Photos: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Dundee Rep Theatre, April 4th,2026. Who better than Johnny McKnight, Scotland’s first dame of Pantoland and legendary comedy writer, to team up with Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson to pen this late capitalist airline romp? Naebody, that’s who. This comedic menage a trois, adapting the fictional Air Scotia, come with someContinue reading “Theatre Review : The High Life The Musical”
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Bad Cover Versions: Flea and Nick Cave – Wichita Lineman
Oh… dear. I’m beginning to wonder if Nick Cave should give up music altogether, given the mediocre last album and this teaming up with Flea. Yup, actual Flea of RHCP. Together at last, nuts n gum. This cover of the Glen Campbell song is truly insipid. It’s a tremulous dirge, but not in a goodContinue reading “Bad Cover Versions: Flea and Nick Cave – Wichita Lineman”
John Waters at The No Kings Protest
As if I couldn’t love The Pope of Trash, John Waters, enough, he turned up at the No Kings Protest in Provincetown, on March 28th with this witty sign: “Trump ruined bad taste” You’ve gotta love him. I do. Long may he subvert the mainstream.
Album Review: New German Cinema – Pain Will Polish Me
Nobody makes sad synth- pop quite like British bands. Jessica Weiss’s solo project New German Cinema mine the saddest parts of alt-pop from the last forty years to the present day, and spin it into literate, desolate loveliness. It’s haunting and crepuscular, best enjoyed on trains at nighttime. Weiss’ vocals, like Broadcast’s Trish Keenan andContinue reading “Album Review: New German Cinema – Pain Will Polish Me”
Snail
I am a snail and You are the salt Get off my fucking shell I’m spiralling
Album Review: Tenderness- True
Tenderness’ new album True is her debut as a solo singer. Katy Beth Young was previously in the trio Peggy Sue and a part of the collective Deep Throat Choir. There’s a lot of loss and grief baked into the songs, as Young recently lost her father, but also a tentative sense of resilience andContinue reading “Album Review: Tenderness- True”
Iona
1973-2026 Iona Kewney was a dancing paradox: feral sprite; anarchist angel, punk diva, badass elfin. She often shocked as well as delighted audiences who were used to less. She slipped through genre and discipline like few before her. She was a unique, beautiful performer in an industry that expects you to stay in your lane.Continue reading “Iona”
Theatre Preview: Mr Blackpool
Mr Blackpool May 2026 – The Lowry in partnership with Word of Warning, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts and Brighton Festival, Blackpool Grand TheatreImage Credit Matt Crockett“At the end of the world there’ll still be a showgirl kicking her legs behind her ears and thank god for that” Salford, Brighton and Blackpool, prepare to beContinue reading “Theatre Preview: Mr Blackpool”
Theatre Review: Saint Joan
Perth Theatre, March 4th, 2026. Director Stewart Laing makes work that occupies liminal spaces, so it was perhaps inevitable that he would take on an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan, in his characteristically complex, radical style. By adapting Shaw’s unfinished film script and transposing it to stage in a raw, sparse styleContinue reading “Theatre Review: Saint Joan”
Adulting
I have never thought of myself as nostalgic, but moving back to where I grew up, I found myself thinking about my first proper boyfriend and the way we bonded over music: Siouxsie and the Banshees ‘Juju’, The Cure ‘Disintegration’, Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’. I was one of the few goths in the town, andContinue reading “Adulting”
Hit The North 