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What's On Today
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas at Barras Art & Design Centre
Green Day's American Idiot at King's Theatre
The Big Show at Wild Cabaret Live
Lismore Street Party at The Lismore
Orbital at SWG3
RSNO: Søndergård Conducts Belshazzar's Feast at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Tom Odell at Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre
Tom Odell at Kelvingrove Park
Glasgow Chamber Orchestra at Bute Hall
Dido And Aeneas at Wellington Church
Musical Memories with Alexander McCall Smith & Sally Magnusson feat. the Really Terrible Orchestra at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Seprona at The 13th Note Café/Bar
Ceòl 's Craic Ginealach Ùr / New Generation at CCA
Shoot Your Shot at The Poetry Club
Durananduran at Byres Road
Bag O' Nails: Live Cover Band At Partick at Bag O' Nails
Dark Vibes Tour at Ivory Blacks
Folky Macfolk Face-Album Launch at The Admiral
Martha Reeves at Barras Art and Design
Reaction at The Ice Box Arts and Music Centre
Songs & Sonnets From Across The British Isles at St Bride's Episcopal Church
Today in Scottish History
On 1 June 1841 Sir David Wilkie, the Scottish painter, died. Noted for his portraits and genre subjects, his most famous works include, Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette of the Battle of Waterloo. Wilkie was born in Cults manse in Fife in 1785. His 1806 painting, The Village Politicians, was a great success and he then left to settle in London. In 1817, he painted Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford, which now hangs in the Scottish National Gallery. His painting is mainly in the Dutch style, although he later changed his style, choosing more historical subjects, like The Preaching of John Knox before the Lords of Congregation, 10 June 1559. In 1840, for health reasons, he took a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land, but sadly died on the voyage home.
In this day in 1679 the Battle of Drumclog was fought in Avondale Parish, Lanarkshire, between Covenanters attending a Conventicle and Royalist troops under Graham of Claverhouse. The Covenanters easily routed the government forces. However, the euphoria which followed this victory was short-lived, as the authorities brought in a large Royalist army, which defeated a largish Covenanter force at Bothwell Bridge, exactly three weeks later.
Today in 1872 James Gordon Bennett, the Scottish-born American journalist, died. Bennett was the founding editor of the New York Herald, the first newspaper to carry regular financial articles on Wall St. He was one of a core group of publishers and editors who transformed and modernized journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. James Gordon Bennett was born in Keith, to a Roman Catholic farming couple. After an unsuccesful time training for the priesthood, he renounced his faith. In May 1835 Bennett began publishing the New York Herald, which combined public-interest stories, sensational reports of crimes and disasters, and coverage of national and international news. In April 1836 the Herald shocked readers with front-page coverage of the murder of a prostitute, Helen Jewett. During this episode, Bennett is credited with conducting the first newspaper interview. That same year the Herald initiated a cash-in-advance policy for advertisers, which would soon become standard newspaper practice. By the end of the decade the Herald and the Sun were the two highest-circulation dailies in America, a distinction the Herald carried until Bennett's retirement.
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Masterchef Synesthesia - Swedemason (suggested by /u/BootStampingOnAHuman)
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