What's On Scotland: 28 Jan-4 Feb: Limmy Live
With your first paycheck of 2016 firmly in the pocket after five whole weeks of January, it's definitely time to gorge on a bit of culture. This week we've got Limmy, we've got Sleaford Mods, and an uber-feminist alternative Burns night at GWL. Nice.
Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of the best events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this here top ten guide to the most exciting goings on for the week ahead. From gigs, plays, and exhibitions, to spoken word, pop-up foodie events, and one-off film screenings, we give you the insider's guide to things to do in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee every Thursday morning.
Limmy Live
SECC, Glasgow. 28 - 31 Jan, 10pm
Glesga's favourite wee ragamuffin Limmy (pictured) is back on the west coast following the 2015 release of Daft Wee Stories, so it's only fair we give him a hearty hiya on his home turf. His prolific Vine-posting will only get you so far in pursuit of belly laugh after all, sensational though it is. Best experience him in all his freckled glory. Photo: Alan McCredie
Men With Coconuts
Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. 30 Jan, 8pm
Raconteurs country-wide will be pleased to know it's National Storytelling Week from 30 Jan-6 Feb. What's more, the charming Men With Coconuts (pictured) are swinging by the Storytelling Centre and improvising a 90 minute Broadway musical tailored to the audience's every ridiculous whim. A glimmering opportunity to refine your storytelling – and lol your face off while you're at it. Photo: Charlotte Strawbridge
Herland: Alter Native Burns Night
Glasgow Women's Library, Glasgow. 29 Jan, 7pm
Glasgow Women's Library's new semi-regular event Herland makes its debut in the form of the cerise-coloured 'Alter Native' Burns night. Because cranachan and Rabbie are all well and good, yes, but a variety night fronted by Susan Calman, disc-jockeyed by TYCI's Adele Bethel, and featuring Muscles of Joy and author Sheila Templeton sounds pretty ace too.
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IFFR Live: La Novia
GFT, Glasgow. 31 Jan, 2.45pm
The International Film Festival of Rotterdam continues this week, and thanks to IFFR Live, parts of the programme will be broadcast live to cinemas around the country. Paula Ortiz’s La Novia, an adaptation of the play Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca is set to be one of the highlights. Coming soon, to a cinema nearer to you than Rotterdam.
Birdheart
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen. 29 Jan, 7pm
Warranting a jaunt to Aberdeen, Manipulate festival kicks off official, showcasing an e'er innovative array of Scottish and world visual theatre, puppetry, and animation – opening with the European premiere of Julian Crouch and Saskia Lane's Birdheart, brought to magical life with a sheet of brown paper, found objects, shadows, and a box of sand. Photo: Jill Steinberg
David Rodigan
UnderDog, Aberdeen. 29 Jan, 7pm
...And, while you're already in Aberdeen catching Birdheart, why not make a weekend of it and stick around for David Rodigan's first ever show up in the Granite City? With his classic dancehall and reggae vibes, a big pile of bass and Giles Walker and DJ Please showing their faces, what more could your partying heart desire? Nothing, that's what.
Converge
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. Until 20 Feb.
Showcase exhibition Converge welcomes a trio of invited artists – Steven McIver (pictured), Andrew Mackenzie, and Sam Johnson – each displaying work with delineation through architectural study and structural design at its heart, showing alongside a series of open submissions, a Graduate Showcase, and the Cordis Trust Award shortlist nominees. Go marvel.
Close Up
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. 1 Feb, 7.30pm
After kicking things off in Aberdeen, Manipulate gets under way proper over in Edinburgh – with a highlight of the first day's proceedings being the UK premiere of Close Up, the final part of Editta Braun's magical trilogy, with a grand piano, one pianist, and five dancers taking the place of spoken dialogue.
Rick Redbeard
The Hug & Pint, Glasgow. 28 Jan, 7.30pm
After his solo debut under an alliterative moniker a whole three whole calendars ago, Rick Anthony (pictured) steps up to the mic sans Phantom Band once more, this time in Glasgow's lovely Hug & Pint. Mr Redbeard's new record is on the way, but if the yearning beauties from his 2013 effort No Selfish Heart are anything to go by, we're onto a winner and you're in for a treat.
Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain
CCA, Glasgow. 30 Jan, 3.30pm
In a documentary shadowing 24 months of Jason Williamson and Andrew Robert Lindsay Fearn's careers, the expletive spitting, piss-ripping Mods tease open the question of whether or not the UK is being put through the shredder by the men at the top. Spoiler: Yes, yes it is. You'll come out of the cinema ragin', just like you ruddy well should be.
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