6th February 2015
Andrew McAllister Culture Editor Man, Glasgow is LOVING Alasdair Gray right now. We’re making films, running exhibitions and generally giving cultural shout outs to our favourite Glasgow OG. It does help that he looks like a particularly friendly grandfather. To celebrate his 80th birthday there are a series of events occurring, known collectively as ‘Alasdair ...
6th February 2015
Kate Snowdon Production Manager Some people, perhaps new to Shakespeare, may have some questions upon leaving the theatre after a performance of Macbeth. However, they are unlikely to be ‘Why is Duncan eating Skips?’, ‘Where did those funky beats come from?’ and ‘Why is Macbeth snogging Banquo?’ However, the recent Filter production at the Citizen’s ...
6th February 2015
Tess Milligan Writer Scheduled for 2017, the live action adaption of famed anime Ghost in the Shell is set to come out, with Scarlet Johansson set to play the titular role of Major Motoko Kusanagi. Ghost in the Shell is set in mid-twenty-first century, in the fictional Japanese city Niihama Prefecture, known as New Port ...
6th February 2015
Kate Snowdon Production Manager I can’t move my neck today. And arguably that’s the way it should be if you manage, against every logical impulse, to find yourself at the front of the 13,000 angry ‘maggots’, or Slipknot fans, that line Glasgow’s Hydro on a Sunday night. And when I say lining, I mean crushing ...
6th February 2015
Kate Snowdon Production Manager Having been moved from Oran Mor to the O2 ABC due to high demand, Justin Townes Earle and Lindsey Black raised the roof for the third day of the Celtic Connections festival, talking about absent fathers, single mothers and not dealing with break-ups. Lindsey Black, an Edinburgh-based singer, opens for him, ...
6th February 2015
Beatrice Cook Writer 2015 will undoubtedly be a massive year for the Blonde boys. Off the back of last year’s meteoric rise into public consciousness, with their single ‘I Loved You’ featuring Melissa Steel killing it in the UK Charts, and instantly taking the number seven spot on its release, the duo are setting their ...
6th February 2015
With the last chances to qualify for the Scottish Championships approaching, we go through the basics Ross McFarlane Writer After a year of quality poetry in Scotland, we’re now down to the final two opportunities for performers to qualify for the Scottish Slam Championship. So, while there’s still time to get your quills, ink, coffee ...
6th February 2015
Tess Milligan Writer Guardian: How did Philanthrobeats get started? Philanthrobeats: An unfortunate naming game in the pub, we had previously done a one-off fundraiser for Amnesty International at the time, and then myself and a couple of other people decided that it might work as a regular thing, but with different charities, so we had ...
6th February 2015
Keir Watt Writer Recently officials at the CIA confirmed that the agency had secretly spent millions of dollars during the Cold War funding artists including the leading members of abstract expressionism such as Jackson Pollack and Willem De Kooning in what has been dubbed the ‘Cultural Cold War”. This war wasn’t as tangible as the ...
6th February 2015
Tom Kelly & Ali Begg Editors A while back an article in Vice came to my attention that basically called on our generation to give up. It was pretty familiar rhetoric, we’ve been shafted by previous generations, dealt a bad hand. It’ll be too hard to change, we’ll never do it, we’re done for. This ...
