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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Richard Walker

Glasgow's Riverside Festival delivers glorious performances

Scots reclaimed the dancefloor at the Riverside Festival Credit: Tim Craig

WHEN the world changes, you don’t have to change with it. When Covid forced us indoors, severing relationships in the wider world and leaving us trapped in Zoom calls, Roisin Murphy released a pandemic era-defining album by simply transcending it.

So when Murphy took to the stage to bring to life the futuristic disco classics from that album, Roisin Machine, at Glasgow’s Riverside Festival we reclaimed the dancefloor as a celebration of communal euphoria, the triumph of life over isolation.

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