Subterranean sound festival: all alone on an industrial estate
As my friend and I get off from the tram and start walking towards SWEETDRAM distillery, the setting of Edinburgh-based collective GRDN’s annual Subtarrenean Sound festival, we both look at…
Toronto Film Festival Roundup
Every year in September, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns, hoping to present the best Canadian and International cinema. This year it ran from September 8 to 18 and…
Fringe 2022: Christian Brighty: Playboy Review
As a sweaty Lord Christian Brighty stumbles into the room, wide-eyed and hot from having just had an encounter with Naughty Susan, he stares at the audience and promptly proclaims…
EIFF 2022: Resurrection Review
Resurrection, a slick new thriller from second-time writer-director Andrew Semans, wastes no time in establishing its protagonist and its stakes. Rebecca Hall plays Margaret, a businesswoman at a biotech company.…
Seachdain na Gàidhlig festival held in Edinburgh
This year’s Seachdain na Gàidhlig festival, to be held in Edinburgh, will have a specific focus on the climate, exploring the impact of climate change on island communities. The festival,…
The ghost of Halloween past
This year, we may have had to celebrate Halloween a little differently. Going from door to door asking strangers for sweets is off the cards, and we had to rethink…
Terminal V: The Reckoning – a chaotic testament to electronic music
On the night of 26 October, it felt as though the entire youth population of Edinburgh had descended upon the Royal Highland Centre. Terminal V is chaotic in every single…
‘The Glenfiddich Festival Experiment: a thank you like no other’
Service industry staff make our days and nights of fun possible. They pour our drinks, produce our food and look after our favourite venues. It seems fitting, therefore, that those…