Culture

‘Important social issues are handled with insight and compassion…’

August 10, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Deadly Promise by Gilou Bareau. Published by Folrose Book review by Elizabeth Stitt · The Deadly Promise is so much more than an absorbing read — which it is. Important social issues such as ...

Appetite for deconstruction

August 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Album review: The Ultra Vivid Lament Manic Street Preachers Released on 10 September Sony/Columbia ★★★★ by Simon Whittle · “Words wage war, meanings being missed,” sings James Dean ...

Jara remembered in song

July 31, 2020 // 1 Comment

Album Review: Even In Exile by James Dean Bradfield. Released 14 August on MontyRay LP/CD/digital. ★★★★★ by Simon Whittle · Victor Jara, the Chilean musician, teacher, poet and playwright ...

Alasdair Gray: art, literature should represent ‘the most necessary and typical people’

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray died in December. Here, Andrew Givan offers a tribute and a recollection · It was a cosy wee pub in Glasgow that was hosting a special event of writers doing ...

Seafarers who took on fascists are honoured with new Glasgow memorial

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Glasgow Shipping branch of the RMT union recently hosted a gathering of local, national and international supporters at the unveiling of a plaque and statue on the banks of the Clyde, in memory ...

All that is solid melts into thin air

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

Book review: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek. Published by Allen Lane, 2018 • review by Colin Fox • I read Slavoj Žižek’s new book Like a Thief in Broad Daylight in Venice ...

Glam politicos mark 50 years of QMU

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • Glam provocateurs Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues will mark 50 years of the Queen Margaret Union (QMU) building in Glasgow with a special gig at the venue on 30 November. The QMU ...

Anti-fascist techno hip hop punks head to Edinburgh

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • Moscow Death Brigade (MDB) is an anti-fascist techno/rap/punk phenomenon from Russia that plays ‘Circle Pit Hip-Hop’. They’re a burning Molotov of electronic music, ...

A beautiful protest in ugly times

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Album review: Resistance is Futile by Manic Street Preachers. Released on Columbia Records CD/DL/LP on 13 April ★★★★★ • by Simon Whittle • It’s been four years since the Manics ...

Ursula K. Le Guin: ‘Source to nourish the uncolonised mind’

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Scott Macdonald • I generally do not weep when my heroes die. I do for Ursula K. Le Guin, speculative fiction writer, poet, scholar and genius, gone at the age of 88. Tears of joy that her ...