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From thrillers on-screen to crooners onstage Let the good times roll
CINEMA
Zodiac, Glasgow Film Theatre, tomorrow, 4pm
Part of the ongoing David Fincher season at the GFT, here’s a chance to see his coldly precise serial killer drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, below, and Mark Ruffalo on 35mm. First released in 2007, it has retained its power to disturb all these years on. If nothing else, you’ll never be able to listen to Donovan’s Hurdy Gurdy Man in quite the same way again.
ART
Two-Step: Playing Up, Glasgow Print Studio, from Friday to May 20
Duo Two Step, aka Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor, first met in 2017 at House for an Art Lover. The two artists have since been working together on screen-printing and this new exhibition shows the latest fruits of their instinctual collaboration. Originally from Nottingham, Shapeero moved to Glasgow in 2011. Taylor, who returned to Glasgow in 2017 after years in Chicago, was a member of the hugely influential creative studio The Cloth back in the 1980s and probably designed a few album covers that you have in your collection.
FESTIVAL
Two festivals in fact.
Further to The Herald Magazine’s Spring Festivals round-up last weekend, two more to keep your eye out for are Counterflows, the contemporary music event which kicks off in Glasgow on Thursday. It sees appearances from the likes of Cara Tolmie, above left, Donna Candy (making her Scottish debut) and Mariam Rezaei. Visit counterflows.com for details of performers and venues.
Friday, meanwhile, sees the start of the Edinburgh International Harp Festival at George Watson’s College, which runs until April
11. Eva Curth, Swedish duo Dram and Gwen Mairi are amongst the harpists who will be performing, with Rachel Hair and Ruth Keggin, performing tomorrow night, alongside Gillian Fleetwood and Ensemble. Meanwhile, Heal and Harrow (Rachel Newton and Lauren MacColl) help to wrap things up on Tuesday. Visit harpfestival.co.uk
COMEDY Worst of Mr Swallow, Tramway, Glasgow, tomorrow
Double Emmy award-nominee and star of Ted Lasso, Nick Mohammed, above, is finally embarking on his first UK tour in the guise of his alter ego Mr Swallow. You can catch him tomorrow night as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival and we’re promised maths, magic and the whole of Les Mis.
MUSIC
Paul Young – Behind the Lens, Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock, Wednesday; Brunton, Musselburgh, Thursday; Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow, Friday, Whitehall Theatre, Dundee, April 9
I hate to tell you but it will be 40 years since the release of No Parlez this summer, which is a reminder that you, me and Paul Young are not as young as we once were. (I’m old enough to remember his version of Marvin Gaye’s Wherever I Lay My Hat being the single of the week in the NME.) Young still has the hair he had back in his 1980s pomp (albeit it’s a bit more silvery these days) and the voice remains in fine nick. So, here’s a chance to see him in more intimate venues than the enormodomes he played back in the day.