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SNACK Bits: Scotland’s Essential New Music (September 2026)

Yeah, we took some time off. The music never stopped, but we took a ...

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Andy Reilly

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SNACK Chats to brings you conversations with artists, cutators and professionals across music, books, ...

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SNACK Student Guide 2026

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

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Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You (Fringe review) 4 Stars ****

This hour, Sami Abu Wardeh declares, will be filled with pure, genuine stand-up comedy. ...

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Juliet Gartside
Olivia Caw sitting in a plaid armchair holding a microphone against a blue background surrounded by multiple microphone stands for the Edinburgh Fringe theatre production Common Tongue.

Common Tongue acknowledges our inherited awkwardness about the Scots language and refuses to squander the words we’ve been given (Fringe review) 4 Stars ****

 Could you name a Scottish poet other than Robert Burns? (‘The only Scottish poet!’) ...

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Caragh-Rose Macfeeters

Primal Scream play XTRMNTR – Glasgow Barrowland (September 2026 – Gig review) 

If I was to assume your favourite Primal Scream album is Screamadelica then I ...

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Marc Bean

The Kaves – Exile EP (review)

Following the release of tracks ‘Somber’ and ‘Superglue’ earlier this year, Glasgow based, four ...

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Marc Bean

Antigone at Tron Theatre, Glasgow: Holly Howden Gilchrist on the epic Tragedy of embodying the younger sister (Interview)

Holly Howden Gilchrist is Ismene in a new modern-day rendition of Sophocles’ Antigone at ...

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Mona Montella

We’ve Got Time (Fringe review) 3 Stars ***

Beans Garden LLC have brought We’ve Got Time as a work in progress to ...

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Donald Stewart

Turn The Cloth (Fringe review) 4 Stars ****

Glasgow based theatre company Cutty Sark set out to bring the traditions of Scottish ...

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Donald Stewart

Live Review: Mac Demarco – Glasgow Barrowland (September 2026) 

It would be fair to say that historically, Mac DeMarco gigs have been something ...

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Marc Bean