Vienna is the loveliest city. It’s as simple as that: it is a city of palatial, immaculate townhouses; of sprawling…
Arts Feature: The Jungle Books
No one can deny the healing power of books. Stories, mere words on the page, can transport the reader into…
Album Review: James Bay – Chaos and the Calm
On Thursday 6th May, 1937, the German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg exploded while attempting to moor on its dock…
Arts Review: Joan Eardley – Time and Place
Joan Eardley, Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery, 5 June – 24th October Situated in the brilliant, newly-renovated Clydebank Museum and…
Film Review: Ant-Man
A curious mix of fanfare, hype and concern shadows each shiny new induction in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (or…
Live Review: Evans the Death
Glad Cafe – 21/07/2015 Local trio Poor Things draw in an enthusiastic crowd for their support slot. With an album…
Arts Review: Merchant of Venice
Dir. Gordon Barr, Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens, 16th July – 1st August 2015 It’s all a swindle… Nestled in pre-war decadence,…
Album Review: Elvis Depressedly – New Alhambra
Internet shoegaze sensations and fans of a forced pun, Elvis Depressedly (they have a song titled, wittily, ‘Disgraceland’) have released…
Film Review: The Legend of Barney Thomson
In one of the more memorable scenes of Robert Carlyle’s directorial début, the heads of a Glasgow police branch huddle…
Album Review: The Landed Gentry – Lyle Christine
I’m in two halves about this album. Probably because the album itself is in two halves: the good half and…
