Review: Jersey Boys at The Kings Theatre, Glasgow
Jersey Boys, the smash-hit musical based on the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, wows the audience at The Kings Theatre, Glasgow.
Aye Write! Festival: Irvine Welsh Discusses New Book Dead Men’s Trousers
Irvine Welsh talks at the Aye Write! Festival in Glasgow about his new book Dead Men’s Trousers, the last chapter in the Trainspotting saga.
foaxes 2
My poem foaxes 2 tells the story of a grumpy dad on Boxing Day trying to get rid of a pack of foxes that steal his leftovers and mock him every year.
Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty at The King’s Theatre
Published by Glasgowist. As we snuggle down in our seats, show programme in one hand and an extra-large mixed strawberry and blue raspberry slush puppy in the other, the audience at The […]
Theatre Review: Mamma Mia at the Theatre Royal
Published by Glasgowist. Admittedly, Mamma Mia is a total cheese-fest. The smash hit musical by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus has ludicrous high notes, a sickly sweet romantic setting, perfect enunciation, and […]
Theatre Review: Trainspotting at Citizens Theatre (2017)
Published by TSA. It’s a quiet, soft moment on stage. A group of scanty clad, intoxicated delinquents are slowly being roused from their drunken slumber when the silence finally breaks as Alison […]
Theatre Review: 30th Anniversary of The Steamie
Published by Glasgowist. A tribute to the mammies and grannies of bygone Glasgow, The Steamie is a classic and timeless comedy, masterfully blending Scottish humour with the touching sentimentality and drunken nostalgia […]
Review: Friday 13th at Dread, Scare Attraction, Glasgow
Published by Glasgowist. Friday 13th, unlucky for some, can be scary enough in Glasgow city centre at night with the odd alcohol-induced zombie roaming the streets, shoogly scaffolding to walk under, cracks […]
Theatre Review: The Addams Family Musical
Published by Glasgowist. Against a misty backdrop of gothic manors, creepy phantoms, and thunderstorms, The Addams Family Musical cast bring a new brand of macabre comedy to everyone’s favourite misfit family. Originally […]
Interview: Greg Esplin, Co-Director of Trainspotting Live
Published by Glasgowist. In 1993, Irvine Welsh’s ground-breaking debut novel Trainspotting was released. The book disgusted some, infuriated others, and kickstarted a phenomenon which is now a beloved franchise. Now, over twenty […]
Theatre Review: Trainspotting Live at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Published by Glasgowist. Scurrying into what feels like a dark train tunnel buried underneath the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, wearing fluorescent wristbands as admission, the nervous excitement and eager anticipation in the […]
Review: American Idiot at The Kings Theatre, Edinburgh
Published by Glasgowist. Following Green Day’s highly anticipated Glasgow gig being spectacularly cancelled last week, merely hours before show time, a youth theatre group are seeking to revive the spirits of Scottish […]
Why the T2 Trainspotting Ending is Genius
As Vladimir Nabokov once said: ‘Genius is finding the invisible link between things.’ With the DVD of T2 Trainspotting being released this month, allowing hardcore fans and phenomenon newbies alike to relish […]
Shelley, Welsh, Nabokov: The Dream Authors Panel with Eventbrite
This week, I was inspired by Eventbrite – a platform that allows event organisers to plan, promote, and sell tickets to events and publish them on social media – to come up […]
In the Line of Duty: Building a Memorial to the Unsung Canine Heroes of WW1
Published by Positively Scottish. They are the forgotten heroes of the Great War, thousands of dedicated individuals who more than played their part on the front line. But now a crowdfunding campaign […]
Review: Leah McFall at Stereo Cafe, Glasgow
Published by Glasgowist. It’s a crisp, slightly chilly Monday night in Glasgow’s city centre and Northern Irish singer-songwriter Leah McFall, runner-up on The Voice UK 2013, is set to play Glasgow for […]
Glasgow International Comedy Festival Review: Frankie Boyle and Friends
As part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, the country’s most controversial comedian Frankie Boyle heads up the show with host Fred MacAulay and support acts Jen Brister and Scott Gibson over […]
foaxes
Published by Quotidian literary magazine and runner-up in New Zealand International Robert Burns Poetry Competition, featured in Dunedin Public Libraries e-magazine. here thair its thair aht foax again rummagin throo ma bins […]
Glasgow Film Festival: The Slab Boys
Published by Glasgowist. Described as a vivid piece of social observation cinema, John Byrne’s film adaptation of his stage play The Slab Boys returned to the big screen at the Glasgow Film […]
Interview: Leah McFall
Published by Glasgowist. The Voice 2013 runner-up Leah McFall is back with a new independently released EP and UK tour called INK. The singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland who confesses that she ‘sings […]
Glasgow Film Festival: Benny
Published by Glasgowist. Benny is an education in the art of boxing, an unflinching look at the unimaginable depravity of Glasgow’s slums during the Great Depression, and an insight into the triumphant […]
Glasgow Film Festival: Patriots Day
Published by Glasgowist. Patriots Day, directed and co-written by Peter Berg, is electrifying, violent, unnerving, and thoughtful – emerging as an unprecedented highlight of the Glasgow Film Festival. The film documents the […]
Glasgow Film Festival: Personal Shopper
Published by Glasgowist. Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart, gives audiences an alternative look at the paranormal. This film is one that is hard to distinguish in terms of genre as […]
Review: T2 Trainspotting
Published by Glasgowist. Trainspotting is the film of the 1990s, the film of a generation. A phenomenon that perfectly captured a decade in time, making the world laugh, cry, cringe, and recoil […]
Interview on Scran, Trainspotting and more with Pendora Magazine
Earlier this month, I was approached by Pendora, an online literary magazine, to be interviewed about my little short story series, Scran, as well as Trainspotting, Scottish literature and more. A big […]
News: Strathclyde Concert Band Wins Platinum Award
