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music
Eye for an Aye
Mystery Juice
SID Chip Sounds: The Music of the Commodore 64
Various
Wild Flag / Peggy Sue @ Òran Mór, 30 January
Maraqopa
Damien Jurado
Our Memories Dress Me in A Dead Lust
Crocus
Mr. M
Lambchop
Animal Joy
Shearwater
We Will Always Be
Windy and Carl
Die Hard
Die Hard
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 29 January
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
- 11Feb
Three Blind Wolves
Stereo, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £7Singalongable, dancealongable alternative countryesque tunes from the Glasgow lads, raising funds for their trip to SXSW 2012.
- 13Feb
GZA
The Arches, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £16The Wu-Tang Clan's most potent lyrical swordsman, GZA (aka The Genius), heads Arches way for the usual dexterous assault of colourful wordplay. Bow down.
- 13Feb
Pulled Apart By Horses (The Computers)
King Tut's, Glasgow20:00 – 23:00; £6Leeds-based band of lunatics running to a tight check list of torturous vocals, distortion, serious riffage, and hardcore clatter. All in the name of some pretty bloody awesome balls-to-the-wall rock, y'understand.
- 13Feb
Paul Vickers and The Leg
The Real Mary King's Close, Edinburgh20:00 – 21:30; £4 (limited to 35)The refreshingly raucous Edinburgh bunch play an intimate set with no amplification in the medieval catacombs of The Real Mary Kings Close, ahead of the release of their new album. Limited to 35 tickets.
comedy
- 8Feb
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.
- 8Feb
Wicked Wenches
The Stand, Glasgow20:30 – 22:30; £6 (£5/£3 members)All-female stand-up, with a suitably varied mix of headliners and newcomers. Hosted by resident funnywoman Susan Calman.
- 8Feb
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.
- 10Feb
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.
clubs
- 10Feb
Devil Disco Club (Discopolis, Battle Of The Zoo)
The Third Door, Edinburgh21:00 – 03:00; £5The Devil Disco crew relocate to The Third Door for their first party of 2012, joined by live experimental Edinburgh trio Discopolis and mysterious newcomers Battle Of The Zoo.
- 10Feb
Tribute
La Cheetah, Glasgow23:00 – 03:00; £10Myriad club nights (including Stay Plastic, Scrabble and Jelly Roll Soul) combine for an underground mix of techno, house and electro, with special guest Anthony 'Shake' Shakir joining the rammy this month.
- 10Feb
Hot Mess
Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh23:00 – 03:00; £5 (£3)DJ Simonotron hosts the gay disco party like no other, playing disco, house and acid on vinyl only.
- 15Feb
Milk: Anti Valentines (Carnivores, So Many Animal Calls, Midnight Lion DJs)
Flat 0/1, Glasgow21:00 – 03:00; £4Anti-Valentine's edition of the rather ace gig-in-a-club night, with the usual fine array of live bands, DJs, milk, biscuits and 75p cider. Plus a love-themed cocktail concoction which may or may not contain Mad Dog (i.e. it will).
theatre
- 8Feb
Barflies
Traverse, Edinburgh19:30 – 22:00; £15 (£11/£6 unemployed)Visceral look at the pains and glories of drunkenness, drawn from the short stories and poems of cult American writer Charles Bukowski.
- 10Feb
Missy Malone and Friends Burlesque Revue: Valentine's Special
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh19:30 – 23:00; £20Glam burlesque star Missy Malone curates her one-night-only Valentine's Burlesque Revue; a cabaret spectacular with pals Leyla Rose, Fancy Chance and Desmond O'Connor. Woot Woot.
- 11Feb
Cachin Cachan Cachunga!
Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh19:00 – 22:30; £3 (£2)A queer and trans night of dance, poetry, film and music, including Afro-Cuban dancers Lily & Yamil, politicised wordsmith Jacqueline Applebee and the angry glam racket that is the Glasgow Glam Bangers.
- 11Feb
Belleville Rendez-vous
The Arches, Glasgow19:00 – 22:00; £7 (£5)Original stage adaptation of Sylvian Chomet's animated delight. Part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival.
art
- 12Feb
Movie Poster Design Workshop
The Arches, Glasgow12:30 – 14:00; £5Interactive arts workshop on how to design movie posters just like the professionals, hosted by illustrator Erin McGrath and Park Circus designer Jen Davies. Part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival.
- 3Mar
Beats N Forts
Project Slogan, Aberdeen12:00 – 18:00; FreeDIY all-dayer, which commences with a group of artists sculpting fort-like structures live in the Project Slogan gallery. From cardboard. Yes.
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