7705. The Pretty Ugly girls play sexy indie rock’n’roll, electro beats and 60s soul to get everyone in the mood for dirty dancing.

Menergy Sat 9 Aug, 11pm–3am. £15 (meet and greet £30). Axm, 80 Glassford Street, 552 5761. Check out America’s Got Talent and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Adore Delano live.

ALL-DAY EVENT

GLASGOW PRIDE

Parade starts at Clyde Place, finishes at the main event site at King Street car park, Sat 19 Jul Forget the teeming, rainbow-covered streets of Soho; ignore Manchester’s glitter-strewn Canal Street – this year’s best Pride events are taking place in Glasgow.

Led by all-female drumming ensemble SheBoom, the parade starts at 9.30am from Clyde Place and finishes at the King Street car park. Throughout the day, festival-goers have the chance to catch some unmissable acts, including List favourite Heather Peace, as well as sampling a cabaret stage featuring burlesque, comedy, music and drag acts, and a funfair. Of course, no self-respecting Pride festival comes without its merchandise stalls, so if you just don’t have enough rainbow badges or ‘I can’t even think straight’ T-shirts in your life, make sure you bring plenty of pink pounds.

The main stage features acts including Steps tribute band and all-round campfest Stepstastic, as well as X Factor star Lucy Spraggan, and there are also fringe events, including SheBoom drumming workshops for Pride-goers inspired by the parade (or who just like making a lot of noise) and Glasgow Pride’s first art exhibition. This year, the festival is also offering a safe space for trans people as part of a growing effort to ensure that the LGBT label really does include all four letters. Another safe space is provided by LGBT Youth for young people aged 13 to 25, and members will be given free access to the festival.

Following on from last year’s packed-to-the-rafters extravaganza, Glasgow’s longest-standing alternative gay night Birdcage is hosting a post-Pride party at Saint Jude’s from 9pm until the wee small hours – even if you’re not a fan of rainbow flags, the line-up of excellent DJs and performers, including Heavy Flo and Pearl Necklace, should be enough to tempt even the least proud queer. (Kaite Welsh)

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THE BEST ROCK, POP, JAZZ & FOLK

T in the Park T’s moving to Strathallan Castle next year, but for its last hurrah at Balado, Paolo, Calvin, Pharrell, Biffy, Haim (pictured, top), Pixies, Metronomy, Chvrches and hunners more will be helping the crowds to mosh in a field. Balado, Fri 11–Sun 13 Jul. Commonwealth Games music events Matthew Herbert (pictured, right), Edwyn Collins and Hanna Tuulikki join steel bands and Caribbean dancers for a packed side-programme of music alongside the Commonwealth Games. Various dates, see feature, page 29, and preview, page 86.

SUMMER NIGHTS FESTIVAL & SUMMER SESSIONS Two outdoor festivals featuring Teenage Fanclub, The Killers and more

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lasgow won’t stop being the place to lounge about in the sunshine listening to music when the Commonwealth Games have packed up and left town, it seems.

With the West End’s Kelvingrove Bandstand having been renovated as an outdoor live music amphitheatre (Belle & Sebastian play the opening concert on Wed 23 Jul – see preview, page 86 – and two weeks of music, comedy and talks follow), the middle of August will host Magners Summer Nights, a pair of long weekend bills featuring popular MOR artists Squeeze, Steve Earle, Capercaillie, Alison Moyet, The Bluebells and The Waterboys. We’re most excited, though, by the return of Teenage Fanclub (Fri 15 Aug, pictured) to their home city after much too long away.

This lot finishes just in time for a very different event, the second year of Glasgow Summer Sessions in Bellahouston Park, this year with David Guetta (supported by Steve Angello and Oliver Heldens, Sat 16 Aug) and The Killers (with The Courteeners and Miles Kane, Tue 19 Aug) taking the place of last year’s rent-a-fistpumpinganthem topliners Avicii and Kings of Leon.

It worked, and so it’s back. Pray for sun.

(David Pollock) Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow, Thu 7–Sat 9 Aug and Thu 14–Sat 16 Aug; Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Sat 16 & Tue 19 Aug. See glasgowconcerthalls. com and glasgowsummersessions.com for info.

Method Man, Ghostface Killah, the Sugarhill Gang, Public Enemy July’s a big month for fans of their 90s hip hop – Method Man & Redman, Wu Tang’s Ghostface Killah, the Sugarhill Gang and Public Enemy are all on their way. MM&RM, 02 ABC, Glasgow, Sat 12 Jul; GK, The Arches, Glasgow, Tue 15 Jul; SG, King Tut’s, Sat 19 Jul; PE, O2 ABC, Wed 30 Jul. And Blithely Spend The Gowden Day A new folk / poetry / song work by Daniel Padden and Drew ‘Wounded Knee’ Wright, inspired by the Pentland Hills. Glad Cafe, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jul; Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, Tue 12–Thu 14 Aug. Awesome Tapes From Africa By name and nature, Brian Shimkovitz’s world music blog has been keeping things awesome since 2006. See interview in Clubs, page 66. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul; Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug. Earth Sublime sludgy slow rock, led

by Dylan Carlson, and playing songs off September’s upcoming album Primitive and Deadly. CCA, Glasgow, Thu 14 Aug.

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COMMONWEALTH GAMES FESTIVAL 2014 PARTIES

Various venues, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul & Sun 3 Aug The fevered anticipation with which the announcement of Belle and Sebastian’s first Glasgow gig since 2010 was met is a fitting parallel to the general excitement ahead of the Commonwealth Games. The six-piece’s open-air concert at the revamped Kelvingrove Bandstand, which sold out in less than ten minutes, promises to be one of the gigs of the summer. After publicly backing the campaign to restore the once-faded landmark to its former glory, singer Stuart Murdoch described the venue as a ‘dream within a dream’, which is no doubt how fans feel about seeing the group perform in the heart of their spiritual home in the city’s West End. It seems reasonable that ‘The Stars of Track and Field’ will get one of the biggest cheers of the evening if performed.

Across the city, Lulu headlines the opening celebrations in Glasgow Green alongside Eddi Reader, James Grant, Sarah Hayes from Admiral Fallow, Roddy Hart, RM Hubbert and others, with the opening ceremony beamed live on big screens. The Old Fruitmarket plays host to tri-nation musical powerhouse Boomerang, a fusion of indigenous music from Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, followed by a late-night festival club for anyone left standing.

Two-and-a-bit weeks later and it will all be over. Treacherous Orchestra leads the closing ceremony celebrations in Glasgow Green, with the best bits reviewed on the big screens. At the Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra unveil a new commission in collaboration with Tam Dean Burn and multi-instrumentalist Corey Mwamba, while McOpera Ensemble, formed by members of the Scottish Opera orchestra, provide a rousing – and likely emotional – backdrop to a screening of the official closing ceremony. (Rachel Devine) See page 13 for more Commonwealth Games events.

POST ROCK

SLINT

The Arches, Glasgow, Fri 15 Aug In a time before Mogwai walked the post-rock earth, there was Slint. A group whose commercial returns never came anywhere near matching their immense influence on future generations of musicians – their 1991 album Spiderland is regarded as an underground classic today, but sold less than 5000 copies initially – the Kentucky quartet and their doomy, brooding guitar compositions have been cited by all from Glasgow’s finest to Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Sigur Rós as a year zero point of inspiration. This latest reformation – their third to date, after stints in 2005 and 2007 – ties in with a new Spiderland reissue. Founder members Brian McMahan and David Pajo admit they do comeback tours more due to popular demand than for personal gratification – it’s less an opportunity for them to bask belatedly in the glow of their magnum opus than a chance for fans to experience live a group who had split by the time their defining work was released. Mythology has coloured Spiderland – legend has it members wound up institutionalised after its making (McMahan suffered a mental breakdown). But where there was darkness, there was humour and kinship too. Has there ever been a more emotive band promo photo than that on Spiderland’s cover – a blurry B&W shot of four half-grinning heads poking from the shimmering surface of a lake, a portrait of teenage precociousness / innocence?

If Slint make you nostalgic for anything, it’s for an age when a bunch of kids from nowheresville could redefine guitar music without even knowing they were doing it. (Malcolm Jack) FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

EDINBURGH JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL Various venues, Edinburgh, Fri 18–Sun 27 Jul

Jazz is a living artform, but EJ&BF’s programming can be a little too reliant on tribute shows and revivalists. There are always gems, however, and this year’s Mandela Day Concert is a mustsee, featuring the great South African pianist / composer Abdullah Ibrahim, mbaqanga (South African dance music) legends the Mahotella Queens (left), and contemporary South African stars Freshlyground (although the less said about the latter’s slick MOR pop the better).

As one of the Jazz Epistles, Ibrahim recorded the first album by a black South African band.

Moving to Europe in the early 60s, his Dollar Brand Trio combined township folk with Ellingtonia, hard bop and the avant-garde. Championed by Sir Duke himself, Ibrahim went on to work with everyone from Don Cherry to Archie Shepp and fellow South African Johnny Dyani (check out their amazing African Echoes from 1979). Ibrahim worked later with Cape Town musicians, developing the Cape jazz sound that yielded classics like ‘Mannenberg’, an unofficial national anthem during the apartheid era. He’ll perform solo here, all the better to hear his elegant, soulful and adventurous piano playing. Of the Festival’s contemporary jazz offerings, highlights include NYC piano trio The Bad Plus, famed for frisky tunes and quirky rock covers, and excellent young UK pianist Zoe Rahman, leading the Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra. (Stewart Smith) Mandela Day Concert, Fri 18 Jul; Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra, Sat 26 Jul, both at Edinburgh Festival Theatre; The Bad Plus, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 26 Jul, edinburghjazzfestival.com 86 THE LIST 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014

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ALBUM OF THE ISSUE

INDIE ROCK EXPERIMENTAL / ELECTRONIC

CLAUDE SPEEED

My Skeleton (Lucky me)

Modern art is too often about cheap thrills and easy pickings. Attention seeking and shocks; drop rather than build. My Skeleton is the debut album from Claude Speeed, an artist who doesn’t give up anything easily, whose album opens up to only the most devout and patient listeners. Nothing here can be described as immediate, but that makes the cathartic release, or frustrating refusal, of that gushing emotional moment all the more powerful. It opens with ‘Washaa’, a mesmerising dreamscape of intergalactic electronics and swooning strings, washing over you like a warm welcome.

From there, Speeed is most preoccupied with ushering you into his musical memory, with the album only picking up (cough) speed on the bizarrely titled ‘Tiger Woods’. There is ostensibly nothing golf-related in this track – instead, an agitated synth line, the closest Speeed comes to a pop melody throughout. It becomes more frenetic as cooing vocals and industrial grit are layered on top, only to fade and die just when it seems it might explode. It’s a perfect example of drawing you in but refusing to give everything up, drawn from a metaphorical bloodline of electronic artists influenced by rock, such as Boards of Canada. Claude Speeed himself comes from a sure footing in Scottish futurist rock – he is a founding member of Russia and American Men – and it is clear that My Skeleton is a very personal escapade. Field recordings from transport make up a lot of the unusual, hard-to-place sounds, creating an almost dystopian melancholy. Speeed ramps up the volume on ‘Prove You Exist’ and the Mogwai-esque ‘Field’ to distort that sadness into an anger – when My Skeleton really takes off.

(Tony Inglis)

HONEYBLOOD

Honeyblood (FatCat) Between the Glasgow music scene, Brighton’s FatCat Records and New Yorkbased producer Pete Katis (he of Interpol and The National repute), a runway to success has effectively been laid. Be it towards a steady rise in commercial returns, international touring and critical acclaim (The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks), or potentially even graduation to a major label and a shot at the heights of the top ten (Frightened Rabbit). The latest band taxiing into position is duo Honeyblood – singer / guitarist Stina Tweeddale and drummer Shona McVicar – though quite what kind of altitude they’ll achieve is difficult to discern from their accomplished but inconsistent debut album. Between Tweeddale’s spry, gutsy singing style – her voice always positioned high and bold in the mix, complemented intuitively by McVicar’s sweet harmonies – and a natural way with a lip-glossy kiss of a garage band indie-rock hook, Honeyblood undoubtedly have assets, even if they’re not always necessarily deployed to the best possible effect. ‘Super Rat’ is based around an overstretched sewer rodent analogy, but features a few fantastically plain-speaking disses to a ‘scumbag, sleaze, slimeball, grease’ of a cheating ex-boyfriend. The chorus of ‘Choker’ is a grungey sucker-punch of a thing, but by rehashing that big, clunky old cliché ‘what doesn’t kill you, just makes you stronger’, it smacks of a dispiriting sense of ‘this will do’ in lyrical terms. ‘Killer Bangs’ is a tremendous, hurtling, melodic scuzz-bomb in the Breeders style. Exquisitely textured break-up song ‘Bud’, meanwhile – released as a single last year – marks Honeyblood as a kind of Scottish Best Coast, and remains their best song yet, though it isn’t clear quite why the perfectly good original version that we’d already grown so familiar with was deemed unfit for purpose, and a new same-butslightly-different mix used here. It’s a typically niggling little frustration about this record – a successful take-off for Honeyblood, make no mistake about it, just not necessarily as smooth as it could have been. (Malcolm Jack)

FOLK POP

ELECTRONIC / AMBIENT

From Scotland with Love (Domino)

Instrument (City Slang)

KING CREOSOTE

Do you remember a Scotland where the beaches were packed during the ‘Glasgow fortnight’, where people jostled for space in Saturday-night dancehalls while attempting a demure courting ritual, and where striking workers with massive banners were pushed about on the streets by enthusiastic (pre-kettling era) policemen? King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, does, or at least he recalls it all through the auspices of the From Scotland with Love documentary, screened on the BBC in June and re-appearing as part of the cultural happenings revolving around the Commonwealth Games. The film, put together

by Virginia Heath, is an un-narrated compilation of archive footage of this nation across the 20th century for which KC has supplied the soundtrack.

Through this set of 11 evocative and tender songs (infiltrated by a couple of rousing foot-tappers), Anderson steers clear of any sweeping ideological statements about nationhood, the rise of consumerism and the death of community. Instead, he focuses on speculative scenarios about individuals, friends and families. These are stories where parents seek to cultivate better lives for their progeny amid the ‘clarty surrounds’ of ‘Pauper’s Dough’, of kids kicking up sand at ‘Largs’, and where Wayne circles the dancefloor for ‘One Night Only’. Clarinets, squeezeboxes and what sounds a little like a grandfather clock running out of puff merely add to the nostalgic charm. But be assured, this is no sentimental journey, with Anderson testifying to a fascination for finding the dark edges in both people and places.

The collection works like a dream alongside the film, but it’s a potent gem when heard all on its own. This is Anderson’s first album since Diamond Mine, his Mercury-nominated collaboration with Jon Hopkins. At the very least, some lobbying for From Scotland with Love scooping next year’s SAY Award should start right now. (Brian Donaldson) Read more about the Commonwealth Games’ music highlights on page 29.

TO ROCOCO ROT They’re less a band, more a three-piece art unit, and To Rococo Rot’s continuing exploration of a territory that borders electronic, ambient and post-rock has been one of the richest and most compelling threads of the last 15 years in music.

Since the release of The Amateur View on City Slang in 1999 – a label they return to for this release – the Berlin-based group have been quietly redefining the possibilities of how the synth- and laptop-derived electronics of minimal techno can interact with bass and a drumkit.

It’s been four years since Speculation, and fertile side projects from all members in the interim have included collaborations with Hans-Joachim Roedelius (of Cluster and Harmonia) in Roedelius Schneider, Cloudland with heavyweight Italian contemporary composer / pianist Ludovico Einaudi, Pianotapes with Bill Wells, plus their ongoing Tarwater, Mapstation and Robert Lippock solo guises. As ever, the fluid and distinctive bass playing style of Stefan Schneider continues to root a lot of their sound on Instrument. Likewise, where lone producers, or bands, might take the abstract pulsing electronics that underpin ‘Besides Down in The Traffic’ and ‘Pro Model’ down a multi-layered crescendo route, the jazz-tinged drumming of Ronald Lippock always results in something with compulsive driving momentum that retains a restrained, loose funkiness. One new thing here is vocals – and it’s those of New York no wave figurehead Arto Lindsay, whose soft voice features on several tracks, as does his primitive abrasive guitar – every bit the electric descendant of Derek Bailey – on textural ‘Longest Elevator in the World’ and more. Elsewhere, primitively recorded pianos add to the casual atmosphere.

Despite any additions and innovations brought to the table, Instrument is unmistakably the sound of To Rococo Rot. In their own modest way, they’ve been sounding like an exciting and optimistic version of the future for a long time – and they still do.

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HOUSE

Preternaturals (The Quietus Phonographic Corporation)

Part Six EP (Accidental)

GRUMBLING FUR

HERBERT

While Alexander Tucker declaring Preternaturals to be ‘our pop record’ could be misleading, there’s no denying that the third album from Grumbling Fur (the duo of Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan) does wander some rarely occupied passages between wyrd folk and pop melodies to create an offbeat and memorable collection of avant-pop. Not surprisingly, Preternaturals builds on the blueprint laid by last year’s slow-burn success story Glynnaestra, a distinctly English take on psychedelia that clattered mordantly against the kitchen sink (often literally, with cutlery and kettles used as instruments). Here they dial up their astral pop tendencies while still straining to unmoor themselves from folk traditions. Pastoral sounds waft around amorphous electronic tones to create gently propulsive melodies with a hypnotic, almost shamanistic edge added by the duo’s mantra-style vocals. There are innumerable references that could be listed (detectable influence of Depeche Mode, Aphex Twin and Coil, and of peers in sonic exploration The Phantom Band), but it is ultimately a world unto itself – a kaleidoscopic trip on a steady footing. Their weirdness always somewhat concealed by lush harmonies and winsome hooks, it’s barely noticeable that ‘All The Rays’ starts with a chorus; or that the blissful sway of ‘Pluriforms’ is actually composed of fried circuitry and ghoulish vocal cuts; or that ‘Lightinsisters’ is about as alien as synth-pop could possibly sound.

O’Sullivan describes Preternaturals as ‘fear that human beings are outside of nature . . . everything can be elucidated by nature but we don’t have access to that’. Few bands can master the art of the uncanny, yet these songs have eerie undertones within, a satisfyingly irksome feeling that they’ve fallen into place as part of something far bigger. Grumbling Fur may be the kind of band so attuned to the other side that they’re destined only for cult appreciation, to be labelled ‘ahead of their time’, but one thing is for sure – you won’t regret stepping into their strange world. (Chris Tapley)

Matthew Herbert has done a lot of things with his various musical talents, too many to go into here, so let’s just settle on calling him an electronic polymath who has recorded pig farts, made some great house music and done everything in between (and there’s a lot in between). The music that brought him to most people’s attention is his slinky vocal house, notably from his pretty timeless Bodily Functions and Scale albums from the early to midnoughties. He then abandoned this MO and went off making batshit sonic collage albums, playing live with his big band, landing the gig as head of the New Radiophonic Workshop, and generally behaving like the part-alchemist, part-mad professor, part-audio boffin, part-idiosyncratic composer we all suspected was bursting to get out.

And now he’s back making house again under his Herbert moniker after an eight-year hiatus. It’s a tentative return – this four-track EP seems to be a reminder to himself as much as to the listener that he is capable of mining that formerly rich seam of serpentine and refined house. Lead track ‘One Two Three’ proves that he has not lost his touch; it’s just a delightful, breezy, elegant, warm tune, lifted by coquettish vocals from London singer Rahel, and carried along by a coiling, gauzy groove. It’s all just deliciously simple and inviting.

The rest of the EP seems relatively workmanlike by comparison. ‘Manny’ is a slightly irritating and skittish bit of loopy nonsense; ‘My DJ’ is an equally curious and faintly gloomy slice of wonky house; and ‘Grab That Bottle’ is a kind of PG-13 acid house track that lacks any real menace, but has a certain enigmatic, goofy charm.

So we’ve learnt that Matthew Herbert can still make tasteful, smart, sinuous vocal house, but is that knowledge enough to sate his own voracious appetite for discovery? If you make it, Matthew, we will listen.

(Mark Keane) See page 29 for an interview with Matthew Herbert.

JAZZ / AVANT-ROCK

OUTDOOR POP

Enter (Rune Gramoffon)

Benthic Lines (Armellodie)

FIRE! ORCHESTRA Fire! Orchestra’s Exit, in which saxophone hero Mats Gustafsson expanded his free jazz / psych rock trio into a 30-piece behemoth, was a highlight of 2013.

While still driven by Johan Berthling’s hypnotic bass, this new Fire! music blazed with the spontaneous interplay between a crack team of Swedish jazzers and the wildly inventive vocalists Mariam Wallentin and Sofia Jernberg.

Enter is a more structured affair, organising composed and improvised passages into a prog rock-like suite. The mood is suitably 70s, heavy with the fug of patchouli and hash, the mellow vibes tinged with dread. ‘Part One’ is stripped right back, as a slow-burning Fender Rhodes riff ushers in Wallentin’s bluesy torch singing. Horns gradually enter to support the riff, before it all falls into a black hole of King Crimson-like mellotron.

‘Part Two’ hits the ground running, with a insistent groove knowingly filched from The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. Pretty nifty, but for Simon Ohlsson’s pompous vocals, which are a step too far into prog naffness.

Electronicist Joachim Nordwall takes over for a refreshingly contemporary excursion into noise, but save for a few gaseous puffs of trombone beneath his frayed arcs of tone, there’s no real exchange with the Orchestra – a missed opportunity.

A mini-concerto for horns and solo sax is genuinely affecting, evoking a wintry Swedish seascape as Gustafsson blows freely over Mats Äleklint’s stately arrangement. There’s more spontaneous play between sections of the Orchestra in ‘Part Three’, with Jernberg gnashing and growling at the wailing horns over a see-sawing riff. ‘Part Four’ reprises Wallentin’s main theme, with the full Orchestra rising behind the vocalists as they strive for a cosmic weightiness.

The ambition of Enter is laudable, but in its bid to accommodate so many voices, it lacks the character and energy of its predecessor.

(Stewart Smith)

DAN LYTH AND THE EUPHRATES ‘I think some part of me took perverse pleasure in the thought of having to undergo some real physical exertion to make this record,’ says Dunfermline singer / songwriter Dan Lyth of his debut album Benthic Lines, and he puts his music where his mouth is. Five years in the making, this LP (and accompanying book) is a hugely ambitious undertaking. It straddles, evokes and excavates continents (Lyth made field recordings in Morocco, Australia, Turkey, Uganda and Fife); summons the historic and the modern (it references mythology, Biblical imagery and technology); and taps into bucolic landscapes, psychic states and urban sprawls.

At the album’s heart is Lyth’s overriding (and unwieldy) goal: to create an album recorded entirely outdoors – from al fresco piano recitals to peat bog ambience; from high streets through forests, hillsides and quarries; from rooftops to car parks and church ruins to boats. In doing so, he raises some excellent, and timely, questions, about how music and the physical environment can interact, in contrast to this age of bedroom recording, cyber-realms and digital manipulation.

What’s most impressive about this feat, however, is not that Lyth achieved his objective (although that is admirable enough), but that such a concept, and effort, never gets in the way of the music: Lyth’s unadorned psalms are minimalist and intoxicating, but they’re never bogged down or distracted by the process.

Even without Lyth’s singular vision, or his need to invest intensive physical effort into his work, his organic electronica and chamber-pop hymns would still stand out. The album variously evokes Andrew Bird (‘Four Creatures’, ‘How It Happened’), Steve Reich (‘Super Nature’) and Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett (‘We Were Bones and We Were Meat’); but mainly it sounds just like Lyth, and the great outdoors. That it does so with such subtle aplomb is something to treasure, and applaud. (Nicola Meighan)

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FOLK-ROCK

World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest)

Owl John (Atlantic Records)

MORRISSEY

OWL JOHN

To say the five years since Morrissey’s last studio album have been turbulent for him would be grotesque understatement. Beset by a shedful of woes – lack of record deal; near-constant illness; cancelled tours; a swathe of now-trademark controversial statements – his personal brand has transformed into that of a man with zero fucks left to give. More worryingly, recent songs have been satisfactory at best, mediocre at worst. It’s understandable that fans would be wary of new output.

