1-3 May in Edinburgh Wide Days gets underway feat. Sanjeev / Supermann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇳 The Joshua Hotel Mama Terra aka CAFOLLA 𝐊𝐎𝐇𝐋𝐀 Leif Coffield INDOOR FOXES Zoe Graham +more presented in assoc. Music Venue Trust + M pour Montréal FOCUS Wales tickets / info ➡ widedays.com

“Lean into…”

4* for Piper! Good for my ego, bad for my post-show blues.

My interview with Val McDermid about her new book Queen Macbeth: 'It’s quite clear the Macbeths weren’t murderous tyrants' scotsman.com/must-read/val-…

🚨 A leading grassroots theatre project has pulled the plug on future events after losing its Creative Scotland funding - Page2Stage Edinburgh says it has become a casualty of what it describes as “the current decimation of the arts in Scotland”. 🚨 scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-… The Scotsman

I’m doing my last musical comedy gig for a long while in Greenock on Saturday 27th April! Grab tickets here: beaconartscentre.co.uk/events/pure-le…

This moment from the new Steve Martin documentary where he’s remembering John Candy…damn man.

My pal Andrew reached out and asked if I'd take part in a podcast for Cumbernauld Library. Together, we cooked up THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE BOOK. He knows movies, I know books, but what about the books that have been made into movies? Episode 1 is Stephen King's Carrie. Enjoy!

Enjoyed reading - and reviewing for ⁦The New Statesman⁩ - Salman Rushdie’s extraordinary memoir, Knife newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es…

Love it.

Huge thank you to everyone who came to see me in Glasgow last night. Second year in a row I've sold 1000 tickets there which is mindblowing.

I've done so many dreadful gigs working my way up that nights like that just make it all worth it.

All in The Scotsman today: Val McDermid Dundee Rep The Lyceum Susan Tomes Ross Couper Keeks Mc Poetry
&Gallery Tatha Gallery
#JohnBurnside #TheBlueNile and #FuturisticFolktales Scotsman Arts

I’m putting on a lustre buster of a Creative Writing Conference at The University of Edinburgh on Friday 3rd May. There’s panels with wonderful folk (agents/publishers/profs+) & snacks & readings from the sublime Hannah Lavery & Andrés N. Ordorica & heaps more. & it’s FREE.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-wri…

Breaking: Glen Sannox ferry completion delayed another two months to July, via Alastair Dalton
scotsman.com/news/transport…

Couldn’t agree more. Photographers are some of the unsung heroes of Scottish culture given the terrific images they produce across its many stages & events.
Would love to see a beautiful big exhibition to bring together some of their best work - and of the show creators!

There is growing evidence about the impact of Scotland's arts funding cuts and under-investment in culture. Anyone optimistic about a change in direction?

🎟️ A few tickets left if you fancy the premiere of the brand new production of #SunsetSong in Dundee tonight. 🎟️

If half as much effort went into ensuring that arts events & venues were properly funded compared to the ludicrous spinning that goes on after excruciating cuts have been made they would be a hell of a lot better off.

'It is not so much a 'slimming-down' as a severe case of literary anorexia. Let’s be clear. Whatever else the Colin Weir Foundation’s generosity has preserved, it is not the 2024 Aye Write.'
The ill-advised spin operation over Aye Write hasn't taken long to unravel, has it?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎸 Great to speak to the team behind the new rock opera inspired by the life of Mary Queen of Scots ahead of its world premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎸 scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-… The Scotsman Scotsman Arts Pretty Knickers Assembly Festival #EdFringe #maryqueenofrock