Top Ten Events 17-24 May: Stag and Dagger, Simian Mobile Disco + ECA Fashion Show |
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THE WEEK AHEAD...We're all over the joint this weekend. Just about our favourite game of musical dot-to-dot, Stag and Dagger, kicks things off – getting us hopping from venue-to-venue catching all the best bits (erm, obviously our very own Skinny Stage). Boasting aside, we'll also be heading to Dundee for the annual Degree Show shenanigans, and then Edinburgh College of Art for the Fashion, Performance Costume, and Textile graduates annual Fashion Show, before doing wrong things on the Sabbath at Optimo's run in with Simian Mobile Disco. And that's just for starters... PICKS O' THE WEEKVarious venues, Glasgow
Sat 19 May, various times, £17.50 here
Now a firm – and favourite – fixture on Glasgow's spring calendar, the one-ticket, multi-venue, blue-arsed fly inducing export that is Stag and Dagger takes over Weegieland with a suitably eclectic line-up set across multiple city centre venues: O2 ABC, CCA, Nice 'n' Sleazy, The Art School, Stereo, Chambre 69, and Captain's Rest (full venue-by-venue line-up here). And, much to our excitement, we're hosting the Stereo stage, where Forest Swords, EMA, Bear In Heaven, and Miaoux Miaoux (aka Julian Corrie's perfectly layered pop project) bring the musical joys. Read our chat with Mr Corrie here. DJCAD, Dundee
Sat 19-Sun 27 May, 10am-6pm daily (10am-4pm weekends), Free
Duncan of Jordanstone host the annual Degree Show offering, displaying the fruits of the graduates' labour – taking in some 300 students from all 11 undergraduate programmes, throughout the two buildings and fourteen floors that comprise DJCAD. So, yes, that's a whole lotta art. And, in honour of the occasion, Mungo's Hi Fi host a Degree Show clubber's special down't Reading Rooms, with their usual heavyweight selections helped along by MC Soom T. Details here. Sub Club, Glasgow
Sun 20 May, 11pm, £8 on the door
Messeurs JD Twitch and JG Wilkes pull out the big guns for their new monthly Optimo Presents night, which takes place a week earlier than usual this month (keep up, people). For it, they're handing over the reins to electronic duo par excellence, Simian Mobile Disco (aka James Ford and James Shaw, pictured), who take to the DJ decks for a set of mixed electronics and hard techno. With a bit of luck they'll also showcase a track or two from their new album, Unpatterns, which drops a few days earlier. Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
Wed 23-Fri 25 May, various times, £15 here
More art school graduate offerings, as the The ECA's Fashion, Performance Costume and Textile graduating students host their annual showcase of work (including Jackie McLardie, pictured piece). They'll be taking their creations to a catwalk setting for a series of colourful multimedia shows (various times, 23-25 May), and, marking the college's recent merger with the University of Edinburgh, this year they'll be held in the elegant surrounds of Old College's Playfair Library. See our exclusive preview of the collections here. Mono, Glasgow
Thu 24 May, 8pm, £5 on the door
Glasgow's Mono go about celebrating 35 of years of live gigging from The Fall – who played their first gig way back on May 23, 1977 – for which they're inviting a host of local bands and artists to take to the venue for a big ol' bill of renditions. Amongst them will be Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers, Casual Sex, Silk Cut, and Gropetown paying homage with a selection of covers of Fall classics, before Muscles of Joy, and the ominous-sounding Spicy Colin take to the decks. HMV Picture House, Edinburgh
Sun 20 May, noon-5pm, £2 (£1)
Former Selfridges stylist Judy Berger set up Judy's Affordable Vintage Fair back in 2005 (i.e. it's got the official fashionista seal of approval), and this week it returns to Edinburgh with a hand-selected jumbo lot of 40 stalls selling vintage goodies, offering up a mix of old-school threads and accessories for ladies and gents, alongside homewares, collectibles, haberdashery, and handmade crafts. And, since summer is a-coming, there'll be plenty summery dresses, shorts, and tees. Plus, 'like' their Facebook page here for a chance to win 50 quid to spend on the day. The Stand, Edinburgh
Tue 22 May, 8.30pm, £12 here
A man who likes to take on a project and tackle it via comedy (we particularly enjoyed his year spent birdwatching with his Dad – which became his stand-up show, Birdwatching), Alex Horne takes to Edinburgh's The Stand for his new show, Seven Years In The Bathroom, a stat-based piece of stand-up in which he attempts to squeeze the average human's life into about two hours. That'll include eighteen months looking for lost things, two weeks kissing, and, yes, seven bloody years in the bathroom. Also playing Glasgow's The Stand the following evening. 8. Limbo
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
Sat 19 May, 7.30pm, £6 here
Now well into the fifth year of hosting their rather ace gig-in-a-club night, the Limbo crew return for a favourites party night – for which they've invited back a trio of their most-loved live acts to play on one bill. Headering up proceedings is Glasgow's own sonic boomer, Jonnie Common (pictured), who'll be joined by his new live band, alongside sets from Mitchell Museum (fresh from their brief hiatus), and Over The Wall's Gav Prentice – who hasn't graced the Limo stage since 2009 – presenting his shiny, new solo offerings. Various venues, Glasgow
Thu 17-Sun 20 May, Various times, Mostly free
Southside Film Festival returns for its second year, bringing a carefully-selected programme of films to an area that's somewhat cinematically starved for much of the year. So, yes, Southsiders' rejoicing aside, this year opens with local filmmaker Peter Mullan's NEDS (pictured), kicking off a packed schedule of films, exhibitions, workshops, and installations. We are particularly looking forward to the perfect pairing of Govanhill Baths and a programme of shorts about swimming (entitled Swimming Shorts, obviously). Full programme here. 10. Springtime
Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Sat 19 May, 7pm, £2.50 here
As Mayfesto 2012 draws to a close, digital media and live theatre combine for Springtime, where a performance in both Edinburgh and Egypt will happen simultaneously, shared with the respective audiences through the wonder of Skype. For it, the two groups of Scottish Arabs and Egyptians will explore the similarities and differences of their lives, with the conversation unfolding in real time over the course of the performance. So, yes, it could pretty much meander in any direction, but that, of course, is the whole inspired point of the thing. ADDITIONAL
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