World Peace is None of Your Business is a palpable punch in the jaw for doubters. The album takes up where 2009’s Years of Refusal left off, but with increased bombast, refocused verve. It swings from content love song to disjointed misery: ‘Kiss Me a Lot’ – the happy, desperate plea of a man finally in love – is juxtaposed perfectly by following track ‘Smiler with Knife’, a schizophrenic summation of the album. Watch your back. Love = death.

Nothing is as it seems. Seemingly upbeat tunes mask dark stories – see ‘Staircase at the University’, whose disturbing imagery materialises out of the blue. ‘I’m Not a Man’ flirts with gender stereotypes, before revealing itself to be a mini ‘Meat is Murder’ in disguise. Meticulously crafted stories are brought to life: a staccato gunfire guitar or a haunting shriek of feedback are the soundtrack to his missives. ‘Istanbul’ – the tale of a father searching for his long-lost son in a foreign land – thrusts his renowned poeticals to centrestage. All the while, his faithful band provide a smooth foundation on which to build a layered but unobtrusive sound: this is the Morrissey show.

That’s not to say there aren’t duds. Opener ‘World Peace is None of Your Business’ is tired, pseudo-political and better off as filler, plus ‘The Bullfighter Dies’ veers horrifying close to novelty track. But if Morrissey ever wanted to sound like classic solo Moz, he’s managed it here. Final track ‘Oboe Concerto’ is ‘Everyday is Like Sunday’ near-perfection, all moody, crescendo intro, dramatically rolled ‘r’s and hypnotic outro, an unsurprising end to a surprising, vital album. (Kirstyn Smith)

Forget whisky and genealogy website subscriptions. Some would argue that Scotland’s most successful transatlantic export consists of rollicking indie-folk tunes, a few beards and just enough heavily accented curse words to make the Americans blush. Certainly, Frightened Rabbit’s recent history ensures that a new album of solo material by frontman Scott Hutchinson will set young hearts aflutter from Melrose to Minneapolis.

Good news, then, that this doesn’t fall into the dull, vanity-driven category of frontman side-projects, but rather into the interesting chunk that show a band member revelling in a different set-up and flexing some less-used creative muscles. While plenty of Frabbity elements are present and correct – a folky warmth to the guitars permeating through the distortion, a bloody-minded and cathartic bluntness to the lyrics, and of course Hutchinson’s voice itself – there’s far more variety in the sound of this record than in the band’s most recent.

Evocative opener ‘Cold Creeps’ is rain-soaked and grim, the more interesting for the fact that almost the first two minutes of it are instrumental.

Owl John is ragged and raw, and less overtly melodic than much of the full-band material, favouring atmosphere and instrumentation over hooks and narrative. The sinister themes of ‘Hate Music’, a grizzled, bluesy stomper, are sustained right through to the end, with Hutchinson screaming on penultimate track ‘Don’t Take Off the Gloves’ ‘there’s poison in the tap water’.

While rawness is part of both Owl John and Frightened Rabbit’s appeal, and the relative spontaneity of this record does much to enliven it, if there’s a criticism it’s that it feels a little half-formed, even unfinished in places, as impassioned lyrics tail off and songs end abruptly.

Nevertheless, it’s better than many could turn out in much longer, and here’s hoping that the spreading of Owl John’s wings puts a bit of bounce into Frightened Rabbit’s next outing.

(Laura Ennor)

POP

INSTRUMENTAL HIP HOP / ELECTRONIC

Ultraviolence (Interscope/Polydor)

Rosario EP (LuckyMe)

LANA DEL REY

It’s not hard to source opinions on Lana Del Ray. Seemingly anti-meh personified, the critical convulsions following the global crush on ‘Video Games’, where opinions on the authenticity or otherwise of the artist (and even her lips) were mandatory, threatened to eclipse the music itself – which is a shame, as it’s great.

Her second album proper, Ultraviolence, continues the sad Hollywood slo-mo of Born To Die, but ditches the electronics and hip hop influence in favour of reverb-drenched guitars, crushed drums and even-more-ghostly vocals in conjuring the gothic noir.

The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach’s perfectly pitched production brings with it a blues influence that takes us a zone further into the dirge of Lynchian noir, and it relies less on trademark lush strings to conjure the mid-century glamour, instead taking us to an alternative underbelly of after-dark West Coast where guitar solos and real drums live.

Should doubts remain, period references pepper the lyrics: ‘The sun also rises’ in ‘Money Power Glory’; the title track quoting ‘He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)’, the none-more-eerie Gerry Goffin- and Carole King-penned 1964 hit; and a cover of ‘The Other Woman’, a 1959 song popularised by Nina Simone.

The strung-out lounge never gets too baked to stay in the room, though, and there’s plenty of modern-day edge to keep things in the foreground.

Witness ‘I get high on hydroponic weed’ in hipsterbaiting ‘Brooklyn Baby’, and ‘Mimicking me is a fucking bore’ in standout ‘Fucked My Way Up to the Top’. While others may continue their attempt to unpick a non-existent riddle to progress beyond a level of understanding they feel dissatisfied with, the rest of us can enjoy the show.

Ultraviolence is a coherent piece of work that proves what many hope to disprove: Lana Del Rey is the real deal. (Hamish Brown)

S-TYPE

The cover for Scottish hip hop producer S-Type’s new EP Rosario shows the back of a boxer primed for battle, but stepping in the ring with this music is a little more hyper-realistic than that. In fact, it has more in common with a seventhround bout of Tekken. S-Type, aka Bobby Perman, is another talented artist (now 28, he’s been releasing music since he was 15, on the Surface Pressure label he set up with brother, Tommy) in what is becoming a strong lineage of Scottish producers of instrumental hip hop and electronica. With other notable names like Hudson Mohawke and Rustie gaining momentum (both are key players in the LuckyMe family, and their kaleidoscopic, arcade game-inspired beats loom large over Rosario), S-Type steps up to the plate with much to live up to.

Thankfully, Perman’s latest is a rush of blood to the head of high energy, jumped-up beats that would make even the most soporific of listeners burst with adrenaline. The EP is bookended by accomplished vocal turns from already established rappers YC the Cynic and Roc Marciano, which illustrate that these beats really can hang with the best of them. If anything, this leaves the meat of the EP – three instrumental tracks – lacking, as each screams out for someone to lay some rhymes on top. Indeed, his label, LuckyMe, suggests that this slick production could already be ripe for someone as skilled as a Kendrick Lamar. The synthesised brass that punctuates ‘Franco’ certainly evokes the closing track from Lamar’s excellent 2012 album good kid m.A.A.d city, ‘Compton’. It is no surprise to learn that that particular track was produced by Just Blaze, pinpointed by S-Type himself as an influence.

That minor negative serves only to highlight the potential that these tracks show for whenever S-Type begins to regularly produce for big name, talented hip hop lyricists. For now, the surging and plummeting emotional intensities of ‘Lost Girls’ allows you to forget this and be lost in a mesmerising digital landscape. (Tony Inglis) 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014 THE LIST 89

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JAZZ & WORLD

ALSO RELEASED JAZZ

DEATH SHANTIES Crabs (Fuse)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Hyperdub 10.2 (Hyperdub) Hyperdub’s tenth anniversary celebrations continue with this second of four compilations in 2014. Sorry to gush, but god it’s beautiful, a who’s who of the post-dubstep, post-garage styles that the label has stewed together, including the atmospherics of Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, the future dubstep of Burial and Cooly G, the sci-fi soul of Ikonika (with Dam-Funk) and the label’s own boss Kode 9.

(David Pollock)

SINEAD O’CONNOR

I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss (Nettwerk) Recently famed for her wonderfully forthright opinions (notable recipient: M.Cyrus) than her wonderfully forthright music, Sinead returns with a tenth studio album aimed more at the converted than any new acolytes out there.

Still, it’s a strong record, with standouts like unreconstructed rocker ‘The Voice of My Doctor’ and the Seun Kuti-featuring funk of ‘James Brown’ balancing the limper ballads. (DP)

WIRE

Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980 (Pink Flag) Whether a live recording can recreate the experience of the original is lent a little evidence towards the negative here, with a reissue of seminal post-punks Wire’s ‘live bootleg’ of their Dadaist 1980 stage show at London’s Electric Ballroom. The quality is raw but the atmosphere is dangerous and there are some nice musical motifs (demented sax on ‘Eels Sang Lino’, for example), although the effect is like listening to a party in the house next door. (DP)

MATTHEW COLLINGS Silence Is A Rhythm Too (Denovali Records)

Album two from the Edinburghbased composer / sound artist is titled in reference to a Slits track, with whom he shares a deconstructivist approach and

even a hint of tribal primitivism.

But, unlike The Slits, this is music for the head rather than the gut – a minimalist suite, more abstract than his debut Splintered Instruments, that foregrounds delicate piano, eddying strings, a fog of brass, post-rock menace and sundry found sounds. (Fiona Shepherd)

SEBASTIEN TELLIER L’Aventura (Because Music)

The smooth operator of Gallic electro pop returns with his second album in a year. This time his eyes are on Brazil. Pourquoi? Some big sporting event, apparently.

So L’Aventura flirts coquettishly with bossa nova and tropicalia, plus Tellier’s usual seductive, playful blend of French chanson, exotica, disco, synth prog and breathy crooning – with mammoth centrepiece ‘Comment revoir Oursinet?’ (FS)

ANNA CALVI

Strange Weather (Domino) Calvi flaunts her good taste but exposes shortcomings of her melodramatic act on this terribly serious covers EP, which abandons the abandon, as it were, of Suicide’s ‘Ghost Rider’ and fails to capture the rapture of Bowie’s ‘Lady Grinning Soul’. Even with the gender play, her ‘I’m The Man That Will Find You’ cannot hope to outweird Connan Mockasin’s original. Guest David Byrne lightens things up on the title track. (FS)

COCTEAU TWINS

Blue Bell Knoll/Heaven Or Las / Vegas (4AD) Prepare to swoon like a tightly corsetted Victorian lady on a sultry day to these vinyl repressings of 4AD’s final two Cocteau Twins albums. Shoegazing benchmark Blue Bell Knoll with its actual, intelligible lyrics has barely aged a day in the 26 years since its original release, while Heaven Or Las Vegas, warmed by Liz Fraser’s maternal cooing, was their most commercially successful album and a favourite of 4AD boss Ivo Watts-Russell. (FS)

Glasgow’s Death Shanties promise ‘balls-to-the-wall free jazz’, yet Crabs, their official debut following 2013’s self-released Nunatak, is a more exploratory affair than that description suggests.

As the panicky squalls of ‘Something in Me Wakes Up Terrified’ attest, saxophonist Sybren Renema can wail, but he generally favours more subtle forms of liberation, blurring tender melodies into metallic bell tones on ‘Stumps’. Drummer Alex Neilson, mastermind behind folk-rock troupe Trembling Bells, mostly plays with timpani mallets, giving his rolls a dampened, slightly distant tone. Creative overdubbing allows looped saxophones to circle Renema’s alto lead like angry flies in ‘Baby Dodds Is Dead’, while Mike Hastings’s droning guitar, a doleful male chorus, and Lucy Stein’s recitation of a psychosexual dream passage from DM Thomas’s The White Hotel help turn the English folk song ‘O! Where is Saint George?’ inside out. (Stewart Smith) JAZZ

BRÖTZMANN, EDWARDS, NOBLE, ADASIEWICZ Mental Shake (Otoroku)

Recorded live at London’s Cafe Oto, Mental Shake reunites Peter Brötzmann with the crack rhythm team of John Edwards and Steve Noble. Chicago vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz is the wildcard, opening up gorgeous purple-blue tone worlds under the Europeans’ punky improvisations. It begins with a hunter’s call from Brötzmann’s Hungarian tarogato pipe, answered by Noble’s war drums. Adasiewicz’s chords add delicate tension to the juddering groove, which drifts into abstract space music. Brötzmann reenters on saxophone, his vocalised goose calls leading the group into weirder territory, with sinister groans and wire-on-wood slaps from Edwards’ bass and rain-on-tin snare deluges from Noble. Belying his wildman reputation, Brötzmann concludes the set in romantic ballad mode. Noble brings an edge to it all with impetuous crashes and thumps, drawing snaggle-toothed responses from Brötzmann. A terrific set, full of beauty, wit and bite. (Stewart Smith) WORLD

OOIOO

Gamel (Thrill Jockey) In parallel to leading Boredoms’ cosmic drum circle, Yoshimi P-We has journeyed through cute motorik pop, tropical disco frenzy and kaleidoscopic jazz weirdness with her all-female group OOIOO. For Gamel, two male gamelan players have been added, giving a disciplined momentum to the group’s wonky DIY avant-pop. The effect is like a Japanese Raincoats collaborating with Steve Reich.

Each track follows its own skewed logic, playing games with tension-and-release and confounding expectations, while maintaining a forward motion. ‘Don Ah’ moves through an introductory ritual of pentatonic vocal chants and tuned percussion, before switching into a tropical rainforest groove, topped with electronic birdsong and monkey shrieks.

The giddy playground vocal chants of ‘Jesso Testa’ promise an explosive climax, only to sway sideways into a tangle of calculated wrongness. (Stewart Smith)

WORLD

MERIDIAN BROTHERS Salvadora Robot (Soundway)

Elbis Álvarez, the pink throbbing brain behind Bogotá’s Meridian Brothers, is the most inventive kind of nut. Yet for all its eccentricities, Salvadora Robot never descends into wackiness. On ‘Somos Los Residetas’, he creates a hobbled, strangely danceable merengue, topping it off with Star Wars cantina clarinets and cheeky organ jabs. The title track is a jaunty two-step with wonky Joe Meek guitars, while ‘De Mi Caballo, Como Su Carne’ has mosquito synths nibbling at a salsa piano. The decelerated reggaeton of ‘Baile Ultimo . . . ‘ cocks a snook at Colombian arbiters of good taste who consider the genre crass. ‘El Festival Vallenato’ is particularly askew, with Álvarez ranting through an echoplex over a rhythm that sounds like it’s falling apart and rebuilding itself simultaneously. Buzzing electronics and mischievous chipmunk vocals bring this brilliantly demented carnival to a close. (Stewart Smith)

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SINGLES AND EPS

RANDOLPH’S LEAP

I Can’t Dance to This Music Anymore (Lost Map) A folksy companion to The Smiths’ Panic, this latest postcard single from Eigg’s Lost Map label establishes dancefloor refusal as a metaphor for all other kinds of reluctance, its rising fiddle and homespun orchestral motifs forming the perfect accompaniment to Adam Ross’s plaintive voice.

Their label’s website describes Randolph’s Leap as a ‘32-limbed wonder from Glasgow’, and it’s also the ‘soundtrack’ to their first East End Social get-together at Bowlers Bar this month.

Randolph’s Leap’s first ‘I Can’t Dance to This Music’ night is at Bowlers Bar, Glasgow, Sun 27 Jul.

JAMIE XX

All Under One Roof Raving (Young Turks) Not content with Mercury-winning success with The xx and his remix collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron three years back, Jamie Smith’s latest solo releases have begun to unveil him as a producer of real individuality and style.

His latest isn’t what you would expect from the title, which is a latenight garage groove of steel drums and atmospheric vocal snippets extolling the virtues of rave culture, an echoing hymnal to basement clubs and pirate radio that’s more film score than floorfiller. jamiexx.com

EAGLEOWL & WOODPIGEON

ESA

E.Roots EP (Burek)

Lost Cat 003 (Lost Map) Released as part of Lost Map’s Lost Cat series of hyper-limited special issues, this split cassette single between swoon-inducing Edinburgh gang eagleowl and their Canadian soulmates Woodpigeon will only be available at gigs and in very carefully selected record stores. It’s all about keeping things a little bit special, y’see? The senses-fogging, fiddle-crooning title track ‘Eagleowl vs Woodpigeon’ is from the former’s This Silent Year album, with other new bits they haven’t let us hear.

Stream tracks at soundcloud.com/ lostmap/sets/lost-cat-003, eagleowl perform at Howlin’ Fling, Isle of Eigg, Fri 18–Sun 20 Jul.

Now relocated to London, South African producer Esa Williams is well known around Glasgow for his percussion work with Auntie Flo and time served as one of the DJ team at Subculture. Recording here for Croatian label Burek, his sound across the first of these four tracks (‘Time of Planck’ and ‘Paradox Jaz’) is gorgeous, a warm minimal house crackle with little retro acid flourishes.

‘Placid Universe’ and ‘Drama Queen’ go longer on the layering of old synth sounds and are a bit less directly affecting for it.

(Reviewed by David Pollock)

EXPOSURE JONNIE COMMONWEALTH GAMES With an album out this autumn and regular curatorship of the Save As Collective – alongside James ‘Conquering Animal Sound’ Scott, Julian ‘Miaoux Miaoux’ Corrie and Gavin ‘grnr’ Thomson – lone electro-acoustic troubadour Jonnie Common presents the third Save As night. With a name like that, the theme is unavoidable. We caught up with Jonnie to hear more. . .

Will there actually be games?

There may be some between acts. We’re still working on it but plimsolls and participation won’t be mandatory.

Who’s playing?

Paddy Steer’s coming up from Manchester to headline.

I’m dying to see him again and I thoroughly believe he’ll blow the minds of anyone who hasn’t seen him play before. Imagine a jazz drummer whose drum kit extends into a nest of homemade instruments, wearing a big alien-looking robot’s head that lights up when he sings.

It might sound a bit daft but it really works. In the middle, we’ve got Joe Howe, formerly known as Ben Butler and Mousepad. I’ve known Joe for a long time and his music has a lot in common with Paddy’s – they both have jazz roots while being extremely innovative with their use of electronic sound. They’re also both very talented musicians but neither strays into self-indulgence. Opening up will be Save As Collectee MC Almond Milk and his mischievous girlfriend DJ Nightmares, debuting tunes from his next comedy rap mixtape.

What can we expect from the evening?

Something unique. Paddy and Joe are operating without blueprints. They’re probably the only two people I know who genuinely don’t sound like anyone else. MC Almond Milk’s wit is a razor-sharp snowflake and I’ll be DJing from an exercise bike in full PE kit. (David Pollock)

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ROCK & POP Events are listed by date. then by city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Listings are compiled

by Rowena McIntosh and Henry Northmore. For ticket outlet information, see Book Now. Indicates Hitlist entry.

Thursday 10

Glasgow

My First Music: Battle Of The Bands Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street,

564 8100. 7pm. £5. Local bands take to the stage hoping to secure a support slot for Cast at The Garage in December.

With Calum Frame, Sandstone Flats and Dark Sky. Take Today The Heathen Club

and Lungs Like Gallows O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232.

7pm. £6. Alt. rock from the Glasgow threesome.

Deer Leader, Michael Timmons and The Musicians of Bremen Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £tbc. Post-rock and dreamscape noise from the band that mix samples and film projection into their live performance.

FREE Good Grief’s Goop Shop Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm.

DIY zine collective present an evening of alternative sounds.

Edinburgh

FREE Empire by Day Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. Eccentric, energetic alt.rock newcomers.

Ghost Of The Robot The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564.

7pm. £20 (Gold Pass £40 inc early access and Q&A; VIP Pass inc early access, meet & greet, sound check, Q&A and afterparty). Californian rock band fronted by actor James Marsters (aka Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

The National Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7pm. £27.50. The fivepiece from Cincinnati, Ohio, performs a mix of indie-rock and post-punk revival music.

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

Lady banjo players extraordinaire tour their bluegrass ballads.

Lone Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 11pm–3am. £tbc. The Nottingham producer plays a late-night set of stark, blissed-out tracks. Helping to celebrate Sneaky Pete’s sixth birthday.

Friday 11

Glasgow

Madafaka and Khydra Broadcast,

427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 7pm. £5. Sludge rock.

The Psychedelic Warlords, Purple Valentino and Lemon Party The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 7–10pm. £8.00. Featuring former Hawkwind bassist Alan Davey, pay tribute to the mighty space rockers, in particular the 40th anniversary of their Space Ritual album.

The Amphetameanies Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £6.

Rabble-rousing ska punk from local supergroup.

FREE Beltur The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 8pm.

Melodic rock and roll from the Glasgowbased four-piece signed to The Animal Farm.

Blue Honey, The Apparells and De Mello Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £5.

Rock’n’roll four piece from Paisley influenced by The Stone Roses and David Bowie.

Gillon - The Sound of Buble The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085.

ANDREW WK The self-described ‘king of partying’ wants to hang out with you. (In exchange for a small entry fee, but still.)

Expect punching fists, ‘power tree’ stances, and the kind of stress-management, bereavement and breakup advice we’ve been loving lately in his agony uncle column ’How to be a Man’ in the Village Voice.

Classic Grand, Glasgow, Wed 30 Jul.

8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door.

Tribute to the Canadian crooner.

Edinburgh

FREE Tartan Underground The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

6pm. Scottish acoustic talent.

FREE Friday’s Covered Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. Covers and tribute acts every weekend.

Priscillas and Bones of the Carnival Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. 7pm. £5 (£4).

The glamorous electro-pop twosome strut their stuff.

Miyagi The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4).

Acoustic indie and alternative tunes.

Kinross

T in the Park Balado Park, 08444 999990. Times vary. £205–£247.

From relatively humble beginnings, T in the Park has become the acknowledged behemoth of the Scottish festival scene and one of the UK’s largest events. Now host to 85,000 people on an airfield on the edge of Fife, over the course of its weekend it becomes the fifth largest town in Scotland. Friday features Biffy Clyro, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Bastille, Pixies, Steve Angello, Haim, Manic Street Preachers, Chvrches, PanPot and more.

Saturday 12

Glasgow

The Ben Folds Orchestral

Experience Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000.

6.30pm. £25. Piano rocker Ben Folds presents hits and new material arranged and expanded for orchestral performances as well as his new piano concerto.

Jimi Hendrix Re-experience

Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. £12. Tribute to the incendiary guitar god.

Let’s Play God, The Sleaze Brothers, Flying Batteries, Seel and Heviur Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £6. Glaswegian hard rock/heavy metal band with rock’n’roll influences.

Method Man & Redman, Profisee, Toy Control, Mixkings DJs and Bigg Taj O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £26.50. Wu Tang Clan-affiliated rap duo, who have appeared on each other’s album and in a sitcom together - how street is that?

U2-2 and Heavy Load O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12. Tribute to the all-conquering Irish behemoths.

Woodpigeon & Eagleowl The Old Hairdressers, Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £6. Orchestral pop from Canadian artist Woodpigeon and lush Scottish slow-folk from eagleowl.

The Scaramanga Six The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £6. Theatrical alt rock group from Edinburgh.

Freelance Liars, Keeping Dirt Clean and Franklin Broadcast, 427

Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. £8.

Glaswegian country rock four-piece influenced by Tom Petty and Neil Young. Debut gig

Pat Cairns sings Neil Diamond & Kenny Rogers The Ferry, 25

Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door. Does what it says on the tin.

Edinburgh

The Barry van Dykes Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. £5. Acoustic led indie five-piece from Edinburgh.

The Sex Pistols Swindle and The Clash Livi Rockers Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101.

7pm. £7 (£5). Tribute to the legendary punk rockers.

Divided Heaven, Mark McCabe, Turtle Lamone and Davey Nolan The Banshee Labyrinth, 29–35 Niddry Street, 558 8209. 7.30–11pm. £5.

Acoustic project with punk credentials from Jeff Berman. Anti-Manifesto night.

The Psychedelic Warlords

Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £11. See Fri 11.

FREE Velvet Scooter Blind Poet, 32c West Nicolson Street, 667 4268. 10pm.

Classic rock covers, featuring songs by the likes of Steely Dan, Santana and The Doobie Brothers.

Lou Hickey The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). Bittersweet songs with a subtle jazz influence from burlesque singer Lou Hickey, better known as the co-vocalist in Codeine Velvet Club.

