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As Seen on Screen: Glasgow and Edinburgh in Film
As Glasgow Film Festival enters its final throes, our Glasgow and Edinburgh Venues editors take the opportunity to highlight a selection of visitable local venues that have appeared on the big screen Read more »| 26 Feb 2015 -
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Notes from the Field: Festival Season in Europe and the USA
Warpaint, Daniel Avery and St. Vincent look forward to spending the summer in a field; we preview the best international events, and speak to the top booker at Primavera Sound about legacy bands, rising stars, and the future of the festival in Europe Read more »| 04 Mar 2014 -
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Push Left, Push Right: Liverpool by Bike
One writer celebrates Bike Week by letting herself go in Liverpool’s urban landscape: from brushes with road rage and unlikely characters to unfettered freedom, no route is ever the same Read more »| 17 Jun 2013 -
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Manchester Bike Month: Saddle Up
You don't need to book a getaway to take a trip. Travel together, sustainably, and even, erm, naked during Manchester Bike Month Read more »| 07 Jun 2013 -
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Glasgow Doors Open Day
A good traveller, as someone else is likely to have said, far more eloquently and with much more effective philosophical impact, is not concerned with mere d... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
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Festival Column: Trans Musicales
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales – 'meeting through music', nicely literal) is the winter festival which has garnered the useful reputation for being the... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012
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Festival Column: The Big Tent
The ongoing enviromental crisis is no laughing matter. I mean this literally; try Googling 'environment jokes' by way of coming up with filler for an article... Read more »| 04 Jul 2012 -
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Festival Column: Five of the Best for 2012
A look ahead to five more of the best festivals around Scotland and abroad: Knockengorroch, Hebridean Celtic Festival, Kelburn Garden Party, Benicassim and Thistly Fest. Read more »| 25 May 2012 -
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Festival Column: Brew At The Bog, 5 May
Music and beer have long been easy bedfellows. It is oft reported how the ancient Egyptians, when congregating to praise one of their innumerable gods, would... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
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Go Away: To The Philippines – Edinburgh Style
Eddie Brock and Jack Foottit met waiting tables in an Edinburgh restaurant six years ago. Fed up working for the man, they put their heads and their disparat... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
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Go Away! To the Gili Islands
If you’re ever lucky enough to find yourself in Bali or Lombok in Indonesia – leave. No, not really, but get off the mainland and spend as lon... Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
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Festival Column: The Falls Festival, Tasmania
To me, New Year's Eve is a rubbish night. I almost inevitably find myself switching between the extreme heat of a sweaty party and the extreme cold of Scot... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
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Go Away: To the Papay Gyro Arts Festival
Papa Westray is a remote island, 4 miles long and 1 mile wide just north of Kirkwall in the Orkney Isles. Since February, this tiny island has been the hom... Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
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Bonnie Boat: Isle of Skye
Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, 'Onward!' The sailors cry. Carry the lazy urban dwellers (for just one day, it can't be that hard), over the sea ... Read more »| 29 Aug 2011 -
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Go Away! The Enchanted Forest, Perthshire
And it's not just those KaZantipians who believe in the power of the imagination, some folk in Perthshire do too it appears. They (the Highland Perthshire Co... Read more »| 04 Aug 2011