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Zara Gladman on Comedy, Class, and Cameron’s Gap Year

Zara Gladman is a Glasgow-based comedian and writer who went viral with her TikTok sketches featuring characters like Lady Alba and everyone’s favourite West End Mum, Aileen. We caught up with Zara to talk Fringe experiences, working-class voices in comedy, and Aileen’s cunning plan to raise money for her perfect son Cameron’s gap year.


First of all, congratulations. You’re on a roll right now with the release of your very own sketch show on BBC Scotland, and Aileen is taking herself to the F...
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Pushers TV review: Hilarious crime comedy | The List

Emily Dawkins has cerebral palsy. However, because Emily doesn’t fit a stereotype (she can take care of herself and does not require round-the-clock care), her benefits are being cut. Devastated by this news, Emily doesn’t know how she’ll cope. The debts are mounting and her father’s meagre salary as a journalist at the local rag won’t make a dent. Enter Ewen, a local small-time criminal with some gear to shift. So begins Pushers, created by comedian Rosie Jones and writer Peter Fellows.In Emily...
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Emily Brooks Millar’s <em>Birddad</em> Is Hilarious, Heartfelt, and Totally Off Its Nut

Artist, storyteller, and official comedic genius Emily Brooks Millar let SNACK take a swatch at her latest creation, the graphic novel Birddad. Now, I’ve read a lot of comic books and graphic novels (we’ve a walk-in cupboard in the house containing too many boxes of them), and I can honestly say that nothing in my vast collection has ever made me laugh out loud.


Birddad is a collection of pivotal life moments told to us by the titular character, a wee blue pigeon. It takes us from his humble...
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Rachel O’Regan on her play Monumental: 'It’s about breaking down this barrier' | The List

After F-Bomb Theatre’s Rachel O’Regan read Sara Sheridan’s Where Are the Women? she set about righting some HERstorical wrongs and came up with Monumental. ‘These women don’t have statues, so we’re going to create a spectacle for them in a way nobody can ignore,’ says O’Regan. Taking the form of a 90-minute walking tour (starting at noon and then 3pm on 10 and 17 May), Edinburgh’s city centre will become the stage, giving five historical women the recognition they deserve.Hang on though… a walki...
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Ray Aggs on Sacred Paws’ new album: ‘It’s taking a huge emotion and going as extreme as you can’ | The List

Six long years since their last release, Sacred Paws are finally back with a new album and they’re determined to enjoy the ride. Jump Into Life is quintessential Paws, but there’s also something new here from vocalist/guitarist Ray Aggs, and vocalist/drummer Eilidh Rodgers: a slight shift in the ether, a progression with a purpose. First single ‘Another Day’ is a bubbly, bittersweet track about heartbreak and strength. But it’s also the song that best captures the growth that has happened during...
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ZOE GRAHAM on Therapy, Touring, and the Mystery Of Evilin

It’s been too long since we last had Zoe Graham for a gab – 5 years! – but the wait has been well worth it. With the release of her debut album, TENT, to dive into, Louise Holland caught up with Zoe on a chill Sunday – chill, except for the small matter of some Glasgow high-rises being demolished – for some music chat, writing chat, touring chat, and who the heck is Evilin? chat.


So, the debut album is finally here! Your sound has evolved quite a bit over the years. Is the album like your fla...
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FrightFest 2024 Reviews: Scared To Death, The Doom Busters, In Our Blood

We sent horror movie obsessive and all-round weirdo Louise Holland to FrightFest at Glasgow Film Festival 2025 to enjoy the fun. This is what she saw…


Scottish (fuckin’ yassss) filmmaker Paul Boyd rocked up to FrightFest Glasgow with his comedy-horror flick Scared to Death. It stars Lin Shaye (Insidious franchise, There’s Something About Mary), Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses) and relative newcomers Olivier Paris, B.J. Minor, Victoria Konefal, Jade Chynoweth, and your...
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Bobby Gant – A Decade of Drinking with Ghosts (book review)

Barnsley-born writer Bobby Gant brings us A Decade of Drinking with Ghosts, his first poetry collection. Of course, SNACK was there to get our hands on a copy, because we’re all about this creative stuff and so are you.