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Kinross

T in the Park Balado Park, 08444

999990. Times vary. £205–£247.

See Fri 11. Sat’s line-up includes: Calvin Harris, Paolo Nutini, Pharrell Williams, Elbow, Rudimental, Ben Howard, James, Bombay Bicycle Club and Metronomy.

Sunday 13

Glasgow

Trembling Bells, Woven Tents and Muldoons Picnic Broadcast, 427

Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. £7.

Glasgow-based psych folk four-piece who have collaborated with Mike Heron of Incredible String Band and Bonnie Prince Billy.

Wank For Peace, The Jackhammers, The Sinking Feeling and Get It Together The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. Melodic punk rock from the humorous French band.

FREE williwaw The Old Hairdressers, Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 8–10pm. Amplified ukulele histrionics from Chicago, presenting some Second Sunday Sipping Sounds in the bar.

Edinburgh

Eagleowl Leith Dockers Club,

17–17a Academy Street, Leith, 467 7879.

8pm. £tbc. See Sat 12.

Kinross

T in the Park Balado Park, 08444

999990. Times vary. £205–£247.

See Fri 11. Arctic Monkeys, Jake Bugg, Disclosure, Imagine Dragons, Tinie Tempah, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs play the final day.

Livingston

From the Jam Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 777666.

7.30pm–10.30am. £22 (£20). Now featuring only one member From the Jam. Bruce Foxton is joined by Russell Hastings and drummer Steve ‘Smiley’ Barnard on their ‘The Public Gets What The Public Wants’ tour.

Monday 14

Glasgow

FREE The Codeine Club Showcase Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. New live music showcase for Scottish bands and artists.

Featuring Cammy Black Frozy and The Nervy Betters The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. Dreamy indie pop from the Brighton trio.

FREE Honeyblood The Old Hairdressers, Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 8pm. Glasgow-based duo comprising Shona McVicar on drums and Stina Tweedale on guitar and vocals. Album launch.

Edinburgh

FREE Antihoot Open Stage Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. 7.30pm. Anti-folk hero Lach hosts this open mic free-for-all featuring music, comedy, poetry, stories, magic and more.

Carnal Decay, Pig Head and Cancerous Womb Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £6. The band from Switzerland performs fast and aggressive death metal. Scordatura complete the bill.

Tuesday 15

Glasgow

Ghostface Killah The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7pm. £16. Hip hop from the legendary WuTang Clan star.

FREE Lost Limbs and Fatalists Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm.

DIY indie/screamo band from Glasgow.

Edinburgh

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Gilmour Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate,

225 1757. 7pm. £tbc. Soulful Wiltshireborn singer-songwriter who trained as a gilder – so whatever he touches could, potentially, turn to gold.

Mike Breen Leith Folk Club, Victoria Park Hotel, 221 Ferry Road, 07502 024852. 7.30pm. £tbc. Folky pop vocals.

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Lower Than Atlantis, Decade, Skully and Yearbook King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8pm. £10. Post-hardcore and alt rock from the Watford quartet.

Terminal Gods, Dressmaker and Natalie Pryce The 13th Note Café/ Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. High energy hard rock from the North London foursome.

FREE Owls in Antarctica Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Expansive post-metallic sounds.

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564 8100. 7pm. £5. Local bands take to the stage hoping to secure a support slot for Cast at The Garage in December.

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Onslaught O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12.50. Thrash metal sextet from Bristol.

The Calm Fiasco, Seaside Sons, The Senses and Revolving Door King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50.

Indie rock foursome with a distinctly Glasgow sound. Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights.

Edinburgh

FREE Britney Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm.

High-impact bursts of aggression from Edinburgh underground ‘super group’ Britney.

Sunshine Delay and Coldsville Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757.

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The Bluefields Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. Times tbc. £14.

Southern fried, rootsy rock’n’roll from the Nashville supergroup.

The Afghan Whigs Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200.

7pm. £20. Reformed American alt rock band.

Owen Pallett CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7pm. £12.50. The Canadian musician and composer – and sometimes member of Arcade Fire – performs experimental indie pop.

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MUSIC | Rock & Pop Twisted Rainbow, Lynnie Carson, Jacob & Rory Green and The Usual Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo

Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £5 in advance; £6 on the door. Party punk comedy trio.

Tall Ships and United Fruit Bowlers Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 7.30pm. £8.50.

Effects-drenched trio comparable to Battles, Foals and Explosions in the Sky. Part of East End Social.

The Very Most , Duglas T Stewart , Yakuri Cable and Bodyheat The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £6.

Melodic indie pop led by Jeremy Jensen and joined on this tour by musicians from Scotland, England and Spain.

A Tribute to Robbie Williams

The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door. Alan Walker performs Robbie hits and songs from Take That’s catalogue.

Lemonhaze, Feet of Clay, Sergio Sergio and The Responsible King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50. Indie pop rock band from Paisley, influenced by jangle and Britpop. Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights.

FREE The Cosmic Dead Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 11pm. Heavy psych and prog.

Edinburgh

Samba Sene & Diwan The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

1.30am. £5 (£4). Dancey, jazzy grooves and Afro-beats from Senegal.

FREE Tartan Underground The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

6pm. See Fri 11.

Isle of Arran

Nick Harper Corrie and Sannox Village Hall, Corrie, harperspace.com 8.30–11pm. £10. See Thu 17.

Isle of Tiree

Tiree Music Festival An Talla, 01879 220520. Times vary. £tbc. Folk and trad music are the stars at this festival, which was voted Best Small Festival at the Scottish Event Awards in 2012 and 2013. The tiny Hebridean island, nicknamed the ‘Hawaii of the North’, plays host to a weekend of genre-spanning sounds as well as family activities and fringe events. Last year’s line-up included Capercaillie, Roddy Hart & the Lonesome Fire, Skerryvore and Washington Irving.

Saturday 19

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. Live music, food and drink and a big screen show all of your favourite BBC shows for free. The high-punching programme includes sets from Texas, Simple Minds, Paloma Faith and Amy Macdonald, plus loads of BBC-centric activities for the whole family. Access is free, but some events are ticketed. Part of Festival 2014.

Pride Glasgow King Street, King Street, prideglasgow.co.uk noon. £5.

Pride Glasgow returns for 2014 with a 16-day festival of events celebrating LGBT equality including the usual parade and street party, as well as Pride Day which includes a fairground, a community expo, a cabaret stage, marketplace, a youth space, a trans safe space and a great big concert featuring Blue, Heather Peace, Amelia Lily, Lucy Spraggan and Angie Brown.

Admiral Fallow Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7pm. tbc.

Folky indie from Louis Abbot’s Admiral Fallow. Charity concert for Cash For Kids The Face On The Moon, Ryan Gaffney, Thank The Boy and Cloud Of Starlings Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £5. Alt rock band from South Lanarkshire led by Steven Leonard.

T IN THE PARK The biggest gathering in Scotland’s musical calendar is back. Mud, sweat, Bucky and all. If you missed our coverage in the last issue of Paolo Nutini, Calvin Harris, Pixies, the T-Break stage and more, you can check it online at list.co.uk. Altogether now, ‘Here we, here we, here we f*@king go . . . !’

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Dexy’s Bootleg Runners The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10 in advance; £12.50 on the door. Tribute to the mighty Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

The Telescopes, St Deluxe and Skullwizard The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc.

Indie psych rockers from the first wave of shoegaze.

The Sugarhill Gang King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £20. Hip hop and rap pioneers most famous for their 1979 hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’.

FREE Thee AHs Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 11pm. ‘Black bubblegum pop’ from the Canadian post punk femme collective.

Edinburgh

FREE David Limmer Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 6.45pm. Pop music on keyboards.

BBC Live At Edinburgh Castle

Castle Esplanade, Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, 225 9846. 7pm. £55. The One Show’s Alex Jones presents this mix of pop, classical, comedy and more featuring Culture Club, Alfie Boe, Il Divo, Paloma Faith, Ella Henderson, Katherine Jenkins, Kaiser Chiefs, One Republic, Pumeza, Rizzle Kicks, Smokey Robinson, Bill Bailey with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Fred MacAulay.

Be Like Pablo, Golden Arm and Wonder Villains Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £5.

Energetic power-pop from rural Scotland with 60s undertones.

Benny Monteux Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5. Folk-tinged pop from Edinburgh. EP launch.

Black Cat Bone, Jester Echo and Logan›s Close The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7pm. £6 advance; £8 on the door.

Blues rock with a twist.

Massive Wagons, Engines of Vengeance and Paper Beats Rock Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £6. Hard-rock quintet from Carnforth.

Arbroath

Amy Duncan Hospitalfield House,

Hospitalfield, 01241 656124. Times tbc. £tbc. Edinburgh-based singer / songwriter Amy Duncan embarks on a Scottish tour with a string trio, double bass and harp in tow.

Dundee

Skeem Fest Beat Generator Live, 70 North Lindsay Street, 01382 229226.

Times tbc. £tbc. Catch this stacked lineup with The Cundeez, Overdose, Balsall Heathens, Buzzbomb, The McGonagalls, Jim Threat and the Vultures and the Happy Spastics.

East Kilbride

The Ultimate Drifters East Kilbride Village Theatre, Maxwell Drive, 01355 248669. 7.30–9.30pm. £18. Classic soul, pop and R&B led by Gillie Leroy Jones.

Isle of Tiree

Tiree Music Festival An Talla, 01879 220520. Times vary. £tbc. See Fri 18.

Livingston

Kevin McDermott Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 777666.

7.30–10pm. £13 (£11). An intimate solo show from one of Scotland›s foremost singer-songwriters.

Rothesay

Nick Harper The Craigmore Bowling Club, Grosvenor Road, 01700 503 334. 7.30–11pm. £10. See Thu 17.

Sunday 20

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

Mike Dignam Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 7pm. £9. Acoustic singer / songwriter from Preston.

SchnarffSchnarff, Algernon Doll, Start Static and Scarlet Shift King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50.

Scottish five-piece indie rockers whose band name is fun to say as well as hear.

Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights.

Edinburgh

Thee AHs and Little Loves & Friendly Vibes Wee Red Bar,

Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, 229 1442. 7pm. £5. See Sat 19.

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Tiree Music Festival An Talla, 01879 220520. Times vary. £tbc. See Fri 18.

Monday 21

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

Conor Oberst and Dawes O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £20. The American singersongwriter, lead singer of Bright Eyes and member of Monsters of Folk turned solo artist brings his unique blend of angst-folk to the UK. FREE The Codeine Club Showcase Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. New live music showcase for Scottish bands and artists.

Featuring Cammy Black Teen King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £9.

Alt rock outfit from New York.

Tuesday 22

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

Edinburgh

Owl John The Caves, Niddry Street South, 557 8989. 7pm. £14. Solo project from Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit) mixing influences from the island of Mull and Los Angeles.

Van Morrison Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £44.50–£87.50.

Legendary Irish curmudgeon and hugely influential blues and jazz artist plays tracks from his career. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Hollie Smith The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 8pm. £7. New Zealand soul singer / songwriter who has worked with funky compatriots Fat Freddy’s Drop, TrinityRoots and Don McGlashan.

Wednesday 23

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

Owl John Cottiers Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland Street, 357 4000. 7pm. £15.

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Exist Immortal The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638.

8pm. £tbc. Progressive, experimental metal from London/Brighton headliners.

The Xcerts Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £6.50. Scottish trio in the Idlewild / Biffy mould.

FREE Sleeping Lessons and Toy Mountains Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Energetic and volatile emo rock.

Edinburgh

Boy Hits Car Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 7.30pm. £11.

LA-based self-styled ‘lovecore’ rock band, influenced by Jane’s Addiction and Helmet.

Hollie Smith The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 8pm. £7. See Tue 22.

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Glasgow

My First Music: Battle Of The Bands Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street,

564 8100. 7pm. £5. Local bands take to the stage hoping to secure a support slot for Cast at The Garage in December.

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Waka Flocka Flame O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £4.

Atlanta-based rapper.

Unkle Bob Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 7.30pm– midnight. £7. Melancholy indie folk from acoustic outfit Unkle Bob as they perform tracks from their third album Embers. Album launch Madison King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279.

8.30pm. £6.50. Formed from Glasgow teen punkers The Celestians and Cumbernauld’s Downfall Madison are a pop rock quartet named after the popular 60s dance. Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights.

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Tom Jones Castle Esplanade, Edinburgh Castle, Royal Mile, 225 9846.

7pm. £45. Big show from the permatanned Welsh lothario whose work on the BBC’s The Voice means he’s hip with the kids once more. Expect all the hits from ‘Green, Green Grass of Home’ to ‘What’s New Pussycat’ to the more introspective material from his upcoming album Spirit in the Room.

Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £36–£52.50. Jools and his band play classic boogie woogie and rock’n’roll tunes for your merriment.

Featuring guest vocalists Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall with special guest Melanie C. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Edinburgh

FREE In Absence Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. Doomy prog rock quartet from Edinburgh. Single launch.

Ron Pope, Nick Howard and Hannah Trigwell The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £15.

New York-based singer-songwriter best known for his internet hit ‘A Drop In the Ocean’.

Click Clack Club Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101.

7.30pm. £6 (students £4). Funky Beefheart-influenced experimental music club. Featuring Steele Plays Zappa, Dominic Waxing Lyrical and Snibbo.

Louise Rutkowski The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30–10pm. £12. The Glasgow vocalist best known for being a member of 4AD supergroup This Mortal Coil launches her first solo album Diary of a Lost Girl.

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Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

Daniel Padden and Wounded Knee: And Blithely Spend the Gowden Day The Glad Café, 1006a

Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £7. A new song cycle celebrating the seasons, inspired by Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills. The musicians draw on diverse influences including African guitar minimalism, cosmic jazz and folk traditions.

Final Silence, Hand Of Horus, Citagazi, Aerial View and Lanterns Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100.

7.30pm. £5. Experimental thrash metal.

Corrupt Moral Altar, Opaque, Black Cop, Boak , Endless Swarm, Mourn, Voe and Baphomet The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. The sludgy death metal outfit from Liverpool tour in support of their debut album Mechanical Tides.

Part of Merchant City Festival.

Kevin Drumm Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 8pm. £7.50. The avant-garde tabletop guitarist mixes acoustic and electronic sound.

Solid Gold 70s The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm.

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MUSIC | Rock & Pop £11.50 in advance; £13 on the door. The producers of Abba-Cadabra present another suitably cheesy show, with more than 30 hit songs from the likes of The Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, T-Rex, Tina Turner and Queen.

Gerry Cinnamon, Jamie Coleman, Paul John MacIver and Aaron Fyfe King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50. Acoustic singer / songwriter from Glasgow mixing folk, blues and loop pedals. Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights.

Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club

O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 9pm–3am. £15. Funk and soul from the DJ, actor and presenter.

Festival 2014 Club The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 10pm. £10. Programmed in association with Celtic Connections, each night the Festival 2014 Club takes audiences on a journey across the many musical cultures of Scotland and the Commonwealth. Featuring Ibibio Sound Machine and Mafilika.

Edinburgh

FREE Tartan Underground The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

6pm. See Fri 11.

FREE Friday’s Covered Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. See Fri 11.

Efa Supertramp, Mark Ayling, Brian Curran, Norman Silver & the Gold, Breagha Cuinn The

Banshee Labyrinth, 29–35 Niddry Street, 558 8209. 7.30pm–midnight.

£5. House of Crust present an almost acoustic punk line-up.

Unkle Bob The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, 556 7060.

7.30pm–1am. £8. Melancholy indie folk from acoustic outfit Unkle Bob as they perform tracks from their third album Embers. Album launch

Milngavie

Nick Harper Milngavie Folk Club, The Fraser Centre, Douglas Street, 07743 885991. 7.30–10.30pm. £10. See Thu 17.

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Amy Duncan Corran Halls, The Esplanade, 01631 567333. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 19.

Saturday 26

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

All Ages All-dayer Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 1–10pm. £12 (children £6; under 10s free). An allday gig for music fans of all ages with headliners Blurt squawking up a storm.

Supporting the veteran jazz punk outfit are Sumshapes, Smack Wizard, FK Alexander, Nova Waves, Leathermonk and more.

Louise Rutkowski CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7.30– 10pm. £12. See Thu 24.

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Howe, MC Almond Milk x DJ Nightmares and Jonnie Common

The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £5. The Save As Collective present Paddy Steer, a oneman world of sound who uses homemade instruments to fuse jazz drumming with chaotic B-movie electronica and the occasional Hawaiian guitar.

Terror Bird, Clip Art , Hausfrau and Apostille Nice’n’Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street, 333 0900. 7.30pm. £5. Piano / synth-led dramatic indie pop from LA. FREE Blood Indians, The Van T’s, Forest Fires and Chrissy Barnacle Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. Gothic surf folk from the Dundee twosome.

Three Dimensional Tanx, No More Tiger, The Brutes, Antique Pony and Mushroom Gnome Club The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £tbc. Lancastrian headliners have been described as ‘Stooges era punk rock by way of Can and the Velvets’. Part of Merchant City Festival.

Tricky Fingers The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door.

The tribute band perform hits from the Rolling Stones’ vast discography, led by frontman Sir Mick Swagger. With Live And Dangerous Manky Savage, The Bawlers, Casino Circus and Irrational Fever King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50.

Blues rock trio from Glasgow. Part of

King Tut’s Summer Nights.

Amy Hawthorn Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 9pm. £7.50. Jazzy, bluesy pop vocals from Amy Hawthorn.

Part of Culture 2014.

Edinburgh

FREE Lainie & The Crows Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. Mix of blues, roots, country and rockabilly.

The Leith Theatre Sessions

Thomas Morton Hall, Ferry Road, Leith, 529 6185. 7pm–11am. £10. Fundraiser in support of the Leith Theatre Trust and their work to restore and reopen Leith Theatre as a multi-function venue.

Includes live music from Caroline Gilmour, The Deadly Winters, Gecko 3 and Senate.

Steady State Regime, Royal Edinburgh Music and The Dirty Wurks Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £tbc. Progressive indie rock sounds from SSR.

Isle of Coll

Amy Duncan An Cridhe, 01879 230000. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 19.

Livingston

Simply Soweto Encha Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 777666.

7.30–10pm. £13 (£11). A cappella group singing gospel, soul, jazz, doo-wop and other types of music in African and popular styles.

Perth

Steve Earle Perth Concert Hall,

PERFECT PUSSY A Scottish debut for Syracuse’s punk brats Perfect Pussy, fronted by the ballsy Meredith Graves, looking far more angelic and calm in this photo than she tends to onstage. They’ve been threatening to split up too, so you may not get a chance to catch their thrilling live show again anytime soon.

Mono, Glasgow, Thu 31 Jul.

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Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £26.50 (£24.00; children £24.00). The acclaimed American singer-songwriter performs country, country-rock and folk songs. Part of Southern Fried Festival 2014.

Sunday 27

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

FREE Big Big Sing Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street. 8am–9pm.

Big Big Sing is a UK-wide singing project that aims to inspire thousands of people across the country to join in the celebrations for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games through singing. Join a choir of hundreds for an evening of song, including workshops with inspirational choirmasters. No experience needed.

Dean Wareham Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 1pm. £13.

The ex-Galaxie 500 man performs music from his recent self-titled album.

Randolph’s Leap, State Broadcasters, Skinny Dipper, BMX Bandits and Meursault Bowlers Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 1pm. £10. Indie folk collective from Glasgow that manages to squeeze eight members on stage each night. Part of East End Social.

Arnocorps Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £10.

California-based heavy metal group.

Ernest The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 7pm. £10 in advance; £12 on the door. 60s-inspired originals and covers. With the Vagabonds Efa Supertramp, Mark Ayling, Brian Curran, Norman Silver & the Gold, Breagha Cuinn Pivo Pivo,

15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm– midnight. £5. See Fri 25.

JJ Gilmour Woodend Tennis & Bowling Club, 10 Chamberlain Road, 959 1428. 8pm. £15. The former frontman with the Silencers performs his Celtic rock banter.

The Modests Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 8.30pm. £5. Fourpiece rock’n’roll band. Winners of the Glasgow 2012 City Sounds Competition.

The Travels, The Near, Tribal High and The Trend King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50. Alternative rocking from the Glasgow four piece. Part of King Tut’s Summer Nights.

Edinburgh

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 8pm. £32.50– £47.50. Former Rolling Stones bassist makes a return to his musical roots with the Rhythm Kings playing the kind of jazz and blues that first inspired him all those years ago. Featuring star of the Original Supremes Mary Wilson. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Perth

Rosanne Cash Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £26.50 (£24.00; children £24.00). The award-winning singer / songwriter performs music from her latest album, The River & The Thread. Part of Southern Fried Festival 2014.

Monday 28

FREE The Codeine Club Showcase Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm. New live music showcase for Scottish bands and artists.

Featuring Cammy Black

Andrew W.K. Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 7pm. £15.

The singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist performs high-energy metal-rock.

Public Enemy O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £25. The original and best hardcore political hip hop act in the world, still fighting the power.

Apache Darling Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8–11pm. £5. Catchy synth pop from the Glasgow trio.

FREE Bronagh Monahan, Duke & Poets and Cammy Black Hard Rock Café, 179 Buchanan Street, 353 8790.

8–11.30pm. Young Northern Irish pop / folk / jazz singer / songwriter.

Edinburgh

Jonah Matranga Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £10. Gratitude/ Far ex-frontman turned solo acoustic artist.

Ekram Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £5. Spanish alternate metal and post-grunge rock outfit.

Tuesday 29

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

Bunny Wailer O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12.50. The Grammy Award-winning Jamaican artist and member of the original Wailers, Neville O’Riley Livingston, performs his reggae originals.

Shards, Release and Jook Resonator Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £5. Glasgow based band playing classic covers Guitar Wolf Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street, 553 2400. 7.30pm. £12.

Extreme jet rock’n’roll outfit from Japan, where they don’t do things by half.

Edinburgh

Burt Bacharach The Edinburgh Playhouse, 18–22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. 7.30pm. £26–£56. The legendary songwriter of such classics as ‘Walk On By’, ‘I Say A Little Prayer’ and ‘Anyone Who Had A Heart’ takes a tour through his well-appointed songbook. We’re not worthy.

Thursday 31

Glasgow

Jonah Matranga, Made As Mannequins and Sammy H Stephens The Glad Café, 1006a

Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £10. See Mon 28.

Nothing But Thieves Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304.

7.30pm. £5. Indie-rock quintet from Southend.

Perfect Pussy, Joanna Gruesome and Tuff Love Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street, 553 2400.

7.30pm. £8. Syracuse-based noise punk band.

Isle of Mull

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

FREE Stephanie Fraser King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 7pm. Young singer / songwriter from Blackpool who was scouted by the A&R at Island Records that discovered Mumford & Sons.

Amy Duncan An Tobar Arts Centre, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, 01688 302211. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 19.

Wednesday 30

Glasgow

FREE BBC at the Quay Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, 420 5000. Times vary. See Sat 19.

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Randolph’s Leap Electric Circus,

Edinburgh, 23 Aug.

Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou King

Tut’s, Glasgow, 7 Sep. Alt-J O2 Academy, Glasgow, 18 Sep. Luke Sital-Singh

Pleasance, Edinburgh, 18 Sep. Ben Montague

King Tut’s, Glasgow, 20 Sep. The Moons King Tut’s, Glasgow, 21 Sep.

The Boomtown Rats O2 ABC, Glasgow,

20 Oct.

Skid Row Liquid

Room, Edinburgh, 20 Oct. The Subways

Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 21 Oct. Little Comets

Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 23 Oct. Black Stone Cherry SSE Hydro,

Glasgow, 26 Oct.

Johnny Marr

The Vaselines

O2 Academy, Glasgow, 27 Oct.

Bipolar Sunshine

Klaxons O2 ABC, Glasgow, 27 Oct.

Caves, Edinburgh, 29 Sep. Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 29 Sep; Òran MÓr, Glasgow, 30 Sep. Eliza & The

Bear Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 7 Oct; King Tut’s, Glasgow, 8 Oct. Dry the River Òran MÓr, Glasgow, 8 Oct. Black Submarine

Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 8 Oct; Stereo, Glasgow, 9 Oct. Wayne Hussey

Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 11 Oct.

The Hold Steady

O2 ABC, Glasgow, 15 Oct.

