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    Podcast: Everybody Wants to Play the Hits

    Everybody Wants to Play the Hits is the new Scottish music review podcast, brought ...

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    SNACK Bits (April 2026) Scotland’s Essential New Music Guide

    It’s April, the clocks have recently gone forward, we’ve lost enough time without messing ...

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    SNACK magazine Spring/Summer 2026

    SNACK magazine is Scotland’s national, independent A5 What’s On, Arts & Culture magazine Curated ...

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    SNACK magazine: digital archive

    SNACK is Scotland’s vibrant A5 independent, monthly, arts & culture magazine. Each print edition ...

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    Scottish Filmmaker Iain Henderson on his latest short, Farrick, getting his films out to the people, and self funding projects

    At a time when the Glasgow art scene is in many ways struggling, Iain ...

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    Tame Impala: Glasgow OVO Hydro (May 2026) gig review

    ‘What day is it Glasgow?’ asks Kevin Parker to the delirious crowd. ‘Wow, it’s ...

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    noodle: Scotland’s Experimental Music Round-Up (May 2026)

    Ah, as the world wakes from wintry slumber into the sunlit tendrils of spring, ...

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    SNACK Bits (May 2026) Scotland’s Essential New Music Guide

    We’re back in print, the way many of you like to read us, and ...

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    Interview: Barrie Hunter on Celebrating Gary McNair’s Words and Joy of ‘Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil’

    Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil is a novel dressed up as a love ...

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    Scottish Ballet’s ‘Starstruck’: glamorous and joyful production is filled with variety, and is over before you know it

    Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck sent the audience home smiling tonight as it relinquished their love ...

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    The Palm House: a meandering characterisation deep dive, exploring family and the significant others that come and go

    Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House, recently awarded one of the Windham-Campbell Prizes for Fiction, ...

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    Strangers on the Shore – embracing middle age and navigating the grief of not realising your life ambitions

    Author of The Giro Playboy, Michael Smith has produced part-memoir, part-autofiction in his new ...

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