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Southside Film Festival 2012
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Latest Reviews
music
Errors / Mermaids / Mother Ganga @ The Arches, 11 May
Perfume Genius / Cate Le Bon @ Captain's Rest, 8 May
Grimes @ The Berkeley Suite, 7 May
Holy Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
The Story So Far
Nasty P
King Tuff
King Tuff
Urban Turban
Cornershop
On a Bedroom Wall
Still Flyin'
Glitter
Dead Mellotron
Parergon
Will Dutta
film
books
art
The Making of Us @ Tramway
Rob Kennedy @ CCA
Wolfgang Tillmans @ The Common Guild
New Contemporaries 2012 @ RSA, 17 Mar-11 Apr
Anna Barriball @ Fruitmarket
Matthew Darbyshire @ Tramway
Beholder @ Talbot Rice
The Turner Prize @ Baltic
Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
Against Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
theatre
comedy
Sloppy Seconds
Kunt & The Gang
Man Vs Woman
Jenny Eclair 'Old Dog, New Tricks'
Stuart Mitchell 'It's Just a Phrase I'm Going Through'
Doug Stanhope @ King's Theatre
David Kay 'Sconetastic'
Bruce Morton @ The Stand
Robin Ince & Michael Legge: 'Pointless Anger, Righteous Ire'
Zoe Lyons 'Some Random'
Patrick Monahan 'Hug Me I Feel Good'
Recommended events
music
- 23May
Gary Numan (Officers)
O2 ABC, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £25The electro-pop pioneer has us screaming along to his steroid-enhanced versions of Down in the Park and Are Friends Electric?, ahead of the release of his 'Best Of' DVD in June.
- 23May
Matt Norris & The Moon: EP Launch (Donna Maciocia, Randolph's Leap)
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh19:00 – 23:00; £5The Edinburgh-based modern folk collective launch their new EP, Thos Kingdom, resplendent with trumpets, fiddles, accordions and four-part harmonies.
- 25May
Brendan Benson
Oran Mor, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £12The US singer/songwriter and sometime Raconteur takes to the road solo in support of his new album.
- 26May
Maple Leaves
Stereo, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £5Melodic folk-popsters on vocals, piano and guitar, now sans Miaoux Miaoux's Julian Corrie, but just as bloody lovely.
comedy
- 21May
Fit O' The Giggles
City Café, Edinburgh20:30 – 22:30; £3 (£2)Keara Murphy hosts a selection of acts taking in sketches, stand-up, mime, musical comedy, poetry, magic, and, well, pretty much anything else they fancy.
- 21May
Alfie Moore: I Predict A Riot
The Stand, Glasgow20:30 – 22:30; £8The former policeman talks about the history of protests and riots, obviously leading to the standard chat about where he keeps his truncheon.
- 22May
Alex Horne: Seven Years In The Bathroom
The Stand, Edinburgh20:30 – 22:30; £12Rollickingly experimental comedy in which Horne aims to recreate your entire life, stat-by-stat (FYI, that includes eighteen months looking for lost things, apparently).
- 24May
The Gong Show
The Shack, Edinburgh20:00 – 22:00; £3 (£2)Up-and-coming comedic talent compete against the clock for stage time, gong show style.
clubs
- 22May
I AM: Boat Party
The Waverley, Glasgow19:00 – 23:00; £15Resident young guns Beta & Kappa rig a ship with sound and alcohol for a Tuesday journey like no other. Pick up from Glasgow Science Centre.
- 26May
Bad News (Congo Natty, Tenor Fly)
The Arches, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £14Fresh night upping the soundsystem culture in Glasgow, care of the Electrikal Sound System's 26KW wall of sound and a selection of regular live guests.
- 31May
I AM Edinburgh (Blawan)
Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh22:30 – 03:00; £3 adv. (£5 door)Resident young guns Beta & Kappa take a trip east, with percussive maestro Blawan in tow.
- 1Jun
The Revel (Cymbollox, Kaiho, Magic Eye, Blank Canvas, The Machine Room)
Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh22:00 – 03:00; £12 adv.The mighty Revel takes on an apocalyptic theme, with dancing tunes in the marquee provided by The Machine Room, and Magic Eye, amongst others, plus live DJs, karaoke, and a whole host of radge costumes.
theatre
- 22May
The Steamie
The King's Theatre, Glasgow19:30 – 22:00; From £13Special edition of Tony Roper's washhouse comedy, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the much-loved play.
- 23May
Tosca
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh19:15 – 22:00; From £16.50Scottish Opera take on Anthony Besch's treasured production of Tosca, which transports Puccini's drama to Fascist Italy in the early 1940s.
- 25May
John Peel's Shed (Gordon McIntyre)
Paisley Arts Centre, Glasgow19:30 – 21:30; £10 (£6)Ode to radio, rare records, and how a stack of vinyl changed one man's life, with a post-show set from Gordon McIntyre's of ballboy.
- 26May
John Peel's Shed
Tron Theatre, Glasgow19:30 – 21:30; £15 (£12)Ode to radio, rare records, and how a stack of vinyl changed one man's life, when John Osbourne won a competition on John Peel's radio show for a box of records that would take eight years to listen to.
art
- 21May
The Skinny Showcase Shop
Urban Outfitters, Glasgow09:30 – 18:30; FreeUnique exhibition featuring seven Scottish artists handpicked by The Skinny from previous Skinny Showcase artists – with the full collection of works available to buy via theskinny.co.uk/shop.
- 21May
Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from The Gundersen Collection
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh10:00 – 17:00; £7 (£5)Collection of 50 works on paper by the famed Norwegian artist, taken from a private Norwegian collection, and showing in the UK for the first time.
- 21May
Dundee Degree Show 2012
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee10:00 – 18:00; FreeAnnual degree show from the graduating students at Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art and Design.
- 21May
Karla Black
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow10:00 – 17:00; FreeThe Turner Prize-nominated artist takes over the ground floor of Glasgow's GOMA with a selection of major new sculptures.
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