Jay Brannan King Tut’s, Glasgow, 15 Oct. In Flames O2 ABC, Glasgow, 17 Oct. Nicole Atkins King

Tut’s, Glasgow, 17 Oct; Sneaky Pete’s, Glasgow, 18 Oct.

Hacktivist Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 20 Nov. The Gaslight

Anthem Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, 21 Nov. The Levellers O2 ABC, Glasgow, 21 Nov. Enrique Inglesias

SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 25 Nov.

Marcus Bonfanti

Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 29 Nov

The Who SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 30 Nov. Theatre of Hate

King Tut’s, Glasgow, 1 Dec.

Only Men Aloud

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh 3 Dec. Warpaint O2 Academy, Glasgow, 3 Dec. Rodrigo y Gabriela

Paolo Nutini SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 27 Oct.

O2 Academy, Glasgow, 6 Dec.

Indiana King Tut’s, Glasgow, 30 Oct.

Saxon O2 ABC, Glasgow, 7 Dec.

Kill It Kid King Tut’s, Glasgow, 2 Nov.

Behemoth O2 ABC, Glasgow, 10 Dec.

Rise Against

Angus & Julia Stone O2 Academy,

O2 Academy, Glasgow, 4 Nov.

Glasgow, 14 Dec.

La Roux O2 ABC, Glasgow, 5 Nov.

Rival Sons O2 ABC, Glasgow, 14 Dec.

Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters

Joe Elliot’s Down’n’Outz Garage,

O2 Academy, Glasgow, 15 Nov.

Volbeat Barrowland, Glasgow, 15 Nov. Seether O2 ABC,

Glasgow, 18 Nov.

The Dirty Heads

King Tut’s, Glasgow, 19 Nov.

Kasabian SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 19 Nov.

Glasgow, 15 Dec.

Collabro Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 18 Feb; SECC: Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, 20 Feb. Steel Panther O2

ABC, Glasgow, 9 Mar.

John Barrowman

Playhouse, Edinburgh, 2 Jun; SECC: Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, 4 Jun.

Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7.45pm. £tbc. A performance of the songs that made the American country singer / songwriter famous.

Slomatics, From High Mountains and Headless Kross The 13th Note Café/Bar, 50–60 King Street, 553 1638. 8pm. £7. Belfast’s daddies of doom metal.

The Hazy Shades King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. 8.30pm. £6.50. Indie rock’n’rollers.

Three Blind Wolves and Gabriel Kelley Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate,

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 11pm. £5–£7. Since 2006 Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure sounds from across the continent. As a DJ he brings the blog to life with sets that blend folkloric pop, dancefloor gems and hip hop.

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Edinburgh

Kiran Leonard Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £6. The Manchester-based pop singer / songwriter.

Machine Head The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £25.

Bay Area metal stalwarts that helped usher in a new wave of thrash on classic album Burn My Eyes (1991). Special intimate tour.

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

See Thu 10.

Friday 1

Glasgow

My First Music: Battle Of The Bands Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street,

564 8100. 7pm. £5. Local bands take to the stage hoping to secure a support slot for Cast at The Garage in December.

Final round Laura J Martin and Honey and the Herbs The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 7.30pm. £7. Multi-instrumentalist using flute, mandolin and piano as well as looped vocals to create dark folk.

Lovesick Blues – The Hank Williams Story Òran Mór, 731–735

Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7.45pm. £tbc. See Thu 31.

Gillon – The Sound of Bublé

The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door. See Fri 11.

Calum Ingram Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 9pm. £7.50. Singer / songwriter. Part of Culture 2014.

FREE Sound to Sea River Clyde, 420 5003. 9.30pm. Free but ticketed.

Glasgow event makers Cryptic celebrate 20 years with a banger of a party featuring over 150 performers, including Frightened Rabbit, Treacherous Orchestra, Rachel Sermanni, Miaoux Miaoux, Tigerstyle and more. The ‘night-time musical extravaganza’ takes place over two summer nights along the River Clyde and quayside, with further entertainment coming from pyrotechnic specialists Walk the Plank, aerial dance company All or Nothing, the Royal Navy and Glasgow Science Centre. Part of Glasgow 2014, Glasgow City of Science.

Asian Dub Foundation O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 10pm– 3am. £10 in advance; £6 with ADF gig ticket. A rap, rock, hip hop, bhangra fusion back by righteous polemic and a blistering live show. Aftershow party.

Edinburgh

Warpaint play O2 Academy, Glasgow, 3 Dec

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The Chills Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £13.64.

Cult 80s New Zealand guitar-pop band.

First UK tour since 1996.

The Scottish Tour Collective Showcase Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16

Morrison Street, 629 4101. 7pm–5am. £tbc. Huge line-up of Scottish bands: Universal Thee, One Last Secret, Balor Mile, The Age, The Ooh La La’s, Rank Berry, The Nex-Tide, Huxtable and Bedford Rascals.

225 1757. 7pm. £8. ‘Badass hillbilly rock’n’roll’ from Ross Clark’s band.

Kinross

Dean Friedman The Green Hotel, 2 Muirs, 01577 863467. 8.30pm. £100. The pop troubadour who thanked his lucky stars in the 70s is experiencing a revival.

Saturday 2

Glasgow

Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7.45pm. £tbc. See Thu 31.

Dean Friedman Lansdowne Church (Websters Theatre), 416 Great Western Road, 337 2311. 8pm. £25. See Fri 1.

Madnish The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door. Tribute to the nutty boys Madness.

Festival 2014 Club The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000.

9pm. £10. Featuring The Chills and Team Scotland as guest DJs. FREE Sound to Sea River Clyde, 420 5003. 9.30pm. See Fri 1.

Edinburgh

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Embassy, 10b Broughton Street Lane, partwildhorsesmaneonbothsides.com Times tbc. £tbc. Improvised pieces from the drums and flute duo/sound artists in this installation-performance piece devised specifically for each venue.

Asian Dub Foundation The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 6.30pm. £15. A rap, rock, hip hop, bhangra fusion back by righteous polemic and a blistering live show.

Featuring MC Soom T. Absolute Elvis Corn Exchange, 11 Newmarket Road, 477 3500. 7pm. £20–£30. Officially the world’s greatest Elvis tribute act (at least in 2010), Johnny Lee Memphis performs with his ten-piece band.

Simple Minded Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £8.

Tributes to 80s Scots pop rockers Simple Minds.

Dundee

Pond Floyd Beat Generator Live, 70 North Lindsay Street, 01382 229226.

8pm. £9. Pink Floyd tribute band.

Livingston

Two Man Gentlemen Band

Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 777666. 7.30–10pm. £12 (£10). Hot jazz, vintage rhythm & blues and country from this New York duo.

Sunday 3

Glasgow

Sam Callahan, Rewind and Murdo Mitchell Classic Grand, 18

Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 6.30pm. £15.

Pop singer-songwriter from Essex.

FREE Home Nations Festival Closing Party Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 7.30pm. Celebrate the end of the Tron’s Home Nations Festival and Commonwealth Games with live music. Part of Culture 2014.

Edinburgh

FREE Born to Be Wide Night Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 8pm. in advance; £4 on the door. A snapshot of Edinburgh’s music scene as ten bands perform ten-minute sets.

Tuesday 5

Glasgow

Converge Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica Street, 847 0820. 6.30pm. £12. American metalcore band.

Seed Of Sorrow Pivo Pivo, 15

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Combining old school and technical death metal.

The New Mendicants Bowlers Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 7.30pm. £10. Collaboration between Toronto neighbours Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers playing new material and songs from their back catalogues. Part of East End Social.

Edinburgh

Joan As Police Woman The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £16. American singersongwriter Joan Wasser leads her soulful alt.pop group.

Slow Magic Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £6. Indie and electro-pop group from America.

Wednesday 6

Glasgow

Anberlin, Natives and Fort Hope

The Cathouse, 15 Union Street, 248 6606. 7pm. £12. Florida quintet who have toured with Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance.

The Maine and Anberline The Cathouse, 15 Union Street, 248 6606.

7pm. £12. Contemporary rock outfit.

The New Mendicants Bowlers Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 7.30pm. £10. See Tue 5.

Apache Darling Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8–11pm. £5. See Wed 30.

Edinburgh

Easy Star All-Stars The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564.

7pm. £19. Reggae collective from Jamaica famed for their dub takes on classic rock. Celebrating the tenth anniversary of Dub Side of the Moon, their reggae take on the Pink Floyd classic.

Echo Arcadia, Matt Otis, Ryan Morcombe and The Unknown Henry›s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. 7.30pm. £tbc.

Edinburgh indie pop band.

Thursday 7

Glasgow

part wild horses mane on both sides: Conduit of the bottomless submundane CCA, 350 Sauchiehall

Street, 352 4900. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 2.

Steve Earle Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park.

6pm. £28.50. See Sat 26.

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Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7.45pm. £tbc. See Thu 31.

Edinburgh

Jason Isbell The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £15.

Former frontman of Drive By Truckers strikes out on his own.

Leon Jackson Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £tbc. The Scots X-Factor winner performs crooning pop covers.

Friday 8

Glasgow

The Waterboys Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park. 6pm. £35. Indie-pop and folk with Celtic overtones by Mike Scott and his band of raggle-taggle musicians. Part of Magners’ Summer Nights.

Robbie Hutton Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £5.

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Great Western Road, 357 6200. 7.45pm. £tbc. See Thu 31.

Robbie Fulks The Admiral, 72a

Waterloo Street, 221 7705. 8pm. £11.05.

The Chicago-based singer / songwriter plays acoustic country tinged with bluegrass.

The Underground Jam The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door. The Jam tribute act.

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The Little Kicks Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 5pm. £6.

Upbeat Aberdeen-based four-piece who have supported the likes of Editors, The Kooks and Mystery Jets.

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Non Jovi, Cheat Loaf and Prestwick Light Orchestra The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £12 in advance; £14 on the door. Bill of rocking tributes to Bon Jovi and Meat Loaf.

Gunz For Hire O2 Academy Glasgow, 121 Eglinton Street, 0844 477 2000. 9pm. £4. Dressed in suits and masks Ran-D and Adaro perform hardstyle as Gunz For Hire.

Edinburgh

The Last Battle, Penny Black and Josie Long Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £7.

Edinburgh folk pop six-piece.

Arbroath

MacFloyd The Webster Theatre, 64 High Street, 01241 435800. 7.30pm. £12.

Internationally acclaimed tribute combo to Pink Floyd, who recreate (on a slightly smaller scale) the stage effects for which the prog rockers were renowned.

Linlithgow

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Linlithgow Palace, Kirkgate, 664 3062. 2–10.30pm. £52 adult ticket per day; VIP £99. Scottish music royalty performs against the backdrop of Linlithgow Palace over two days of live music. Headlining the weekend are Simple Minds and Deacon Blue with performances from The View, Frightened Rabbit, Attic Lights, James Grant, Hue & Cry, Donnie Munro, The Bluebells, The Silencers, Horse and more.

Sunday 10

Glasgow

Bec Sandridge Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £5.

Australian indie folk singer / songwriter.

Edinburgh

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Through Colour Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £5.

Punchy pop rock from North Wales via Manchester.

Linlithgow

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2–10pm. £52 adult ticket per day; VIP £99. See Sat 9.

Monday 11

Glasgow

Brodown The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, 332 1120. 5.30pm. £10. Bromotions presents a hardcore line-up with performances from headliner Deez Nuts and support acts Iwrestledabearonce, TRC, Texas In July, Vitja, Counting Days and Louie Knuxx.

Tuesday 12

Glasgow

Amen The Cathouse, 15 Union Street, 248 6606. 7pm. £13. Pure punk rock/metal mayhem as Amen and Casey Chaos return.

Wednesday 13

Glasgow

The Julie Ruin CCA, 350

Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7pm.

CANCELLED. Apache Darling Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8–11pm. £5. See Wed 30.

Edinburgh

Dirty Harry Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7–10pm. £8 (£5). Tribute to new wave punks Blondie.

Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Thursday 14

Glasgow

Poison Idea Audio, 14 Midland Street, facebook.com/pages/PoisonIdea 6.30pm. £12. Six-piece punkmetal-rock band from Oregon who formed in 1980.

Earth CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. 7pm. £14. The veteran rock band led by Dylan Carlson perform tracks from their tenth studio collection Primitive and Deadly.

Withered Hand Bowlers Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 8pm. £12. Edinburgh scene stalwart and master of plaintive, witty outsider folk.

With Justin Currie. Part of East End Social.

Edinburgh

Cairn String Quartet Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224.

7pm. £8. Young all-female string quartet which has collaborated with the likes of Emeli Sande and Echo & the Bunnymen.

Festival show with a selection of special guests.

Neutral Milk Hotel Corn Exchange, 11 Newmarket Road, 477 3500. 7pm. £23.50. Reformed experimental indie rockers from Athens, Georgia, who became cult favourites in their absence.

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

See Thu 10.

Friday 15

Glasgow

Teenage Fanclub Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park. 6pm. £25. The beloved Fannies play through their melodic indie classics. Part of Magners’ Summer Nights.

Slint The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. 7pm. £20. Hugely influential

HOWLIN’ FLING The magical island of Eigg hosts Howlin’ Fling, a micro festival (now very sold out) featuring Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Beth Orton, Jens Lekman, Luke Abbott, Oliver Coates, RM Hubbert and Steve Mason, as well as local heroes Golden Teacher, the festival organiser (and island caravan dweller) Johnny Lynch, beach bonfires, tractor rides, sheep spotting and more.

Isle of Eigg, Fri 18–Sun 20 Jul.

cult US outfit, beloved by Mogwai and a host of Scottish post-rockers.

Owls in Antarctica, Tidens Tann, Bellow Below and Athena’s Army Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7.30pm. £2. See Wed 16.

Freddie Mercury Tribute Night

The Ferry, 25 Anderston Quay, 01698 360085. 8pm. £10.50 in advance; £12 on the door. Jim Smart’s tribute to the Queen frontman.

Edinburgh

Agnostic Front , Oi Polloi, Certain Death and Happy Spastics

The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 6pm. £16.50. Fast-paced thrash metal courtesy of the American five-piece.

Dante Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £5. Intertwined indie and trad folk.

Inside All, Scarecrow Tribe and

Little Love & the Friendly Vibes

Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. 7pm. £tbc. Indie.

Airdrie

MacFloyd Airdrie Town Hall, Stirling Street, 01698 403120. 7.30pm. £15 (£13). See Sat 9.

Saturday 16

Glasgow

David Guetta Bellahouston Park,

Paisley Road West, 427 5454. 4pm. £55.

Big hands-in-the-air dance beats from one of the biggest names in EDM. He’s worked with Black Eyed Peas, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna and Niki Minaj so expect chart hits such as ‘When Love Takes Over’, ‘Titanium’ and ‘Shot me Down’.

Steve Angello and Oliver Heldens provide DJ support. Part of Glasgow Summer Sessions.

Squeeze Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park.

6pm. £35. Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook join forces once again to play their brand of witty South London pop.

Part of Magners’ Summer Nights.

Jack Rowberry, Calum Baird, The Vegan Leather and Dead Man

Fall Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564

8100. 7pm. £5 in advance; £6 on the door. Singer / songwriter and guitarist who won a Scottish Alternative Music Award in 2014.

Mark Eitzel Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 7pm. £12.50. As both a solo artist and the frontman for American Music Club, evocative singer Eitzel combines the energy of punk with folk to create dark melancholic pop.

Not The Sensational Alex Harvey Band O2 ABC, 330

Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12. But presumably a decent soundalike.

Edinburgh

Young Aviators Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £5.

Glasgow-based Irish indie rock trio with grunge / surf leanings.

The Jokers and Lyxx Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £8. A modern take on classic rock sounds.

Glenrothes

Gary Mullen Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, 01592 611101. 7.30pm. £17.50. Stars in Their Eyes winner Mullen presents his Queen tribute.

Prestwick

The Lift Shaft Incident The Eagle Tavern, 3–5 The Cross, 01292 477674. Times tbc. £tbc. Rock covers of everything from AC/DC to Katy Perry.

Sunday 17

Glasgow

The Skunnered Lismore Lounge, 206 Dumbarton Road, 576 0102. 7pm. £tbc. Local band combining traditional songs with covers and their own material.

Edinburgh

Not The Sensational Alex

Harvey Band Sneaky Pete’s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £8. See Sat 16

Monday 18

Edinburgh

Ten Tonne Dozer, Sympathize and Witch Charmer Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 8pm. £6.

Groove metal from Shetland.

Tuesday 19

Glasgow

The Killers, Courteeners and Miles Kane Bellahouston Park, Paisley

Road West, 427 5454. 4pm. £49.50.

Las Vegas rockers famed for their glamorous take on ‘indie rock’n’roll’. Big outdoor show. Part of Glasgow Summer Sessions.

Edinburgh

Holy Esque Sneaky Pete›s, 73 Cowgate, 225 1757. 7pm. £6. Glasgow four-piece with an epic post-rock sound.

Samantha Crain and Jellyman’s Daughter Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7pm. £9.

American folk-rock singer / songwriter and musician.

Wednesday 20

Glasgow

Bound By Law Pivo Pivo, 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 7pm. £5.

Glasgow punk-folk band. EP launch

Edinburgh

Dirty Harry Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street, 226 4224. 7–10pm. £8 (£5). See Wed 13.

The Old Firm Casuals, Control and Runnin’ Riot Bannerman’s, 55 Niddry Street, 556 3254. 7.30pm. £11.

Old school oi punk side project from Rancid’s Lars Frederiksen.

RM Hubbert The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 9pm. £14.

See Fri 8.

Thursday 21

Edinburgh

Jeffrey Lewis & The Jrams

Electric Circus, 36–39 Market Street,

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226 4224. 7pm. £10. New York’s lo-fi anti-folk hero and satirical cartoonist with current backing band.

Tonight Alive The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, 225 2564. 7pm. £12.50.

Pop-punk quintet from Sydney.

Musselburgh

The Dolly Parton Story The

Brunton, Ladywell Way, 665 2240. 7.30– 9.30pm. £16 (£14). Dolly Parton tribute act. Part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Thursday 10

Edinburgh

Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar,

1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Jazz four-piece.

Friday 11

Edinburgh

The Sun Juice Social Club The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

8pm. £5 (£4). Funk, grove and swing from New Zealand saxophonist Doug Tiplady.

Sunday 13

Glasgow

FREE Blue Lane The Lismore, 206 Dumbarton Road, 576 0103. 5–8pm.

Quintet with tenor/guitar front line playing well-known tunes by the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk.

Edinburgh

Stormy Sunday Blues Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101. 8pm. £3 (£2). Blues night organised by vocalist James Carr, featuring a showcase of blues singers and soloists. Featuring Black Cat Bone and The Blues Tuesday Band.

FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8–11pm. All singers and instrumentalists are welcome at this jazz jam with a different host every week and a stellar trio.

Thursday 17

Edinburgh

Alison Affleck & Vieux Carré

The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Energetic hot jazz from this five-piece with singer Affleck.

Friday 18

Glasgow

FREE Blue Lane Bar Gumbo, 71–77 Byres Road, 334 7132. 9.30–11.30pm.

See Sun 13.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

Various venues, 467 5200. Times vary.

Scotland’s biggest jazz festival presents over 140 concerts in ten days all over the capital, in parks, churches, clubs and concert halls. With a programme featuring all jazz styles from early jazz to the avant garde, the EJ&BF usually manages to secure some world premieres, new bands, and new collaborations.

Selected highlights listed below: for full listings please see list.co.uk.

Sleepy Eyes Nelson Tron Kirk, Hunter Square. 3–4pm. £4. Acoustic alt. blues. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

J-Phunk The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 7.30pm. £5 (£4). Jazz/ funk fusion outfit from Glasgow and

Fife, headed by electric bassist Sam Firth.

Mandela Day Concert Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 8pm. £22.50–£37.50. Three South African music acts take to the stage for the opening of Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival on Mandela Day. Revered pianist Abdullah Ibrahim who played at Nelson Mandela’s inauguration opens the show, followed

by Freshlyground who performed the official song of the World Cup in 2010.

Closing the show are the Mahotella Queens, one of South Africa’s most popular singing groups for 50 years. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Saturday 19

Edinburgh

FREE Mardi Gras Grassmarket, 1–4pm. The Grassmarket transforms into a swinging, buzzing New Orleans high street with parades, brollie-dollies and bands performing all afternoon.

Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Iain Hunter The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000.

8.30–10.30pm. £15–£18.50. Swinging, rat pack inspired tunes with a top class vocalist and his trio.Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Stirling

National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland Tolbooth, Jail Wynd,

01786 274000. 8pm. £10 (£6; under 16s £3). Malcolm Edmonstone and Andrew Bain direct the popular young musicians in a programme featuring jazz classics as well as new compositions and arrangements.

Sunday 20

Glasgow

The Penman Jazzmen Bowlers Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 2pm. £5. The late George Penman’s band continue to keep the faith with their take on vintage New Orleans jazz. Part of East End Social.

Edinburgh

singer performs Delta-inspired country blues. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Tuesday 22

Edinburgh

Van Morrison Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £44.50–£87.50.

Legendary Irish curmudgeon and hugely influential blues and jazz artist plays tracks from his career. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Kaiser Bill Invented Jazz The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 8–10pm. £12.50–£16. Special concert examining the fact WWI helped spread jazz across the world, with Conal Fowkes. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Wednesday 23

Edinburgh

Colin Steele: Remembering Chet Tron Kirk, Hunter Square.

1.30–2.30pm. £6. A homage to one of the great icons of jazz delivered by trumpeter Steele. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Ken Mathieson Classic Jazz Orchestra play Jelly Roll Morton

The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 8–10pm. £15–£20. A selection of early jazz. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Ryan Quigley Quintet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £12 (£10). Mainstream jazz outfit. Featuring New York drummer Clarence Penn.

Thursday 24

Edinburgh

Click Clack Club Henry’s Cellar Bar, 8–16 Morrison Street, 629 4101.

7.30pm. £6 (students £4). Funky Beefheart-influenced experimental music club. Featuring Steele Plays Zappa, Dominic Waxing Lyrical and Snibbo.

Conal Fowkes – Woody Allen and Jazz Tron Kirk, Hunter Square.

7.30–9pm. £10. Grammy-winning pianist, vocalist, and long-time Woody Allen associate Fowkes presents music he’s recorded for Allen’s films. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

30 Years of Blues ’N’ Trouble

The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 8–10pm. £16–£20. Hard rockin’ blues action from Scotland’s answer to the Blues Brothers. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Celebrating the Great American Songbook. Forth Valley Chorus meets Todd Gordon, with special guest James Tormé

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 473 2000. 8–10pm. £12–£16. The 100-strong Forth Valley Chorus have put together a special programme with two leading interpreters of the Great American Songbook, Edinburgh’s Todd Gordon, and the American star James Tormé who will sing with a jazz trio and then with the Chorus. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Hot 8 Brass Band Assembly George Square, George Square, 473 2000. 9.30–11.30pm. £15. New Orleans trad jazz shot through with hip hop and rap, signed to Tru Thoughts. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

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Glasgow

FREE Stretched Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. 9pm. Monthly evening of experimental jazz, rock and electronics.

Fat Sam’s Band The Brunton, Ladywell Way, 665 2240. 7.30pm. £16 (£14). Toe-tapping tunes covering everything from jump-jive to swing and jazz greats from Glenn Miller to Fats

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Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £36–£52.50. Jools and his band play classic boogie woogie and rock’n’roll tunes for your merriment.

Featuring guest vocalists Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall with special guest Melanie C. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Mike Stern / Bill Evans Band featuring Dennis Chambers and Tom Kennedy The Queen’s

Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000.

8–10pm. £20–£25. Sax and guitar led contemporary jazz with guest hythm team of Chambers and Kennedy. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8–11pm. See Sun 13.

Monday 21

Edinburgh

Jerry Forde New Phoenix Jazz Band Royal Overseas League, 100

Princes Street, 473 2000. 1.30–3.30pm. £10. A varied and rare programme of some of the most memorable and emotive jazz of the early 20th century.

Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

International Hot Jazz Quartet

Assembly George Square, George Square, 473 2000. 6–7.30pm. £15. Duke Heitger (trumpet), Engelbert Wrobel (clarinet, saxophone), Paolo Alderighi (piano), Bernard Flegar (drums) play 20s and 30s jazz. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

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Friday 25

Glasgow

The Penman Jazzmen Bowlers

Bar, 100 Tullis Street, Bridgeton, 556 1857. 7pm. £5. See Sun 20.

