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Glasgow Times
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Punk All Dayer 2025 to cause Glasgow road disruptions
The Punk All Dayer festival will take place at Bellahouston Park on Saturday, June 21, 2025, featuring iconic acts including Sex Pistols members Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock—performing with Frank Carter—alongside The Stranglers, The Undertones, and Buzzcocks. The event forms part of the Glasgow Summer Sessions, which will also see Simple Minds perform on June 27 and Stereophonics on June 28. READ MORE: Over 40 road closures in Glasgow today as Race for Life takes place To accommodate the large crowds expected across these dates, Glasgow City Council has announced a series of temporary road closures and parking restrictions in the Bellahouston area to ensure public safety and traffic flow. Full road closures will be in place for all vehicles, excluding emergency services and those with explicit permission from the council, from 10am on June 21 until 2am on June 22. Additional closures will follow from 10am on June 25 to 2am on June 26, from 10am on June 27 to 2am on June 28, and again from 10am on June 28 until 2am on June 29. Affected Roads: Ardo Gardens (entire length) Bellahouston Drive (between Mosspark Boulevard and Moness Drive – access to sports centre until 9:30pm) Hinshelwood Drive (between Ardo Gardens and Skene Road) Mosspark Boulevard (between Bellahouston Drive and Mosspark Drive) Evening road closures will also be in effect from 9:30pm to 2am on June 21, 25, 27, and 28. Affected Roads: Broomloan Road (Paisley Road West to Edmiston Drive) Bellahouston Drive (Moness Drive to Paisley Road West) Dumbreck Road (Paisley Road West and the Northbound M77 off Ramp to Dumbreck Road) M8 Westbound off-ramp (Dumbreck Interchange to Dumbreck Road) Nithsdale Road (Dumbreck Road to Maxwell Drive) Paisley Road West (Helen Street to Edmiston Drive) Mosspark Boulevard (Bellahouston Drive to Corkerhill Road) Parking restrictions, including no waiting, loading, or unloading, will be enforced from 4am on June 20 to 2am on June 22, and again from 4am on June 24 to 2am on June 29. READ MORE: ScotRail issue statement after teen sadly dies following beach incident Affected Roads Include: Ardo Gardens (for its entire length) Bellahouston Drive (Paisley Road West to Clunie Road) Broomloan Road (Paisley Road West to Edmiston Drive) Dumbreck Road (Paisley Road West to Mosspark Boulevard) Mosspark Boulevard (Corkerhill Road to Dumbreck Road) Nithsdale Road (Dumbreck Road to Fleurs Avenue) Paisley Road West (Dumbreck Road to Bellahouston Drive) Hinshelwood Drive (Ardo Gardens to Skene Road) Additional no-waiting zones will apply across numerous surrounding streets unless vehicles display a local access pass. These include: Alness Crescent Arisaig Drive Barfillan Drive Bellahouston Drive at Mosspark Boulevard Cessnock Street Corkerhill Place Dargarvel Avenue North Dargarvel Avenue South Dumbreck Avenue Dumbreck Place Dumbreck Square Dunellan Street Elizabeth Street Erskine Avenue Fleurs Avenue North Fleurs Avenue South Harley Street Jura Street Kirkdale Drive Ladybank Drive Lora Drive Maryland Drive Melfort Avenue Midlock Street Moness Drive Morven Street Mosspark Boulevard at Bellahouston Drive Mosspark Boulevard at Dumbreck Road Torridon Avenue East Torridon Avenue North Torridon Avenue West Urrdale Road READ MORE: Teen tragically dies after 'serious disturbance' at popular beach Glasgow City Council is urging residents and visitors to plan ahead and allow extra travel time during these dates. The restrictions are designed to ensure the safety of festival-goers and local road users while minimising disruption. The Punk All Dayer promises a high-energy celebration of punk history, and with careful planning, the city aims to ensure it runs smoothly for everyone.
