Flyer on the Fringe
Walking Heads is looking for friendly, fun and energetic folk to help us promote and sell Edinburgh Comedy Tour during the Fringe festival. […]
Jukebox Journeys Part 2 – Nice N Sleazy
In the second of our Jukebox Journeys series, Benny Robb visits one of Glasgow's most vibrant venues to sample it's range of refreshments and investigate another of the 'best-ever' jukeboxes featured on our Glasgow Music Tour
Shutter art brings a touch of magic to Leith Walk
When the shutters come down the shop is closed but something magical happens in the street outside. At least it feels as if there could be a touch of magic about the ‘after hours’ Shutter Project which will be launched during LeithLate. Not least because the first shop shutter to spring into new life belongs to The Gamesmaster… […]
Walking the Walk with LeithLate
“Leith’s great and more people need to know that. Hopefully, by attending LeithLate, they’ll start to love Leith as much as I do.” Edinburgh is not short of festivals but the multi-arts event organised by Morvern Cunningham with The Skinny as media partners is something different. Celebrating creative life in what is now surely the capital’s most interesting street, LeithLate returns for a second year on Thursday 28 June when a night of quirky invention will spread along Leith Walk. […]
Light shows in the dark
There are compensations for long dark nights. Take a walk down Edinburgh’s Victoria Street and you will find a sudden blaze of coloured light that stops you in your tracks. Astrid Jaekel’s Curtain-Twitchers is a dazzling moment in winter darkness and that’s just what the artist intends. […]
Is the future in our pockets?
“Looking back it was a prophetic moment though I did not know it at the time. Almost 14 years ago I covered a Scottish Enterprise conference on the future of Scotland. At that time I did not possess a mobile phone let alone imagine what it might be capable of doing.” In this guest blog, Walking Heads research director Fay Young takes us back to the future… […]
Unearthing secrets of the city
Quick questions: Where will you find Glasgow’s ‘killer jukebox’? Which silent movie star made his debut at the Panopticon? Why was ‘Wanton Lizzie’ exiled from Edinburgh – and where was she exiled to? […]