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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 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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