Music

Pure Love - Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Fri 8 Feb 2013

High energy live show from former Gallows frontman Frank Carter and co

Gallows had built up a reputation for intense, fearsome live shows. They were the leaders of the UK’s hardcore scene leaving a trail of trashed venues in their wake. Each gig an explosion of feral punk rock, flailing bodies, blood and gore. Picked up by…

Nature Boys - Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Sat 2 Feb

Sweat-drenched show from the punk foursome

Cameron Shields, Nature Boy’s eccentric frontman, walks on stage to find an audience already buzzing from the support act’s performance – Pirate Sons. Shields shows up wearing a tweed blazer, and the rest of the 4-piece band have that H&M men’s section…

Fatboy Slim, Madeon and Steve Aoki added to RockNess 2013 line-up

Julian Bashmore, Skream and Benga, Above & Beyond and more also confirmed

RockNess organisers have announced Fatboy Slim as their ‘very special guest’ in their latest additions to the festival’s already extensive line up. Returning to his spiritual home, he sent this message to his ‘RockNessers’: 'RockNess, I’ve missed…

Dinosaur Jr. - The Arches, Glasgow, Wed 30 Jan

Refreshing reunion from the influential 90s indie stalwarts

Dinosaur Jr. are one of those rare anomalies that seem to defy all logic based on the awe-inspiring precedent that they set at the start of their illustrious career. Not just content with a cash-in reunion tour - like many of their peers - a flurry of…

The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema extended for 2013

Festival screenings will feature Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy and more

Scotland’s only silent film festival is ready for its third year in the beautiful Hippodrome ‘picture palace’ in Bo’ness. The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema has been extended to a five day event for the first time, with a flurry of musical…

Watch Beach House's short film 'Forever Still'

The performance, filmed live in the Texan desert, was inspired by Pink Floyd's 'Live at Pompeii'

Beach House have unveiled their short film ‘Forever Still’, a four song live performance that was directly influenced by Pink Floyd’s ‘Live at Pompeii’ with a similarly spectacular setting. Filmed in the stunning Texas desert around El Paso, the…

Biffy Clyro, System of a Down and Fall Out Boy join Reading and Leeds 2013 line-ups

The bands join Eminem, Alt-J, Foals, Jake Bugg, Bring Me The Horizon and Deftones

Reading and Leeds festivals 2013 have announced Biffy Clyro as their newest edition to headline acts. The rock-trio will be joining Eminem in what appears to be a colourful list of headliners so far. As well as Biffy, the festivals have announced…

Interview with Denver Dalley, guitarist with Conor Oberst project Desaparecidos

The 'disappeared ones' reappear in Glasgow on Sat 9 Feb

Nebraskan post-hardcore band Desaparecidos, fronted by Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, are heading to the Arches. It's one of their first shows since getting back together last year, after breaking up in 2002. Denver, the guitarist, has been with them since…

Mike Heron & Trembling Bells with Hapton Crags - Celtic Connections, Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 24 Jan 2013

Psych folk line-up gives a glimpse into an electric Eden

Nothing lifts the soul quite like The Incredible String Band. This is why you must never swallow the line that ISB were some kind of 1960s novelty outfit, a crowd of free-love Catweazles seeing salamanders in the bonfire. They weren’t. Well, they were a…

Fleetwood Mac announce 2013 UK tour dates

2013 European tour includes London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow

Fleetwood Mac have announced dates for a 2013 European tour, which includes four UK dates in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. The tour marks the 35th anniversary of their 1977 album Rumours, undergoing a rennaissance thanks to being reissued…

Headline acts announced for Electric Frog Easter Weekender 2013

Simian Mobile Disco, Todd Edwards and Pan-Pot top a line-up of electronica for the Glasgow mini-fest

This year’s Electric Frog Easter Weekender has confirmed Simian Mobile Disco, Todd Edwards and Pan-Pot as its headliners. The event will be held in Glasgow’s SWG3 and will span the weekend of Sat 30-Sun 31 Mar 2013, running from 6pm-2am on both…

Elton John confirmed to headline at Bestival 2013

The singer joins MIA, Franz Ferdinand, The Flaming Lips, The Knife, Bombay Bicycle Club & The Roots

Bestival organisers have announced today that Elton John will be headlining the notorious Isle of Wight Festival in September 2013. He joins a line-up that features Bestival exclusives MIA and Franz Ferdinand. The festival is celebrating its tenth…

