📢Rise Up! Festival returns to Aberdeen May 2-4, celebrating Black & POC creatives in Scotland!
Featuring:

• Introspective art by Joshua Ekekwe
• Keynote by Adura Onashile
• Workshops, panels & performances
• Live gig ft. rising star Bemz

🎟️ aberdeenperformingarts.com/rise-up

2-4 May RiseUp! is a festival curated by We Are Here Scotland and commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts celebrating the many diverse voices and visions that shape Aberdeen Music 🌍 FIZA Cabaret Workshops +loads more full programme ➡ aberdeenperformingarts.com/rise-up/

It was a total joy to see Hamilton West End at Capital Theatres: Festival, King’s & Studio tonight! And also very cool to see a piece I wrote about the King’s redevelopment in the programme 🙌 Thanks so much to Emma and the team for giving me a tour and commissioning me to write about my favourite building!

🗣️Embra, hope you can come share the last night of our tour with us at the brilliant Summerhall Friday 20th September 🙌

🎟️s now on sale ➡️gigantic.com/andrew-wasylyk…

(Poster: Tommy Perman)

Remarkable gig from Beans (Tygr Rawwk Rcrds) + 77 at Summerhall tonight with relentless, effortless rhymes'n'beats. Photo album > andycatlin.myportfolio.com/beans-77-17-ap…

Hen Hoose (Hen Hoose) are launching a new musician's bursary, named in honour of Beldina Odenyo

theskinny.co.uk/music/news/hen… [by @jamiedunnesq]

Reviewed the new bbymutha for The Quietus 👑

Beans plays the Old Lab tonight! Who's coming along?

Student discount available!

Tickets here: summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/beans…

We're thrilled to announce that #HenHoose will be expanding its offerings and operating as a not-for-profit for the next 2 years after receiving support from The National Lottery via Creative Scotland. Stay tuned for more info on exciting workshop and mentorship opportunities 👀

Unusual Suspects | We have a commitment in the year ahead to profile completely unheard and new voices. We need people who’ve never written before to hear more fresh ideas and fresh thinking... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/04/15/spr…

I wrote this as a love letter to the show. No series 9 spoilers.
#InsideNo9
theskinny.co.uk/comedy/opinion…

We've come a long way since MVT was founded ten years ago, but the distribution of wealth in this industry has got to change and be sustainable for grassroots, or we are all still heading over the cliff. We have a lot more work to do over the NEXT ten years.

Happy anniversary to one of my all-time favourite albums, Live Through This. Thank you to Cocoon for letting me write about it last year 💖

📢 Now on sale: AMPLIFI, with Chloe Matharu, Diljeet Kaur Bhachu & Miwa Nagato-Apthorp, in partnership with We Are Here Scotland
📅 Sun 2nd June, Doors 5pm

🎟️thequeenshall.net/whats-on/ampli…

🎨Less than two weeks until Beans takes the stage in the Old Lab!🎨

🧡Last month Beans (Tygr Rawwk Rcrds) released his latest record ZWAARD, described by the Quietus as 'a nightmare of frenetic beats and hyperkinetic verbiage, in a good way.'

Tickets here: summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/beans…

Happy release day to RiTchie 🥳 I wrote about this excellent album for The Quietus

Happy Easter pals... 🐰🐣 Have a good weekend! Hope to see some of you at our SOLD OUT Vitamin C tonight from 7.30pm until 1am at LEITH DEPOT 🍋 Big up Kapil Seshasayee Gurry Wurry & Arusa Qureshi all playing alongside my trusty accomplice ǝʞɐʍ ʎpuɐ 🍋 Gonna be a GOOD FRIDAY! 🍋

🍋 This Friday 29th March... 🍋 VITAMIN C 🍋 LEITH DEPOT with Kapil Seshasayee Arusa Qureshi Gurry Wurry ǝʞɐʍ ʎpuɐ & ME!! 🍋 Last tickets HERE: eventbrite.co.uk/e/vitamin-c-ka… Come along! 🍋

Tune into Parliament Live and the DCMS YouTube channel today from 10am to hear more from Music Venue Trust and those affected by the Grassroots Music Venues crisis: committees.parliament.uk/work/8227/gras…