Edinburgh

The Union The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 12.30am. £5 (£4). James Brown-style high-energy funk/soul.

Niki King: The Songs of Duke Ellington Bristo Hall, 3 Bristo Place.

8–10pm. £15. The Scottish vocalist pays tribute to Ellington. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

We Love Oscar! Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 473 2000. 8–10pm. £15–£25.

Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra, directed

by James Morrison, plays Oscar Peterson and Count Basie Music. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Martin Taylor Great Guitars The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 8.30–10.30pm. £20–£25. Virtuoso guitar player with Christian Escoude and Ulf Wakenius. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Saturday 26

Glasgow

Vintage Glasgow The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 0844 395 4000. 9pm–3am. £22. Hemingway Design bring their Vintage Festival format to Glasgow, featuring music, fashion, film, design and dance that celebrates British creativity from the 1920s to 1980s. Soul Casino curated by Eddie Piller (Acid Jazz) for a night of uplifting soul from DJs Mark Linton, Wayne and Jack Hemingway.

Vintage Glasgow Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge, 18 Candleriggs, 0844 395 4000. 3pm–midnight. £15. Let it Rock! a 50s rock’n’roll, rockabilly and R&B bop and jive club with live music from Miss Mary & The Mr Rights and The Fretones plus DJs Keb Darge, Tojo and Snowboy.

Vintage Glasgow Wild Cabaret & Wicked Lounge , 18 Candleriggs, 0844 395 4000. 11am–1pm. £15 (inc brunch). 1920s-style Charleston Brunch with gramophone DJ Lord Holyrude and dance teachers form the Fly Right Dance Co.

Edinburgh

Dr Lee’s Prescription: The Games Bristo Hall, 3 Bristo Place.

5.30–7pm. £10. Dick Lee’s written a new piece for the Commonwealth Games, his five piece band joined by poet, Ron Butlin, and dancer, Alex Rigg. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra

directed by Zoe Rahman Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 473 2000. 8–10pm. £10. The band is packed with top Scottish and Commonwealth musicians and led by the brilliant pianist, bandleader and ex-Mercury Prize nominee Zoe Rahman, joined by Edinburgh Schools Jazz Orchestra. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

The Bad Plus The Queen’s Hall, 87– 89 Clerk Street, 473 2000. 8.30–10.30pm. £20–£22.50. Ethan Iversen (piano) , Reid Anderson (bass) and Dave King (drums) form this radical and inventive piano, bass and drums trio. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Four Corners The Mash House, 37 Guthrie Street, 473 2000. 11pm—3am. £5–£7. Edinburgh’s regular club getdown of deep funk and future soul, party hip hop and good-time reggae, nu-Latin breaks and Afro beats. Plus special guests The Bugalu Foundation (live) and Dom Servini (Wah Wah 45s). Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Sunday 27

Glasgow

Vintage Glasgow The Old

Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 0844 395 4000. 8pm–1am. £25. Retro 1940s-themed Torch Club curated by Snowboy with DJ Bryan Webb and The Bratislava Hot Serenaders (live).

Son al Son Stereo, 20-28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. 7pm. £12. The sevenpiece Scottish Cuban salsa band with a mission to get feet tapping. With Academia de Salsa DJs.

Edinburgh

Pasadena Roof Orchestra

Assembly George Square, George Square, 473 2000. 6–7.30pm. £15. The Orchestra celebrates the music of the great entertainers from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Billie Holiday and Bix Beiderbecke. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 8pm. £32.50– £47.50. Former Rolling Stones bassist makes a return to his musical roots with the Rhythm Kings playing the kind of jazz and blues that first inspired him all those years ago. Featuring star of the Original Supremes Mary Wilson. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Kim Jeeseok Quintet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). South Korean alto saxophonist who honed his skills playing with Ellis Marsalis in New Orleans.

FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8–11pm. See Sun 13.

Saturday 2

Glasgow

Mr McFall’s Chamber: On the Shore of the Mind Glasgow Royal

Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7pm. £5–£9. Soprano Susan Hamilton joins the McFall’s strings for this special programme examining Scotland’s links with the Caribbean.

Monday 4

Aberdour

Alison Affleck & The Copper Cats Festival Marquee, Hawkcraig

Road, 01383 860045. 8–11.30pm. £10.

Energetic hot jazz from singer Affleck.

Part of Aberdour Festival.

Thursday 7

Glasgow

Julia Fordham St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrews Square, 559 5902.

7.30pm. £20. Pop, soul and jazz singersongwriter.

Sunday 10

Aberdour

Lorna Reid Woodside Hotel, 78–82 High Street, 01383 860328. 2–4.30pm. £8 advance booking essential. Cool and classy local vocalist singing songs from the likes of Rogers & Hart to Gershwin and Cole Porter. The hotel will be providing a cream tea which will be included in the ticket price.

FOLK Events are listed by date, then by city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Listings are compiled

by Henry Northmore.

Thursday 10

Edinburgh

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

Lady banjo players extraordinaire tour their bluegrass ballads.

Friday 11

Edinburgh

BIG Project Youth Choir The BIG Project, Broomhouse Primary School, 33–39 Saughton Road, 622 7784. 2pm. £3. Community-based youth choir made up of 5–15 year olds. Joined by songwriters Rachel Sermanni and Kim Edgar (music director of The BIG Project Youth Choir), who will tutor them in the days leading up to the gig to create five new songs for the performance.

Stirling

Jamie Smith’s Mabon Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, 01786 274000. 8pm. £13 (£11). Lively, energetic Celtic folk featuring accordion, fiddle, bouzouki, bass and drums.

Saturday 12

Selkirk

Ewan McLennan String Jam Club,

The Country Hotel, 1–5 High Street, 01750 721 233. 7.30pm. £10. Folk, ballads and airs from guitarist/singer McLennan.

Tuesday 15

Glasgow

Iain Thomson & Marc Duff The

Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, 221 7705.

7.30pm. £8. Bluesy country folk from a shepherd from Mull and his pal Marc Duff.

Thursday 17

Edinburgh

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

See Thu 10.

Friday 18

Esplanade, 01631 567333. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 19.

Perth

Southern Fried Festival Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031.

Times vary. Prices vary. Scotland’s festival of American roots music covers all the bases, including blues, country, cajun, gospel, swing and soul. Fill up on workshops, free gigs, local bands and their legendary soul food. Headliners in 2014 include Buffy Sainte-Marie, Steve Earle and Rosanne Cash.

Saturday 26

Glasgow

FREE Blood Indians Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 8pm.

Gothic surf folk from the Dundee twosome.

Isle of Coll

Amy Duncan An Cridhe, 01879 230000. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 19.

Perth

Southern Fried Festival Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031.

Times vary. Prices vary. See Fri 25.

Sunday 27

Glasgow

JJ Gilmour Woodend Tennis & Bowling Club, 10 Chamberlain Road, 959 1428. 8pm. £15. The former frontman with the Silencers performs his Celtic rock banter.

Perth

Southern Fried Festival Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031.

Times vary. Prices vary. See Fri 25.

Tuesday 29

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298.

1.30am. £5 (£4). Dancey, jazzy grooves and Afro-beats from Senegal.

Hastings The Admiral, 72a Waterloo Street, 221 7705. 7.30pm. £8. Young folk vocal duo from Dumfries & Galloway.

Samba Sene & Diwan The Jazz

Songs of The Great War – People and Propaganda Lauriston

Castle, 2a Cramond Road South, 228 1155. 10.30am–12.30pm. £5. Explore the music of World War One with Wendy Carle Taylor.

Norloch Ceilidh Band Old St Paul’s Church, 39 Jeffrey Street, 556 3332. 7.30pm. £6 (£5; family £15). The Norloch Ceilidh Band provide the live music at this night of traditional Scottish dancing. BYOB.

Saturday 19

Arbroath

Amy Duncan Hospitalfield House,

Hospitalfield, 01241 656124. Times tbc. £tbc. Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Amy Duncan embarks on a Scottish tour with a string trio, double bass and harp in tow.

Thursday 24

Edinburgh

Ceilidh at The Counting House

Counting House, West Nicolson Street, 667 7533. 8pm. £8 (£6). The Annasach Ceilidh Band provide the live music at this ceilidh dance with a caller.

Under 18s are welcome but must be accompanied by two adults over 25.

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

See Thu 10.

Friday 25

Glasgow

Ceilidh at Saints St Andrews in the Square, 1 St Andrew’s Square, 559 5902.

8pm. £8 (£6). A ceilidh in St Andrews in the Square, in aid of the venue itself.

Oban

Amy Duncan Corran Halls, The

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Edinburgh

The Bevvy Sisters Leith Folk Club, Victoria Park Hotel, 221 Ferry Road, 07502 024852. 7.30pm. £tbc. The richly seasoned harmonies of the Bevvy Sisters provide an alternative take on folk and swing songs.

Isle of Mull

Amy Duncan An Tobar Arts Centre, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, 01688 302211. Times tbc. £tbc. See Sat 19.

Wednesday 30

Glasgow

FREE Polish Wednesdays Beresford Lounge, 468 Sauchiehall Street, beresfordlounge.com 7pm. See Wed 16.

Isle of Colonsay

FREE Aiseag Colonsay Village Hall, Scalasaig, 01951 200336. 7.30pm. A new work created by Gaelic singer and musician Mary Ann Kennedy with Canadian composer Scott Macmillan and poet Aonghas Dubh, centred round the concept of the ferryboat, with a wide variety of musicians, bands, singers and poets.

Thursday 31

Glasgow

Sketch O2 ABC, 330 Sauchiehall Street, 332 2232. 7pm. £12.50. High energy folk/electronic fusion that is the latest project of Peatbog Faeries/Session A9 drummer Iain Copeland.

Edinburgh

FREE Blueflint The Village, 16 South Fort Street, 478 7810. 8.30–10.30pm.

See Thu 10.

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TREMBLING BELLS When Glasgow’s Alex Neilson’s not making balls-to-the-wall free jazz jams with Death Shanties (see review, page 90), he plays in this sumptuous psych folk four-piece, who have collaborated with Mike Heron of Incredible String Band and Bonnie Prince Billy (moustache pictured above). With Woven Tents and Muldoons Picnic.

Broadcast, Glasgow, Sun 13 Jul.

Auchtermuchty

Auchtermuchty Festival

Auchtermuchty, 01337 860482. Times vary. Prices vary. Traditional music and folk are the focusses of this festival, which offers ceilidhs, concerts, dances, competitions and workshops with a line-up of prestigious guests and local, up-and-coming talent. Informal sessions allow visitors and musicians of all abilities to join in, so bring along your instrument of choice. Runs until 10 Aug.

Friday 1

Pitlochry

Barbara Dickson and Rab Noakes Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port

Na Craig, 01796 484626. 7.30pm. £tbc.

The two renowned Scottish folk singers and long-time good pals join together on a tour reflecting on their lives in music.

Monday 11

Glasgow

Piping Live! Various venues: Glasgow, 353 0220. Times vary. Prices vary. Annual week-long celebration of piping, including contemporary and traditional, solo and pipe bands and more. The World Pipe Band Championships take place on the second to last day at Glasgow Green, with free family displays in the Merchant City area. Runs until 17 Aug.

Thursday 14

Milngavie

John Renbourn and Wizz Jones

Milngavie Folk Club, The Fraser Centre, Douglas Street, 07743 885991.

7.30–12.30pm. £15. Two musical greats fusing British and Celtic folk music with jazz, country and blues.

Friday 15

Innerleithen

Innerleithen Music Festival

Innerleithen, 01721 725777. Times vary. Prices vary. An established Celtic music festival that augments its line-up of local musicians, sessions, traditional singing, street events and workshops with international stars.

This year’s guests include Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham, Boys of the Lough, The Shee, Fiona Hunter & Mike Vass, Carol & Alan Prior, Fisher Lassies and more.

Saturday 16

Glasgow

World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Green,

Greendyke Street. £4–£15 in advance; £5–£19 on the door (£2–£8 in advance; £3–£12 on the door; family £8–£34 in advance; £10–£39 on the door). The best pipe bands from all over the world, featuring 8000 pipers and drummers, compete for the most prestigious prizes and the coveted World Champion crown. As well as the music, a dedicated children’s zone, gourmet food and Highland games add to the day out.

Mark Eitzel Broadcast, 427 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7304. 7pm. £12.50. As both a solo artist and the

frontman for American Music Club, evocative singer Eitzel combines the energy of punk with folk to create dark melancholic pop.

£19. This talented foursome are known throughout the world as one of Scotland’s finest musical treasures.

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Innerleithen, 01721 725777. Times vary.

Prices vary. See Fri 15.

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Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham

Motherwell Concert Hall and Theatre, Civic Centre, Windmillhill Street, 01698 403120. 7.30pm. £19 (£17). Musical double act Phil and Aly bring together a plethora of musical talent and witty banter.

Sunday 17

Glasgow

World Pipe Band Championships Glasgow Green,

Greendyke Street, theworlds.co.uk Times tbc. £4–£15 in advance; £5–£19 on the door (£2–£8 in advance; £3–£12 on the door; family £8–£34 in advance; £10–£39 on the door). See Sat 16.

Innerleithen

Innerleithen Music Festival

Innerleithen, 01721 725777. Times vary.

Prices vary. See Fri 15.

Thursday 21

Glasgow

Battlefield Band Lansdowne Church (Websters Theatre), 416 Great Western Road, 337 2311. 7.30pm.

Thursday 10

Edinburgh

FREE Astrid String Quartet Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. Award-winning string quartet consisting of Elanor Gunn, Eve Kennedy, Sarah Leonard and Julia Wagner. Highlights from the classical repertoire.

Perth

NYOS Junior Orchestra Perth

Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031.

6pm. £12.00 (£8.00; children £5.00).

The NYOS Junior Orchestra, formerly the National Children’s Orchestra of Scotland, is the junior ensemble of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and is open to children aged 8–13.

Roland Kieft conducts Walton’s Crown Imperial, Bruch’s Violin Concerto with NYOS Leader Jessica Coleman, Peter Longworth’s ‘Ludi’ – Partita for Orchestra and Eric Coates’ The Three Elizabeths.

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Tuesday 22

Glasgow

Berwick upon Tweed

Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. 3pm. £15 (£10). Recital celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of the Waverley novels.

Curated by Derek Clark and featuring work by Donizetti, Rossini, Bizet, Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, and Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn.

Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £12 (£6). Music at Paxton’s annual showcase for two groups of talented young professionals from Live Music Now. The Astrid Quartet plays Alasdair Nicolson’s new The Keeper of Sheep and Tchaikovsky’s Quartet in D major, followed by Fraser Langton (clarinet) and Juliette Philogene (piano) playing Henri Rabaud’s Solo de concours, Debussy’s Première rhapsodie and Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata in E flat.

Music at Paxton.

Sir Walter Scott and Opera Òran

Tuesday 15

Edinburgh

FREE Cameron Grant Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 6.45pm. Classical guitar.

Wednesday 16

Edinburgh

NYOS Senior Orchestra Greyfriars

Kirk, Greyfriars Place, nyos.co.uk 7pm. £12 (£8; under 16s £5). The NYOS Senior Orchestra is designed for older students who want to join the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and is open to students aged 11–18. James Lowe conducts Peter Longworth’s ‘Ludi’, Partita for Orchestra, Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow, Franck’s Symphonic Variations and Glazunov’s Symphony No 5.

Friday 18

Berwick upon Tweed

Katharine Gowers, Adrian Brendel and Alasdair Beatson

Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £22 (£11). Beatson (piano), Gowers (violin) and Brendel (cello) play chamber music classics. Fauré’s Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor, Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor and Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor. Part of Music at Paxton.

Saturday 19

Berwick upon Tweed

Katharine Gowers, Adrian Brendel and Alasdair Beatson

Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 5–6pm. £15 (£7.50).

Beatson (piano), Gowers (violin) and Brendel (cello) play chamber music classics. Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello and Schumann’s Carnaval. Music at Paxton.

Katharine Gowers, Adrian Brendel and Alasdair Beatson

Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £22 (£11). Beatson (piano), Gowers (violin) and Brendel (cello) play chamber music classics. Janácek’s Violin Sonata, Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata in G minor and Dvorák’s Trio in E minor ‘Dumky’.

Music at Paxton.

Sunday 20

Berwick upon Tweed

O Duo Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 3.30–4.30pm. £7.50 (free). The O boys – Olly Cox and Owen Gunnell – play an invigorating and enchanting selection of contemporary and older styles of music on a range of percussion instruments, including two marimbas and a vibraphone. An openair concert including a piece created over the preceding three days. Music at Paxton.

Chiaroscuro Quartet Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 6pm. £24 (£12). Multi-national quartet founded in 2005, consisting of Alina Ibragimova (violin), Pablo Hernán Benedí (violin), Emilie Hörnlund (viola) and Claire Thirion (cello). Mozart’s Divertimento in F, K138 and Quartet in D minor K421, framing Haydn’s early, game-changing Quartet in G minor, Op 20 No 3. Music at Paxton.

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Edinburgh

FREE Cameron Grant Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 6.45pm. See Tue 15.

Wednesday 23

Berwick upon Tweed

O Duo Paxton House and Country

Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £16 (£8). The O boys – Olly Cox and Owen Gunnell – play an invigorating and enchanting selection of contemporary and older styles of music on a range of percussion instruments, including two marimbas and a vibraphone. A selection of music written or arranged for percussion: Bongo Fury, Albeniz’s Suite espanola (excerpts), Bach’s Two Preludes, Chopin’s Etude in G flat, Desmond’s Take 5, Siegel’s 2nd St Rondo, Prokofiev’s Prelude (The Harp), Shostakovich’s Prelude No 5, Glass’s Mad Rush and Cox’s Signals from Space. Music at Paxton.

Thursday 24

Glasgow

FREE Scokendia Ensemble The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119. 6pm. Bringing together young musicians from Scotland, Kenya and India to connect, collaborate and perform during Culture 2014. With Travelling Birds, a Hear My Music project, where young people with complex needs develop and perform a new piece of music. This performance is geared towards young people with special needs and their families, although all are welcome.

Berwick upon Tweed

Edinburgh Quartet Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £22 (£11). Scotland’s premier string quartet was founded in 1960 and maintains close relationships with composers all over the UK, as well as playing dozens of concerts a year in venues all over the world. Haydn’s Quartet in E flat, Op 33 No 2 ‘The Joke’; Shostakovich’s Quartet No 8 in C minor and Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, featuring Maximiliano Martín.

Music at Paxton.

Friday 25

Glasgow

Scottish Opera’s Anamchara – Songs of Friendship Theatre

Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 6.30pm. £6. Based on themes of friendship, this opera explores the ties that bind people together and features over 100 performers from around the Commonwealth. Written by novelist Alexander McCall Smith and composer Pippa Murphy. See preview, page 106.

Scokendia Ensemble Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5.

See Thu 24.

Berwick upon Tweed

Alessandro Taverna Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton,

01289 386291. 7.30pm. £22 (£11).

Young and highly rated Italian pianist in recital. Beethoven’s Variations and Fugue in E flat major, Op 35 ‘Eroica Variations’; Liszt’s Venezia e Napoli and Rachmaninov’s Preludes Op 23 No 7 in C minor, Op 32 No 8 in A minor, Op 23 No 4 in D major and Op 23 No 2 in B-flat major. Music at Paxton.

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Berwick upon Tweed

Mahan Esfahani and Friends

Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 5–6pm. £15 (£7.50). The Iranian-born harpsichordist plays music by Johann Sebastian Bach that was designed for domestic (as opposed to public) consumption. This concert features guest Bojan Cicic (baroque violin) in Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in B minor, Partita III for Harpsichord and Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in G major. Music at Paxton.

Mahan Esfahani and Friends

Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 7.30pm. £24–£12. The Iranian-born harpsichordist plays music

by Johann Sebastian Bach that was designed for domestic (as opposed to public) consumption. William Berger (baritone) and Susanne Heinrich (cello) join in for Bach’s Airs from the Anna Magdalena Notebook; Marchand’s Prelude – Allemande – Sarabande – Chaconne, Handel’s Dalla guerra amorosa, CPE Bach’s Two Polonaises, from the Anna Magdalena Notebook.

Telemann’s Sonata for viola da gamba from Getreue Musik-Meister and Bach’s Amore traditore. Music at Paxton.

Saturday 26

Glasgow

Classics Marathon Day Glasgow

Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. Times vary. Prices vary. Glasgow UNESCO City of Music organises a day of wall-to-wall music in Glasgow’s city centre, from Red Note’s From Reels to Ragas at lunchtime to the Scottish Ensemble with Nicola Benedetti playing Vivaldi and Piazzolla in the evening. Rock up to the Royal Concert Hall with a packed lunch and let it all roll over you.

FREE Red Note Ensemble: From Reels to Ragas Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 1pm. Scotland’s leading contemporary music ensemble plays a packed Indo-Scottish programme, with music by JS Bach, Kuljit Bhamra, Arvo Pärt, and the great Anglo-Indian jazz composer John Mayer, as well as Scottish tunes. Part of Classics Marathon Day. The Dunedin Consort Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 2pm. £5. Acclaimed ensemble of singers and players specialising in baroque music under the musical direction of John Butt. John Butt directs Bach’s Magnificat. Classics Marathon Day. Scottish Opera’s Anamchara – Songs of Friendship Theatre Royal,

282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 2.30pm & 6.30pm. £6. See Fri 25.

FREE Musical Interludes Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

3.30–6.30pm. Live music in the bar showcasing the virtuosity of students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Part of Culture 2014.

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 4pm. £5. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is recognised as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world and tours extensively in Scotland as well as internationally. Joseph Swensen conducts Mozart’s over ture to The Marriage of Figaro, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending featuring Nicola Benedetti, and Beethoven’s Symphony No 6. Classics Marathon Day.

Scokendia Young musicians from Scotland, Kenya and India connect, collaborate and perform in one of Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme’s most imaginative initiatives. The ensemble performs three world premieres – a composer from each country – in their main concert as well as taking part in a host of other activity over the period they are here. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Fri 25 Jul. Alessandro Taverna Young Venetian pianist in a virtuosic feast of Beethoven, Stravinsky and Rachmaninov alongside the impressive fireworks of Liszt’s Venezia e Napoli with its songs of the gondoliers and heady tarantella. Paxton House and Country Park, Berwick-uponTweed, Fri 25 Jul. Mendelssohn on Mull Actually bringing the musicians involved off the island of Mull to nearby Oban on the mainland, the final concert of this year’s festival features all three groups of string players who have been taking part in this inspirational opportunity for young professional musicians working with mentors and established artists. St John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Oban, Sat 12 Jul.

Hebrides Ensemble Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 5.15pm. £5. Founded in 1991, the Hebrides Ensemble is one of Scotland’s most dynamic chamber groups, with a team of world-class players and a strong commitment to new music. Two young string players from National Youth Orchestras of Scotland join the ensemble for Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57 and Linda Buckley’s Fiol. Classics Marathon Day. RSNO and BBC SSO featuring Nicola Benedetti Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 6.30pm. £5. In a rare chance to see two major orchestras sharing a stage, Martyn Brabbins conducts Maxwell Geddes’ Fanfare – Let Glasgow Flourish; ‘Jupiter’ from Holst’s The Planets; Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy (excerpt); Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man; MacCunn’s Land of the Mountain and the Flood; Burns arr Campbell’s My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose and Maxwell Davies’ An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise. Violinist Nicola Benedetti is the special guest. Classics Marathon Day.

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282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 2.30pm & 6.30pm. £6. See Fri 25.

Scottish Ensemble Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 8.30pm. £5. The Scottish Ensemble, the UK’s only professional string orchestra, is one of the most versatile and exploratory ensembles in the country. Jonathan Morton directs Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Interspersed with Vivaldi’s Concerto for 4 violins in B minor, RV 580, ‘Autumn’ from The Four Seasons, featuring Nicola Benedetti, and Concerto for strings in G minor RV 156. Classics Marathon Day.

