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Youth in Revolt – Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012
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music
Clear Heart Full Eyes
Craig Finn
Blues Funeral
Mark Lanegan Band
Django Django
Django Django
No One Can Ever Know
The Twilight Sad
Give 'Em Enough Dope
The Jackhammers
Egyptian Wrinkle
Boy Friend
The Horrors / TOY @ The Liquid Room, 16 January
Freedom Of Speech
Speech Debelle
Bad Dream Hotline
FOE
Thirteen Lost & Found
RM Hubbert
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
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
Ingrid Calame @ Fruitmarket Gallery
theatre
The Shoogle Project
Spain @ Citizens
The Little Match Girl Passion @ Tron
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
Snails and Ketchup @ New Town Theatre
comedy
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
Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog Live DVD & BluRay
Recommended events
music
- 28Jan
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
SWG3, Glasgow20:00 – 22:30; £12.50The Brooklyn quartet return to their indie-pop roots on the back of last autumn's Hysterical LP, all off-kilter melodies, hazy synths and soporific base-lines.
- 29Jan
Remember Remember (Adam Stearns and The Glass Animals)
Brel, Glasgow19:30 – 22:00; £10Musical brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Graeme Ronald, now a fully-fledged live seven-piece shot through with samples, keys, glockenspiels and loop pedals. Part of Celtic Connections.
- 29Jan
Bonnie Prince Billy
Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow20:00 – 22:00; £18Will Oldham returns to Scottish Shores under his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy alter-ego, with yet more lush explorations of America's historical, musical and psychic backwoods. Part of Celtic Connections.
- 31Jan
Chemikal Underground and Friends
Brel, Glasgow19:30 – 22:00; £5Showcase evening curated by the inimitable Chemikal Underground label. Part of Celtic Connections.
comedy
- 29Jan
Rock and Roll Ping Pong
Bongo Club, Edinburgh19:30 – 23:00; FreeThe It's Funtime jokers present a free, fun, table tennis evening, with dancing discs from DJ Ding Dong.
- 30Jan
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.
- 1Feb
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.
- 1Feb
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Jo Caulfield, Richard Melvin, Keir McAllister, Graeme Thomas)
The Stand, Edinburgh20:30 – 22:30; £5New comedy panel show looking at the good, the bad and the ugly things that have happened during the week, with the audience voting on which comedian wins.
clubs
- 28Jan
Pass The Peas (Mosa Funk Club)
Blackfriars Basement, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £3Four solid hours of the cream of what's happening on the international funk and soul scene.
- 28Jan
Colours (Hardwell, Nicky Romero)
The Arches, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £15Two of EDM's brightest young things makes their Arches debut, kicking off Colours' 17th year of being in style.
- 28Jan
Karnival's 6th Birthday Bash (Popof, Edinburgh Rocks, Rendezvous)
Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh23:00 – 03:00; £12 (£10)Karnival celebrates its sixth year of being with French beat master Popof, plus Edinburgh Rocks manning room two, and Rendezvous in The Speakeasy.
- 29Jan
La Rocha: Dam Mantle
The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £3New weekly night featuring regular live guests and one-off events, this time in the form of Glasgow-based producer Dam Mantle's genre-defying electronic workouts.
theatre
- 28Jan
Loic Lalande and Tom Pritchard: Double Bill
The Arches, Glasgow19:30 – 21:30; £6 (£4)Unique and improvised dance double bill, featuring new pieces from Loic Lalande and Tom Pritchard.
- 30Jan
Pensando En Ti
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow19:30 – 21:30; £7Examining the nature of friendship and the trials friendships can face, for which Sonic Boom transform the attic of the Old Hairdressers into a dilapidated apartment.
- 1Feb
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Adam House, Edinburgh19:15 – 21:15; £6 (£4)Adaptation of the classic story of two couples on the cusp of a long-working relationship, who at the end of a night of pleasantries descend into a devilish cat and mouse game of wits.
- 1Feb
Polaris
Traverse, Edinburgh19:30 – 21:30; £15 (£11/£6 unemployed)Tale of two 19th Centruy polar explorers who are lost and freezing to death. Part of Manipulate Festival.
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