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SPECTRAL, Hidden Door, Edinburgh 2025.

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Ishmael Ensemble, Hidden Door, Edinburgh, 15.6.25

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Sativa Drummers, Hidden Door, Edinburgh, 14.6.25.

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Not online, but my brief look in The List at Story: Selected Works from Edinburgh Printmakers’ Collection, a greatest hits of the gallery across its various homes since 1967. Running until June 29. edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/viewing-room...

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The voices of experience - Jim Scott & Marlyn Price. Hidden Door @ The Paper Factory, Turnhouse Road, Edinburgh, 14-15.6 The Locker Room as part of We have all been here - now into the light hiddendoorarts.org/event/we-hav... Jim worked in the factory for 39 years; Marlyn for 2 months in 1969

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Johny Pitts chats in The List about After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024, featuring an entire wall of work by Edinburgh photographer the late Sandra George. list.co.uk/news/johny-p... Stills, Edinburgh until June 28. stills.org/exhibitions/...

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New on the Noise of Art… Brian Wilson - Words of One Syllable or Less… open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop... In which I autograph hunt a legend…

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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #95 Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… The Paper Factory: Whitespace: Safari Lounge: Leith Depot: Jazz Bar: Home Bar: Umbrella Music: Studies in Photography: Sett Studios: Whitespace: Banshee Labyrinth: Hibs Social Club: etc… open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop...

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My Scottish Art News chat with Faisal Salah about founding the just opened Palestine Museum Scotland in Edinburgh. flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...

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My Herald review of You Won’t Break My Soul, JD Stewart’s new play about 2 pals in search of lost Beyoncé tickets. Oran Mor, Glasgow as part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint’s lunchtime theatre season until Sat June 14. playpiepint.com/plays/you-wo... www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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My Herald review of Picture You Dead, the latest staging of Peter James’ hugely successful Roy Grace novels, in which our man Grace delves into the world of art forgery. Theatre Royal, Glasgow until Sat June 14th. www.atgtickets.com/shows/pictur... www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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Rest in Power Sly Stone… youtu.be/wj5VODa-eTY?...

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Jeremy Deller and Laura McSorley chat in Scottish Art News about Meet the Gods, last month’s Dundee leg of The Triumph of Art, the nationswide celebration of the 200th anniversary of the National Gallery. flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...

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Big in Japan!!! Care of Gordon Legge who’s on a Springsteen holiday.

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My Herald review of Lear, Ramesh Meyyappan’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s unhinged king. Traverse Theatre Edinburgh only until Sat June 7 www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve... www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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My Herald review of Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed, Richard Baron & Ellie Zeegen’s dramatic love letter to the woman behind her memoir, The Living Mountain. Pitlochry Festival Theatre until June 14. www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/nan... www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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My Herald review of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s astonishing play set on Martin Luther King’s last night on Earth prior to his assassination in April 1968. Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh until June 21. lyceum.org.uk/events/the-m... www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #94 Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Upright Gallery: Royal College of Physicians Gallery: Outhouse: Royal Commonwealth Pool: Sett Studios: Whitespace: More 102: Argyle Bar & Cellar: Wee Red Bar: Leith: Hope City Church: open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop...

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Books I’m Quoted in But Find Out About By Accident #2 Metamorphoses - In Search of Franz Kafka by Karolina Watroba In which a line from my @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of Vanishing Point Theatre Co’s 2020 staging of Kafka’s great novella is picked up on by an Oxford Fellow.

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Ellen Beth Abdi, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 29.5.25. Gorgeous low-key late night jazz/soul sounds from Manchester’s some time backing vocalist with A Certain Ratio & New Order, and now stepping out in her own right with her just released debut album. lnk.to/EllenBethAbd...

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Busy teatime opening full of youthful energy at Mote 102 for What’s At Stake, Edinburgh College’s HND Contemporary Art Practice Graduate Show.

