Barry Didcock
Senior Features Writer and Journalist at The Herald (Scotland)
Journalist with The Herald and Herald On Sunday
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3 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock
Ker-ching. Perhaps we should take that sum with a pinch of salt, though. Here’s why: in its Economic Impact Of The Edinburgh Festivals report of June 2023, creative industries consultants BOP Consulting estimated that the Edinburgh Festivals contributed £492 million to the capital’s economy.
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4 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock
Money is usually at the heart of it, in two areas specifically. First, funding and support for the arts at governmental and council level. Second the costs associated with coming to Edinburgh in August either as performer or punter. The major complaint on that front is the soaring price of accommodation, the result in part of an ugly tendency among private landlords in the capital for (let’s call it what it is) naked profiteering.
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1 month ago |
heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock
Author Hazel McBride (Image: free) ‘Hic sunt dracones’ or ‘Here be dragons’ may have been a warning as far as medieval map-makers were concerned, but in the world of 21st century publishing it’s more like a USP – particularly if the novel in question fits into the romantasy genre, the book world’s hottest new hybrid creation. Of course fantasy, romance and dragons have long been happy bedfellows.
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1 month ago |
heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock
You can almost taste the sweat from this Glasgow crowd at the Apollo at a Status Quo gig in 1986 (Image: BILL FLEMING) Mosh? Gosh no! Everyone thinks Glasgow audiences are the best in the world – but could they be wrong? Once upon a time it’s a question you would never have thought to ask. Not if you were even halfway versed in the city’s rock and roll lore.
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1 month ago |
heraldscotland.com | Barry Didcock
April is the cruellest month, at least as far as poet TS Eliot was concerned, but the one which follows in the calendar is just dandy for gardens and gardeners – which makes it the perfect time for an exhibition honouring both. But Garden Futures, opening at V&A Dundee this weekend, is far more than just a horticultural show in gallery form. The idea of the garden as idyll or sanctuary has deep roots in myriad human belief systems so that’s explored.
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