Poetry can be difficult, and in fact too many writers seem to get off on confusing the masses with 60-syllable words used to describe the sky, or their farts, or something equally as mundane. Then you have the other poets, the ones who understand clearly just how insane the wo...
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Tartan Tabletop in a Dungeons & Dragons Comedy: The Never-Ending Quest – The Return (REVIEW) 🍫🍫🍫🍫 4 stars

As you enter the Gilded Balloon castle (AKA Patter Hoose) you come across hordes of eager festival-goers; you try to find your tribe, you roll a perception check, and… nothing. The stereotypes don’t exist. You can’t see any spotty teenagers with obscure reference t-shirts, sweaty palms rubbing against jeans their maws bought them; your jaw is on the floor at the number of attractive people gathered in one place… Stereotypes, eh?


Then you hear it, the call for Tartan Tabletop and lo and behold...
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House of Life (review) 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫 5 Stars

YOU NEED TO SEE THIS. Seriously, if I could just fill my allocated word count with just those five words repeated, I would. House of Life is indescribable so lucky for you that means no spoilers, though I already know that nothing could spoil your enjoyment. 


I was supposed to go to the opening night but closed roads and some other hing happening in Glasgow prevented this. Shout out to the press team for fixing me up again. Admittedly, when I went in a week later, I was doubtful that the typi...
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Sid Singh on heroes and fornicating pigeons

Sid Singh is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe and he’s back once again, this time with his politically charged and passionate show American Coloniser. Sid is also a human rights lawyer – and often combines themes from his work in his comedy – and 50% of all donations will go to the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies. We spent some time chatting with Sid about the show, his heroes, and fornicating pigeons.


American Coloniser is basically two shows in one. It’s me trying to discuss and ex...
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Travis ‘L.A. Times’ (Album Review)

You know when you live in Scotland and you start your day in a sensible top and jeans combo, but in your bottomless bag you also carry an umbrella, a winter coat, some flip-flops and a bottle of factor 700? Well, L.A Times is the musical equivalent of Scottish weather and, let me tell you, the Travis boys have prepared very well indeed.


I was fourteen when The Man Who permanently menchied itself on British music and I am still in awe at what these musicians produce. This a contemplative albu...
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Rose Ruane ‘Birding’ (Book Review)

A novel that proves you can come of age at any age.


Lydia is a former teen pop starlet, now in her forties, and she is struggling – struggling to reconcile events in her past and find her reason for being in the present. Meanwhile, Joyce is questioning her own existence, living with an overbearing mother in the kind of set-up that would not be out of place in a Maysles brothers documentary. The paths of these two very different women will cross on the promenade as waves swell and birds squawk...
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Soprano Hye-Youn Lee chats Scottish Opera’s La traviata & her craft

World renowned soprano, Hye-Youn Lee, will be performing as Violetta in Scottish Opera’s upcoming tour of Verdi’s La traviata. Hye-Youn shares her thoughts on the opera and her craft.


For the uninitiated, could you tell our readers about La traviata?


This is the story of young people who cannot be together because of the social conditions of the time, though it feels very modern too.


The character I play, Violetta, is ‘La traviata’, which in Italian means ‘fallen woman.’ She’s a courte...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow

It’s just a jump to the left – or in this case The Pavilion Theatre, then a step into the right seat, put your hands on the armrests, bend your knees in tight,  and get ready for those pelvic thrusts that really drive you insaaaaaaane. . . I’ll stop now. . . 


Featuring a cast of seasoned pros and relative newcomers, opening night of Richard O’Brien’s science fiction rock opera had the Glasgow crowd buzzing with antici… 


FINE,  I’m done.


For those of you who have been living under variou...
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Book Review – Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman

Motion Sickness, the latest novel from acclaimed cult author Lynne Tillman (Weird Fucks, Haunted Houses) is not your standard fare.


We begin in a room in Paris at what may be the middle of our nameless narrator’s journey. From there we are taken through Europe, living at one point in a fascist-run hotel, journeying across Italy in a London taxi, then getting drunk with Irish Pete in Tangier.


Our travels are experienced from the point of view of a young American woman; her observations on f...
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The Snuts SWG3, 28th July – Review

It was SUNNY. It was SOLD-OUT. It was THE SNUTS at SWG3.





‘S’appenin’ Glasgow, we’re the f***in Snuts’ bellowed lead singer and guitarist Joe Cochrane as the band took their positions on the stage. Opening with current single ‘Gloria’, the audience was rapt from the first note and it only got better from there. With a staggering and generous 23-song set list, The Snuts made sure the crowd got their money’s worth and more besides. 

New song ‘Dreams’ came early on in the evening, almost as...