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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #93 open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop... Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Out of the Blue: Mote 102: The Blackbird: Voodoo Rooms: Craigmillar Now: Sett Studios: Home Bar: Wee Red Bar: Leith FAB Cricket Club: Paradise Palms: The Jazz Bar:

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My Herald review of Sara Amini’s play, Saria Callas. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Oran Mor, Glasgow as part of A Play, a Pie & a Pint until Sat May 31. playpiepint.com/plays/saria-... Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Aug 12-24. underbellyedinburgh.co.uk/event/saria-...

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Books I’m Quoted in But Find Out About By Accident #1 Magazine - The Biography 1978-2025 by Helen Chase In which my Herald review of the 2009 Glasgow date by Manchester’s reformed post punk fabulists is quoted extensively wire-sound.com/product/maga... The rest of it is pretty good as well.

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Meet the Gods. Dundee 24.5.25 Jeremy Deller’s Bacchanalian inspired mix of community festival, fun palace, civic intervention, village fete and hippy happening comes to life on a sunny Saturday in Dundee. Play on. Give me excess of it / Party on, dude…

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My Herald review of Blinded by the Light, Sylvia Dow’s new play that draws from the 1982 sit in at Kinneil Colliery www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Seen Traverse, Edinburgh. Byre Theatre St Andrews May 23; MacRobert Arts Centre Stirling May 24 www.sylvianproductions.co.uk/productions/...

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My Herald review of The Sunshine Spa, Simon Jay’s play as part of A Play, a Pie and a Pint’s lunchtime theatre season in association with Birds of Paradise Theatre Company. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Òran Mor, Glasgow until Sat May 24. 1pm. playpiepint.com/plays/the-su...

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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #92 Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Inspace: Edinburgh Photographic Society: Whitespace: Corn Exchange: Voodoo Rooms: Inverleith House: Adam House: House of Smalls: Wee Red Bar: Home: Paradise Palms: Leith Links: Pianodrome… open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop...

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If Meat is Murder, When is Intellectual Property Theft? - Getting Close to the Bone With Linder, Lady Gaga and Co open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop... Linder - Danger Came Smiling, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, May 23-Oct

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My brief chat in The List with Pauline Black, front woman of The Selecter. list.co.uk/news/musicia... The Selecter play Glasgow May 22; Aberdeen May 23; Edinburgh May 24. theselecter.net/live-dates/ Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story is available on Sky Arts and NOW TV

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The Tenementals at the Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh 17.5.25 performing songs about Glasgow’s radical past in crunchy punk/folk Brechtian style. Plus the ubiquitous Xan Tyler opening with a set of textured story-songs with women at their centre.

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Tonight… The Tenementals head east to play the Wee Red Bar at Edinburgh College of Art. 7pm. Book early…https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-tenementals-the-wee-red-bar-2025-tickets-1243371530719

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Lovely evening at Leith Depot watching An Evening with Little Sparrow and Xan Tyler. Xan Tyler & band opened the night with a set of grown up pop/folk songs before Little Sparrow, aka singer/songwriter Katie Ware and her cellist mate Sarah performed a set of spectral acoustic chamber pop.

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My Herald review of KELI, Lau musician Martin Green’s new play about salvation through brass bands in mining towns www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... National Theatre of Scotland at Lyceum Edinburgh until May 17, then Dundee, Perth & Glasgow www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/keli

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My Herald review of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the epic staging of C.S. Lewis’ classic novel. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Festival Theatre, Edinburgh until May 17, then on tour, with dates including Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. www.lionwitchonstage.com/tour-dates

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I'll be using this as a guide round Leith this weekend ✊😎💣

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My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of Water Colour, Milly Sweeney’s award winning debut play. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Studio space only until this Saturday, May 17. www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/wat...

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My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of the latest tour of The Book of Mormon. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Risen again at the King’s Theatre Glasgow until May 31. www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-bo...

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