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GFF 2012: 85A Presents Jan Svankmajer
The Glue Factory becomes a surreal playground as 85A collective take over the venue to bring to life the...
Margins Book and Music Festival: Writing Alive
February 2012: Many people are reported to be excited about the Margins Book and Music Festival this month, as...
GFF 2012: Comic book writer Mark Millar in interview
We meet with the prolific Glaswegian comic book writer and GFF ambassador, Mark Millar, to discuss his future projects
GFF 2012: Hunky Dory interview: Marc Evans and Jon Finn
The CineSkinny speaks to Marc Evans and Jon Finn, respectively director and producer of Hunky Dory, one of GFF’s...
GFF: Glasgow on Celluloid
The CineSkinny examines how Glasgow, an increasingly popular shooting location, has been portrayed in cinema over the years
GFF 2012: Weimarvellous
A weekend of cabaret, Weimer-era Germany style.
Latest Reviews
music
Love from a Distance EP
The Machine Room
Origins
Treacherous Orchestra
Fenice
Ronin
Screws Get Loose
Those Darlins
GZA / Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
Justice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
Mastodon / The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Barrowlands, 7 February
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
Plays Piano
Roedelius
Mull Historical Society / Washington Irving @ O2ABC, 3 February
film
books
So Much Pretty
Cara Hoffman
Edinburgh Street Furniture
David Brandon
The Last Holiday
Gil Scott-Heron
Exile
Jakob Ejersbo
Poems of Youth and Turbulence
Peter G Mackie
The Boys: The Big Ride
Garth Ennis, Russ Braun, Darick Robertson and John McCrea
Body of Work
Edited by Giles Foden
Scotland The Best 2012
Peter Irvine
One Model Nation
Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Jim Rugg
Bye Bye Babylon
Lamia Ziade
art
Beholder @ Talbot Rice
The Turner Prize @ Baltic
Lost Lake, Chalk Burst @ Generator Projects
Against Anti-Intellectualism @ SWG3
Warp And Woof @ CCA
Christian Newby @ Transmission
Dundee Masters Show @ DJCAD
Ruth Ewan @ DCA
Peles Empire @ Sierra Metro
The Indirect Exchange of Uncertain Value @ Fettes College
theatre
The Shoogle Project
The Little Match Girl Passion @ Tron
Spain @ Citizens
Howard Marks is Mr. Nice
CH-CH CHANGES @ Citizens Theatre
Miranda @ Cottiers
Pirates of Penzance @ Surgeon's Hall
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off @ The Lyceum Theatre
Scottish Ballet Autumn Season
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Mariinsky Opera @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
comedy
Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year 2012: Quarter-Finals
Mark Thomas: Manifesto
Goon
Michael Dowsee
Sarah Millican - Chatterbox DVD
Adam Hills: Inflatable DVD
Tim Vine: The Joke-A-Motive
Jason Manford: Jason Manford Live DVD & BluRay
The Pajama Men: Last Stand To Reason DVD
Dylan Moran: Yeah Yeah DVD
Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra: Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD & BluRay
Recommended events
music
- 23Feb
A Psychocinematic Ritual (OV)
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow20:00 – 22:30; £5Collaboration between members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours, and Sons and Daughters, exploring their shared fascination with all things occult through a selection of live film soundtracks and live visuals. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
- 23Feb
The Dog's Ball Presents: A Taste of Knockengorroch (Kuche Ke, The Whisky River Boat Band, Stanley Odd, The Banana Sessions, Earl Grey and the Loose Leaves)
The Caves, Edinburgh21:00 – 03:00; £5 adv. (£8 door)Red Dog Music and Knockengorroch Festival join forces to present a handpicked selection of bands and DJs who will be playing at Knockengorroch 2012.
- 24Feb
Neu! Reekie! (Lach, Catherine Brogan)
Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £5 (£4)Favourited night of avant-garde poetry, music and film, this time playing host to spoken word maestro Lach and poet Catherine Brogan – with some mystery musical guests to be revealed.
- 24Feb
The Douglas Firs (Foxface, Iliop)
Old St Paul's Church Hall, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:00; £4Neil Insh and pals (aka The Douglas Firs) welcome Foxface and Iliop for a night of cheap alcohol, food and music, most likely in that order.
comedy
- 24Feb
The Improverts
Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh22:30 – 23:30; £5.50 (£5)Long-standing improv comedy troupe whose rather fine show is built entirely on (oft daft) audience suggestions.
- 27Feb
Fit O' The Giggles
City Café, Edinburgh20:30 – 22:30; £3 (£2)Keara Murphy showcases a selection of new material from a host of acts taking in sketches, stand-up, mime, musical comedy, poetry, magic, and, well, pretty much anything else they damn well fancy.
- 2Mar
The Invisible Dot Tour 2012 (Jonny Sweet, Nick Mohammed, Sheeps)
Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh20:00 – 22:30; £tbcThe Invisible Dot gand return with another comedy showcase of the most interetsing and experimental acts they could find.
- 5Mar
Frankie Boyle: Work In Progress
The Stand, Glasgow18:00 – 20:00; £10The inimitable Mr Boyle presents a series of rather special warm-up shows for his up-coming tour, which he says will also be his last. Like, ever.
clubs
- 25Feb
Pass The Peas
Blackfriars Basement, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £3Four solid hours of the cream of what's happening on the international funk and soul scene.
- 26Feb
Horse Meat Disco
Sub Club, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £tbcMighty London disco quartet Horse Meat Disco guest, as part of Sub Club's series of Optimo Presents nights.
- 1Mar
A Love From Outer Space
The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow10:00 – 03:00; £7Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston's London night takes a trip north for a new bi-monthly residency in the intimate surrounds of The Berkeley Suite.
- 2Mar
Numbers: Four Tet (Spencer)
Sub Club, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £4 (£3)The Numbers crew host their first Glasgow party of the year with a set from prodigious Londoner Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet).
theatre
- 23Feb
Melmoth The Wanderer
Tron Theatre, Glasgow19:45 – 22:00; From £7Comic surrealism meets shock horror in a series of ridiculous situations where innocent eccentrics struggle to survive, as Big Telly Theatre Company stage their usual brand of orchestrated chaos.
- 24Feb
Kabarett
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh19:30 – 01:00; £10Dark cabaret spectacular featuring latex-clad performance artist and burlesque star Marnie Scarlet, alongside the likes of sideshow act Cherry Loco and cabaret-cum-video art collective Miss Annabel Sings.
- 25Feb
Arika12: Ray Brassier and Thomas Metzinger
Tramway, Glasgow14:30 – 15:45; £6 (or £14 festival pass)Philosophers Ray Brassier and Thomas Metzinger (by live video) discuss how cognitive neuroscience is unlocking the physical basis of personal experience.
- 25Feb
Arika12: Ray Brassier, Alexi Kukuljevic and Mark Fisher
Tramway, Glasgow16:15 – 17:30; £6 (or £14 festival pass)Three leading, radical philosopher/cultural critics discuss how neoliberal capitalism has locked down social experience.
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