As a true rock’n’roll survivor, Iggy Pop has defied the very laws of nature night after night from the 60s to the present day. I’ve seen him sacrifice himself onstage countless times over ...

The world's biggest arts festival gets underway in less than two months, and today marks the launch of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 programme. This year’s event is set to be one of the ...

Cream of the crop, pick of the litter, top bananas. Call them what you will, but here they are: our Hot 100 countdown of those who made their mark on Scotland’s cultural scene over the last 12 ...

The literary market is currently in the grip of a fantasy-romance craze. Love, with a liberal dollop of magic, is all the rage. In the midst of this hype, Francesca Simon’s Salka refuses to ...

With just four weeks until launch, Hidden Door has announced its festival timings plus a new tranche of acts. Set in the 15.5-acre Paper Factory site located in Edinburgh’s Maybury Quarter, the ...

Near the end of Michael Pedersen’s Boy Friends, a 2022 ‘memoir of joy, grief and male friendship’, he details first encountering the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse. The Portobello poet had ...

Last week we traversed dense rainforests of Edinburgh Festival news, clambering over thickets of announcements, machete-smashing our way through A-list acts and climbing vines over new venues (Is ...

No, ‘Breaking Thru The Interstellar’ is not another Katy Perry roasting (although give the internet enough time and it could be). Instead, it’s the majestic opening track on Andy Bell’s ...

I've previously dismissed Ignacio Lopez as a little lightweight, a crowd-pleasing stand-up for sure, but one generally content to trade in superficial observations about the British from his ...

UPDATE: The ticket on-sale time and date has moved to 10am on Friday 23 May. Tickets for the presale will begin at 10am on Wednesday 21 May. At time of writing, no reason was given for the change ...

Bleach Lab have announced at tour of the UK for November 2025. Tickets for the shows go on sale at 10am on Friday 25 April. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a detailed list of the band’s ...

Don’t be fooled by that exclamation mark. While spoken-word veteran Luke Wright’s latest show riffs on, subverts and interrogates the concept of ‘joy’, this is not a piece for anyone ...