Interview
Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival 2019
Hispanocinephiles rejoice! ESFF is back for its sixth year running this October
Dennis Lyxzén of Refused
Singer talks to us as the Swedish hardcore punks prepare to tour new album War Music to Glasgow Barrowlands
Steve Hackett to perform Selling England album in full
Ex-Genesis man to perform band’s seminal 1973 album live at Usher Hall
New Cinema Releases October 2019
Racist skinheads, surreal space stories and a jaded Judy Garland are among October’s highlights
Lewis Capaldi’s ‘unreal’ summer of live shows
Geoff Ford looks back at a remarkable summer of success for the Scottish songsmith
Tina Turner celebration heads to Scotland
What’s Love Got To Do With It? tours to throughout autumn and into spring
New Cinema Releases September 2019
Keeping bees in Macedonia, stealing art from MOMA and telling white lies to cancer patients feature in September’s cinematic programme.
Salman Rushdie: A Quixotic Search for Love
From the quixotic to the world of today Rushdie takes his audience on a highly anticipated journey
Alistair Moffat: An Abandoned Mythical Land
A pilgrimage to rekindle the feelings this place once made the author feel
Rory Stewart: Lessons from Literature for Today’s Politics
The surprise leadership contender from this year’s race to be PM proves himself to be a breath of fresh air in politics
Robert Macfarlane: A Journey into Deep Time
An engrossing but sometimes troubling look at what’s beneath
Keith Hartley & Typex: Looks a Scream
Andy Warhol is the focus of two new and very different books
Sarah Henstra & Elle Nash: Sex, Violence and Obsession
Two coming of age novels bring up interesting questions
Sue Perkins: Blundering Through Asia
Natural, likeable storyteller discusses her fascinating travels in South East Asia
Afternoon Tea with Sabrina Ghayour: Step into Sabrina’s Kitchen
New Queen of Eastern cooking has the Spiegeltent salivating
Children’s Mental Health: Is the UK Facing a Crisis?
Thought-provoking discussion on mental health and how we might start to turn the tide
Alexander McCall Smith: Criminally Charming
An uplifting evening with a man who is the very fabric of Edinburgh
Jess Kidd & E S Thomson: Under the Knife
Two authors with an interest in the macabre, the curious and the madness of medicine in the Victorian era
Citizen: Giving a Voice to Communities
Edinburgh residents share their thoughts on community, identity and citizenship in what feels like an important project