The Wee Review

The Wee Review is an online magazine focused on arts and culture in Scotland. You might remember us from our earlier name, TV Bomb.

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Aberdeen Comedy Festival 2025 Releases Programme

1 week ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Taking place for the first time since 2022, Aberdeen Comedy Festival has been revived and revamped by Aberdeen Performing Arts who are preparing to host two weeks of the finest comedy in venues across the city.
Andy Bell - Ten Crowns - The Wee Review

1 week ago | theweereview.com | Lorna Irvine

Andy Bell, former singer of synth pop duo Erasure, only gets more wonderful with time. This new solo album follows hot on the tottering heels of his glorious Torsten project, which was both a triumphant theatrical performance and soulful soundtrack. The opening track ‘Breaking Thru the Interstellar’ may wrongfoot the listener into thinking it will be pure pop throughout, with its hands in the air, easy-breezy house vibes.
Self Esteem - A Complicated Woman - The Wee Review

2 weeks ago | theweereview.com | Lorna Irvine

Safe mainstream pop, a la Chappell Roan, would have been an easy route for Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem, to take at this stage of her career. After all, she’s done the acting bit; Cabaret in the West End with Jake Shears, a dabble in teatime television. But she’s not an obvious pop star, she’s far more subversive, inventive and smart. Tough messages of our fragmented Britain are served with a velvet glove.
Alchemy Festival returns for its fifteenth edition

2 weeks ago | theweereview.com | Beth Blakemore

Now in its fifteenth year, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival once again welcomes visual artists and fans alike to Hawick on 1-4 May with a multidisciplinary programme exploring identity, belonging, and extraction. Alchemy has long prided itself on being an experimental and collaborative space that brings together the local, national, and international in order to stimulate critically-engaged conversations about the world and art’s place within it.
April - The Wee Review

3 weeks ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

A staunchly uncompromising filmmaker in both subject matter and technique, Dea Kulumbegashvili won’t be one of those independent, critically-lauded auteurs who find themselves co-opted by the Disney/ Marvel machine any time soon. Her sophomore feature is a rigorously controlled, but unflinching and harrowing examination of the provision of abortion services in rural Georgia, or lack thereof.
The Ugly Stepsister

3 weeks ago | theweereview.com | Kevin Ibbotson-Wight

Emelie Blichfeldt‘s gleefully gory and giddily fun The Ugly Stepsister doesn’t so much as subvert the now-standard Disneyfied approach to fairy tales so much as reconnect with the original Grimm, Gothic nastiness, while shifting their traditional focus elsewhere in a similar way to Angela Carter in The Bloody Chamber. While nowhere near as erudite and thematically rich as Carter’s reworkings, it foregrounds the blood and sex and pain of it all in a very frank, drolly Scandinavian way.
Divide and Dissolve - Insatiable - The Wee Review

1 month ago | theweereview.com | Lorna Irvine

Divide and Dissolve are not your average doom metal band. Formed by the powerhouse composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, they have classical chops as well as face melting solos. Better yet, despite playing instrumentals, they also have something to say about the state of the world, railing against the neo-Nazi orange clown and his toxic toadies.
Joni - Things I Left Behind - The Wee Review

1 month ago | theweereview.com | Lewis Wade

As debuts go there isn’t anything particularly novel about this one from the London-based singer-songwriter: a break-up album with a slight twist in that our mononymous star had just moved to LA, so the feelings of loneliness and abandonment were compounded by the unfamiliar surroundings.
billy woods - The Wee Review

1 month ago | theweereview.com | Lewis Wade

Rising rapper psweatpants has the unenviable job of rousing the shrinking violets that make up the audience tonight, a task he more or less accomplishes despite the repetitive stage banter and a bit of lingering sickness. London-born and Glasgow-based, his foundation is the trad-grime of two decades ago, which is surprisingly refreshing when considering the current state of UK rap, but there’s top-class variety in the beats and samples that keep things engaging throughout.
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious - The Wee Review

1 month ago | theweereview.com | Lorna Irvine

Produced by guitarist Sam Grant, Pigs x 7’s follow-up to 2023’s Land Of Sleeper isn’t much of a sonic departure from the Newcastle behemoths, but still has some crispy little winners. From the early ’80s Motorhead-inspired ‘Blockage’ to the psychedelic, frazzled ‘Collider’ it is of course all underpinned by Matthew Baty’s relentless, snarling vocals and sardonic humour.