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'Wise and heavenly and righteous': Seeing Dolly Parton play Glasgow was unforgettable (opens the original)
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Famed for hits such as 9 to 5 and Jolene, Dolly was a huge hit with fans all over the world during her decades-long career including in Scotland. Here, Nicola Meighan recalls the night she played Glasgow's SSE Hydro back in 2014 in an unforgetable five-star show A supreme being with ivory tresses; a subject of global faith and devotion; a paragon of divine simplicity: wise and heavenly and righteous. But enough about Dolly Parton, let's talk about God. The rhinestone cowgirl did so, and then som
I've identified the five emotional stages of surviving Edinburgh's festival season (opens the original)
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I’ve been doing a bit of research into the five emotional stages of the Edinburgh Festivals experience. Denial, euphoria, rehab, etc. It transpires this doesn’t yet exist as a valid psychiatric model, so I’ll be getting wired into establishing that - and monetising it, you’re right - just as soon as I have filed this column, and perhaps brushed my hair for the first time in August. I’ll talk you through it in the meantime. Forewarned is forearmed and all that. First comes the incredulity that it
I've had one of my best Edinburgh Fringe experiences and it happened in ladies toilet (opens the original)
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By Friday teatime, on the escalator at Waverley Station, I find myself wondering how quickly I can find a priest. I don’t mean that so-called man of the cloth I saw unicycling round the Pleasance, flanked by two notably underdressed nuns and a guy dolled up as a Jammy Dodger; I’m after a bona fide, dog-collared friar who might absolve me of my guilt - if not my sins, on account of their number. Preferably one who could also be a sounding board with regard to some quite troubling feelings that ha
The shows, stars and moments everyone is talking to me about at Edinburgh's festivals (opens the original)
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And lo, the gospel according to Frankie Valli came to pass, in the summer of 2026, and Grease was the word, in Edinburgh at least. Is there a hotter, more sought-after celebrity sighting in Auld Reekie over this year’s festival season than the goddess that is Stockard Channing, aka Pink Ladies ringleader Rizzo? And is there anyone out there who’s yet to brush shoulders with her divine being on the Royal Mile, or rocking all over the Pleasance — other than me? Given that this time last week, in t
Arts commentator Nicola Meighan on the chaos and craziness of the Edinburgh festivals (opens the original)
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Handing out flyers, it transpires, is the first thing that springs to mind when looking back on decades of working and living it up at the Edinburgh Festival. Since carrying out that promotional stint on the pavements in the early 2000s, I’ve been heckled onstage with The Jesus and Mary Chain; walked squarely into the devastating mahogany unit that was Sean Connery; presented a show live on BBC radio while my dress blew straight above my head. I’ve blacked right out, flat on my back, from the fo
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