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Clockwise from far left: Glasgow Commonwealth Games; Still Game; live art at The Arches; Ross Sinclair’s Real Life Rocky Mountain in Generation; Matthew Herbert
and that goes for the country’s cultural life too. Here, David Pollock and best events to fi ve lesser-known happenings you won’t want to miss NICE AND NICHE
ONLY LOVERS DARK BEHAVIOUR
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GASTROFEST MATTHEW HERBERT:
LEFT ALIVE ABBEY
20 PIANOS
We’re still largely (and It’s not too hard to compare
Our deep sense of appropriately) in the dark about
this late-night happening, part of The Arches’ Behaviour experimental theatre festival. That said, we do know the
organisers put out a call for artists from a variety of
disciplines, including ‘live art, visual art, digital art, music, theatre, dance, i lm and
The next instalment of Harper Collins’ Austen Project will be a reworking of Jane Austen’s semi-satire on gothic i ction, by tartan noir scribe Val
McDermid. She transfers the action from 19th century Bath to modern-day Edinburgh, where protagonist Catherine ‘Cat’ Morland is entranced by
the worlds of food and Following his ambitious One
chemistry: both are concerned Pig project (in which he charted
with the careful mixing of specii c ingredients, often involve some method of heating, and can end in a i ery
the life of a single hog from birth to bacon), the found sound sampler extraordinaire has embarked on a project
mess if you’re not careful. It makes perfect sense to
telling the stories of 20 different pianos, ranging from opera-
us, then, that the Edinburgh Science Festival is dedicating house Steinways to battered old primary-school uprights. Expect a mixture of music, performance
disappointment over Michael Fassbender’s departure from this Jim Jarmusch i lm project
was quickly dispelled when Tom Hiddleston stepped in to replace him. The Hiddler plays a tortured rock star who is reunited with his long-lost love, Eve (Tilda Swinton), only to have their tranquility upset by the arrival of Eve’s younger sister, Ava (Mia Wasikowska). Oh, and
cabaret’, to join them in creating the hustle and bustle of the
its opening weekend to
‘a celebratory, hedonistic atmosphere’. Which is basically all of our favourite things in one
Festival before heading to the Borders estate of Northanger Abbey, where she suspects looking at the science of food, with some of Scotland’s i nest scientists, chefs and suppliers
and innovative, hands-on technology from Herbert and his collaborators at the New
they’re all vampires.
mysterious package.
a mystery is afoot . . .
offering contributions. Radiophonic Workshop.
■ Scheduled for release
■ Arches, Glasgow, Fri 21 Mar ■ Published by The Borough
■ Venue tbc, Edinburgh, ■ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall,
on Fri 21 Feb.
or Fri 11 Apr tbc.
Press on Thu 27 Mar. Sat 5 & Sun 6 Apr.
Sat 2 Aug.
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