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Scotsman
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Kathryn Joseph confirms late night Edinburgh International Festival show in support of new album 'We Were Made Prey'
Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph has announced a very special late night show at The Hub on August 9 as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, in support of her new album 'WE WERE MADE PREY.', out now via Rock Action Records. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Since winning the Scottish Album Of The Year award in 2015 for her debut record, Kathryn Joseph's music has evolved from intimate and delicate to something altogether more intense, skilfully combining raw emotion with piano, keyboards and electronic elements. Joined by longtime collaborator Lomond Campbell, Joseph ventures into darker, more experimental territory, marking a pivotal shift in her artistry. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Returning to the Edinburgh International Festival on August 9 after her acclaimed 2021 performance, she invites fans into a space where vulnerability and beauty collide in profoundly moving music. Kathryn Joseph New album WE WERE MADE PREY. dances on the knife-edge: of action versus inaction, of want versus wanting, of self-fulfilment versus shame. Continuing her creative partnership withproducer Lomond Campbell, recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studios on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides last winter. Joseph's fourth long-player is both a reaction to and reprieve for the animal within. Eleven songs that accept her whole being, with all its hunger, lust and rage, and its devastating tenderness too. Through her hunt for answers to punishing choices, 'the kind that can absolutely f**k up your life,' the Glasgow-based singer-songwriter has come out the other side with something new to say. Joseph's pursuit of truth is the red thread that winds through each of her albums. It's there among the agonising beauty of bones you have thrown me and blood i have spilled, her Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning debut. It's there, too, in 2018's from when i wake the want is, sewn into the primal grief and grasping of the songs. And it made its presence felt again in 2022's for you who are the wronged, her powerful exploration of abuse in all its twisted shapes and guises, acclaimed for its 'luminous brand of minimalism' (Pitchfork) and as 'an outright masterpiece of emptiness and full-to-bursting-ness at the same time' (The Quietus). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Joseph has also just announced a full UK headline tour for autumn 2025, taking in 12 dates across England to follow her Edinburgh International Festival appearance. In between, she will return to the road in support of labelmates (and bosses) Mogwai for a run of European shows in August-September. Lomond Campbell will be performing with Joseph at all shows.
Scotsman
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Kathryn Joseph confirms late night Edinburgh International Festival show in support of new album
Scottish singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph has announced a very special late night show at The Hub on 9th August as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, in support of her new album 'We were made prey', out now via Rock Action Records. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Since winning the Scottish Album Of The Year award in 2015 for her debut record, Kathryn Joseph's music has evolved from intimate and delicate to something altogether more intense, skilfully combining raw emotion with piano, keyboards and electronic elements. Joined by longtime collaborator Lomond Campbell, Joseph ventures into darker, more experimental territory, marking a pivotal shift in her artistry. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Returning to the Edinburgh International Festival on 9th August after her acclaimed 2021 performance, she invites fans into a space where vulnerability and beauty collide in profoundly moving music. Kathryn Joseph New album We were made prey dances on the knife-edge: of action versus inaction, of want versus wanting, of self-fulfilment versus shame. Continuing her creative partnership withproducer Lomond Campbell, recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studios on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides last winter. Joseph's fourth long-player is both a reaction to and reprieve for the animal within. Eleven songs that accept her whole being, with all its hunger, lust and rage, and its devastating tenderness too. Through her hunt for answers to punishing choices, 'the kind that can absolutely f**k up your life,' the Glasgow-based singer-songwriter has come out the other side with something new to say. Joseph's pursuit of truth is the red thread that winds through each of her albums. It's there among the agonising beauty of bones you have thrown me and blood i have spilled, her Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning debut. It's there, too, in 2018's from when i wake the want is, sewn into the primal grief and grasping of the songs. And it made its presence felt again in 2022's for you who are the wronged, her powerful exploration of abuse in all its twisted shapes and guises, acclaimed for its 'luminous brand of minimalism' (Pitchfork) and as 'an outright masterpiece of emptiness and full-to-bursting-ness at the same time' (The Quietus). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Joseph has also just announced a full UK headline tour for autumn 2025, taking in 12 dates across England to follow her Edinburgh International Festival appearance. In between, she will return to the road in support of labelmates (and bosses) Mogwai for a run of European shows in August-September. Lomond Campbell will be performing with Joseph at all shows. Check out for a full list of UK live shows and to buy tickets.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Work to start on £36m outdoor sports centre upgrade
