AROUND TOWN

Following its successful debut, Tierhaus (Saturday 28 March) returns to Edinburgh’s Summerhall Arts this weekend with a novel take on the club night. It combines soulful, infectious house music with an immersive, multi-art, synaesthetic experience in the shape of visuals, installations and artistic interventions.

At Gilded Saloon, there’s Brick and Sip Presents… A LEGO Workshop, But With Alcohol (Sunday 29 March). Become a master builder while enjoying a drink, as you take on challenges that will help you embrace your inner child, before gleefully destroying your creation at the end.

While Glasgow’s Delmonica’s is the hosts of Dels Drag Brunch (Sunday 29 March) featuring drag performances, pizza, drinks, games and audience participation.

MUSIC

Glasgow’s City Halls – Recital Room is the setting for Empower 2026: Let The Music Lead! (Thursday 26 March), an evening of live music and conversation celebrating trailblazing female musicians. It combines chamber performances with discussion about creativity, leadership and representation.

The female-fronted math rockers SLAG (Thursday 26 March) will be swinging by Glasgow’s McChuills this week. Formed in Brighton in 2023, they’re known for their distinctive guitar riffs and energetic live shows. They’ll be performing tracks from their debut EP, Losing.

At Edinburgh’s Mash House, quirky collective Wes Banderson (Saturday 28 March) will be simulating the sounds of your favourite Wes Anderson films, as they perform tracks from the likes of Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

And indie raucous-merchants Dictator will be dialling things back a little with an acoustic set at Leith Depot, as part of the club night Salt N Sauce (Thursday 26 March). They’ll be supported by the talented Dara Dubh. 

STAGE

Mixing monologues, spoken word and poetry with ensemble movement, Bedrock (until Thursday 26 March) has been devised by a cast of young queer people to honour LGBT elders and intergenerationality in the queer community. Catch it at Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy.

Following her hit performance at the Edinburgh Fringe, Katie Norris (Thursday 26 March) brings her latest show, Go West, Old Maid, to Monkey Barrel Comedy this weekend, promising a journey into the untamed realms of her imagination.

Glasgow’s Tron Theatre is the setting for a performance of the award-winning production Medea (until Saturday 28 March), a reimagined and female-focused take on the Greek tragedy, starring Nicole Cooper and written by Kathy McKean.

SCREEN

Channel your inner turbulent teen with Blockbuster Brunch: Mean Girls (Saturday 28 March), a chance to revisit the noughties classic with a glass of prosecco and a post-film brunch at Glasgow’s Grosvenor Picture Theatre.

If Project Hail Mary has given you a taste for space silliness, then cult sci-fi classic Dark Star (Sunday 29 March) should satisfy. This exuberantly eccentric low-budget collaboration between The Thing’s John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon (Alien) is the latest pick from community cinema collective Leith Kino at Leith Depot.

Finally, wish the controversial and groundbreaking director John Schlesinger a Happy Birthday with a special season at the GFT. The Consummate Professional: John Schlesinger at 100 (until Wednesday 8 April) is diving into the work of the first openly gay mainstream director to feature explicitly LGBTQ+ characters in a majority of his films, including Midnight Cowboy, the only X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

PODCASTS

If you’ve been enjoying the absolutely hysterical Last One Laughing on Prime, then check out its companion show Last One Laughing: The Last Laugh Podcast. Hosted by Roisin Conaty, it includes guests from the current and previous series, including Amy Gledhill, Diane Morgan, Harriet Kemsley and Joe Wilkinson, who'll discuss every last, enjoyably daft development.

Assume Nothing: What Happened To Mary Glasgow? tells the story of a nursing assistant who died after an altercation with a patient 35 years ago. Hosted by journalist Nathan Edgar, this six-part series follows her family’s quest for answers.

In Novel Idea Radio 1 presenters Matt Edmondson and Mollie King have a crack at collaborating on a murder mystery, taking it in turns to develop the story, while narrator and referee Steffan Powell has his work cut out keeping order.

VISUAL ART

Glasgow’s Mono is playing host to an exhibition from Gerard Doherty (until Tuesday 31 March), a self-taught artist looking to make a mark on the city’s art scene with his eclectic and vibrant paintings, which range from intriguing abstraction to compelling portraiture.

Meanwhile, at The University Of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery the dead don’t go until we do (until Saturday 30 May) gathers the work of four artists channelling the strength of family, friends and communities.

And finally, Glasgow School Of Art’s Reid Gallery is the backdrop for Black Waters: Inference To The Veil (until Saturday 25 April), the debut exhibition from the titular research project led by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie, and Żżo Charlery.

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