Arts & Entertainment

Filming a mid-song TikTok, and other ways Gen Z are f**king up gigs

FROM camping outside for eight hours, to blocking your view in increasingly inventive ways, here’s how youngsters are ruining concerts.

The shittest jokes of the Edinburgh Festival 2023

IT’S that time of year for articles entitled ‘The best jokes of the Edinburgh Festival’. Here standup Martin Bishop talks you through his favourite incredibly laboured gags.

Number of Scottish people in Edinburgh now down to three

THE number of genuine Scots resident in Edinburgh has hit a new August low of three, surveyors have confirmed.

Hip hop middle-aged, fat and knackered

HIP hop is 50, tired, has nothing new to say and makes a little yelping noise when it has to get up out of an armchair, it has emerged.

Menswear, and other bands no one would give a shit about if they reformed

REFORMING to cash in on nostalgia is a common way for bands to make some money in their twilight years. Although these unmissed acts really needn't bother.

My insufferably smug career plans after Edinburgh. By a posh girl

EDINBURGH is being invaded by middle-class students hoping their dire fringe shows will lead to comedy or acting success. Here Charlotte Phelps outlines her slightly nauseating plans.

'Holly put dogshit in my hair': Inside the bullying culture of This Morning

YOU wouldn’t expect an ultra-bland daytime show like This Morning to have a ‘toxic culture’, but the allegations keep on coming. Here former researcher Carl (not his real name) reveals what went on.

'I'll put it on my list,' and other ways to ignore people's shitty film recommendations

A FRIEND has insisted for the 16th time that you simply must watch Donnie Darko or some other 'classic'. Here are ways to excuse yourself for another few years.

Giddy excitement to bitter disappointment: the six stages of seeing the TV wheeled in at primary school

FEW things were more thrilling as a child than seeing the TV being wheeled into your classroom. However, the fun ended in disillusionment, in these stages.

Six piss-take songs bands had to keep performing when they became popular

BANDS love to make jokey songs that no one will take seriously, right? However these tracks made the fatal mistake of being beloved by the masses.