THE Scottish rock band Mogwai have announced a new UK winter tour.

Mogwai, supported by another lauded Scottish band, The Twilight Sad, will tour to five concerts.

It was recently announced that Mogwai have created their first feature film soundtrack for the forthcoming sci-fi/crime drama, ‘Kin’. Directed by Jonathan and Josh Baker, ‘Kin’ will star Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Carrie Coon, James Franco and Dennis Quaid.

The Twilight Sad recently signed to Mogwai’s label Rock Action.

Later this summer, Mogwai will play two shows at the Edinburgh International Festival, at the Leith Theatre on 22 and 23 August as part of Light On The Shore contemporary music programme.

They will also play at the True North Festival, at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen on September 22.

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TWO international exhibitions open this week feature significant loans from the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.

The shows, in Paris and New York, use material from the museum while it undergoes a major revamp.

Magical Unicorns, at Musée de Cluny, Paris, which runs until February next year, includes Burrell’s Hunt of the Unicorn, a tapestry originally from Switzerland dating from before 1592.

The tapestry, purchased by Sir William on 6 February 1937 for £250 has not been shown in public since 1969.

The tapestry depicts a white unicorn driven by the Angel Gabriel blowing a hunting horn and holding a leashed dog leaping onto the lap of a seated virgin.

The display of a late 17th-century Persian carpet also opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this week.

Featuring the Wagner Garden Carpet, the display titled Eternal Springtime: A Persian Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection is open until 7 October.

The Wagner Garden Carpet is considered to be one of only three early surviving Persian garden carpets in the world.

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A NEW play, Scotties, supported by the National Theatre of Scotland, the Abbey Theatre, and produced by Theatre Gu Leòr, is to tour to several theatres in Scotland.

Written by Frances Poet and Muireann Kelly, the play has been written in English, Scottish and Irish Gaelic, and Scots, and tells the story of ten young men, from Achill Island, who lost their lives in a Scottish bothy fire, based on a real event in 1937.

Graham McLaren, director of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland commented: "We are proud to collaborate with Theatre Gu Leor and National Theatre of Scotland on the Irish, English and Scottish language project.

"As Ireland’s National Theatre, it is a privilege to present this story in its home, for the community of Achill."

The production from award-winning Glasgow-based company Theatre Gu Leòr will be performed by a seven-strong Scottish and Irish cast.

The play has been devised to not require subtitles, the producers say.

It will be performed at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the Macrobert in Stirling, Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen, the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and Colaiste Acla on Achill Island, in County Mayo, Ireland.

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THE One Show, is to be broadcast from the Hebrides this week as part of a partnership with Scotland’s Gaelic media producers, MG Alba.

The BBC's magazine programme will broadcast from the Isle of Harris and the Isle of Lewis as part of a two-night special.

Presenters Alex Jones and Matt Baker will be based at West Harris Trust’s Talla na Mara on Thursday.

On Friday they will be in Stornoway live from the annual Heb Celt Festival.

Both programmes will focus on life in the Hebrides.

BBC Alba's Fiona Mackenzie will present one of these, while the programme will celebrate ten years of the company.

Donald Campbell, chief executive of MG Alba said: "We are delighted that MG Alba’s people and facilities are able to accommodate one of the highest profile BBC brands in the UK and that UK audiences will have a wonderful opportunity to share the magic that makes our Gaelic-speaking part of the world so special."

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