Sunday 27

Glasgow

Scottish Opera’s Anamchara – Songs of Friendship Theatre

Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647.

2.30pm. £6. See Fri 25.

Berwick upon Tweed

Pure Brass Paxton House and

Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291.

3–4pm. £7.50 (free). Versatile young brass quintet of Andrew Connell-Smith (trumpet), Ian Archibald (trumpet), Christopher Gough (French horn), Christopher Mansfield (trombone) and Danielle Price (tuba), with a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. An open-air concert (weather permitting).

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Scottish Ensemble Paxton House and Country Park, Paxton, 01289 386291. 6pm. £22 (£11). The Scottish Ensemble, the UK’s only professional string orchestra, is one of the most versatile and exploratory ensembles in the country. Richard Strauss’ Sextet from Capriccio, Boccherini’s Sextet in F minor, Op 23 no 4, Puccini’s Crisantemi and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence.

Music at Paxton.

Tuesday 29

Glasgow

FREE Musical Interludes Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

3.30–6.30pm. See Sat 26.

Scokendia Ensemble Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street, glasgow.gov. uk 4.30pm. £tbc. See Thu 24.

Scottish Opera: Madama

Butterfly Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £11–£73.

Puccini’s famous tale of Cio-Cio San and her abandonment by her dashing American husband, in a revival by Elaine Kidd of the highly successful 2000 production originally directed by David McVicar.

Edinburgh

FREE Cameron Grant Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 6.45pm. See Tue 15.

Glasgow

FREE Musical Interludes Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

3.30–6.30pm. See Sat 26.

Stirling

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Stirling Castle, Old Town, 01786 450000. 8pm. £tbc. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is recognised as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world and tours extensively in Scotland as well as internationally.

Alexandre Bloch conducts this concert which also features young guitar virtuoso Sean Shibe.

Wednesday 30

Glasgow

Scokendia Ensemble Glasgow Green, Greendyke Street, glasgow. gov.uk 1pm. £tbc. See Thu 24.

FRIENDSHIP OPERA

ANAMCHARA

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Fri 25–Sun 27 Jul Scottish Opera makes its mark on the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme with a new opera – Anamchara. The title, meaning ‘soul-friend’, is taken from ancient Celtic tradition, and it’s the inspiration for the work’s ‘Songs of Friendship’, written by Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith with a new score by composer Pippa Murphy. Appropriately for a cultural celebration of the Commonwealth Games, the performances will involve a multicultural cast, with two of the principal roles taken by Scottish Opera emerging artists, and a chorus of 35 voices from Maryhill bringing a direct link with Glasgow’s own diverse local community.

Countries including India, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Botswana (with which McCall Smith has a particular bond) and Scotland are all represented. There are seven songs in the new opera, each symbolising different themes of friendship as experienced through everyone’s lives, from children to teenagers, from young adults to the twilight years. It’s about sharing, drawing on commonality and the reflection that life is better when people are brought together.

‘Anamchara takes us through the journey of what friendship is – what friendship can be, what it means to us,’ says co-director and Scottish Opera emerging artist Lissa Lorenzo. ‘It can be the struggles we sometimes have to keep friendships alive, and the support we get from having people in our lives who we can call friends.’ In recognition of how friendships grow from small beginnings, Scottish Opera’s technical team is creating an onstage garden. In the same way as flowers with colour and beauty start off as tiny seeds, good friendships blossom best through careful nurturing – with thoughtful feeding and watering never going amiss.

‘With friends in our lives, our lives are improved,’ says Lorenzo. ‘We bask in the warmth of having good people around us.’ (Carol Main)

Thursday 31

Glasgow

FREE Musical Interludes Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

3.30–6.30pm. See Sat 26.

Scokendia Ensemble Merchant Square, 71–73 Albion Street, 552 3038.

6.30pm. £tbc. See Thu 24.

Scottish Opera: Madama Butterfly

Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 7.15pm. £11–£73. See Tue 29.

Friday 1

Glasgow

FREE New Music Biennial Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000.

Times vary. Special weekend showcase featuring a broad range of new work, by composers including Matthew Herbert, Mary Ann Kennedy, Dobrinka Tabakova and LAU. FREE Musical Interludes Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

3.30–6.30pm. See Sat 26.

Scokendia Ensemble Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre, Kelvingrove Park. 5pm. £tbc. See Thu 24.

Saturday 2

Glasgow

FREE New Music Biennial Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. Times vary. See Fri 1.

FREE Musical Interludes Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

3.30–6.30pm. See Sat 26.

FREE Matthew Herbert: 20 Pianos Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000.

4.45pm. See feature, page 29.

Mr McFall’s Chamber: On the Shore of the Mind Glasgow Royal

Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7pm. £5–£9. Soprano Susan Hamilton joins the McFall’s strings for this special programme examining

Scotland’s links with the Caribbean.

National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Usher Hall, Lothian Road,

228 1155. 7.30pm. £15 (£10; under 16s £6). A 35th Anniversary Gala Concert: Michael Francis conducts Walton’s Johannesburg Festival Overture, Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony and Sally Beamish’s Trumpet Concerto featuring the great Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) as soloist.

Sunday 3

Glasgow

Scottish Opera: Madama

Butterfly Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. 4pm. £11–£73.

See Tue 29.

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Henry IV Gordon Barr mashes up the two Shakespeare histories (Henry IV Parts 1 & 2) as three actors follow the progress of Hal from playboy prince towards majestic monarch. Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul–Sat 2 Aug. Surge Conflux hit the streets with their annual festival of performance that refuses to stay on the stage. Part of the Merchant City Festival. See preview, page 108. Various venues, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul–Sun 3 Aug.

HOME NATIONS FESTIVAL Liz Lochhead play inspires staging of work from around UK

T

he idea for this mini-festival of plays from around the Home Nations began with Edwin Morgan’s Dreams and Other Nightmares by Liz Lochhead,’ says the Tron’s artistic director, Andy Arnold, with its ‘brilliance’ demanding he show it with the eyes of the Culture 2014 carnival upon it. This soon fed into a desire to surround it with shows from elsewhere on these islands: Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, because Morgan’s own version was one of his earliest works; Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, in this case a large-scale community production to fulfil the sizeable number of roles; and Carol Anne Duffy’s Grimm Tales – Arnold wanted Duffy and sought her out in the form of Wales’ Theatre Iolo’s production of the Tales.

‘What links all these pieces is tremendous theatrical language,’ says Arnold. ‘The spoken word is the basis of theatre performance, and all four pieces are bound by language that resonates with musicality and visual imagery.’ As this is a festival, there will also be a fringe, including a two-day poetry slam judged by Lochhead, Peter Ross and Bram Gieben, evening performance poetry with Lochhead, late-night music in the Tron bar and an open-submission playwriting event on the theme of the Commonwealth Games which has attracted entries from the UK, Canada, America and South Africa.

(David Pollock) Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 17 Jul– Sun 3 Aug

The River Barrowland Ballet remind Glasgow they can combine professional and community dance in this spectacular celebration of the Clyde (pictured, top). Part of Culture 2014. See preview, page 108.

The Briggait, Glasgow, Sun 20–Mon 21 Jul. Moving Bodies Two days of Japanese dance theatre events, including performances from Scotland’s Paul Henry and Ken Mai, who promises a meditation on compassion and erotic desire. CCA, Glasgow, Wed 23–Thu 24 Jul. Please Stay Nostalgic musical featuring the hits of the 1960s, set in Glasgow’s Locarno dance hall. Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul–Sat 2 Aug. Beowulf Seamus Heaney’s translation of the classic adventure brought to the stage. A Norse history, rendered in AngloSaxon tongue and finding its expression in a Gaelic idiom of storytelling. Part of Culture 2014. See preview, left. Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 24 Jul–Sat 2 Aug.

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SURGE

Various locations, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul–Sun 3 Aug The Surge Festival has become an essential part of Glasgow’s cultural calendar – it introduced Scotland to Red Bastard and Cantabile 2 as well as supporting local artists such as Ali Maloney and Alex Rigg – and is an internationally respected carnival of street performance. Curated by Conflux, who are committed to developing powerful Scottish street art, physical theatre and circus scenes, it is expanding from its usual slot in the Merchant City Festival into the Commonwealth Games jamboree.

‘This is the biggest year we have done,’ says director Alan Richardson. From recreations of old children’s games with Scotch Hoppers, and a meditation on Rilke’s beautiful poem of yearning The Panther, to an invasion by Cavemen, 2014 promises to be the most eclectic programnme yet.

The influx of tourists this July did influence the curation. ‘The basis behind it all is non-verbal work,’ says Richardson. ‘It’s more of a practical decision than an aesthetic one – well, an audience decision.’ In line with the desire to ensure that street theatre is accessible, many of the selections bypass the need for an understanding of English language.

Richardson remains committed to finding the most exciting work. ‘Street art is very varied and we are always trying to find where physical theatre meets other things. In the case of Osadia 2, it meets with visual art and hairdressing, while the work from Motionhouse is what you call dance-theatre.’

Ending with a weekend of cabaret – including the first appearance in Glasgow of Edinburgh’s alternative vaudeville Anatomy – Surge collides with the Merchant City Festival’s atmosphere and offers surprises, including the epic Perch which features 200 performers and a link-up with a parallel show in Brazil. Surprising, provocative and fun, Surge is the antidote to dour ideas of performance art. (Gareth K Vile)

MULTI-GENERATIONAL SHOW

THE RIVER

The Briggait, Glasgow, Sun 20 & Mon 21 Jul Never let it be said that Natasha Gilmore is afraid of hard work. In recent years, the choreographer has stepped outside the conventions of dance creation on more than one occasion, but The River could be her biggest challenge yet.

Set along the Clyde, the site-specific show will feature 75 dancers, only eight of whom are professionally trained. The rest, like the 75 singers accompanying them, are drawn from all walks of life. Working with a community cast has served Gilmore well in the past, so for The River, which explores the joys and heartaches of emigration and immigration, it was the perfect choice.

‘A lot of the time, professional dancers are of a certain age and look, but we wanted to show that these stories are everybody’s stories,’ says Gilmore. ‘And by having a cast of people who are able to express that, it brings an honesty to the performance and a richness to the work that you wouldn’t be able to achieve otherwise.’

Starting at the Briggait, the cast will lead audiences along the river, performing as they go. In the interest of authenticity, Gilmore has recruited everyone from schoolchildren to pensioners.

‘We interviewed people about their experiences of emigrating to, or coming from, a Commonwealth country,’ she explains. ‘And embedded in those stories were relationships with their families and the heartbreak of leaving or returning, which translates brilliantly into having an inter-generational cast, to represent the idea of being part of a family.’ (Kelly Apter) SITE-SPECIFIC SHOW

MARC BREW COMPANY: (I)LAND

South Brunswick Street, Glasgow, Thu 24 & Fri 25 Jul When you happen upon a pile of sand in the middle of the street, it usually pertains to a building endeavour. But when the Commonwealth Games are in town, you learn to expect the unexpected – in this case, choreographer Marc Brew and his new dance work, (i)land.

Set on a desert island (six tons of sand in the Merchant City), the work features three characters all looking for an escape route. When they discover a potential way out – a ‘contraption’ they build to take them across the water – a new problem arises when only one of them can fit into it.

‘It creates an interesting tension between the characters,’ says Brew, ‘and their relationships evolve during the piece. Who should go? Who should stay? Or do they all even want to go? I was interested in exploring identity, isolation, independence and the fight for land and ownership.’

As a wheelchair user, Brew has found a myriad of dynamic ways to choreograph his own body – with this new venture opening up even more possibilities. And by performing in the public domain, he’s free to work without the constriction of labels.

‘I absolutely love creating outdoor work for the general public,’ he says, ‘as there are no preconceptions about contemporary dance or disability. Some see the publicity and are enticed to watch the performance, whereas others just stroll by and discover us. But once they arrive, they’re hooked to the end. (i)land is performed in the round, and can be viewed differently from where you are around the island – so some people even come back again.’ (Kelly Apter) 108 THE LIST 10 Jul–21 Aug 2014

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GLASGOW THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000.

FREE Melanie Forbes-Broomes: Buy This! and More Fri 18 Jul, 8pm. A gymnast and dancer inspired by social politics, Melanie Forbes-Broomes presents highlights of her residency at The Arches, plus work-in-progress Buy This!.

News Just In! Tue 22 Jul–Sat 2 Aug, 9pm. £12 (£10). The Tartan Tonight newsroom presents a roundup of all things Commonwealth Games. Keep up with the latest in a tantalising soap opera while getting all the up-to-date Games news and gossip. See preview, page 110.

Endurance Thu 24–Sun 27 Jul, 7pm. £7 (£5). Created and performed by over 20 women living in Glasgow, Endurance imagines and recreates the historical and personal stories of Commonwealth sportswomen from across the world. Part of Culture 2014.

Lucid Interval Fri 1 & Sat 2 Aug, 6pm. £7 (£5). Performance piece inspired by our most private places. Comprised of physical theatre, film and photography.

Part of Surge Festival.

King Fri 1 Aug, 7.45pm. Sun 3 Aug, 6pm. £7 (£5). A one woman love letter to the legendary Freddie Mercury. Claire Willoughby explores trauma through the demise of an impersonator. Ages 18+.

Surge Festival.

Late Anatomy Fish Fry Fri 1 Aug, 10.30pm. £7 (£5). Music hall variety show featuring artists, dancers, musicians and more. Ages 18+. Surge Festival.

This is Faruchio Peru Sat 2 & Sun 3 Aug, 7.45pm. £7 (£5). Faruchio Peru is an enigma wrapped in an ego, surrounded by an unpronounceable name; a selfproclaimed ‘showman’ skilled in the art of delusion. Ages 18+. Part of Surge Festival.

Curio Cabaret Sun 3 Aug, 9.30pm. £7 (£5). An evening of frivolity curated by performer and musician Sita Pieraccini and featuring local artists, bands and performance groups. Ages 18+. Surge Festival.

Robert Softley: Tell Me What Giving Up Looks Like Wed 6–Sat

9 Aug, 7.30pm. £12 (£10). A disabled athlete and a disabled artist tell their stories. See column, right. Culture 2014.

BARLANARK COMMUNITY HALL 33 Burnmouth Rd, Barlanark, 773 1812.

Grimm Tales Fri 25 Jul. See Kids listings.

BELLCRAIG COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTRE 10 Gorstan St, 945 2710.

Grimm Tales Wed 23 Jul. See Kids listings.

THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890.

FREE The River Sun 20 Jul & Mon 21 Jul, 6pm. Site specific dance production with live music. The production journeys from the Briggait, along the banks of the Clyde. See preview, page 108.

BRITANNIA PANOPTICON MUSIC HALL 113–117 Trongate, 553 0840.

FREE Magic Den’s Family Cabaret Thu 24 Jul. See Kids listings.

FREE Music Hall Memories – The Most Vintage Show in Town Sun 27 Jul & Sat 30 Aug, 1.30pm & 3.30pm.

Donations welcome. Music hall variety

TELL ME WHAT GIVING UP LOOKS LIKE Robert Softley has created some of the most exciting work of the past few years – from the deeply personal If These Spasms Could Speak to Random Accomplice / Birds of Paradise’s recent teamup Wendy Hoose. As part of Culture 2014, Softley is asking Tell Me What Giving Up Looks Like.

What inspired the title of this production?

It’s a genuine question – when people describe a disabled person as being ‘inspirational’ they quite often go on to say that they doubt they’d be able to do ‘that’ themselves. But what is the alternative? The only alternative to doing something is not doing it – giving up – but how do you do that?

What encouraged you to get on board with the Commonwealth Games’ Culture 2014 event?

The chance to create more work.

Parts of this show talk about my disinterest in sport, so I certainly wasn’t coming at it from that perspective. However, disabled artists and disabled sportspeople have something in common: they are both seen as inspirational, which felt like a good starting point.

For the people who might catch your work for the first time, how would you describe it?

I create work about the ways I see the world. As someone with a physical disability, everything takes a bit more time. This means I’ve got time just to think about things. The work I make hopefully takes my perspective and makes it relevant to a wider audience.

How do you feel about the arrival of the Games in Glasgow?

Indifferent. The opportunities that come out of the Games – such as Culture 2014 – are great ways to focus the work of artists, but as someone with little interest in sport, I can’t claim to be overly excited about the Games.

Is your work personal or political?

I would probably argue that all theatre and all art has to be personal and political, so if my work can do a bit of both then I’m happy. (Gareth K Vile) The Arches, Glasgow, Wed 6– Sat 9 Aug.

From Fringe First Award winning playwright Peter Arnott and multi award winning director Cora Bissett (roadkill)

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show harking back to the good ol’ days, with music, magic, comedy, sing-a-longs and novelties.

BRUNSWICK STREET FREE (i)Land Thu 24 & Fri 25 Jul. A new outdoor dance piece from choreographer Marc Brew. Three castaways stranded on a dessert island work together to reconstruct a vehicle buried in the sand, only to discover that it won’t carry all of them. See preview, page 108. Culture 2014.

CASTLEMILK COMMUNITY CENTRE 121 Castlemilk Drive, 634 2233.

Grimm Tales Thu 24 Jul. See Kids listings.

CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900.

Moving Bodies: Butoh Dance Festival Wed 23 & Thu 24 Jul,

times and prices vary. Touring festival celebrating the Japanese dance form, also known as the Dance of Darkness.

DRUMCHAPEL COMMUNITY CENTRE Kinfauns Drive, 944 1009.

Grimm Tales Tue 22 Jul. See Kids listings.

EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4956.

FREE The Pokey Hat Wed 16 Jul. See Kids listings.

GILMOREHILL CENTRE 9 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, 330 2892.

FREE Commonwealth Film & Theatre Festival Thu 17–Sun 27 Jul, times vary. This festival aims to honour the cultural diversity of both Glasgow city and the worldwide Commonwealth community. Theatre performances shine a spotlight on Glasgow’s people and places with audio tours of Kelvingrove Park and the Merchant City as well as pieces by Vocal Point and Sarah Bradley.

THE GLAD CAFÉ 1006a Pollokshaws Road, 636 6119.

FREE From Hip to Hop Tue 15 Jul, 6.30pm. A hip-hop dance performance followed by a screening of The African Cypher. Part of Africa in Motion Film Festival.

GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422.

Henry V Wed 16 Jul–Sat 2 Aug (not Sun, Mon), 7.45pm. £17.50 (£10). An outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s masterly exploration of Francophobia.

Pre-show entertainment begins at 7.15pm.

GLASGOW GREEN Greendyke Street, glasgow.gov.uk FREE Children of the Smoke Mon 28 Jul, 7.30pm. A melange of song, poetry, film and dance acts as a celebration of the people of Scotland’s Highlands and Islands. Two years in the making, the show is presented in Gaelic and features commissioned pieces from more than 20 writers.

GORBALS ROSE GARDEN Old Rutherglen Road FREE On Common Ground Fri 25– Thu 31 Jul (not Mon, Tue), 6.30pm. First Nation storytellers from Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve, Canada, perform outdoors with 150 community performers. Culture 2014.

KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648.

The Dreamboys Thu 10 Jul, 7.30pm. £21–£23.50. The ultimate ladies night featuring some of the best looking boys in an all male glamour extravaganza.

Peppa Pig’s Big Splash Sat 12 & Sun 13 Jul, 10am, 1pm & 4pm. £14.40–£33.40. All singing, all dancing

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The Arches, Glasgow, Tue 22 Jul–Sat 2 Aug Random Accomplice is able to turn its hand to more serious matters – recent comedy Wendy Hoose made salient points about disability within the fast-flowing gags – but News Just In is playing to the strengths of cofounders Julie Brown and Johnny McKnight.

‘This is definitely a sex show! Everyone in it is wanting sex,’ laughs McKnight. It is also a huge challenge, with a new play being performed every night for ten nights. ‘It’s longer than The James Plays at the Edinburgh Festival, and they’ve got five months of rehearsal. We’ve got a ten-hour script and four weeks. Plus a song and a dance in each episode.’

With this typically cheeky and iconoclastic response to the Commonwealth Games, Brown and McKnight are building on his reputation for pantomime and the company’s reputation for taking a high concept and giving it a populist slant.

‘Each episode has a loose theme,’ McKnight continues. ‘The introduction is about gearing up for the whole event. There is an episode about disability and one about gay sports – and one where the TV station gets taken hostage by people sick of seeing the Clyde as an arts venue. They want it back for ships!’

Unlike much of the Culture 2014 programme, there is a thankful lack of chat about legacy and showcasing the nation in News Just In. Rather, McKnight sees this ambitious run at the Arches as a sort of summer pantomime, with additional topical humour and ambition – at least for the actors, who will be giving ten consecutive first-night performances.

‘The population of Glasgow is going to double over the Games,’ adds Brown. ‘And we thought that Random Accomplice could grow too. This event is massive!’

While each night’s show will be different, each episode will stand alone, and McKnight promises ‘daft tongue-in-cheek nonsense. It’s fun, disposable, unapologetic, brash comedy.’ (Gareth K Vile)

puppet show with wee Peppa Pig and pals as they enjoy the rain and muddy puddles and try to fix the leaking nursery roof.

Derren Brown: Infamous Mon 14–Sat 19 Jul, 7.30pm. £27.50–£45. The master of mentalism takes his newest show on the road, melding mind games, illusion, showmanship and masses of charm.

Rock Of Ages Mon 4–Sat 9 Aug, 7.30pm (Fri 5pm & 8.30pm only, Sat 2.30pm also). £10–£47. A country girl meets a hard-strumming city rocker in a famous Los Angeles nightclub and they fall deliriously in love to a familiar soundtrack including ‘Don’t Stop

Believin’’ and ‘We Built This City’ in this 1980s-set musical by Chris D’Arienzo.

ÒRAN MÓR 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200.

Maw Goose Thu 10–Sat 26 Jul (not

MANSEWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE 88 Parkneuk Road, 637 0466.

FREE The Pokey Hat Thu 10 Jul. See Kids listings.

Sun), noon & 2pm (Thu, Mon & Tue 1pm only). £3.25–£12.50. Play about a woman’s fight to survive in a world of austerity. Written by Dave Anderson and David MacLennan.

MITCHELL THEATRE 6 Granville Street, 287 2999.

Talking Heads Wed 30 Jul–Sat 2 Aug, 7.30pm (Thu & Sat 2.30pm also). £15.50 (£10.50; children £8.50). Alan Bennett’s seminal 80s television monologues get the Glasgay! treatment.

Jul, 8pm. £12. Three troubled souls find themselves bound by destiny and cursed by love. A fantastical experience.

Directed by Mark Westbrook and presented by BOX Revolution.

The Pitiless Storm Sat 26 Jul,

Sequence: Part II of the Unknown Trilogy by Tom Moriarty Thu 10

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7.30pm. tbc. On the eve of the Scottish referendum a left wing trade unionist goes through a crisis of conscience as he is forced to question his political and moral beliefs in the face of a sea-change in his country’s political life. Starring David Hayman.

PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846.

Please Stay Wed 23 Jul–Sat 2 Aug (not Mon & Tue), 7.30pm (Sat 2pm also). £13–£16. Musical comedy set in the Locarno Dance Hall in Glasgow in the early 60s, starring Chris McClure.

Peter Powers Fridays 8–29 Aug, 7.30pm. Saturdays 9–30 Aug, midnight & 7.30pm. £12.50–£16 (family £7.50 per person Fri only). Hypnotist act from Powers, who has been called ‘the Ali G of stage hypnosis’. Please note the Fri show is a ‘Fun Night Friday’, Sat 7.30pm show is ‘Saucy Saturday’ (safe for teens) and the Sat ‘Midnight Madness’ is over 18s only.

Avenue Q Mon 18–Wed 20 Aug, 7.30pm. £25–£30. A laugh-out-loud musical that tells the story of a recent college graduate who moves into a shabby New York apartment, all the way out on Avenue Q, where he meets colourful types who help him finally discover his true purpose in life.

PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696.

Project Y 2014 Thu 31 Jul, 7.30pm. £6.50 (£5.50). New programme of dance work with an international feel, now in its 9th year. Featuring pieces created by Anna Kenrick, Colin Connor and Lina Limosani.

