What's On Scotland 4-11 Feb: Fleetmac Wood
We're pretty much equidistant between emancipation from Dry January and that ever polarising Valentine's day; now's your opportunity to gulp craft beer with Brooklyn Brewery, shimmy to Fleetwood Mac belters and celebrate the hilarious retreat of Roosh V.
Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on in the week ahead. From gigs, plays and exhibitions to spoken word and pop up cake shops, we give you the insider's guide to things to do in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee every Thursday morning.
Fleetmac Wood: I See Your Gypsy
The Mash House, Edinburgh. 4 Feb, 8pm
Stereo, Glasgow, 5 Feb, 10.30pm
Contrary to what the name might suggest, this isn't some funky dad / groovy aunt tribute act. Surely Lisa Jelliffe and Alex Oxley (pictured) are too fabulously coiffed for you to have assumed such a thing? Fleetmac Wood throw parties all over the world, from Glasto to Burning Man, NYC to San Fran. ISYG nights are soundtracked exclusively by Fleetwood Mac remixes, edits and original tracks. A pick'n'mix bag of sonic nostalgia, if you will.
Public Service Broadcasting
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. 8 Feb, 7pm
The oddball beats of Public Service Broadcasting – a London duo made up of J. Willgoose, Esq and his drumming companion Wrigglesworth (pictured)– make their way to The Queen's Hall for a rescheduled date (postponed from last Nov), bringing to life tracks from their unique concept-art LPs, made by sampling old public information films and archive material and setting them to new music. Photo: David P Scott
Tuff Love Album Launch
Stereo, Glasgow. 5 Feb, 7pm
Following a busy ol' 2015 – which included supporting Ride on their first UK tour in 20 years – female-fronted fuzzy guitar pop trio Tuff Love (pictured) take to the hometown setting of Glasgow's Stereo to launch their debut LP Resort, a compilation of EPs Love Junk, Love Dross and Love Dregs. There'll be a selection of special guests, followed by a post-party with the TYCI DJs and DJ Sycophantasy. Photo: Tom Johnson
Cock
Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 9-20 Feb, 7.45pm
Marking its first UK staging since its Royal Court premiere six years ago, Tron Theatre present the Scottish premiere of their production of Mike Bartlett’s Cock – an oft-humourous play about the breakdown of a long-term gay relationship, pitted with cockfights and indecision. Also at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, 25-27 Feb.
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Brooklyn Brewery Ghost Bottle Night
Spit/Fire, Edinburgh. 11 Feb, 7pm
Craft beer appreciators, gird thy taste buds. Ever heard of a Ghost Bottle? Experimental and adventurous, they're Brooklyn Brewery's exclusive brews, unavailable to the public outside of special events. Head to the fiery belly of Spit/Fire (pictured) for a taster evening with Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver, underscored by live jazz and with a side of smokey BBQ grub.
Balkanarama ft. Baghdaddies
The Art School, Glasgow. 6 Feb, 10.30pm
Your first of only five opportunities to get chin deep in the sequinned groove-fest that is Balkanarama, it'd be silly to let this one belly dance by as you hide from the winter winds. Baghdaddies are stopping and serving up a dollop of their gorgeous Balkan beats, along with DJ sets, live visuals, actual belly dancing, fire breathing... oh, and free plum brandy. An essential.
Photo: @photonbrush
Roosh V Protests
George Square, Glasgow. 6 Feb, 8pm; Grassmarket, Edinburgh. 6 Feb, 8pm
If you're lucky, you'll have made it through 2015 without hearing the diatribes of pick-up 'artist' and rape advocate Roosh V. Unfortunately, bacteria multiplies; this week we saw Roosh V and his merry band of misogynists 'Return of Kings' planning worldwide tribal meetups [sic], threatening any female attendees with 'furious retributions'. Turned out the Scottish public just weren't having it, planning protests at each of the tribal meeting points, and (quite hilariously) administering Roosh V with "more threats from Glasgow than anywhere else combined". That, along with threats from hacker group Anonymous culminated in the cancelling of all planned meet-ups. Is it a ruse, or did our gorgeously terrifying Glaswegian public bring down a misogynist cult? Either way, liberation demonstrations will continue to take place in George Square, Glasgow, and Covenanters Memorial in Edinburgh's Grassmarket. Let's show 'em.
Get Your Own Back
The Stand, Glasgow. 7 Feb, 3pm
Admit it, the chance to witness a Get Your Own Back-style gunging is essentially what's been missing from your cultural calendar. Well, ne'er fear, as Glasgow's The Stand introduce all-new show Gunge! A Show With Gunge In It – a gameshow in which host Lee Kyle (pictured) invites two teams of comics to win nothing at all, except the joy of watching the losing captain get gunged.
Queens of Syria
CCA, Glasgow. 10 Feb, 6pm
GRAMNet (Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network) continues its film series at CCA with a screening of Yasmin Fedda's doc Queens of Syria – the story of 50 women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together to create and perform their own version of The Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy about the plight of women in war.
How The Light Gets In
The Traverse, Edinburgh. 6 Feb, 6.05pm
Manipulate festival rounds off this year's programme with work-in-progress piece How the Light Gets In – as part of its Snapshot: Artists @ Work series – a collaborative performance and research project about compulsive hoarding, created by theatre-maker Laura Cameron-Lewis, singer Camille O’Sullivan, and stage designer Shona Reppe.
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