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Preview of 2012 - Arika12
6 Jan 2012
Mind expanding, cross-art discussion festival from the INSTAL and Kill Your Timid Notion creators
'At a conference or festival, the best discussions are often the ones you have at the bar,’ says Barry Esson, co-organiser of Arika12. So, in the hope of stimulating some thought-provoking and who knows, maybe even life-enhancing discussion, he and…
Preview of 2012 - The best events this year
9 Jan 2012
Featuring the Cultural Olympiad, The Dark Knight Rises, WU LYF, Glasgow International and more
It’s 2012, but fear not, things aren’t as bad as they seem. Before you decide to occupy government property, or smash a brick through Dixons, take heart in the folklore of a simpler age. For when times are black, you can always rely on the comfort of…
Preview of 2012 - Emeli Sandé
6 Jan 2012
The Scottish chart-topper aims to release a hit album in 2012
Whenever Emeli Sandé gets a chance to stop and think, she says, the journey she’s already been on in her life still has her pinching herself. ‘To think that three years ago I was sitting in a lecture theatre in Glasgow learning about anatomy,’ she says…
Preview of 2012 - King Lear
6 Jan 2012
New Citizens Theatre boss Dominic Hill brushes up his Shakespeare
Take on the Citizens Theatre and you take on the past. Any artistic director of the Glasgow institution can only be aware of the building’s history. Opened as the Royal Princess’s Theatre in 1848, it became home to James Bridie’s Citizens’ company in…
Preview of 2012 - Brave
6 Jan 2012
Pixar’s highland fling has a lot of heart
After dropping the ball with Cars 2 last summer – the only one of their 12 feature-length releases so far to have been deemed a bit lacklustre – the award-winning animation house will be looking to score big again with Brave. Set in the misty and…
Preview of 2012 - Errors
6 Jan 2012
Rock Action's math-rock heroes return home
The Glasgow band have been reduced from four to three as their guitarist has left to become a full-time dentist (leaving Steev Livingstone to get to grips with his six string again). Yet, despite this setback new album Have Some Faith in Magic (Rock…
Preview of 2012 - Fascinating Mummies
6 Jan 2012
Exhibition of Egyptian death rituals and paraphenalia
If, by any chance, you happened to be in Edinburgh in 1988, and at school, there was a very good chance you went on a trip to see the Gold of the Pharaohs exhibition at the City Art Centre. It was a big deal, up there with the Glasgow Garden Festival in…
Preview of 2012 - Millennium Trilogy comics
6 Jan 2012
Scottish crime author Denise Mina adapts Stieg Larsson’s bestselling classics
There’s not a lot left to say about Stieg Larsson. The three homegrown film adaptations of the late Swedish author’s novels – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – along with David…
Preview of 2012 - Martin Creed: All the Bells
6 Jan 2012
Turner Prize winner invites Brits to ring in the Olympics
Controversial he may be but conceptual artist Martin Creed has always been brutally honest with the paying public. His most famous work to date, Work No. 227: the lights going on and off, did exactly what it said on the tin and helped the Glasgow-raised…
Preview of 2012 - Major Lazer
6 Jan 2012
Tsunami of sound from Diplo and Switch's musical alter-ego
Brace yourselves for some sub-heavy electro dancehall from Diplo and Switch as they unleash their collective alter ego Major Lazer: ‘A Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed…
Preview of 2012 - Irvine Welsh's Skagboys
6 Jan 2012
Renton, Sick Boy et al are revisited in this Trainspotting prequel
Wonder how Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and co got to be the drugged-up life-rejecting Leith loons in Trainspotting? Well, wonder no more, as the publication of Skagboys brings us a bit more background on the individual and social circumstances revolving…
Preview of 2012 - Django Unchained
6 Jan 2012
Quentin Tarantino flexes his Western muscles with Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio
Quentin Tarantino has already given us his heist movie (Reservoir Dogs), his take on blaxploitation (Jackie Brown), his war film (Inglourious Basterds), horror (Death Proof), kung fu (Kill Bill 1 & 2) and of course his crime thriller (Pulp Fiction).