POLLOK COUNTRY PARK Pollokshaws Road, 276 0924.

The Spokesman Tue 15–Sat 19 Jul. See Kids listings.

QUEENS PARK ARENA Queens Park, qppp.org.uk FREE The Pokey Hat Tue 22 Jul. See Kids listings.

ROTTENROW GARDENS Rottenrow Perch Carnival Sat 19 & Sun 20 Jul, 9pm. £8–£9 (£6–£7; family £22–£26).

A collaborative performance between Scotland, Brazil and Australia, Perch celebrates dreams of flying and falling with a spectacular outdoor performance featuring a specially commissioned score

by Stephen Deazley played live by the NYOS Senior Orchestra and additional sound design by Owen Green. See Big Pic, page 11. Part of Surge.

THE SSE HYDRO Exhibition Way, 248 3000.

Ant & Dec’s Takeaway On Tour!

Tue 19 Aug, 6.30pm. £25. Ant and Dec take their Saturday night extravaganza on tour – expect the usual glut of guests, prizes and audience participation.

THE STAND 333 Woodlands Road, 0844 335 8879.

Variety Club Wed 23 Jul, 8.30pm. £10 (£8). Forget your Britain’s Got Talents and The Voice – this is entertainment like they did it back in the good old days.

THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647.

Last of the Duty Free Thu 10–Sat 12 Jul, 2.30pm & 7.30pm (Fri 7.30pm only). £10–£29.50. Keith Barron, Gwen Taylor and Neil Stacy are reunited to play out another instalment in the TV series.

Murder on Air Thu 10–Sat 12 Jul, 2.30pm & 7.30pm (Fri 7.30pm only). £10–£29.50. Three radio thrillers performed in a studio setting with sound effects.

Singin’ in the Rain Tue 12–Sat 23 Aug (not Sun), 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm also). £10–£49.50. Jonathan Church’s production of the all-singing, all-dancing 1940s romp.

TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501.

Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival Thu 10–Sat 12 Jul, 7.30pm. £8

(£6). This festival is a huge celebration of youth dance from across the world, featuring performances from 36 groups and 400 individuals.

Jumping into the Unknown Sat 12 Jul, 5.30pm. £4 (£2). A selection of new dance works created by young choreographers involved in the Hothouse Choreographic Residency Project. Part of Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival.

Yellow Valley Wed 23 Jul–Sat 2 Aug. See Kids listings.

FREE Clare Stephenson and Sophie Macpherson Fri 8 Aug, 8.30pm. Clare Stephenson and Sophie Macpherson explore our relationship with clothes in this combination of performance and visual art. Part of Generation.

TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267.

Under Milk Wood Thu 17–Sun 20 Jul, 7.45pm (Sat & Sun 2.30pm also). £12 (£8). Dylan Thomas’ masterpiece of language about the dreams of the fictional inhabitants of Llareggub is brought to life in a raucous new staging with live folk music. See preview, page 107. Culture 2014.

Edwin Morgan’s Dreams and Other Nightmares Thu 24–Sat 2

Aug, 7.45pm (Sat & Sun 2.30pm also). £12 (£8). A frail, 87-year-old Morgan recounts a series of disturbing dreams and nightmares to his young biographer.

Written by Liz Lochhead. See preview, page 107. Culture 2014.

Beowulf Thu 24–Sat 2 Aug, 8pm (Sat & Sun 2.45pm also). £12 (£8).

Seamus Heaney’s translation of the epic poem Beowulf, which tells the story of a young warrior battling with powerful monsters. See preview, page 107. Culture 2014.

Newsboy Fri 25 Jul, 9.15pm. £5. A living newspaper aiming to examine our ideas and feelings about the world around us. Created and produced by Matthew Knights and Rosanna Hall with written contributions, and performed by a professional cast with script in hand.

‘Commonwealth’ Edition. Culture 2014.

Grimm Tales Sun 27 Jul & Tue 29 Jul–Fri 1 Aug. See preview, page 107.

See Kids listings.

The Lamplighter Sun 27 Jul, 5pm. £7. Rehearsed reading of Jackie Kay’s journey into the dark heart of slavery.

Followed by a Q&A. Culture 2014.

New Playwriting: Responses to Commonwealth Thu 31 Jul,

9.15pm. £5. Rehearsed readings of new work in response to the history of the Commonwealth Games. Culture 2014.

VARIOUS VENUES Surge Wed 23 Jul–Sun 3 Aug, times and prices vary. A festival dedicated to physical performance, incorporating outdoor, site-specific events for all ages and indoor showcases of performance art. In collaboration with Merchant City Festival and Roofless. See preview, page 108.

The Tin Forest Mon 21 Jul–Sun 3 Aug, times and prices vary. A celebration of Glasgow’s industrial past and creative future inspired by the book by Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson. Featuring site-specific community performances led

by Graham McLaren and Simon Sharkey.

See feature, page 24.

VICTORIA PARK Victoria Park Drive, Whiteinch FREE The Pokey Hat Mon 21 Jul. See Kids listings.

WILD CABARET & WICKED LOUNGE 18 Candleriggs, 552 6165.

FREE The Big Show Fridays 11 Jul–29 Aug & Saturdays 12 Jul–Sat 30 Aug, 8pm. Tuesdays 15 Jul–26 Aug, 8.30pm. Evening of cabaret.

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EDINBURGH DANCE BASE 14–16 Grassmarket, 225 5525.

FREE Exploring African Culture Through Dance Sun 13 Jul, 6pm.

Dance performance and film. Africa in Motion Film Festival.

GROSVENOR MAYBURY CASINO 5 South Maybury Road, 338 4444.

1920s New York Murder Mystery Night Sat 19 Jul, 7pm. £25. Figure out

who’s to blame at this 1920s-themed murder mystery night, plus three-course meal.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Grindlay Street, 248 4848.

Oh What a Lovely War Fri 18 & Sat 19 Jul, 7.30pm. £8 (£5; members £3).

Poignant anti-war musical, set during WWI. Presented by young actors from the Lyceum Youth Theatre.

SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579.

Divergent Voices of the First World War Sat 19 Jul, 7pm. £7 (£5).

The poetry, memoirs, letters, journals and prison papers of WWI set to a backdrop of images. From director and playwright Gerda Stevenson and Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail.

OUTSIDE THE CITIES ALHAMBRA THEATRE 35 Canmore Street, Dunfermline, 01383 740384.

Peppa Pig’s Big Splash Wed 16 Jul, 1pm & 4pm. Thu 17 Jul, 10am & 1pm. £13.50–£15.50 (children £11.50–£13.50).

See King’s Theatre, Glasgow.

BATTERY PARK Eldon Street, Greenock

The Pokey Hat Mon 14 Jul. See Kids

listings.

BEHIND THE WALL 14 Melville Street, Falkirk, 01324 633338.

Comedy Cabaret Speakeasy Sat 19

Jul, 8pm. £10 (£9). A mixture of comedy, burlesque, magic and more. Part of Funny in Falkirk.

The Thinking Drinkers Guide To

The Legends Of Liquor Mon 28 Jul, 7.30pm. £10 (£9). The Thinking Drinkers explore the liquid lives of history’s most extraordinary elbow-benders. Funny in Falkirk.

BOWHILL THEATRE Bowhill House Bowhill, Selkirk, 01750 22204.

Macbeth Sat 19 Jul, 6pm. £11 (children £9). The all-male Handlebards present the Scottish Play.

DUNDEE REP Tay Square, Dundee, 01382 223530.

In My Father’s Words Thu 10–Sat 12 Jul, 7.30pm (Thu 2.30pm also). £tbc.

A beautiful play about identity – national and personal – and language, and the utter indivisibility between the two.

DUNOLLIE CASTLE Dunollie House, Oban, 01631 570550.

The Pokey Hat Wed 30 Jul. See Kids listings.

EAST KILBRIDE ARTS CENTRE Old Coach Road, East Kilbride, 01355 261000.

Wilde Without The Boy Sun 13 Jul, 1pm. £10. A solo theatrical presentation of De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s bitterly reproachful and, at times, exquisitely beautiful letter written from his prison cell in Reading gaol to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Ticket includes lunch.

Kids’ Sunday Magic Show Sun 27

TALKING HEADS Director Liz Carruthers brings back four of Alan Bennett’s sardonic and witty monologues. From the simplest of theatrical conventions – the actor and a story – Bennett evokes tiny worlds of unspoken hopes and existential doubt. ‘They are all very different in tone and content, but the themes of the plays are so universal,’ Carruthers says. ‘Loneliness, isolation, a need to connect with others: we all experience them at some point in our lives.’

Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 30 Jul–Sat 2 Aug.

Jul, 1pm. £5. The magnificent Douglas Cameron performs a funny but baffling magic show. Watch out – he’ll be looking for someone to turn (briefly) into a rabbit! Ages 3+.

EAST KILBRIDE VILLAGE THEATRE Maxwell Drive, East Kilbride, 01355 248669.

I Will Survive Sat 12 Jul, 7.30pm. £12.

New musical comedy about love and laughter, featuring songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

HOPETOUN HOUSE Shore Road, South Queensferry, hopetoun.co.uk Wuthering Heights Sun 13 Jul, 7pm. £14 (£10; family £42). Laura Turner’s adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel.

REGAL COMMUNITY THEATRE 24–34 North Bridge Street, Bathgate, 01506 630085.

The Grumpy Magicians Go Christmas Shopping Fri 18 Jul,

7.30pm. £6. Nothing makes Paul Novak and Johnny B Good as grumpy as having to wear sparkly waistcoats and pull rabbits from hats.

ROTHES HALLS Kingdom Centre, Glenrothes, 01592 611101.

Rhythm of the Dance with the Young Irish Tenors Thu 10 Jul,

7.30pm. £20 (£18; family £67). Irish dance at its most thrilling, with beautiful costumes, experienced dancers and high production values.

SABAI PAVILION Baxter Park, Dundee

The Lady Boys of Bangkok: Red Hot Kisses Thu 10–Sat 12 Jul, times

INVERARAY CASTLE Inveraray, Argyll, 01499 302203.

The Spokesmen Thu 10 & Fri 11 Jul. See Kids listings.

tbc. £12. The latest sizzling and seductive production from the Lady Boys of Bangkok.

PERTH CONCERT HALL Mill Street, Perth, 01738 621031.

Peppa Pig’s Big Splash Thu 10 Jul, 10am & 1pm. £15.50 (£13.50). See King’s Theatre, Glasgow.

SMITH ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Dumbarton Road, Stirling, 01786 471917.

Keep Smiling Through Thu 31 Jul,

7.30pm. £15. A funny and moving look at life on the Home Front during WWII, based on actual diaries from the time.

TOWER MILL Heart of Hawick, Kirkstile, Hawick, 01450 360688.

The Carousel Sat 26 Jul, 7.30pm. £10. A poignant one woman play about a woman who calls upon her dead grandmother’s spirit as she sits her at dying mother’s bedside.

TOWN CENTRE Kilmarnock, 01563 578153.

FREE The Pokey Hat Fri 11 Jul. See Kids listings.

THE TOWN HOUSE 102 Cadzow Street, Hamilton, 01698 452299.

The Pokey Hat Sat 12 Jul. See Kids listings.

THE WEBSTER THEATRE 64 High Street, Arbroath, 01241 435800.

International Dance Night Mon 28 Jul, 7.30pm. £6. A showcase of dancing talent from across the globe featuring a mix of contemporary, classical and traditional dance from Japan, China, Ukraine & Jordan. Part of Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

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Scotland + Venice, Hayley Tompkins See review, left. The Common Guild, Glasgow, until Sat 2 Aug. Cabbages in an Orchard; The Formers and Forms of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Graham Fagen The culmination of a research project by GSA alumni Graham Fagen in the GSA’s Archives and Collections Centre. See review, page 116.

Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Building, until Fri 29 Aug. Alex Frost: The Patrons Frost has created a copy of Kibble Palace, the impressive glasshouse built by Victorian merchant John Kibble, part of a series of temporary structures made by the artist linked to cultural patronage and the distinction between Victorian and contemporary support for the arts.

Cove Park, Argyll & Bute, until Fri 26 Sep.

HAYLEY TOMPKINS Playful painted objects transform our ideas of ordinary items

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t’s the brightest and airiest of environments that have housed Hayley Tompkins’ floorbased bird’s-eye picture-postcard views of holy-hued rainbows, high-rise cityscapes, earth-bound stone formations, tranquil blue seas and fog-bound multi-lane traffic surges thus far. Originally seen as part of Scotland’s contribution to Venice 2013 and now forming part of the nationwide GENERATION programme, these off-thepeg images contained in plastic trays on the floor play with the full light-and-shade spectrum of the Common Guild’s highwindowed townhouse interior they’ve been reconfigured for, alongside an empty chair to take in the view. The painted stick on the wall, half-consumed bottles of coloured liquid, fake steaks, baguettes and a plastic salad sandwich in the hall suggest the leftover souvenirs of an off-piste picnic in some

man-made, make-believe utopia.

Upstairs, newer works, on the wall this time, take a trippier approach, with the lookingglass light-show swirls and poached-egg shapes that occupy the plastic trays giving them the feel of petri dish experiments in search of the most refreshing facsimile of authenticity they can muster. Where these swirls might ooze, pulse and spit with life, here they’ve been captured at their most vivid and preserved in what, like any still life, is an approximated palette of living colour. The close-up of a crush of oranges in the hallway isn’t the only thing that looks good enough to eat. Outside, meanwhile, seen on the clearest of days, a false sun never dims. (Neil Cooper) The Common Guild, Glasgow until Sat 2 Aug.

King’s Peace: Realism and War Group exhibition questioning the meaning of ‘peace’ in modern societies.

See preview, page 114.

Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug–Sun 26 Oct. Luke Fowler: The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott The Scottish debut of Fowler’s acclaimed 61 minute film, which documents the work of left-wing intellectuals in post-war Yorkshire. See review, page 114. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 2 Nov. Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland Landmark art works from the past 25 years from 30 of Scotland’s most outstanding contemporary artists. See review, page 118. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until 25 Jan 2015.

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LUKE FOWLER: THE POOR STOCKINGER, THE LUDDITE CROPPER AND THE DELUDED FOLLOWERS OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh until Sun 2 Nov

Luke Fowler’s ongoing fascination with icons of radical thought has extended from film works on punk band The Homosexuals and composer Cornelius Cardew to his Turner-nominated dissection of anti-psychiatrist RD Laing. Each of these features cut-and-pasted soundand-vision collages of archive footage and newly filmed work to create a set of suitably world-turned-upsidedown narratives. Like them, this 2012 study of Marxist historian and CND activist EP Thompson’s involvement with the Workers’ Educational Association is both an impressionistic portrait of its subject and a timely reminder of a vital figure all but airbrushed out of official history.

For this 61 minute piece, originally commissioned by the Hepworth, Wakefield, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Film and Video Umbrella, and now shown in Scotland for the first time as part of GENERATION, Fowler slows things down to play with form even more. As Ceryth Wyn Evans intones Thompson’s grimly poetic litanies over images of red brick Yorkshire towns that move between the black-and-white bustle of the past and the barren back-streets and To Let signs of today, the film becomes both oral history project and living newspaper, complete with Brechtian captions and reflections of Fowler in assorted windows. As a conduit for working class autodidacts, the WEA has vital umbilical links with the free university movement and today’s autonomous zones. The Great Learning goes on.

(Neil Cooper)

PREVIEW PHOTOGRAPHY

PREVIEW INSTALLATION

REVIEW SCULPTURE

Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Aug–Sun 26 Oct

CCA, Intermedia Gallery, Fri 25 Jul–Fri 8 Aug

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, until Sun 5 Oct

THE KING’S PEACE: REALISM & WAR

‘Apart from the referendum, war is the big theme of 2014,’ says Kirsten Lloyd, curator of this group show at Stills. ‘We wanted to stand this theme on its head to instead explore the idea of peace. Our starting point was to make an exhibition about realist strategies, power relations, warmongering and the meaning of peace.’ The exhibition focuses on Owen Logan’s ‘Masquerade: Michael Jackson Alive in Nigeria (2001–2005)’, a fictional travelogue in which the late star’s changing appearance is used to, says Logan, ‘satirise Nigerian identity politics, a nation of over 250 different ethnic groups strategically stitched together by the British Empire for the benefit of imperial trade.’

Around this central work, other artists will contribute pieces within these themes. ‘One of the contributing artists Fred Lonidier said, “What I always told my students about war photography is that the last place to go is the battlefield,”’ says Lloyd. ‘So where do you go? In this exhibition the contexts range from living rooms and rural villages to Tahrir Square and Wester Hailes. By placing them all cheek by jowl we want to create a space that provokes questions about the role of photography today.’ (David Pollock)

JOEY VILLEMONT: STUDIES FOR A COLLECTION Artist Joey Villemont has a lifelong enthusiasm for the history and techniques of fashion, from catwalk shows and drawings to online presentation and high-street retail. Since making his own clothes from the age of 14, he has continued to use this knowledge of fashion in his art practice, producing exhibitions that place garments within specifically designed installations alongside an array of media such as film and sculpture.

With Studies for a Collection, Villemont continues to explore the possibilities that arise from the coming together of visual art and fashion. Recontextualising modes of sensual display specifically designed to attract customers, this upcoming Intermedia exhibition presents new garments as sculptural objects. In finding inspiration in archival fashion exhibitions, Villemont points out: ‘It’s always a question of speaking the same language in the pieces and in the display. I am interested in a system of hybridisation: in the way an idea, a piece or a pattern can evolve from a logo or monogram – a system reminiscent of the creative industry’s use of brands, disseminating their identity through a multitude of shapes and products.’

(Dane Sutherland)

SARA BARKER: FOR MYSELF AND STRANGERS

One of the strengths of GENERATION (the Scotland-wide visual art event currently taking place) is that it showcases not only the work of wellknown Scottish contemporary artists but also of those who have quietly built up careers here without become well-known names. The opportunity for Sara Barker to present a major body of work at GoMA is one such welcome result.

Barker is a sculptor whose work sits somewhere between sculpture, painting and drawing. She uses fine metal to draw lines in space, creating delicate three-dimensional structures that seem to perch or hang from walls.

Within the space at GoMA, she has created walls that support her sculptures, defining new spaces for the pieces to inhabit. In what may be a new direction, several of the works suggest human presence. The interweaving lines in ‘In semidarkness she reclines and pretends to read’ could be a reclining woman; ‘Cross sectioned feelings’ may evoke a figure leaning against a wall. Their quiet suggestiveness invites a greater sense of engagement with the viewer.

(Susan Mansfield)

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Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 16 days before publication by using our ‘Add an Event’ service at list.co.uk Listings compiled by Alex Johnston. All exhibitions free unless otherwise stated.

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GLASGOW 30 ST VINCENT PLACE 07967 804257 NEW Gerard M Burn: 14 for 14 Fri 25 Jul–8 Aug. Daily 9am–6pm. Portrait exhibition that doubles as a charity fundraiser.

THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Opening times vary; see individual events for details.

LAST CHANCE Lou Prendergast: Untouchable Until Thu 31 Jul. Daily (not Sun) 11am–midnight. Works created in response to the Indian art project Eyecaste: The Vision to See Past Caste.

BURRELL COLLECTION 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550.

Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm.

Bellini to Boudin Until Sat 21 Mar 2015. Gems from the Burrell’s fine art collection, including works by Degas, Cezanne and Whistler.

CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900.

Galleries open Tue–Sat 11am–6pm, Sun noon–6pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Rachel Maclean: Happy&Glorious Until Sun 13 Jul. New video work exploring themes thrown up by the Commonwealth Games.

NEW Joey Villemont: Studies for a Collection Fri 25 Jul–8 Aug. Installation exploring connections between fashion showrooms and exhibition spaces. See preview, page 114.

NEW Tony Cruz, Remy Jungerman and Adele Todd: Spirit Levels Sat 26 Jul–Sun 7 Sep. The three artists pay homage to line and form in mixed-media abstract work.

THE COMMON GUILD 21 Woodlands Terrace, 428 3022. Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat noon–5pm; Thu noon–7pm; closed Sun & Mon. LAST CHANCE Hayley Until Sat 2 Aug. Tompkins Tompkins’ painted objects reconfigure relationships to commonplace items. See review, page 113. Part of Generation.

NEW Corin Sworn Sat 9 Aug–Sat 13 Sep. Installations exploring notions of storytelling and history. Generation.

COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon– Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5pm; closed Sun. NEW New Generation Artists Thu 17–Thu 31 Jul. Work by this year’s graduates from the four Scottish art schools.

CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 178 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon– Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5pm; closed Sun. LAST CHANCE The First of the Until Thu 31 Summer Wine Jul. Annual summer exhibition, featuring Joan Eardley, the Scottish Colourists, Bloomsbury Group and more.

GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon– Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm.

Sara Barker: For Myself & Until Sun 5 Oct. Strangers

Sculpture from the Glasgow-based artist.

See review, page 114. Generation.

MICHELLE HANNAH Michelle Hannah is a Glasgowbased performance artist and one half of the band Picana Electrica. She was recently commissioned to produce the new work ‘Statue’ by the Talbot Rice Gallery as part of ‘Counterpoint’ at the Edinburgh Art Festival.

What’s the current direction of your work?

I like that I am somewhere between art and music now.

Instead of defining it as one or the other, it’s both, which makes it far more new and interesting for me and an audience. The main focus at the moment is to refine my sound and produce work that will be an androgynous Ballardian palette of identity through sound and vision. No pressure.

What are you doing for Counterpoint?

It all revolves around a new appropriated song called ‘Statue’ which I’ve recorded with the brilliant Craig Mulholland, who’s also in the show. It will have an accompanying video and photographs filmed in the Playfair Library. This will be installed with 3D scans and a black mirror etched with the words of the Enochian language. I’ll be performing too. I have a new Gareth Pugh dress, black eyes, a laser and lots of Swarovski crystals. So it’s like a cross between a digital Marlene Dietrich, JG Ballard’s Vermilion Sands, Last Year at Marienbad and a dystopian Eurthymics music video.

Plans for future work?

Apart from being a Lidl version of Tilda Swinton. I’m recording my own sounds and as Picana Electrica (the ‘band’ I am in with Craig Mulholland) – we are producing two EPs to be released by the end of the year and will be performing at DCA in July. I’m also curating more NITEFLIGHTS events, which changes its format in different contexts, encompassing film, performance, art and music. (Kirsty Neale)

Meet the people benefiting from the lasting environmental legacy of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Free exhibition daily until 24 October 2014 The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU

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VISUAL ART Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work From About 1992 Until Now Until Sun

28 Sep. Encyclopaedic retrospective of one of Scotland’s most celebrated contemporary video artists. Generation.

Moyna Flannigan: Stare Until Sun 2 Nov. Images of fictional characters, drawing inspiration from the story of Adam and Eve. Generation.

Nathan Coley: The Lamp of Sacrifice Until Sun 1 Mar 2015. Scale

models in cardboard of every place of worship listed in the 2004 Edinburgh telephone directory. Generation.

GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Gallery open Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Michael Fullerton: Meaning, Inc Until Sun 17 Aug. Portraits of people chosen for their relationship to media, technology and justice. Generation.

NEW Getting Creative with Combat Stress Sat 2 Aug–Sun 16 Nov. Work of ex-service men and women who create art as therapy.

LEIPER FINE ART 117 West George Street, 204 2372.

Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details.

Early Summer Show Until Sun 13 Jul. Thu & Fri 10am–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–5pm. Original artwork and prints from Sue Biazotti, Frank Boyle, Fraser Crawford, Annette Edgar and more.

THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5365. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm.

LAST CHANCE Handmade

by Machines Until Sun 13 Jul. Contemporary jewellery made by students and staff of Scottish jewellery

colleges, using digital technology.

NEW Rosie Cunningham: The Glasgow Alphabet Map Fri 18 Jul–Sun 24 Aug. Illustrated alphabet of Glasgow’s iconic buildings.

LILLIE ART GALLERY Station Road, Milngavie, 956 5536.

