Music

LUCIE Treacher is a 24-year-old composer and filmmaker from Sutherland. That multiple role is vital in understanding both the conception and effect of such musical/visual creations as her latest music video, Cryosphere, supported by Creative Scotland and screened publicly in Inverness today.

The story behind the Edinburgh Incidental Orchestra – or at least its story so far – feels rather like a coming-of-age tale. That’s perhaps not surprising, given the still youthful ages of its musicians. It’s not a new ensemble, but its two all-Stravinsky performances at Edinburgh’s Church Hill Theatre this weekend nevertheless mark a new beginning for the group.

BRISTOL-BASED Americana singer Yola Carter doesn’t seem like one to care much for formalities at the best of times, let alone when she’s in Glasgow, where’s she’s long been a familiar face at the Celtic Connections festival. “I made the mistake of enjoying myself,” she joked in a slightly hoarse voice after a couple of songs, “on tour I call it the fun tax.”

WHEN the Gods of Rap package tour was announced, there were knowing comments online about what form it would take or whether it would actually happen, in reference in particular to headliners the Wu-Tang Clan’s tendency to have components of their extensive membership come and go as they please at a moment’s notice. Such cynicism was unfounded, however; this was an arena show with all the wide-reaching appeal of a big budget revival event but also all the energy and commitment of a concert given by people who still have something to say.

Today shall forever be known as 'Lewis Capaldi Day'.

A Lewis Capaldi fan with a head for heights has performed the ultimate face swap on Glasgow’s most famous equestrian landmark.

Singers crooned their way through lively numbers to the accompaniment of unrestrained dancing, writes Alexander McCall Smith.

Lewis Capaldi doesn’t hold back in his vocal delivery on his less-powerful-than-he-thinks debut

“It’s not too brothel-y looking, is it?” joked Chris Duncan of the large strip-light sign at the rear of the stage displaying the title of his latest album Health, which at the click of a remote he could light up neon green to humorous effect.

The Eurovision song contest is taking place again this week – for the first time ever it will be broadcast live from Tel Aviv following Israel’s Netta Barzilai’s historic win last year.

AS THE years pass, former Libertines fulcrum Pete Doherty looks less and less like a wayward rock ‘n’ roll spirit living out the “live fast, die young” dream. These days, after almost two decades in the public eye and a growing, widespread awareness of mental health issues which might once have been dismissed as mere “eccentricity,” what he’s always been is thrown into sharp focus – that is, a man struggling with profound addiction issues whose illness has been anything but helped by a lifetime working in the music industry.

Enthusiastic receptions at festivals in New South Wales and North Carolina, an eponymous beer and a dauner doon Sixth Avenue… the past year or so has been an eventful one for Highland folk-fusioneers Elephant Sessions, not least the past few weeks.

Ayrshire’s Vukovi are an incredible live band and frontwoman Janine Shilstone is a born performer, gifted with powerful vocals and a strong stage presence. Released two weeks ago, their excellent new single Behave offers a taste of what to expect from their forthcoming second album. To date, they’ve amassed more than four million streams on Spotify and been championed by Radio 1 and Vic Galloway on BBC Radio Scotland.

A choir from the Scottish Borders for people with a learning disability has been invited to perform at a major awards ceremony this month.

Musician Rachel Newton is bringing her new solo tour to Kirkcaldy.

ROUTINELY hailed as one of the most exciting live bands in the country, the London-born and now Sheffield-based Fat White Family are a motley crew following their own musical proclivities.

FROM the sublime to the – well, far-fetched, even hallucinatory, might be kinder adjectives for Berlioz’s larger-than-life Symphonie fantastique, which formed one half of the SCO’s all-French high-contrast season finale, alongside the aching restraint of Fauré’s sumptuous Requiem.

IT MIGHT sound sacrilegious, but it’s something of a mystery why the preposterous storyline of The Magic Flute still has a place on the modern stage. Lines so misogynist they’re laugh-out-loud funny are spoken and sung by both sexes, in a world where women are condemned for their mindless chatter and rendered pointless without a man beside them.

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