What's On Scotland 18-25 Jan: Big Burns Supper & more
Forget chasing down the last haggis in your local shops and celebrate Burns Night in style this year, as Big Burns Supper returns to Dumfries this week with a huge line-up of acts. Plus Celtic Connections, Paramore, Get Out, Bold Girls and more...
Dumfries has produced such world-renowned gems as Calvin Harris and David Coulthard, to name just a few, but now it's got an even bigger claim to fame. The world's biggest celebration of Robert Burns, Big Burns Supper returns to Dumfries for its seventh year of music, comedy and cabaret from 18-28 January.
Badly Drawn Boy and Public Service Broadcasting are amongst the musical guests performing at the festival, as well as comedians Bill Bailey and Jay Lafferty. The festival also runs a major LGBTQ event, reflecting its inclusive ethos, with a special one-off performance of Queer Haggis from home-grown cabaret show Le Haggis, and judging by the looks of it, it's going to be a whole lot of fun.
Million Dollar Disco 2018
The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow. 20 Jan, 11pm
January means the return of one of Glasgow's most iconic disco institutions the Million Dollar Disco, featuring the inimitable Glaswegian disco don Al Kent. 'mon down for a special four-hour set of pure Saturday night fever.
Telfort's Good Place: Karima F
Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh. 19 Jan, 11pm
Returning for another round of parties in good places, Telfort brings in Norwegian-Algerian DJ and Jæger Oslo resident Karima F to join him for a four-hour B2B set. Having played all over Europe, Karima makes her Edinburgh debut in Sneaks tomorrow night. Image: Julia Kidder
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Celtic Connections
Various venues, Glasgow. 18 Jan-4 Feb, times vary
Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival (i.e banjos, fiddles etc.) celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, kicking off with an opening gala at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight. Just a few of the other events billed over the next week include This is the Kit (pictured) with Lost Horizons tomorrow at O2 ABC and The National Whisky Festival of Scotland on Saturday at SWG3. Image: Florian Duboé
Paramore
SSE Hydro, Glasgow. 20 Jan, 6.30pm
Paramore have led a turbulent existence, full of fall-outs, band member departures and law suits but they returned in 2017, with original drummer Zac Farro back in tow, and released one of the best pop albums of the year, After Laughter. The band return to Glasgow on Saturday for what's sure to be one of the funnest gigs you'll ever go to. Support comes from Philadelphia five-piece mewithoutYou. Image: Lindsey Byrnes
Primitive Painters: Murder She Stroke - paint by numbers
Paradise Palms, Edinburgh. 21 Jan, 2pm
Paradise Palms' resident art gang Primitive Painters continue their Sunday and Monday afternoon creative sessions, this time inviting you to join them in re-imagining the detective heroes of 80s TV at Murder She Stroke – paint by numbers. Try your hand at your best interpretation of Magnum PI, Columbo or Crockett & Tubbs; you never know, you might just have a bit of Picasso in you.
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National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 19 Jan-29 Apr 2018
See the iconic Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition as it returns to Edinburgh on a grand scale. Taking over the National Museum of Scotland’s largest exhibition gallery for the first time, this atmospheric display of 100 awe-inspiring images presents the incredible diversity and fragility of life on Earth in a new and spectacular way. On loan from London’s Natural History Museum, the exhibition opens in Chambers Street, Edinburgh tomorrow (19 Jan) – book tickets here.
Get Out
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow. 19 Jan, 11pm
Jordan Peele's surprise hit of a directorial debut came in at No. 3 on our 25 Best Films of 2017 list and if you missed its initial release, here's a chance to see it again. The film effortlessly balances humour and horror and boasts impressive performances from its cast; but it's the layered social commentary underpinning the horror that cements Get Out as one of the most important films of last year, if not the era.
Fauves
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow. 19 Jan, 8.30pm
Formed in February 2016 by Ryan Caldwell, after he began recording some demos with the help of drummer (and now bandmate) Ciaran Devlin, Fauves is completed by Jonny Glass, Rory Bradley and The Vegan Leather’s Gianluca Bernacchi. They just released their new EP Les Fauves via Spiral Oh, and they play as part of King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution tomorrow. Image: Claire Maxwell
Bold Girls
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. 24 Jan-10 Feb, times vary
Richard Baron directs Rona Munro's Bold Girls, opening on Wednesday and running until 10 February at Citizens Theatre. Set in war-torn Belfast in the early 1990s, four women have their lives turned upside down by the Troubles but attempt to carry on with everyday life. A riotous night out leads to the spilling of some very sobering truths in the early hours in this story of love, friendship and betrayal.
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