What's On Scotland 26 Jul-2 Aug: Edinburgh Art Festival

Edinburgh Art Festival begins today, with a jam-packed programme of art-related fun and games taking place over the next month.

Clearly feeling a bit nostalgic, Jupiter Artland are launching their new exhibition Of Landscape Immersion, included in EAF, with a sleepover in the venue’s grounds this weekend. They’ve commissioned Acid Prawn’s Sian Dorrer and Supernormal’s Matilda Strang to create the programme for Jupiter Campout: ROMANTI-CRASH!, which will include live music, sound, art, talks and performances from a selection of artists and musicians. Glasgow-based collective OH141 have curated a late night stage for the occasion, hosted by the wonderful Ratty ByeBye.

In addition, this year's Platform showcase, dedicated to artists at the beginning of their careers, features four emerging female artists. Renèe Helèna Browne, Annie Crabtree, Isobel Lutz-Smith and Rae-Yen Song will all display works at the City Art Centre throughout EAF, after being selected from an open call by artists Jonathan Owen and Hanna Tuulikki.

Fistymuffs EP Launch
Leith Depot, Edinburgh. 28 Jul, 7.30pm
Edinburgh punk trio Fistymuffs release their debut EP About Time on Friday; an energetic onslaught about escaping abusive relationships, unwanted groping and rejecting patriarchal standards of body image and femininity. Influenced by the likes of X-Ray Spex and Bikini Kill, you can expect a high energy, emotionally raw and liberating night of unifying pop-punk. Image: Deborah Mullen

Chuchoter EP Party
Cult Espresso, Edinburgh. 2 Aug, 7pm
Another Edinburgh band celebrating an EP release this week are electro-pop duo Chuchoter. The duo's second EP, Pieces features an infectious collection of explorative electro-pop bangers, and as if you could say no to a free, BYOB gig in one of Edinburgh's best coffee shops. Joining them to celebrate on the night will be electronic producers Midi Paul and Hostel Freaks.

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Sharon Needles: Celebrity Morgue
Church, Dundee. 26 Jul, 7pm
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 4 winner Sharon Needles brings us an evening of Gothic goodness in Dundee tonight, as she brings her Celebrity Morgue show to Scotland. Needles will perform a eulogy of songs from some of her favourite celebrities and make all your goth/punk rock dreams come true. Black eyeliner and lipstick at the ready! Image: Producer Entertainment Group

Lost Map 5th Birthday: Kid Canaveral + Randolph’s Leap
The Rum Shack, Glasgow. 27 Jul, 8pm
Lost Map Records continue their 5th birthday celebrations in Glasgow tomorrow, this time joined by Kid Canaveral and Randolph's Leap (pictured). But the celebrations don't stop there; the label will continue to celebrate five years of music releasing all the way up until September, when they'll be throwing Strange (Birthday) Invitation: Lost Map's 5th Birthday All-Dayer. Image: Solas Nicol

MugStock Festival
Mugdock Country Park, Milngavnie. 27-30 Jul
The weirdest named festival in all of the land, MugStock Festival (presumably a play on the infamous 60s hippie fest Woodstock and the name of its grounds) returns for its fourth year. The festival of “music and merriment” will, this year, see performances from bands including Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 (pictured), Kid Canaveral, and the incredibly named Busker Rhymes. Image: Amy Muir

Live at the Longlist 2018
King Tut’s, Glasgow. 1 Aug, 7.30pm
The Scottish Album of the Year Award will announce this year’s 20 longlisted albums on Wednesday, accompanied by performances from previous nominees, including Stina Tweeddale and Carla J. Easton (pictured) among others. We're giving away a pair of tickets to the event; just email us on zap@theskinny.co.uk telling us which band Carla J. Easton fronts by Friday 27 July at midday.

Fame the Musical
King's Theatre, Glasgow. 30 Jul-4 Aug, times vary
Do you want to live forever? Do you want to learn how to fly, high? Yep, it’s the all-singing, all-dancing 80s classic, Fame. Keith Jack, Mica Paris and Jorgie Porter star in the 30th-anniversary tour of Fame the Musical, following the lives of students at New York’s High School of Performing Arts, now known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.

Ezup with HAAi
La Cheetah Club, Glasgow. 27 Jul, 11pm
Australian DJ HAAi is known for holding down Saturday nights as a resident at South London hotspot Phonox. As the former frontwoman of psychedelic band Dark Bells, HAAi's musical influences spread far and wide, as also proven at her Coconut Beats nights, where she and guests explore dance music sounds from around the globe. A night of sonic exploration is in store.

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