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A proper Glasgow debut was a self-set milestone of the Russian Ninjas…
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There’s a lot of talking about walking this week. Monday’s Active Travel conference in Edinburgh coincided with the start of National Walk to Work Week, the very active travel campaign organised by Living Streets.
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At the start of the 10 week countdown to Scotland’s biggest rock festival, music blogger Nina Glencross tracks the bands who are out there, getting the T in the Park show on the road.
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It’s an amazing show: dance, music, art, dresses – and quite a few hats! And through it all, the long, long love story of Fergus and Meg.
Introducing Fergus and Meg, one of three overlapping exhibitions at the Fergusson Gallery in Perth, marks the meeting of the artist and the dancer in [...]
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“The venue brings events and activities that are rare to this area. I was really shocked not to have heard of it before”. Gemma Brown shares some newly discovered home truths.
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“People come to Edinburgh because it’s ‘nice’, not because it’s exciting. But I think the city is tantalisingly close to solving this problem.” That was Rupert Thomson programme director of Summerhall talking to The List about Edinburgh’s chronic shortage of live music venues last year.
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We did it. Glasgow Music Tour is the first UK tour to go live on a new international platform for audio tours. So we’re up there with Paris, San Francisco, New York …Barras meet the Bohemian Slums of Montmartre!
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Summer seems a long way off but as snow falls Gemma Brown thinks warming thoughts of a creative event which has a very simple aim: “Making Scotland Happier”. Let’s all go Doune the Rabbit Hole.
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We had some last minute panic. What if it snowed? What if no-one turned up? How would we stop people filling in all the answers in a bar without setting foot on the streets? And where would we find a poison bottle?
“If you threw a dart at a map of Sauchiehall Street, you would almost certainly hit a cinema”, says Gordon Barr. We don’t have a dart to hand but we do have a map. And Gordon to tell us stories of fine old picture palaces with fine old names – Regal, Gaumont, La Scala – [...]
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