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Edinburgh Festival 2016 - Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016Edinburgh Book Festival now runs for two weeks each August in Charlotte Square, and get 220,000 visitors in that time. Their bookshop is always worth a visit...
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Edinburgh Festival 2016 - Edinburgh Festival Fringe Theatre
Edinburgh Fringe 2016 - TheatreI've come all the way to Edinburgh and the first two things that I saw were set in a Glasgow school and a Glasgow night club toilet. Quick reviews of a few of the...
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Edinburgh Festival 2016 - Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival 2016I only realised a couple of years ago that the Edinburgh Festival is a whole pile of festivals all happening at the same time. The fringe, the art festival, the...
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Ela Orleans - Circles of Upper and Lower Hell
Ela Orleans - Circles of Upper and Lower Hell - Album launch. Stereo, GlasgowLive gig review, Stereo Cafe Bar, Glasgow 1.9.2016I can't say that I've ever before come away from a concert thinking "I...
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The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus
The Suppliant Women by AeschylusI have previously written about how much I enjoy seeing the works of ancient Greece in our theatres when I wrote about the National Theatre of Scotland re-working The...
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Björk - Hammersmith Apollo. 24th September 2016. Live review
Björk - Hammersmith ApolloLive review. 24th September 2016.In recent years Björk has not played many live concerts outside of festivals, so when I found out that she was playing in London when I...
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Castles of Glasgow
Castles In and Around GlasgowDoes Glasgow have any castles? The whole reason that Edinburgh exists is because 1000 years ago the rocky hill at its centre was the most easily defended place thereabouts....
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The Suppliant Women. Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh , October 2016. Review
The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus. A New Version by David GreigLyceum Theatre, Edinburgh on a sunny October nightAs the new Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, David Greig has begun...
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The Marriage of Figaro - Scottish Opera
The Marriage of Figaro - Scottish Opera, Review, Theatre Royal, Glasgow October 2016.Without having any great knowledge of classical music I have enjoyed going to see Scottish Opera at the Theatre...
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Mark Thomas - The Red Shed.
Mark Thomas - The Red Shed. Tron Theatre, Glasgow. October 2106. ReviewA stage show about a Labour Club in Yorkshire? Strange as it may seem Mark Thomas's skill as a story-teller and performer makes...
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Disappearing Glasgow by Chris Leslie
Disappearing Glasgow by Chris LeslieDisappearing Glasgow is a handsome and hefty book by Chris Leslie, a photographer and filmmaker based in the city. The book and the accompanying videos are a...
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The Asylums In and Around Glasgow
Asylums in Glasgow - The Buildings Where Madness Was ManagedOver the past 200 hundred years the treatment available to people with mental health problems has changed dramatically. In Glasgow the...
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Reeves & Mortimer. 25 Years of the Poignant Moments Tour
Reeves & Mortimer. 25 Years of the Poignant Moments Tour - Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow. 29 November 2016. Live reviewI had originally expected to see Vic and Bob bring their silver jubilee tour to...
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Big Country. A nostalgic gig reviewed.
Big Country. Live gig review. Cottiers, Glasgow, 17th December 2016Big Country - The Seer album. 30th Anniversary TourOn Saturday night I donned my tartan shirt and joined a decent crowd in Cottiers...
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The Sinking of TSS Athenia, September 1939
The Anchor Line and the sinking of TSS AtheniaAs a city Glasgow grew up along the River Clyde, the city and shipping were inseparably connected. The city merchants became wealthy on trade with all...
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Karine Polwart. Wind Resistance. Celtic Connection 2017
Karine Polwart. Wind Resistance. Tron Theatre, January 2017. ReviewKarine Polwart's Wind Resistance was first performed at the Edinburgh International Festival last year, and now finds its way to...
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Franz Kafka's The Trial. An Opera by Phillip Glass
The Trial by Philip Glass. Review. Scottish Opera, Theatre Royal Glasgow, January 2017.For many years I have been a fan of Franz Kafka's books and of the music of Philip Glass. Therefore I was...
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Bombs Over Glasgow On The Night Of The Clydebank Blitz
I recently read a book about Scottish war artists. Although there wasn't a picture of it, the book mentioned a painting called "Bomb Crater, Knightswood" by Ian Fleming, painted after the Clydebank...
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American post-Trump Comedy? Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Glasgow International Comedy Festival ReviewGreg Proops, Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow. March 15 2017Rich Hall, Garage, Glasgow. March 18 2017.Glasgow International Comedy Festival rumbles along again....
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A Play, A Pie and A Pint. - Jocky Wilson Said.
Jocky Wilson Said. Oran Mor, Glasgow. March 2017Jocky Wilson Said by Jane Livingstone and Jonathon Cairney. Theatre review.When Dexy's Midnight Runners appeared on Top of the Pops in 1982 playing their...
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