Going out

Published on 29/07/2012 00:00

Family

If you haven’t made it to Glasgow’s Merchant City Festival yet, today’s finale is a good time to go. For the past week, a group of volunteers have been helping the artist Olivier Grossetête to build a giant tower of cardboard. Today, in a free event between 11am and 4.30pm, it’ll be built on Brunswick Street – and then knocked down. Other events on the festival’s final day include a screening of The Wizard of Oz at the Panopticon and Professor Hildeberg’s Hibernating Antarctic Zoo in Ingram Street Car Park.

www.merchantcityfestival.com

Festival

Good reasons to go to this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival include the only UK festival date this summer by Travis (right), limbering up for the release of a new album next year. Also on the bill at Beauly’s annual jamboree on Saturday and Sunday are The Wombats, Frightened Rabbit and rising stars such as Rachel Sermanni and Bwani Junction.

www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk

GoingOut

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. Potential highlights in its birthday programme include Nikki And The Gang, a new show for young people by author and playwright Alan Bissett, the Vasabi Jazz Band from Belarus (above), the final of the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year Awards, an International Dance Gala at His Majesty’s Theatre, and an opera masterclass with Lisa Milne. The festival runs from Wednesday until 11 August.

www.aiyf.org

Music

For a couple of hours back in April, it appeared that a Smiths reunion may actually be on the cards. It was, however, nothing more than a wild rumour; instead it’ll be a solo Morrissey at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh tomorrow night. Fans may wish to know that there are two Fringe shows devoted to the Smiths this year – Unhappy Birthday by Amy Lamé and Half a Person: My Life As Told By The Smiths, by Cross Cut.

www.morrissey-solo.com