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The Independent
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The Barbican's star-studded The Seagull is an utterly engrossing update of Chekov
In German director Thomas Ostermeier's engrossing update of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, moody aspiring playwright Konstantin rages against an establishment that won't appreciate his talents. 'Theatre is awful. It's overpriced, elitist, indulgent, outdated and entirely irrelevant to what's actually happening in the world,' he complains. But Ostermeier's production absolves itself of most of these charges, even though it's stuffed with enough big names – not least Cate Blanchett as deluded actress Arkadina – to ensure that tickets will only make their way into the hands of a lucky few. It probes the relationship between art, obsession and self-deception, poring over and riffing on its themes like a rock song ('Golden Brown' by The Stranglers patterns through its scenes). Blanchett's Arkadina is wonderfully, hilariously crass, blinding the front row with her glittery jeans then nonplussing the whole audience by tapdancing into splits. Yet underneath the performative silliness, Blanchett conveys a sense of a cavernous emptiness – a detachment from her own emotions that means she can only express herself in a hammy karaoke of borrowed lines. Desperate for attention, she has flattered middlebrow writer Trigorin (an appropriately smug Tom Burke) into loving her. But he's also obsessed with Nina, an aspiring actor played with remarkable internal depth by Emma Corrin. When he cannibalises her pain and turns it into an idea for a trite story, she sees through him enough to slap him, but not enough to drag herself out of his narcissistic orbit. Meanwhile, Kodi Smit-McPhee's lanky, introverted Konstantin is captivated by Nina too and is oblivious to the hurt that causes to his put-upon admirer Masha (a refreshingly spiky Tanya Reynolds). No amount of vape-smoking aloofness can protect her from heartbreak. Ostermeier's production is full of devices that could feel gimmicky if they didn't clearly come from an intimate understanding of Chekhov's play. Its opening scenes are set on a lake's edge, so Magda Willi's set design makes a clump of gigantic reeds sprout from the stage, with characters pushing their way through them to crash into a scene – or trembling among their leaves in agonies of embarrassment or unrequited love. There are microphones at the front of the stage, a modish device that makes sense here because it lets actors send their innermost thoughts or heightened emotions echoing into the audience. And down-to-earth Simon (Zachary Hart) punctuates the action with Billy Bragg folk songs, their plangent authenticity clashing satisfyingly with all the fakeness and self-delusion on display here. Still, although Chekhov's spirit saturates this production, we're definitely not in Russia. Ostermeier and playwright Duncan Macmillan's perfectly pitched adaptation is laced with witty notes of Anglicisation (when Nina's acting career is going badly, she's stuck doing a regional panto) and smart nods to the tensions within the UK's theatre scene. The first few acts sing, powered by these characters' ravening, punchily expressed hunger for fame, love and meaning. But when disillusionment sets in, the play loses momentum, sagging until it reaches its jarring climax. Perhaps that's because Smit-McPhee's understated Konstantin struggles to hold our attention as his desperation mounts – or perhaps that's because Ostermeier's three-hour production luxuriates in a play he clearly loves. Where Jamie Lloyd's acclaimed 2022 The Seagull was an exercise in punchy concision, this staging is languid and thoughtful, sucking you into the self-fixated inner worlds of these awful, fascinating people. 'The Seagull' is at the Barbican until 5 April
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
REVIEW: Punk Off at the Lighthouse, Poole
IF you want to see a great show full of energy and some of the best live songs ever written then this is the gig for you. Talking to people before the start I asked what songs they would expect to hear as part of an evening that documented the history of punk, various people went through their list with The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers and the Ramones being common answers. Well tonight they played them all and plenty more besides. This is not a show that uses punk favourites to tell a story rather it is a spoken narrative interspersed with all of the punk favourites of 1976 to 1979. The show starts in the New York clubs with the band pumping out The Ramones Shenagh Is A Punk Rocker and then moves to London where Malcolm McClaren and Vivian Westwood rebrand their shop on the Kings Road that attracted Chrissy Hynde and various Sex Pistols. (Image: rockstarimages) From then on it is an excellent retelling of a brief history of punk narrated by none other then Kevin Kennedy who also straps on a guitar and joins in the fun. The songs come thick and fast and include classics from Sham 69, Blondie, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and a pretty good version of In The City from The Jam. The three-piece band deliver spot on versions of these classics whilst the rest of the cast move the story along with a mixture of singing and dancing to a Camden Lock background. The lights and sound are excellent and the pretty well sold crowd lapped up every second of it. It would be fair to say that the majority of the crowd were around to enjoy these tunes first time around and loved hearing them played live again nearly fifty years later. An excellent show that keeps the story alive with the crowd heading out into the night feeling like the teenagers they were when they originally heard these songs.
BBC News
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Will Young and Beverly Knight to headline Warwick Sessions
Popstar Will Young and soul queen Beverly Knight have been added to the list of headliners performing during a series of shows in Warwick. The superstars will co-headline a show at St Nicholas' Park as part of The Warwick Sessions this summer. They will join The Stranglers, Train and Elbow as headliners for a run of four concerts in the Warwickshire town. The pair will perform on July 3, on the second night of the series of shows. Originally from Wolverhampton, Knight is widely regarded as one of Britain's greatest soul singers while Will Young is known for winning the inaugural series of Pop Billiald, portfolio holder for arts & economy at Warwick District Council said: "We are very excited to be welcoming these big name artists to Warwick in the wonderful backdrop of St Nicholas Park. "We do hope that these concerts will attract lots of new visitors to our beautiful town, benefitting our local hospitality businesses and retail."Tickets for the concert will go on sale from 10:00 GMT on Friday. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
