Beth Ditto protests too much. 'Do you feel young" she hollered early on, before adding "I don't", one of several references during the gig to her age now being 43. Yet the Gossip singer still displayed the glee and energy of a teenager at their first show, even if her band are now into the reunion phase of a career spanning over two decades. 

Marie Ulven had not even stepped onstage and her fans were in raptures. Such was the level of excitement for her second night in Glasgow that sing-a-longs to Chappel Roan and Sabrina Carpenter were ringing out almost as soon as support act Nieve Ella had departed.

L’Addition, Summerhall ★★★★ 

REVENGE: After the Levoyah, Summerhall ★★★★★ 

Òran, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ 

Ni Mi Madre, Pleasance Dome ★★★★ 

Bellringers, Roundabout @ Summerhall ★★★★ 

The Sound Inside, Traverse Theatre ★★★★★

In Two Minds, Traverse Theatre ★★★★ 

The Mosinee Project, Underbelly Cowgate ★★★★

In May 1950, a small US town awoke to hammer-and-sickle flags hanging from lamp-posts, its local newspaper transformed into a Soviet propaganda journal, its citizens’ firearms confiscated and handed to loyal communist troops, and – most alarmingly – its mayor detained under armed guard.