Somewhere by Nico serves up £5 cocktails at 10-day Cocktail Festival
Somewhere by Nico will serve up £5 cocktails as part of its first ever Cocktail Festival running across Glasgow and Edinburgh. Guests at the gorgeous Somewhere by Nico in Glasgow Byres Road and its sister bar in Edinburgh's west end , will be able to enjoy classic drinks and brand favourites as part of the one-of-a-kind event running from May 2nd - May 11th. The creative minds behind the award-winning Six by Nico , beloved for ever-changing themed menus, have curated an itinerary of immersive drinks concepts. The Cocktail Festival will create an affordable experience for fans who enjoy the art of mixology. A number of Scottish alcohol brands including Glasgow Tequila brand Jalisgow and iconic drinks brand Panther Milk will host special masterclasses and takeovers over the 10-day festival. Cocktails priced at £5 including favourites such as Daiquiri, Aperol Spritz, Paloma, Negroni and Tom Collins will be available. Lucky drinks lovers will be able to experience the Grey Goose Tiny 'Tini experience' on the opening night of May 2nd. Somewhere by Nico's operations Manager Abigail Barr said: 'Somewhere has always been about escapism - a place to dine, drink, and discover through food and drink. "We've created an incredible space in Glasgow & Edinburgh, and this Cocktail Festival is our way of inviting the city in to experience it. Whether you're stopping by for after-work drinks, weekend celebrations, or a spontaneous night out, we want Somewhere to be your go-to destination." Walk-ins are welcome as the festival is ticketless. Customers will be able to access the full Cocktail Festival programme at https://somewherebynico.co.uk/the-cocktail-festival/
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Scotsman
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- The Herald Scotland
A Scottish legend says cancel culture is over. Yeah right
He is not alone in his view. The comedian Ricky Gervais was getting his star on the walk of fame the other day and said something similar to Mr Millar. 'We've had a few weird years of cancel culture, people telling you what you can and can't laugh at or talk about,' he said. 'But we pushed back, and we won. I'd love to claim that it was due to my unrivalled genius, but truth be told, it's a cocktail of luck, persistence and a little bit of pushing against the tide.' So that's two big figures in popular culture telling us it's all over. But let's take a minute shall we. For a start, it's significant who's talking here. As I say, Mr Millar sold his empire to Netflix for £25m and Mr Gervais is also someone who's not short of a bob or two. Same thing with another public figure who's spoken out against cancel culture: JK Rowling. The mob did bay for her, and some people did stop speaking to her, and there were calls for her to be ejected from Harry Potter, her own creation. But in the end, like Gervais and Millar, money is a shield and Rowling was too rich to cancel. It's a good thing that Gervais and Millar have spoken out against cancel culture, but their relative immunity to its effects perhaps makes them a little too prone to declaring that it's over before it actually is. Because it isn't, not really. You may have seen the story about the comic Andrew Lawrence who's had shows cancelled after making a joke about the horrible incident at the Liverpool football parade. This is a sensitive area, and the joke was crass and in my view not funny. But I've been in many audiences where the comic has touched on sensitive areas and made jokes that are crass and in my view not funny, and people laughed. And if we cancel comedians for doing jokes some of us don't like, we risk ending up in a place that is, to use Mark Millar's words, safe and benign. Yes, it's awkward to defend someone like Andrew Lawrence but that's how freedom of expression works: it's awkward but important. There are other problems with the idea that cancel culture is over. One of the most high-profile casualties of it all was the comedy writer Graham Linehan, whose career was effectively ended because of his opinions on trans issues. I spoke to Graham about what happened and the effects were absolutely real: jobs fell away, virtually no-one in the media would return his calls, and his plans for a musical version of Father Ted ended when the producers asked him to stop talking about the trans issue and he refused. What's remarkable now is that we can see his opinions were not unusual and are shared by the majority of the population and yet they ended his career and there's still no prospect of Graham working again in British comedy. So if cancel culture is over, it isn't over for Graham. Read more Britain is Scottish: a truth from history that's still true today A Pride hate crime on Arran? No, just a sign of where we are now The best building in Glasgow, and what we can learn from its tragedy But even if we accept the premise that cases such as Graham's are becoming rarer, or will no longer happen, that doesn't mean cancel culture is finished because its effects do not always operate openly. I was speaking to a friend of mine last week who's working on a play that's about to tour the country and he was telling me about the pressures he's been under over script, casting and production, specifically on sex, gender and race. It's clear that anything that strays from the progressive viewpoint sometimes called 'woke' is out of the question and might jeopardise the future of his project and so he finds himself self-censoring to ensure he keeps his job. It's happening in theatre, and it's happening in movies and telly too. And the result? Safe and benign. Perhaps the phrase we should