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Fergie MacDonald tributes paid after his death at 86
Tributes have been paid to renowned accordionist Fergie MacDonald after his death today at the age of 86.
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Orkney Folk Festival 2024: Everything you need to know
Orkney Folk Festival is returning for a 41st outing. Here is everything you need to know about the May event.
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Will Romesh Ranganathan make a go of Radio 2's Saturday morning show?
I rather wished that Romesh Ranganathan had kicked off his new Saturday morning Radio 2 show last week with a proper controversial hip hop banger. Something by N.W.A. maybe, or a Geto Boys deep c...
A word to the haters: leave the new McCartney-Lennon duo alone, please
They are the scions of pop’s most influential and magisterial collaboration. Coursing through the DNA of James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon are the helix-linked chromosomes of the men whose co...
Highland music festival to celebrate Scotland’s native rainforests
A chamber music festival in the Highlands is to celebrate Scotland’s native rainforests with a world premiere by a local composer.
Greg Hemphill on his new TV role in BBC comedy Dinosaur
If there was ever a role that was made for Greg Hemphill, it is that of an embarrassing dad.
10 Scottish gigs to blow your mind in May - and where to get tickets
The son of Ian Dury has carved a distinctive, dark, thrilling musical career that has seen him increasingly emerge from his father’s huge shadow. With its spoken word narratives over funk and h...
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Look out those shoulder pads, Sounds of the 80s live show is coming
The radio presenter was sacked by the BBC, all part of a cull of older presenters of the time. But where the likes of major talents such as Steve Wright and Simon Mayo migrated onto Radio 2, Gary...
Still Game star spotted in new Deadpool and Wolverine Trailer
Scots comedian and star of Still Game Greg Hemphill features in the new trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine.
Scots band dedicate single to student who died in Spanish Civil War
Band of academics to release single dedicated to student who died in Spanish Civil War
The Herald Diary: Bantering with batman
Comic-book writer Mark Millar is a chit-chatty chap
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David Tennant a triumph as play transfers to small screen
Good Starring David Tennant (BBC4, Sunday, 10pm) brings a filmed performance of CP Taylor’s modern classic to the small screen. This is the National Theatre production that marked Tennant’s t...
Crime drama Granite Harbour returns with a bang, says Hannah Donaldson
Granite Harbour’s debut run in 2022 proved popular among viewers, garnering 7.6 million streams on BBC iPlayer. What can we expect this time around?
George Wyllie's Wyllieum opens in Greenock - what can we see there?
A new museum dedicated to the life, work, legacy and quirky vision of one of Scotland’s best-loved artists opens next weekend overlooking his beloved Clyde estuary and close to where he spent m...
Peter Serafinowicz on bringing Brian Butterfield to the stage
Peter Serafinowicz speaks to The Herald about his varied career, bringing Brian Butterfield to the stage and whether he should 'get a real job'
What a pair of Twits! Greg James and Chris Smith's ableist comments
I recently came across a video promoting the new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book, The Twits. It featured Greg James and Chris Smith discussing how they might go about creating the most “revol...
Greg Hemphill's new Glasgow comedy Dinosaur fails to catch light
Nina, whose cringeworthy father is played by Greg Hemphill, is a likeable sort. There are no unlikeable characters in Dinosaur, though a fair few are unbelievable. But like I said, it is glossy,...
Glasgow University Professor Willy Maley on cancer diagnosis
Literature Professor Willy Maley was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer last year, he immediately reduced his word count.
James, by Percival Everett, is the stuff of Indiana Jones
James Percival Everett Mantle, £20 Review by Rosemary Goring “You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter.�...
Sunset Song, Dundee Rep, Five stars - a mighty take on classic tale
The landscape is everywhere in Morna Young's new version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel. Conceived for Dundee Rep with director Finn Den Hertog, the production sets out its expansive a...
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review
Taylor Swift has released her 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department, here is our review
Why must we assume that events like Aye Write have to be subsidised?
Brian Wilson hits the nail on the head about the use of public subsidy for events. Aye Write has not been “saved”.
What's on in Scottish galleries? 10 shows and exhibitions to visit
This is artist Sukaina Kubba’s first solo exhibition in a UK institution.
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The Blue Nile given Taylor Swift shoutout on Tortured Poets Department
Pop superstar Taylor Swift has referenced cult Glasgow band The Blue Nile on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department
How to find loved ones' lost assets
A Scottish financial advisor is helping bereaved relatives find their loved ones lost assets one forgotten investment at a time.
