SUE WILSON checks out the next generation alongside one of Scottish music’s enduring personalities.

MARK FISHER sees a lively revival of Licketyspit’s take on a classic fable.

DIRECTOR Andrea Arnold is best known for her striking, Scottish-set debut feature Red Road. Her follow-up, Fish Tank, is an equally accomplished, heartfelt journey into blighted lives set on a housing estate on the fringes of London. There is a grim inevitability to a story that veers close to Greek tragedy at times but Arnold has a talent for finding the signs of hope and hints of poetry in even the bleakest of lives.

FIONA MACKENZIE enjoys Gaelic songs old and new.

KENNY MATHIESON catches the duo in their customary supercharged form.

SUE WILSON discovers that airports can be fun.

Islesburgh Communtiy Centre and elsewhere, Shetland, 5-6 September 2009

Various venues, Shetland, 28 August-6 September 2009

JENNIE MACFIE enjoys a bit of geographical sandwiching in Aviemore.

FIONA MACKENZIE decides family ties work their own magic in music, but wonders if they might include both sexes next time.