30th November 2022
Maggie Rogers plays the second date of her Feral Joy Tour at Glasgow’s O2 Academy. Since she was first discovered by Pharrel Williams while studying at Columbia, Maggie Rogers has become a musical force to be reckoned with – something that only becomes clearer during her live performances. Following the release of her album Surrender ...
20th November 2022
Music Editor Otto Hampden-Woodfall witnesses the formation of a cult in a mosh pit. It was halfway through an extended jam at the mid-section of their song John L that I realised Black Midi had truly captured something special in the hearts and minds of mullet-clad 20-somethings everywhere. In anticipation of the song’s bruising, angular ...
17th November 2022
Kaiser Chiefs lead in a night of indie-rock classics on their first headline tour in two years. As the lines to the Hydro filled with retired noughties indie fans, as well as couples with kids of the Employment era, support bands The Sherlocks and The Fratellis warmed up the stage. Last Friday night kicked off ...
17th November 2022
Crawlers play Glasgow’s Saint Luke’s as part of their debut UK tour. The last thing my uber driver said upon arrival at Saint Luke’s was how he’d never seen such a queue outside. While the success of CRAWLERS is recent, most notably with their song Come Over (Again) and their opening of My Chemical Romance’s UK ...
16th November 2022
Middling rock for teenage tastes, Flora reflects back on The Pretty Reckless’ “lacklustre” Glasgow gig. If you watch the 2001 adaption of The Grinch this Christmas and find yourself wondering, “I wonder where that wee girl who played Cindy Lou-Who is now?”, let me spoil the surprise early: she is the lead singer in a ...
16th November 2022
Emma reviews this modern theatrical interpretation of the classic novel. Edinburgh’s Lyceum Theatre recently hosted the production of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of). Written and directed by Isobel McArthur, it is a comical reinterpretation of Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice. Its modernity and wit make it thoroughly entertaining viewing, for those both ...
16th November 2022
Finn reflects back on the Hunterian’s exhibition, celebrating 40 years since the publication of Alasadair Gray’s Lanark. **This exhibition is no longer open to the public** Alasdair Gray’s Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a novel built out of parts that ought not to fit together. It is an autobiography embedded inside a fantasy. ...
11th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing reviews the award-winning musical The Book of Mormon as it makes its rescheduled debut in Glasgow. “Jesus lived here, in the USA”, supposedly. It’s the kind of writing that should be so ridiculous, so satirical, as to bear little resemblance to reality. But what The Book of Mormon does so well ...
9th November 2022
Jamie T performs the first of his two gigs at the O2 this winter. On Tuesday 8 November 2022, I attended my very first concert. I’ve listened to Jamie T since a friend introduced me to him back in 2013, but I particularly love his first album – Panic Prevention – which is a combination ...
6th November 2022
Martin McDonagh returns with another brilliantly-executed film, featuring his incomparable duo of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The pair first showcased their dazzling chemistry in McDonagh’s modern classic In Bruges, and are back once more in what might be one of the best films of the year. The two leading men instigate a unique combination ...