Tue–Sat 10am–1pm & 2–5pm; closed Mon & Sun. NEW Lys Hansen: Love & War & Paint Sat 12 Jul–Wed 24 Sep. Work from the 80s to the present day.

MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue– Sat noon–6pm; closed Mon & Sun. LAST CHANCE Inside Arrangement Until Sat 2 Aug. New work by John Finneran, Jonathan Gardner, John McAllister, Gerda Scheepers and Sam Windett.

PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; closed Mon & Sun.

Cameron Morgan: Cameron’s Way – Coast to Coast Until Sat

THE HIDDEN GARDENS Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Sat 10am–8pm; Sun noon–6pm.

23 Aug. Giant wall painting in the gallery space.

QUEEN’S PARK 520 Langside Road FREE Phil Collins: Tomorrow Is Always Too Long Sat 19 Jul, 9pm.

The award-winning artist reveals his latest film project, comprising private photographs and personal stories of Glaswegians. See preview, page 117.

Part of Festival 2014.

Mick Peter: Almost Cut My Hair

Until Sun 5 Oct. Sculptures based on manipulated drawings. Generation.

HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Opening times vary; please call to check.

Kenny Hunter: Kontrapunkt Until Thu 4 Sep. New and existing sculpture, exhibited alongside its packing crates.

Generation.

Treasures: Dutch and Flemish Paintings on Copper Until Sun 14

Jun. Works dating back to the 1600s that eschew canvas or board in favour of thin sheets of copper.

NEW Looking at World War I Opens Sat 12 Jul. Paintings and sculpture from the collection.

Beagles and Ramsay: Ventriloquist Dummies Double Self-portrait Until Mon 29 Sep.

and watercolours from the WWI artist.

curated by American writer and curator Quinn Latimer considering craft and appropriation. Generation.

KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm.

LAST CHANCE Jewel-like

PEOPLE’S PALACE & WINTER GARDENS Glasgow Green, 276 0788. Tue– Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm; closed Mon.

Fred A Farrell – Glasgow’s War Artist Until Sun 23 Nov. Sketches

Mood Is Made / Temperature Is Taken Until Sat 6 Sep. Exhibition

JOHN GREEN FINE ART 182 Bath Street, 333 1991. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–1pm; closed Mon & Sun. NEW Sam Cartman and Patricia Cain: Scotia Wed 16 Jul–6 Aug. New landscape paintings.

THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711.

Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm; closed Sun. Scott Myles: Mummies Until Sat 30 Aug. Work by Dundonian artist concerned with public spaces and memory. Generation.

Installation involving ventriloquist dummy versions of Beagles and Ramsay themselves.

GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS The Whisky Bond, Dawson Street, 353 3708. Wed–Sat 11am–5pm; closed Sun–Tue.

HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 4221. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm; closed Mon. Lucy Skaer Until Sun 4 Jan. Film, drawing and sculpture drawing on the influence of maverick English surrealist Leonora Carrington.

NEW Mackintosh Travel Sketches Fri 18 Jul–Sun 15 Feb. ‘Bits’ and ‘jottings’ from Mackintosh’s travels around Scotland, England and further afield.

NEW William Davidson: Art Collector Fri 18 Jul–Sun 4 Jan. The collection of Davidson, one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most important patrons.

NEW Mackintosh Architecture Fri 18 Jul–Sun 4 Jan. £5 (£3). Over 80 rare architectural drawings, archival material, films and models exploring the work of Glasgow’s famous son.

THE MODERN INSTITUTE @ AIRD’S LANE 3–5 Aird’s Lane, 248 3711. Thu–Sat noon–5pm; closed Mon–Wed & Sun. Richard Wright Until Sat 30 Aug. Site-specific paintings, drawings and prints. Generation.

REID BUILDING Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details.

Graham Fagen: Cabbages Until in an Orchard

SCULPTURE / DRAWING

Fri 29 Aug. Mon–Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. See review, left.

Generation.

Glasgow School of Art, Reid Gallery, until Fri 29 Aug

SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Faces of Scotland Until Fri 15 Aug. The 15th Annual Summer Exhibition celebrates the Commonwealth Games.

CABBAGES IN AN ORCHARD; THE FORMERS AND FORMS OF CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH AND GRAHAM FAGEN Graham Fagen says he fell out with Mackintosh at the Glasgow School of Art. However, when invited back more than 20 years later to spend time in the Mackintosh archive, he discovered he had more in common with the man than he expected. The body of work that he has produced in response is shown now as part of GENERATION, hastily relocated from the fire-hit Mackintosh building to the new Reid Building across the street.

Fagen has long been interested in the factors that form us, as human beings and as artists, and he was quickly drawn to Mackintosh’s early work, watercolours produced for a one-off student publication, The Magazine, where he was working out his ideas by drawing on the symbolist tradition.

Trees and plants were important symbols for Mackintosh, as they have been for Fagen, and Fagen has responded to the paintings by making two tree sculptures: a bronze cast of a fir tree left out to ‘weather’ for a year (‘Scheme for Nature’), which manages to look both fragile and monumental, and the more stylised ‘Scheme for Conscience’, a diagrammatic tree that implies the working-out of ideas.

But perhaps the most immediately striking body of work here is ‘Scheme for Consciousness’, more than 60 drawings in Indian ink that cover the walls of the gallery. Thinking about the uniqueness of our teeth provided Fagen with a way of creating a portrait from the inside, drawing his teeth according to their feel on his tongue, and adding colours to map out the rest of the head.

They sit alongside three sculptures that are casts of his teeth and clenched hands, mounted on concrete architectural frames. They are tense, confrontational, like portraits turned inside out – fresh, distinctive work that shows that contemplating Mackintosh can take an artist in all manner of new directions. (Susan Mansfield)

STREET LEVEL PHOTOWORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon. LAST CHANCE Wendy McMurdo: Digital Play Until Sun 17 Aug. Work using photography and digital media. Generation.

TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Exhibitions open: Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm; closed Mon. Cathy Wilkes Until Sun 5 Oct. Work by Belfast-born installation artist who often draws upon her personal history. Generation.

LAST CHANCE Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan Until Sun 27 Jul. The duo revisit their 2001 work Heroin Kills. Generation.

NEW Charlie Hammond, Iain Hetherington and Alex Pollard

Sat 9 Aug–Sun 14 Sep. The three Glasgow-based artists examine the role of painting in post-Internet society. Generation.

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BOURNE FINE ART 6 Dundas Street, 557 4050. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 11am–2pm; closed Sun. LAST CHANCE Anne Redpath: 10 Pictures Until Mon 28 Jul. Images by the late member of the Edinburgh School.

Galloway Paintings Until Sun 24 Aug. A joint exhibition of Galloway Paintings held by the Blamire Family and Bourne Fine Art. THE DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE 3 Doune Terrace, 225 7189. Mon–Thu 10am–4pm; Fri 10am–3pm (gallery closed on Fridays).

LAST CHANCE Tableau Noir Until Thu 24 Jul. Textile exhibition of Harris Tweed.

EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS 23 Union Street, 557 2479. 1 Sep–31 Jul: Tue–Sat 10am–6pm; closed Sun & Mon. 1–31 Aug: Tue–Sun 10am–6pm; closed Sun & Mon. LAST CHANCE Louise Hopkins

and Carol Rhodes: Drawings, Paintings and Prints Until Sat 19 Jul.

Response by the two artists to the Below Another Sky a residency programme.

EDS GALLERY 13A Great King Street, 556 0971.

Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details.

LAST CHANCE Yulia Kovanova: Love You to Death Until Sat 19 Jul. Tue–Sat 11am–6pm. The Edinburgh artist explores the connections between humans and the surrounding environment.

27 Sep. Work from Craigie Aitchison’s estate presented in association with Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.

GALLERY TEN 10 Stafford Street, galleryten.co.uk Tue– Sat 10.30am–5.30pm; closed Mon & Sun. LAST CHANCE West Until Sat 26 Jul. Work by artists such as David Faithfull, Norman McBeath, Gill Tyson, Val Menon, Anna King, Graham Muir and Shirley Smith.

NEW Rewire – Art x Audio Mon 11–Sat 16 Aug. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm.

A group of abstract urban artists have created works which are now being interpreted sonically by experimental electronic musicians.

THE EDINBURGH GALLERY 20a Dundas Street, 557 5002. Mon–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 10am–1pm; closed Sun. LAST CHANCE Spring Exhibition Until Sat 19 Jul. Paintings by gallery artists including Luisa Ramazzotti MFA and George Grant.

LAST CHANCE July Exhibition Until Mon 21 Jul. Work by Luisa Ramazzotti MFA and George Grant.

NEW Joan Gillespie Sat 26 Jul–Sat 16 Aug. Watercolours from the gallery artist.

OPEN EYE GALLERY 34 Abercromby Place, 557 1020. Mon– Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm; closed Sun. LAST CHANCE David Evans RSA RSW ARCA Until Wed 16 Jul. Hyperrealist paintings of interiors, still lifes and street scenes.

LAST CHANCE Gordon Mitchell RSA RSW RGI Until Wed 16 Jul. Surrealism-tinged paintings from the Scottish artist.

DOVECOT STUDIOS 10 Infirmary Street, 550 3660. Mon– Sat 10.30am–5.30pm; closed Sun, but individual exhibitions may vary.

LAST CHANCE Barnaby Barford Until Sat 19 Jul. Traditional-looking sculptural figurines in ceramics engaged in distinctively modern activities.

Craigie Aitchison: Paintings, Etchings and Tapestries Until Sat

COURTESY SHADY LANE PRODUCTIONS AND THE COMMON GUILD. PHOTO: MICHAEL MCDONOUGH

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PHIL COLLINS: TOMORROW IS ALWAYS TOO LONG Artist Phil Collins spent the past year living in Glasgow, visiting the city’s institutions and persuading the locals there to sing, dance and make predictions while filming them for his latest work. These chance encounters are framed by a series of scripted vignettes written by Ewan Morrison and acted out by a cast of Glaswegians in an old 1960s TV studio. What promises to be an eclectic document of the city will be revealed in an eagerly anticipated, one-off screening in Queen’s Park.

Old Rose Garden, Queen’s Park, Glasgow, Sat 19 Jul.

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PALACE OF HOLYROODHOUSE Royal Mile, 556 5100. Apr–Oct: daily 9.30am–6pm; Nov–Mar: daily 9.30am–4.30pm.

The Commonwealth: Gifts to the Queen Until Fri 31 Oct. Price included

in admission. A new display of some of the gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her many voyages around the world.

THE QUEEN’S GALLERY Palace of Holyroodhouse, 556 5100.

Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details.

LAST CHANCE In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion

Until Sun 20 Jul. Daily: 9.30am–6pm.

Price included in admission. Exhibition looking at the ways in which fashion conveyed important information about status in the 16th and 17th centuries.

ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY The Mound, 225 6671. Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. NB certain exhibitions are open Mon 10am–5pm only.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART 75 Belford Road, 624 6200. Daily 10am–5pm.

Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland

Until Sat 25 Jan. See review, right. Generation.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 1 Queen Street, 624 6200. Mon–Wed & Fri–Sun 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–7pm.

Citizens of the World: David Hume & Allan Ramsay Until Thu 31

Dec. A look at the relationship between Hume and Ramsay and the circles that surrounded them.

Luke Fowler: The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott

Until Sun 2 Nov. See review, page 114. Generation.

Imagining Power: The Visual Culture of the Jacobite Cause

Until Thu 31 Dec. Exploring the way the Jacobites presented themselves in portraiture.

Making History Until Sun 28 Sep. A look at the work of Sandy Stoddart, Sculptor in Ordinary to the Queen.

Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport Until Wed 31

Dec. Examining the way sport was transformed by wider social and infrastructural changes between the 19th and 20th centuries.

Reformation to Revolution Until Dec 2016. Covering the transformation of Scotland from an independent nation to a part of the Union.

The Age of Improvement Until Dec 2015. Portraits from the century of Scotland’s great transformation, 1750–1850.

11am–6pm. Work by photographers and filmmakers revitalising realist strategies in order to illuminate the ties between conflict and peace. Generation.

SUMMERHALL 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Daily 11am–6pm.

LAST CHANCE High Vis Until Fri 18 Jul. Work by students from Edinburgh College’s Creative Arts courses.

NEW Large Things of Different Shapes and Colours Fri 1 Aug–26 Sep. Large neon sculptural works by Kevin Harman, Tim Sandys, Louise Gibson, Kenny Watson, Steve Earl Weber and Shane Jezowski.

NEW The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Fri 1 Aug–26 Sep. An interactive installation by the American artists, who are based in Brooklyn.

NEW Wim Delvoye: Sybille II Fri 1 Aug–26 Sep. Video art from Delvoye focusing on an abstract concept which attracts and repels simultaneously.

SUTTON GALLERY 18a Dundas Street, 07854 972930.

Tue–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm; closed Sun. FREE Giorgio Granozio Until Thu 24

Your RSA Paintings: Your Choice

Until Mon 23 Mar 2015. Mon 10am–5pm only. Pictures from the RSA collection, some of which have been chosen by the public.

THE SCOTTISH GALLERY 16 Dundas Street, 558 1200. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat 10am–4pm; closed Sun. LAST CHANCE Modern Masters III Until Sat 26 Jul. 20th century Scottish paintings.

LAST CHANCE Pat Douthwaite: An Uncompromising Vision Until Sat 26 Jul. Pastel drawings by the Scottish artist.

LAST CHANCE Yasuki Hiramatsu Memorial Exhibition Until Sat 26 Jul. A retrospective of work by one of the great pioneers of modern jewellery, who died in 2014.

NEW Victoria Crowe: Real and Reflected Fri 1–Sat 30 Aug. New work in a number of media focusing on the natural world and art history.

The King’s Peace: Realism and War Fri 1 Aug–Sun 26 Oct. Daily

Jul. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm. Design-inspired works from the architect and artist.

UNION GALLERY 45 Broughton Street, 556 7707. Mon– Sat 10.30am–6pm; Sun noon–6pm.

LAST CHANCE Now We Are Five Until Tue 29 Jul. A group show celebrating five years of the gallery being in its Broughton Street location.

URBANE ART GALLERY 25–27 Jeffrey Street, 556 8379. Tue–Sat 10.30am–5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm; closed Mon. NEW Louise Giblin MRBS:

GROUP SHOW

Olympians go to Commonwealth

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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One, Edinburgh, until Sun 25 Jan Where to start with a definitive, large-scale exhibition boasting of a nation’s ongoing achievements in contemporary art without opening yourself up to claims of self-aggrandisement? Isn’t it for others to sing the praises while we keep our trumpets unblown?

In this case the best strategy seems to have been just to show the work and allow it to make a claim on its own position, for if one guiding narrative presents itself amidst the work of the 20 plus Scottish and Scottish-affiliated artists on display at this showpiece hub exhibition of the GENERATION project, it’s a lack of self-regard. There is humour, there are finely-constructed stories under the surface, there are often quite complex conceptual experiments, yet self-importance never weighs heavy.

The blockbuster sits alongside the less well-known. Douglas Gordon’s ‘24 Hour Psycho’ is a centrepiece, and its power is reinstated when seen in person, the sense of frustrated expectation and of time being distorted as the piece is viewed both captivating and unsettling.

Elsewhere a new series by Toby Paterson entitled ‘Common Area’ breaks down the shapes and colour palettes of post-war housing into abstract painting and sculpture, and Richard Wright is represented by a hallway full of bright and intricate geometric drawings.

Throughout, much of the work displays relentless force of personality, from Kate Davis’ paintings of crushed postcards depicting famous female subjects in art to the garishly clinical ‘Breathing Space’

by Smith/Stewart, a film diptych trained on two bagged, breathing heads, and Graham Fagen’s fully interactive theatre set and script ‘Peek-a-Jobby’. On its own terms this single show is gripping, and it whets the appetite substantially for other major GENERATION shows around Edinburgh at the National and Portrait Galleries.

(David Pollock)

ST MARGARET’S HOUSE 151 London Road, 661 1924. Centre open daily 10am–10pm but individual exhibition times may vary.

Draw-In Fri 11 Jul, 7–9pm; Sat 12–Sun 27 Jul, daily 11am–5pm. Exhibition exploring the role of drawing in emerging contemporary art practice.

STILLS 23 Cockburn Street, 622 6200. Daily 11am–6pm.

LAST CHANCE A Thousand

of Him, Scattered: Relative Newcomers to Diaspora Until Sun

20 Jul. A photographic look at diaspora and how individuals respond to it.

Games Wed 23 Jul–Sun 21 Sep. Body cast sculptor showing the torso of Dame Kelly Holmes and new bronze torso Manhattan Skyline.

NEW Rosie Playfair: Artisan Exploration Wed 23 Jul–Sun 21 Sep. Edinburgh-based Playfair’s paintings are eclectic and abstract and detail everything from nudes to trees.

VELVET EASEL GALLERY 298 Portobello High Street, Portobello, 629 1121. Thu–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm; closed Mon–Wed. Celebration of Summer Until Sun 31 Aug. A collection of paintings, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery that illustrates the Scottish summer.

WHITESPACE 25 Howe Street, whitespace11.com Opening times vary; see individual exhibitions for details.

NEW Alchemicle Sat 26–Wed 30 Jul. Mon–Wed, Sat & Sun 10am–6pm. A narrative look at the history of Leith.

OUTSIDE THE CITIES COVE PARK Peaton Hill, Cove, Argyll and Bute, 01436 850123 Alex Frost Until Fri 26 Sep. Fri 12noon–5pm. A major new project by the Glasgow-based artist.

TRAQUAIR HOUSE Innerleithen, 01896 830323.

NEW The Debatable Land by Peter Sacks Sat 26 Jul–Sun 5 Oct. Daily 11am–5pm. Price included in admission. A painting of, and for, the nation by painter-poet Peter Sacks that was commissioned by Beyond Borders Scotland for September’s independence referendum.

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The National Theatre of Scotland is looking for an Audience Development and Communications Officer to join its busy External Affairs team.

Based in Glasgow, this is a newly-created post that covers a wide range of functions and the ideal candidate will be a highly organised individual who enjoys rising to a challenge and who can multi-task and manage priorities well. A full job pack including job description can be found on our website:

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To apply, please send us your CV and a covering letter telling us why you believe you are the right person for this job. Please also complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and send it with your application.

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Second Chef Position Name Fraser Ralston Job title Mascot Coordinator When did you start your job? January 2013. It was a bizarre beginning! Stepping off the train at Glasgow Central Station, nervous and unsure what to expect, I was suddenly greeted by a bubbly personality on a high chair armed with a red megaphone shamelessly attempting to recruit volunteers for the Commonwealth Games. The character - which was to become my dedicated passion for the next 18 months - pounced on me from out of nowhere. The tone was set for the mad adventures that were to follow.

So what does your job actually involve? I’m essentially an event manager and agent to Clyde, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Mascot. An average week sees me attending around 15 events across Scotland, including photo calls, film shoots, school visits, sponsor and corporate events and any other Glasgow 2014 events across the UK. I’m normally out the office 3 or 4 days a week and when I’m there I’m producing where Clyde goes next. On top of this, we also run school shows which we’ve performed 231 times to date across Scotland! It’s a brilliantly diverse role as it’s not just about coordinating, there’s great deal of creativity involved in bringing the brand to life.

Best / worst aspects? It’s all very positive to be honest. The best aspect is the thrill of spreading joy throughout the country. Clyde makes people smile, laugh and joke, breaking social barriers and uniting all with hilarity! Equally rewarding is interacting with children with learning disabilities who may not understand the concept of Clyde yet laugh uncontrollably in his company. He really makes a positive impact on everyone’s lives. Another top point for me is the free-reign I’m entrusted with creatively, which has allowed me to mould the program and help make Clyde as popular as he is today.

Looking back, what advice would you give to a young Fraser Ralston at the start of his career? The Commonwealth Games environment is intense and not for everyone. Looking back, I wouldn’t have changed a thing, nor would I want to give myself any advice. Thrown yourself into something new and learn how to do it later.

And finally, what are you most looking forward to in 2014? I’m looking forward to delivering the Mascot program to a global audience of 2 billion people across 17 sports and 11 days of competition throughout Games Time. In addition, I’m currently delivering the Mascot program across the Queens Baton Relay and I’m really looking forward to it returning to Glasgow. That said, I’m a real traveller and, I’m looking forward to opportunities post games. I’m open to any event-driven opportunity, so who knows what will happen. I’m thinking another Games experience is definitely on the cards.

Stac Polly is an established city centre Scottish restaurant, with a long standing reputation for creating menus of exquisitely prepared fine dining cuisine. Menus change every few months using seasonal and locally sourced produce wherever possible.

Main duties are preparation and presentation of starters and desserts, stand in for head chef in his absence during his day off, general other kitchen duties such as cleaning.

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BACK PAGE FIRST!LAST GARY LITTLE The comedian chats to us about Munros, clown paintings and prison table tennis championships

First record you ever bought

Suzi Quatro – ‘Devilgate Drive’.

Last extravagant purchase you made

Last time you exploited your position to get something

I don’t have a position to exploit!

1969 Omega watch.

First three words your friends would use to describe you

First film you saw that really moved you

Last song at your funeral

Loads, but one that gets me all the time is Cinema Paradiso.

Loud, shouty, annoying.

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‘I Will Survive’.

First concert you ever attended

Last lie you told

I was prison table tennis champion three years in a row (it was only two years in a row).

First thing you do when you’ve got time off work

Climb Munros.

Buzzcocks.

Last thing you recommended to someone

‘Listen to me.’

First object you’d save from your burning house

Painting of a clown.

Last crime you committed

Theft of books.

Last time someone criticised your work

First crush

I’m sure it happens regularly, but back in 2009 was the last time in print.

Linda Macdonald.

Last book you read

Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Journey to the End of the Night.

First job

First thing you’d do if you ran the country

Last time you cried

Close the House of Lords.

Last meal on earth – what would it be?

Rhubarb and custard.

First song you’ll sing at karaoke

‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’.

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IN WONDERLAND HAWAII? FINE THANKS, HAWAYOU? This issue, we sent intrepid columnist Alice White to try her hand at a Hawaiian shirt-making masterclass

What exactly is it?

What exactly do you think it is? The title can’t be faulted on its transparency. The class is run by Emily Millichip, a designer who makes clothes and, guess what, loves Hawaiian dress.

Where?

St Margaret’s House, the arts complex in Meadowbank, Edinburgh. It looks rough on the inside and the outside, but go along a corridor and

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Most days it happens.

First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning

The dugs want out.

Last thing you think of before you go to sleep

They dugs better not be up on the couch.

you come to an oasis of a room with warm swing music playing and a fancy rug.

Do you make it from scratch?

Of course. This isn’t a ‘try on a shirt’ class. From hemlines to shoulders to collars, you’re going to make the entire thing over eight hours. I went to pattern-cutting school eight years ago (you might want to gasp there like I said I’ve killed a man) but just because you ran on a track once doesn’t mean you’re Usain Bolt. It was easier to say I’ve never sewn anything before, which actually turns out to be fitting considering all technology progresses (not just iPhones), and I was confused by the brand new digital sewing machines. It made me wonder what Buffalo Bill could’ve achieved if he’d had an embroidery application.

What’s the deal with that print?

All the fabrics are handpicked from actual Honolulu.

My favourite was sickly bubblegum pink with big white flowers, which is a bit different from my

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entirely black wardrobe. Emily told me that Hawaiian businessmen wear the shirts with the fabric inside out so they’re subdued for work. Isn’t that like always having an umbrella up so noone can see the top hat you’ve insisted on wearing?

What if you don’t want a Hawaiian shirt?

I’m pretty chuffed with my one and am desperately trying to think of somewhere, anywhere, I can go in it. Believe it or not though, not everyone likes the aloha shirt. I’m going to point out that, if you’re one of those people, this might not be the class for you, because you will leave with one. As with everything in grown-up life, there are other options: Emily also runs classes on kimonos, pompom head pieces, skirts, knickers and men’s shirts.

It’s perfect even if you just want to announce you made your own clothes, the same way as if you’re telling everyone you have a gluten allergy.

Visit edinburghpalette.co.uk for details of future Hawaiian shirt masterclasses.

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