Published by the Strathclyde Telegraph. The University of Strathclyde concert band have won their first platinum award at the Autumn Regionals of the National Concert Band Festival in Edinburgh. Having previously won […]
Review: The Gorbals Vampire at Citizens Theatre
Published by Glasgowist. Armed to the teeth with bats, pots, pans, sticks, and even whisks as makeshift chibs, hundreds of Gorbals kids take to the gothic Southern Necropolis to have a square-go […]
Interview: The Gorbals Vampire Playwright Johnny McKnight
Published by Glasgowist. Over 60 years after the notorious Gorbals vampire was said to be creeping around ‘the gravy’ in the Southern Necropolis, a new play on the dramatic real-life events by […]
Uncanny Valley and the Creepy Clown Craze
Published by Huffington Post and Strathclyde Telegraph. Clown sightings, the world’s current epidemic of excitable rumour and panic – which seems to be gaining more and more momentum just in time for […]
Short Story: ‘Little Lies’
Published by the Strathclyde Telegraph. Banoffee muffins with cream cheese and cinnamon icing, spiced pumpkin lattes, strawberry cheesecake, banana bread, pumpkin pies, carrot cake, ginger bread, and chocolate brownies were just a […]
Theatre Review: Trainspotting at Citizens Theatre
Published by Glasgowist. More than two decades after the original stage play of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting was performed at Citizens Theatre in 1994, Harry Gibson’s theatrical adaptation returned on Friday. Directed by […]
Preview: Trainspotting at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Published by Glasgowist. With the highly anticipated release of Trainspotting 2, expected to arrive at cinemas in February 2017, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre is revisiting the original Trainspotting stage production, adapted from Irvine […]
Stranger Things Review: ‘A Stephen-King-Style Compilation of Monsters, Superpowers and Nostalgic ’80s Horror’
Published by The Huffington Post UK Young Voices. With the seemingly never-ending list of films and TV series available to stream instantly online, it’s not hard to find your new Game of […]
Scran: Self-Published Series of Short Stories
Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to be awarded a Vacation Scholarship by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and chosen to be a Research Intern by the Research […]
Studying Abroad: Radboud Summer School in the Netherlands
Summer school aan de Radboud Universiteit. Ik studeerde Nedrlandse taal en cultuur. Earlier this year, I heard about Radboud University’s Summer School in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, after reading an email from Strathclyde […]
Writing Diary: Mid-Internship Blog
I am now half way through my summer project with the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland to write and self-publish a series of Scottish short stories. As part of my […]
The Absurdity of Blood Donation Restrictions for Gay Men After the Orlando Shooting
Published by The Huffington Post. In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, in which 49 LGBT+ individuals were killed and 53 injured, […]
moon child // Summer Update
So, it’s not *technically* summer yet. But when it’s 30 degrees in Scotland, it is summer. My classes have come to an end and I (luckily) only had one exam which is […]
Essential Listening: Trainspotting Soundtrack
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. While the majority of motion picture soundtracks are too often composed of mere instrumentals and album fillers used to bridge the gaps and silences in a film, […]
Peer Assessment: Is It Really Helping Us Learn?
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. Students have an array of different responses to the subject of group work and peer assessment. Some relish in being ‘the leader’, the driving force of a […]
Best to Binge Watch: Father Ted
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. Timeless cult classic Father Ted is a quirky, kitschy ‘90s comedy (the brainchild of Graham Linehan who also created The IT Crowd) mixing the self-reflexive with absurdity, […]
News: More Than Half of LGBT Students Experience Homophobic or Transphobic Bullying
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) students have experienced homophobic or transphobic abuse in further and higher education, according to a new National […]
moon child // Creative Nonfiction Published by Quotidan Literary Magazine
My second piece of writing published in the current issue of Quotidian literary magazine went live this week! I’m so excited to have my flash creative nonfiction piece ‘Thunderstorms and Midge Swarms‘ […]
Glasgow Film Fest Review: The Forest
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. In typical horror films, the daylight offers a safe haven, free from scares and frights and bumps in the night. The Forest, however, set in the real […]
How Copyright Law is Failing Artists and Creatives
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. It’s no secret that having a career in the arts can be difficult and competitive work, especially when copyright law continually fails to protect creatives and their […]
moon child // ‘Sonder’ Published by Quotidian Literary Magazine
I’m so excited to have my short story ‘Sonder’ (definition: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own…) published online by Quotidian literary […]
Film Review: Victor Frankenstein
Published by The Strathclyde Telegraph. Victor Frankenstein is an outlandish and, at times, implausible but thoroughly enjoyable twist on the legendary tale of the man who created a monster. With a rather […]
Why I Love Glasgow: Anti-Rape Protest at George Square
Published by The Huffington Post. I could probably list a hundred reasons why I love Glasgow, with everything from the culture, music, architecture, nightlife, and countless restaurants, to buskers and bagpipers on […]
moon child // Burns Window Project
In commemoration of Scottish poet Robert Burns and in celebration of Burns Night (January 25th), The Globe Inn in Dumfries, said to be Burns favourite pub, held their annual Burns Window Project […]
Theatre Review: Beckett’s Endgame at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Published by the Strathclyde Telegraph. ‘There’s something dripping in my head. A heart. A heart in my head.’ The stage for the opening night of Endgame at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre is set […]
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