Festival organiser JOE GIBBS explains why the TARTAN HEART FESTIVAL at Belladrum is going to be the Highlands’ big music occasion of 2004, and all in a good cause.

PETER URPETH looks forward to another mass outbreak of Celtic music in the big tent at Lews Castle as the HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL gets underway

Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall and elsewhere, June 2004

Carling Academy, Glasgow, Sunday 27 June 2004

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. THERE IS A teen movie market which rakes in cash every time school’s out. Following the success of Freaky Friday, director Mark S. Waters brings Mean Girls to the same target audience. Word’s out that it’s pretty good. Monday saw an audience packed with teenage girls and a screening with […]

Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall, Wednesday 23 June 2004

King’s Theatre, Glasgow, on tour June-July 2004

CATRIONA PAUL at the movies. Ben (Affleck) and Jen (Lopez) are like, so over, that she totally married another guy last week. In movieworld, however, the couple can still be seen together – albeit briefly- in Jersey Girl. But if you’ve had enough of “Bennifer” to last a lifetime, don’t rule this film out, because […]

Orkney, 18-23 June 2004

Early Music expert D JAMES ROSS offers an insider’s view of a rare Highland performance of J S Bach’s magnificent St Matthew Passion