This is the best time to post on Instagram if you want more likes 30 Oct 2018 15:52 Living by the Sword Not getting as many likes as you want on Instagram? One company thinks it has cracked the perfect posting schedule.
Extreme sports photographer Nadir Khan on the risks and rewards of working in Scotland 30 Oct 2018 14:48 Living by the Sword In almost a decade of writing about Scotland’s outdoors folk in this column, I’ve been on the receiving end of a perpetual avalanche of remarkable photography. It’s hard to think, though, of more than...
Album reviews: Marianne Faithfull | David Crosby | Baxter Dury 30 Oct 2018 13:50 Living by the Sword No adieu this, surely, rather an au revoir from a wild child turned magnificent singer of torch songs
Music review: Rick Astley, Armadillo, Glasgow 30 Oct 2018 13:28 Living by the Sword It has taken 30 years to transform Rick Astley’s public profile from cheesy pop starlet to his current balancing act on the borderline between guilty pleasure and national treasure but now the Olly Murs of his day has a bona fide career revival on his hands...
Music review: Sound Festival, various venues, Aberdeen 30 Oct 2018 13:27 Living by the Sword It’s been a big week for violas. Last Thursday, Jane Atkins premiered John McLeod’s masterful new concerto Nordic Fire with the SCO and now the viola is centre stage too at Aberdeen’s sound festival of new music ...
Comedy review: Jason Byrne, Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline 30 Oct 2018 13:17 Living by the Sword At 46, Jason Byrne’s assertion that he’s old enough to no longer censor himself, to say whatever he likes, seems redundant given that he’s hardly been the model of restraint in his stand-up career. Nevertheless he’s lately developed a crotchety irritation with modern parenting...
Music review: BBC SSO & Ilan Volkov, City Halls, Glasgow 30 Oct 2018 13:14 Living by the Sword As a successful insurance executive, Charles Ives will have known the workings of actuarial risk. As a composer, whose wackiness singled him out as a lone pioneer among the early 20th-century American avant grade...
Music review: Richard Ashcroft, Barrowland, Glasgow 30 Oct 2018 13:10 Living by the Sword Richard Ashcroft is a wally. That’s not a criticism, not really, as “being a bit of a wally” is an essential personality trait among those who aspire towards shamanistic rock God status. Just look at Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger...
Music interview: Elim Chan on her new role with the RSNO 30 Oct 2018 13:06 Living by the Sword “It was a really intense time – and a very intense dose of the RSNO! But it cemented my feeling that, yes, I wanted to do this again.” Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan is looking back to the start of 2017...
Commercial property: Successfully creating a sense of place 30 Oct 2018 11:41 Living by the Sword The outgoing Chairman of the Scottish Property Federation, Andrew Sutherland, on quality place-making.
Frank Turner and KT Tunstall to perform at world’s biggest Burns Festival in Dumfries 30 Oct 2018 10:28 Living by the Sword Scottish musician KT Tunstall and acoustic singer-songwriter Frank Turner are set to perform in Dumfries for the world’s biggest contemporary Burns celebration.
Edinburgh International Festival names new executive director 29 Oct 2018 14:53 Living by the Sword A woman given an OBE for her work in the arts sector has been appointed to a key role at the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).
Amazing shark-like cloud pictured over the Firth of Forth 29 Oct 2018 14:50 Living by the Sword This is the jaw-dropping picture of a cloud that looks like a great white shark swimming under a wave as it loomed over the Firth of Forth.
Sara Cox named new host of BBC Radio 2 Drivetime show 29 Oct 2018 09:58 Living by the Sword Sara Cox has been confirmed as the successor to Simon Mayo and Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 Drivetime after Mayo announced he would be quitting the station.
Scottish eatery named as one of Wall Street Journal’s 5 restaurants in the world ‘worth travelling for’ 28 Oct 2018 11:37 Living by the Sword A Scottish restaurant has been named as one of only five in the world “worth travelling for” by a prestigious American newspaper.