Comedy | Preview
Edward Whelan: Suited and bespectacled with a wondering, grumbling puzzlement at the world, Sean Lock is back at the Glasgow Comedy Festival with his brand n...
Records | Album Review
Chris Buckle: Having stitched himself into Scotland’s alt-folk fabric (working with Withered Hand, Eagleowl and Alasdair Roberts amongst others), Retaliate is...
Records | Single Review
Nick Mitchell: The EP is an awkward conception, defined by what it's not: too long to be a single, too short to be an album. Even within this limited bracket...
Film | Review
Gail Tolley: Thomas Turgoose will be a familiar name to Shane Meadows fans; the young actor starred in both This is England and Somers Town as a cocky youth with t...
Digital | Preview
Alex Cole: Don’t let the friendly-sounding name fool you – Twitter is serious business. Well, serious in that it’s being used to help charities...
Chris Buckle: To Music and Maths, add a double period of English, for Burnt Island’s debut is a decidedly literary affair. Led by author Rodge Glass and partl...
Alastair Roy: War crime prosecutor Hannah Maynard (Kerry Fox) has lost out on promotion to a lesser experienced male counterpart (Stephen Dillane). She’s also...
Gail Tolley: I Love you Phillip Morris is based on a true story, a statement which offers some explanation for where such a bizarre tale comes from. Steven Russell...
Comedy | Review
Lewis Porteous: Of all the comedians to have played a part in the early eighties' alternative comedy boom, it is the unfairly sidelined Arnold Brown whose comedic per...
Music | Feature
Paul Mitchell: "I'm absolutely sublime, thank you for asking." Jónsi is in chipper mood when The Skinny catches him for a chat, despite an arduous day of pres...
Mark Shukla: Having reverted to his Pixies-era moniker of Black Francis in 2007 – in a move that fooled precisely no one – Nonstoperotik finds ...
Edward Whelan: Miles Jupp is a bit of a polymath, with a sizable CV of television and radio appearances as a stand up, an actor and part of sketch team The Lost and ...
Music | Live Review
Chris Buckle: Sean Booth and Rob Brown aren’t ones to bask in limelight. As they are frequently wont to do, tonight they perform in darkness, turning the Sub ...
Theatre | Review
Gareth K Vile: Neanderthal takes some time to settle. As an attempt to evoke the aural landscape of the paleolithic people, it spends too long evolving idle chatter...
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Having once written to the Oxford English dictionary to remark on the absence of the word 'karmically', I was very much looking forward to Alex Horne'...
Fern Brady: These days, Brendon Burns is known as one of the most established performers on the UK circuit – and he isn't afraid to acknowledge it. Since hi...
Karen Bradley: Strutting out onto the stage sporting glasses, converse trainers and a casual suit, Keir McAllister could be mistaken for a university lecturer. For h...
Ryan Drever: It's not often that metal bands, let alone a band like Trivium, bother their arses to head this far north, so it's no surprise the Ironworks is rammed...
Lauren Mayberry: Shaking off the excessive sheen of their previous work, Fire Like This presents a heavier, more focused version of Blood Red Shoes. At juggernaut spee...
Mark Shukla: Openers Fitzroy Soul jumpstart the evening with some high-gain blues and melodic hooks before throwing a soulful curveball that teeters on the brink o...
