Londoner Josie Long’s wide-eyed humour has been a breath of fresh air ever since she won the If.comedy Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006. Malcolm Jack caught up with her ahead of a show at the Glasgow...
Tommy Reilly can still hardly believe he won Channel 4’s Orange Unsigned Act contest. Now the 19-year-old Glaswegian has a record deal and, he tells Kenny Hodgart, plans for plenty of gigs NOBODY commented on the similarity but I for...
Artist David Shrigley tells Graeme Virtue why he invited art students to his Glasgow studio as they prepared for a Ctrl.Alt.Shift exhibition based on the conflict in Colombia Though he was born in Macclesfield, David Shrigley is very much a...
Girl power is back, but similarities between We Rock Like Girls Don't and the Spice Girls end there. This rocking duo stands out from the crowd, looking and sounding different to most girl bands in the charts. Originally a trio,...
For an antidote to the ageing nature of Scottish golf you need look no further than a club with its own course in Coatbridge where the average age is no more than 10. It might be just six holes and...
IN the futuristic, multi-faith fantasy world of Meanwhile City, the masked Jonathan Preest (Ryan Philippe) stalks the streets and rooftops, where he growlingly narrates a detective noir in between beating up hordes of goons. In parallel with this is a...
Every aspiring indie band on the planet claims to have eclectic influences; wide-ranging musical interests that make them stand out from the crowd. Mostly this is pure flannel - but, in the case of Glasgow's finest new outfit in years,...
An emotional Duffy stole the honours from Coldplay at last night's dazzling Brit awards ceremony, winning three of the four prizes for which she was nominated. While Coldplay grabbed the headlines across the Atlantic earlier this month, winning three Grammys...
More than 11,000 young people throughout Scotland are to benefit from improved sports facilities, including new 3G synthetic pitches, as part of the latest element of the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities scheme. The first 19 projects, part of the...