1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (305+ words) BON Jovi band members performed in front of 60,000 fans at Murrayfield while wearing kilts sewn by an Edinburgh apprentice this weekend. Jovi's band members John Shanks and Everett Bradley stepped out and performed in Highland dress from Gordon Nicolson Kiltmakers…...

22+ hour, 47+ min ago   (359+ words) IT'S rare that you walk out of an Edinburgh Fringe show feeling like you've just left someone's living room. But this is precisely what Paul Black's Cash Cow does, and well. The Glasgow comedian, who first rose to fame through…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (534+ words) A DOLLY Parton tribute act had its opening night at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe just two hours after news of the 80-year-old singer’s death was confirmed by her family. The Dolly Parton Story returned to Edinburgh on Tuesday night to…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (595+ words) WARNING! This column contains descriptions of audience participation. Those of a sensitive disposition may wish to brace themselves for accounts of extreme awkwardness, acute embarrassment and the floor of an Edinburgh Fringe venue opening up to reveal the fiery pits…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1084+ words) Mayflies has a fabulous soundtrack (Image: Mihaela Bodlovic) IF, like me, you emerged into early-adulthood in Scotland (or, indeed, anywhere in the UK) in the 1980s, Grid Iron theatre company’s Fringe show Mayflies (Brown’s of Leith, until August 30) – director-adaptor Ben Harrison’s…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (799+ words) TO celebrate their 30th anniversary, Scottish band Arab Strap will mark the occasion with their ninth album, Half-Told Tales. Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton – born and raised in Falkirk – rose to fame in the 90s with their breakout single The First Big…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (725+ words) ACTOR John Hannah has taken up cold water swimming anyway but it still can’t have been much fun immersed in the North Sea to play the part of a selkie for the award-winning film, The Incomer. He’s there trying to…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (356+ words) ALAN Cumming has rung the changes since he stunned the Scottish theatre community – and many other people besides – by taking up the post of artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT). No longer is “the theatre in the hills” the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (550+ words) AMNESTY International is bringing comedy and human rights together with two special shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. The charity is returning to the world-renowned festival on Friday and Saturday with the late-night Stand up for Freedom shows, where a host…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (207+ words) AMERICAN singer-songwriter Noah Kahan has announced a new gig coming to Glasgow next year. The folk artist will perform at the OVO Hydro for two nights in November as part of the Great Divide Tour, with a new date also…...