Example, Basement Jaxx and more announced for RockNess 2013

Madness, Vaccines, Bombay Bicycle Club, Ellie Goulding, Jessie Ware and more also announced

Example, RockNess and Madness have been announced as three of the acts appearing as part of Rock Ness 2013. Example is best known for his tracks ‘Kickstarts‘ and ‘Changed the Way You Kissed Me’, while Basement JAXX are returning with rumours of a new…

A History of Classical Music: Part 3 - The Early Renaissance

Alex Johnston's series of articles outlining the history of classical music - with Spotify playlist

The Renaissance. Right. Remind me again? The European Renaissance! The remarkable flowering of humanist culture that happened between the 14th and 16th centuries! Oil paintings that look like the real thing! Great writing that's not in Latin!

The Who bring Quadrophenia tour to Glasgow's SECC

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend announce special live album tour for June 2013

The Who have announced a UK tour of their album Quadrophenia, which calls in at Glasgow’s SECC on Wed 12 Jun. The surviving members of the band, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, have announced they will be playing the entirety of the iconic mod album…

Eminem to perform in Glasgow in summer 2013

The American rapper will be appearing as part of the new Glasgow Summer Sessions concerts

American rapper Marshall Bruce Mathers III, better known as Eminem, has been announced as the first headliner of DF Concerts & Events Glasgow Summer Sessions series of concerts. Eminem will be performing on Tuesday the 20th of August at Bellahouston…

StAnza, Fife Jazz Festival and other events to continue in wake of Byre Theatre's closure

The St Andrews theatre is set to close on Thu 31 Jan; scheduled shows will go on in new venues

The Byre Theatre, St Andrews, is being forced to shut down because of its financial difficulties. The theatre has struggled to cover its costs in recent years, with problems exacerbated with the withdrawal of funding by the former Scottish Arts Council…

Spring culture preview 2013

Nick Evans: Solar Eyes Evans' forthcoming solo show features a new set of his striking amorphic white plaster sculptures. The most ambitious is a large architectural complex which mimics the geometry of an Aztec temple. Evans' fascination with motifs…

Glasgow Film Festival 2013: Programme highlights

Including The Place Beyond the Pines, Aftershock and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing

Simon Munnery: Fylm-Makker A new, highly inventive live show from comedian Simon Munnery. Getting its first outing at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Fylm-Makker now comes to Glasgow as part of a UK-wide tour. It’s an innovative mix of music, animation…

Auricle Ensemble to give live airing to Aaron Copland's score for The City

The piece was created as a soundtrack to Lewis Mumford's 1939 documentary of the same name

As New England rural idyll gives way to polluted, disease-ridden urban city life, with fumes and traffic everywhere, Aaron Copland’s score for The City is wonderfully evocative of the images portrayed on the big screen. When first seen, it wasn’t just…

Ex-Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie on his career so far and what's in store

The shoegazing dream-pop musician is currently touring with the Robin Guthrie Trio

‘To be honest there’s very little interest in me in the UK,’ says composer of haunting instrumental soundtracks, co-founder of the Bella Union label, Grangemouth man, prodigious swearer and yes, former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie. ‘You know what the…

Exposure: Stubborn Heart

Luca Santucci and Ben Fitzgerald are the duo behind the synth act with a heart

Assumed to be a couple of kids from south London after a white label of their zeitgeist-seizing track ‘Need Someone’ circulated among tastemakers, Stubborn Heart is in fact two thirtysomething electronic music veterans finally bringing a long-gestating…

The Punk Syndrome

Music documentary following Finnish punk outsiders Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät

A sleeper hit on the film festival circuit, The Punk Syndrome follows the trials and tribulations of Finland’s Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, a punk band whose members have learning disabilities and their rise in popularity within the local crust-punk scene…

TeenCanteen - Noble’s Bar, Edinburgh, Sat 29 Dec

On the last Saturday of 2012, with Leithers gathering to get in training for Hogmanay in one of the area’s better locals, it's not the situation where you might expect to experience one of Edinburgh’s finer prospects. ‘I think that’s the first time…

Monoganon - Mono, Glasgow, Thu 10 Jan

Charmingly ramshackle psych-folk performance from John B McKenna and co

Wandering onstage to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme, then spending ages tuning up, deliberately awkwardly, Monoganon are a glorious curveball. Gigs by the Glasgow-formed quartet are relatively rare, as singer/songwriter John B McKenna lives in Malmö…