use to describe the phenomenon here is self-cancel culture although it amounts to the same thing as cancel culture because most people don't have as much money as Mr Millar or Mr Gervais or Ms Rowling and worry about losing their job, or the chances of promotion. You see it in academia too, where there have been plenty of examples of overt cancel culture, with speakers de-platformed or forced to withdraw because of protests and so forth. But equally insidious is the self-cancel culture that goes on, the self-censorship. One of the academics I've spoken to about this, Neil Thin, honorary research fellow at Edinburgh, told me how it works. What happens in practice, he said, is that because of overt, aggressive or denunciatory attacks on individuals, people at universities start to monitor and edit their own behaviour. They see what's happened to other people and think 'I don't want that, I'll avoid that topic'. 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2 hours ago
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The overwhelmingly negative reaction has made the studio double down on confidence in their title, with Build A Rocket Boy's co-CEO, Mark Gerhard, claiming that people are being paid to 'trash the game' before it launches. 'There is a concerted effort by some people that don't want to see Leslie (Benzies) or Build A Rocket Boy to be successful that are making a concerted effort to trash the game and the studio,' Gerhard said. 'It's pretty easy to see the bots and the repeated replies to any content that we put out.' If the negative reaction, be it genuine or paid for, was not enough for the studio to deal with, two executives have left it just a week before the game's release. As expected, the departure of their chief legal officer and chief financial officer did nothing to help alleviate the pressure piling up on the studio, with questions popping up about whether they would be leaving if they genuinely believed MindsEye is going to be successful. And while it's entirely possible their departure has nothing to do with the game's potential fortunes, it only adds wind to the rumour mill that has been with the project for a while. The lack of clarity seems to stem from a relative radio silence about the project from the get-go. Before AI became the new buzzword, everyone was talking about the metaverse. MindsEye was initially described as an 'experience' taking place within one such metaverse, the Everywhere platform that was supposed to rival the likes of Fortnite and Roblox. Apart from that, very little is known about it, with the platform seemingly falling off the radar while the studio focuses on MindsEye. However, one cannot say that here, Build A Rocket Boy have done a much better job explaining exactly what the game is really about. That leaves gamers wondering what it actually is that they may be buying come Tuesday. Build A Rocket Buy Players take on the role of a former soldier, Jacob Diaz. For the record, MindsEye is billed as a linear, narrative-driven, single-player third-person shooter set in a future where artificial intelligence and human greed bring Earth to the brink of collapse. From trailers, the game gives an impression of something between Grand Theft Auto V and Cyberpunk 2077, with players taking on the role of a former soldier, Jacob Diaz. For their part, the studio have never tried to position MindsEye as a GTA competitor, but instead aim to create a unique title, something that has not been seen before. Whether they have been successful in pitching that to the players is up for debate. In a recent interview for Leslie Benzies has opened up on their vision for MindsEye and beyond. One of the key takeaways from it is that the game should act as a gateway into a much larger 'epic universe'. For the next ten years, the studio plans to evolve the game through regular content updates, ranging from standalone ones, like races, with others serving the larger narrative. 'Once players have experienced the full ten-year arc, they'll understand the shape and scope of the MindsEye universe,' Benzies explained. User-generated content will also have a big role to play, with players being able to create their own levels, races and missions via tools called and and share them with others. Those tools were originally part of the aforementioned Everywhere project; what it means for the project itself is unclear, but Benzies insisted that all will become clear 'very soon'. What's not as clear is why the studio decided to wait until a few weeks before launch to reveal those, arguably crucial, details. Build A Rocket Buy MindsEye is billed as a linear, narrative-driven, single-player third-person shooter. Unclarity and controversy aside, there is every chance MindsEye will turn out to be a great game. Those in the industry believe the fact that the title attracted perhaps the most funding out of all the Scottish video game projects ever and the amount of talent working on the game should ensure a high level of quality. Should MindsEye not be in tip-top shape upon its release, Build A Rocket Buy can take slight comfort in the knowledge that other games, such as Cyberpunk 2077 or No Man's Sky, managed to move past 'disastrous' launches and turn their fortunes around. A success would undoubtedly mean another boost in prestige for the local video game industry, but should the game prove to be less impressive, those in the sector believe it's robust enough for its reputation not to be damaged. Players won't have to wait long to decide whether MindsEye is a boom or bust. The game releases on Tuesday, June 10, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. 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