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Photo: Camille Vivier Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
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Enough Said
April 2022 — Events Guide
Film Glasgow Film Festival crowns Nicole Holofcener a CineMaster this month with a season featuring a trio of her best features: Friends with Money (2 & 6 Apr), Please Give (9 &1 2 Apr, on 35mm!) and Enough Said (17 & 20 Apr), a tender romance that proved all the more moving for featuring the final lead performance by James Gandolfini, plus Ridley Scott’s sorely underrated The Last Duel (23 & 27 Apr), penned by Holofcener. Filmhouse in Edinburgh have their own retrospective this month, which pays tribute to the late, very great Sidney Poitier, who died in January. Seven films featuring this wonderful actor who tore down racial barriers in Hollywood are included. Among them are classics In The Heat of the
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Photo: Wolfgang Tillmans Kae Tempest
Music It’s only right that the month of our music festivals special should be bookended by two very good ones – Glasgow’s experimental Counterflows (31 Mar-2 Apr), and Stag & Dagger which takes over a multitude of venues in Edinburgh on 30 April, landing in Glasgow the following day (1 May). In between all that, The Twilight Sad’s rescheduled shows are finally set to happen at the Barrowlands (1 & 2 Apr); on the same nights, in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, you’ll find Future Islands at Usher Hall and the O2 Academy respectively, with support from the wall-of-hugs lovin’ Dan Deacon. You’ll also find eight-piece jazz and Afrobeat fusion outfit Kokoroko at The Queen’s Hall (1 Apr), Edinburgh-based rapper Conscious Route at Sneaky Pete’s (2 Apr), while London octet caroline bring their gorgeous sounds to Summerhall (3 Apr). Also at Summerhall there’s Rachel Sermanni on 6 April, with Lizzie Reid in tow, Pictish Trail the following night, with Savage Mansion on support duties (they also headline their own show at Sneaky Pete’s on 17 April), before Honeyblood’s Stina Marie Claire performs with a string section and full band featuring Laura Wilkie on fiddle and Carla J. Easton on synth, plus support from Katherine Aly (16 Apr). Elsewhere in Edinburgh, AMPLIFI returns to The Queen’s Hall (6 Apr), catch Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul (11 Apr) and Advance Base (16 Apr) at Sneaky Pete’s, Wet Leg at The Mash House (17 Apr), Foals at Usher Hall (21 & 22 Apr), Kae Tempest at Assembly Rooms (23 Apr) and Tae Sup wi’ a Queen at The Queen’s Hall (27 Apr) with performances from Kinbrae & Clare Archibald, Liz Lochhead & Andrew Wasylyk and James Yorkston’s electronicish alter ego, J Wright Presents. In Glasgow, Ibibio Sound Machine celebrate their latest record, the exceptional Hot Chip-produced Electricity, at St Luke’s (8 Apr), before Alex Cameron brings his latest, Oxy Music, to the same spot a few nights later (11 Apr), while on the same night in the city centre you’ll find BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2022 poll winner Pinkpantheress at Stereo. After a cancelled tour in 2020, which resulted in some inspired ‘Fuck 2020’ merch, Canada’s Holy Fuck are finally coming to Glasgow this month as they bring Deleter to Broadcast on 20 April; Metronomy tour their latest, Small World, stopping by the Barrowlands on 22 April, before Mitski touches down at the same venue with support from SASAMI on 23rd April, the following night sees Dua Lipa bringing her massive Future Nostalgia Tour to the OVO Hydro. As if all that’s not enough, Record Store Day returns this year on 23 April – support your local vinyl dealer! [Tallah Brash]
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