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The Girls of Slender Means, Lyceum, Edinburgh, Four stars
Take five girls. Put them in the same house together with only one borrowed designer dress to share between them in a world where dreams of poetry, dancing and clothes are on ration, and everyday...
The Young Team author Graeme Armstrong on life beyond the gangs
The madness, as Graeme Armstrong refers to it, was the life he led as a boy embedded in gang culture and its attendant dangers: violence, drink, drugs, criminality.
Lead announced for high-end BBC ALBA crime drama as filming begins
BBC ALBA has revealed the cast for a brand-new crime thriller which will be the biggest and most high-profile Gaelic drama series in the broadcaster’s history.
Glasgow book festival Aye Write is saved - but for who?
One does not wish to be a party-pooper but the “saving” of Aye Write strikes me as being as unconvincing as its original cancellation was unnecessary.
Nan Shepherd's incredible life story told in new play
WHO would have thought that a curious glance at a bank note image of a Scots writer wearing Wonder Woman headgear would result in a powerful, utterly compelling new play?
Glasgow music chief right to back proposal to help venues
Industry figures show support for ticket levy amid alarming rate of venue closures
What's on in Scotland's theatres? Here's 10 to see in April and May
Edinburgh-based playwright Zinnie Harris’s remix of Shakespeare’s Macbeth returns to the Scottish stage after runs in London and New York.
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Pat Collins's Songlines about Irish traveller singers at folk fest
Pat Collins is an Irish film-maker from West Cork who has made over 30 films, many of them documentaries. To date he is best known for Song Of Granite, a film portrait of Irish traditional singer...
Scottish trad music experiencing 'remarkable' resurgence
A new report by VisitScotland has revealed the growing popularity of Scottish traditional music.
Courtney Love reveals how she could have saved Kurt Cobain
WHAT’S the most fun you can have listening to the radio? For the last two weeks it’s been catching Courtney Love’s Women on 6 Music. Stripped across Monday to Thursday at the end of each ni...
Stirling Studios given green light at Forthside site
Stirling is set to take centre stage in Scotland's film and TV industry with the creation of one of the biggest studios in the country.
Aye Write saved after 'unexpected' donation from Euromillions winner
Aye Write will go ahead this year after an “unexpected” donation from the charitable foundation established by the late Euromillions winner, Colin Weir.
Unspun: The Scottish Government has a choice to make on the Fringe
The story of the Fringe is a good one. Back in 1947 when the British Council, the UK Government and Edinburgh’s Lord Provost decided to put on an international festival, a few Edinburgh theatre...
The Hollow Tree by Philip Miller is atmospheric and intriguing
One of those friends has since become Tory MP for the very Durham constituency in which he grew up. On the hard right of his party, Gary Watson is a toxic, Union flag-waving populist
Restless Natives and Trainspotting actor dies aged 64
Restless Natives and Still Game actor Vincent Friell has passed away at the age of 64.
Creative Scotland claw back £67k from 'hardcore' Rein
Creative Scotland has clawed back nearly £68,000 of taxpayers’ cash from a hardcore performance piece, MSPs have been told.
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SNP 'standing idly by' while Scotland's festival scene collapses
Scottish Labour has echoed calls from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a “crisis summit” on the future of the country’s festivals.
Lib Dems attacks Scottish Government over Jazz Bar closure
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has blamed the SNP and Greens for the closure of the Edinburgh Jazz Bar.
Edinburgh Printmakers invites public to add their work to the walls
An art gallery in Edinburgh is inviting the public to add their own work to the walls.
I realised I had a problem: Zutons' Dave McCabe on dealing with demons
REASONS to be cheerful, let’s face it, are difficult to find in 2024. The world’s on fire, Donald Trump is still a thing, and newspapers are attacking the National Trust over a scone recipe. ...
Book review: In the footsteps of the Wordsworths
Esther Rutter was in Japan when it happened. At 21 years old, she had gone to teach English in a rural part of the country and found herself isolated, alienated by the complex pictograms and mult...
10 Scottish Albums that need to be rediscovered
So, here we go, 10 Scottish albums worth rediscovering. Of course this is a totally partial, subjective list picked for effect, and on a hiding to nothing. But that’s the fun of it, right?
Morna Young on Sunset Song: We didn’t want to shy away from the trauma
MORNA Young was certainly doing backflips in her mind when Dundee Rep’s artistic director Andrew Panton called with an idea; would she be interested in adapting Sunset Song?
