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21st Anniversary Tour plus special guest
Wed 23 Nov GLASGOW O2 ABC
Thu 24 Nov EDINBURGH Liquid Room
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T A R A S T E W A R T
THE BEST OF DAVID GRAY OUT OCTOBER 28
IN ASSOCIATION WITH WME
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS BO NINGEN NOVEMBER 2016
MON 21ST EDINBURGH USHER HALL
TUES 22ND MOTHERWELL CIVIC CENTRE
WED 23RD INVERNESS IRONWORKS
FRI 25TH KILMARNOCK GRAND HALL
SAT 26TH DUNFERMLINE ALHAMBRA
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CHAOSMOSIS THE NEW ALBUM OUT NOW
GLASGOW QMU SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER
(AGE RESTRICTIONS 14+ ALL SHOWS)
THANKSGIVING SPECIAL II
plus We are Z Thursday 24 November Glasgow Oran Mor
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS Tues 22nd Nov EDINBURGH VOODOO ROOMS Wed 23rd Nov ABERDEEN LEMON TREE
FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER GLASGOW ORAN MOR
Lake Street Dive
Side Pony EUROPEAN TOUR AUTUMN 2016
plus basia bulat
F E L I X R I E B L O F T H E C A T E M P I R E
Monday 07 November Glasgow Oran Mor
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P A P E R D O O R S A L B U M T O U R
+ Special Guests WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER GLASGOW ORAN MOR
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Clockwise from top left: Hibs Supporters Club, The Biscuit Factory, Leith Depot, Thomas Morton Hall
gatherings, exhibitions and pop-up cinema, as well as music events like this month’s Landing Festival. Youth Juice, the creative agency behind the venue and other studio spaces in Leith, are also planning a large open-air arts space, another mid-sized arts venue and a sustainable start- up business hub in the area. Yet as anyone who went on a hard-hat tour of the grand but ill-cared-for Leith Theatre during August’s Edinburgh Art Festival, or saw Pictish Trail’s gig at the adjacent Thomas Morton Hall, will testify, the area already has one great concert venue.
‘The theatre can play vital roles as a creative hub for the community, and as somewhere to bring local, Scottish and international artists,’ says Jack Hunter, chair of Leith Theatre Trust, which is currently fundraising to restore the building. ‘It offers Edinburgh a great mid-scale music venue and is a good, l exible space. We’re beginning to programme a range of events across music, theatre, dance and spoken word, poetry and parties, and we hope to be able to stage some performances in the main auditorium in the next few months.’ He doesn’t comment on rumours the theatre may once again become an Edinburgh International Festival venue, but he does say that £8-10 million is needed to fully restore the building. Yet already new developments and student blocks are springing up along Leith Walk, and Herd bemoans the fact you can’t even i nd a cheap pint there now. ‘There’s a new inl ux of creatives choosing Leith as their home, which can be traced back to the turn of the millennium with the crash in house prices and the sudden affordability of vacant shop units and unusual spaces,’ says Cunningham, ‘but the subsequent rise in rents and house prices has already started to edge out this sort of grassroots activity.
‘The truth is that Edinburgh doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to supporting live music, but Leith could potentially become the breeding ground for a new cultural renaissance on the east side of the Central Belt if it’s supported at this crucial stage in its development.’
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THE CHRISTIANS 3Oth Anniversary Tour plus special guests +SPECIAL GUESTS
Thurs 24 Nov Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms Fri 25 Nov Dunfermline Carnegie Hall
Sat 26 Nov Glasgow Oran Mor
SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER GLASGOW ORAN MOR
SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER
GLASGOW THEATRE ROYAL
BY ARRANGEMENT WITH PRIMARY TALENT INTERNATIONAL
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SAT 17 DEC O2ABC GLASGOW
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