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Remembering Nirvana’s intimate Glasgow gig that happened 31 years ago

It was the only time Nirvana ever graced Glasgow in the early 1990s, and while there is little photo or video evidence of the gig, it’s well remembered by many.

Glasgow Live · Dec 3, 2022

Chapter and verse: Author Andy Bollen on intersection of music, comedy and football

Andy Bollen is talking with boyish enthusiasm about his favourite subjects: music, comedy and football.

The National (Scotland) · Nov 27, 2022

Mimi Parker obituary

Mesmerising voice of Low, one of America’s most influential bands

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2022

The Week on Stage: From Good to Peaky Blinders – The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2022

Last Days at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio review: this opera based on Gus van Sant’s film is exemplary

A meditation on a lost soul that could stand for all those who are driven to despair

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2022

Last Days review – Leith’s opera is bleak and beautiful

Oliver Leith’s new work, based on Gus Van Sant’s fictionalised account of the final days of Kurt Cobain, keeps its audience at arm’s length, allowing its dense score to articulate and drive the drama

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2022

Last Days review: Extraordinary Kurt Cobain opera avoids all the clichés Nirvana fans might have predicted

Director Gus Van Sant gave permission for the script of his 2005 film ‘Last Days’ to be used as the inspiration for a new production about the Nirvana frontman. The result, staged at Linbury Theatre, is finely wrought and deserving of accolades

The Independent UK · Oct 8, 2022

‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days

It has little plot, the dialogue is mumbled, cereal bowls are a big theme, and a fast-talking cattle auctioneer plays his manager. We meet the team behind the Royal Opera House’s daring new show

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022

Royal Opera House swaps glitz for grunge in Gus Van Sant adaptation

As the Royal Opera House readies itself for a grunge adaptation, Richard Godwin asks, why are we so attached to old misconceptions about snobbery in the oeuvre?

Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2022

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: ‘It’s even easier for weirdos to find each other now than in the 90s’

The guitarist recalls how Arab Strap gave Scottish musicians a sense of national pride, the excess of his band’s early years and why he’s still fighting for independence• Read an exclusive extract of Stuart Braithwaite’s autobiography: ‘We had Iggy Pop on our side’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2022