The Hub will be one of the site's new buildings [Southampton City Council] Work is due to start on Monday on a £36m upgrade to a leisure and sports park, a council has announced. New buildings, pitches and a skatepark are planned for the 150-acre (60ha) Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre, with completion scheduled for early 2027. Advertisement The park's outdoor artificial ski slope will also be transformed, with new lifts and a ski lodge. Southampton councillor Toqeer Kataria, in charge of leisure, said the project would improve activity levels and create jobs. He said: "I am delighted that the works to the Outdoor Sports Centre project are about to start. "The new state-of-the-art facilities will also significantly help improve health inequalities often felt by our most deprived communities." The outdoor ski slope is being upgraded (artist's impression) [Southampton City Council] The sports centre opened in 1938 with the objective of promoting health, the government previously said. It allocated £20m from the Levelling Up Fund towards the scheme in February 2024, when the total cost was put at £30m. Advertisement An additional £6m was allocated from council resources earlier this year, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. New buildings on the site will include The Hub, incorporating a gym, cafe, and "two covered netball and tennis courts", the council said. The existing sports centre is spread over 150 acres (60 hectares) [Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities] An athletics track grandstand, a skatepark and three new artificial grass football pitches will also be added. A bike park with obstacles and ramps will be retained, but a long-disused boating lake will disappear. Some existing facilities will be affected by the work, with updates on closures due from contractor Morgan Sindall. The site also includes a mini-funfair, the Children's Pleasure Park, which is temporarily closed. Advertisement You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. More on this story Related internet links
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Meet 'Project Ontario,' pushing Doug Ford's PCs to be more fiscally conservative
There's a mysterious move afoot to push Premier Doug Ford's Ontario PC government to adopt more fiscally conservative policies. Calling itself "Project Ontario," the initiative launched quietly on the weekend with a one-page website and an unsigned manifesto posted by The Hub, an online news and commentary outlet. "When conservatives lose their principles, Ontario loses its way. Let's change course," says the website. "We're organizing an assembly of Ontario conservatives this fall that we'd love to tell you more about," it adds, encouraging people to submit their name, email address and postal code to get more details. The call for change comes only a few months after Ford led his Progressive Conservatives to a third consecutive majority, something that no party leader has accomplished in the province since the 1950s. It's unclear who's behind Project Ontario. The editor-at-large of The Hub, Sean Speer, told CBC News he is not involved, but offered to pass on an interview request to the authors of the manifesto. CBC News also sent a message to the Project Ontario website, but received no response to any inquiry. Ginny Roth, a longtime organizer within both the Ontario PC Party and the federal Conservative Party, posted a link to Project Ontario on social media and wrote, "I'll be signing up to be part of the conversation." CBC News asked Roth for an interview, but she declined. 'Grassroots movement of conservatives' The manifesto published on The Hub goes into more detail than the group's web page about the philosophy behind Project Ontario. It speaks of the province in bleak terms, describing economic decline, punitive tax rates and businesses weighed down by mounting red tape. "Project Ontario is not just another political group. It is a grassroots movement of conservatives who are ready to think big, act boldly, and put forward practical, principled solutions," says the article. "We are bringing together conservatives from across Ontario — party members, business owners, policy experts, and engaged citizens — to build a shared vision for the province's future," it continues. "Together, we will craft a policy framework that applies conservative values to today's most pressing issues." There are no signs Ford and his PC Party are particularly worried that the so-far anonymous push from Project Ontario poses any sort of political threat. "The premier is focused on delivering his mandate to protect Ontario, which he secured with his third consecutive majority election victory," said an official from Ford's office in an email to CBC News. Kory Teneycke, who managed all three of Ford's successful campaigns, dismisses Project Ontario as a small thing. 'Far outside the mainstream' "They're far outside the mainstream of the party and they're far outside the mainstream of the conservative voter coalition," Teneycke said in an interview. Ford is "the most popular conservative in Canada by a country mile," said Teneycke. Patrice Dutil, a professor of politics and public administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, says Ford's record of running large budget deficits runs contrary to the wishes of many conservatives who want smaller government in the province. "There has long been in Doug Ford's Ontario a rump of conservatives who are deeply unhappy with the way he governs," said Dutil in an interview. WATCH | Conservative Jamil Jivani rips into Doug Ford during CBC's election night coverage: The way Ford governs "speaks to conservative values on occasion, but it's also almost indistinguishable from the liberal approach to spending," he said. But Dutil says it's hard to tell at this stage what exactly Project Ontario intends to accomplish. "At this point, it's really nothing more than what seems to be a seed," said Dutil. "Maybe they'll put some some policy meat on their bones. But right now we don't even have bones." Competing visions for conservatism in Canada have been on full display in the aftermath of Ford's election win in February and Pierre Poilievre's failure to lead his Conservative Party of Canada to victory in April's federal election campaign. Tensions between Ford's and Poilievre's teams burst into the open when Teneycke publicly and sharply criticized the Conservatives for blowing a 20-point lead in the polls and failing to pivot the focus of their campaign to the threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. Then on election night, Conservative incumbent Jamil Jivani unloaded on Ford during a live interview with CBC's David Common, slamming the premier he once worked for as an "opportunist" and calling his advisers "goons." WATCH | Ford backs his campaign manager over criticism of Poilievre: Teneycke says the timing of Project Ontario's launch is unusual given Ford's election win and the federal party's loss. "I think they would lose a lot less if they emulated Doug Ford more," Teneycke said. Melanie Paradis, president of Texture Communications and a veteran conservative strategist, dismisses Project Ontario as a "faceless, nameless group" offering no substance. "Anyone who thinks Doug Ford is insufficiently conservative has fever-dreamed an impossible standard of conservatism that no politician in Canada could meet," said Paradis in a text message. The advent of Project Ontario is not the first time there have been rumblings against Ford from the right, but those previous critiques have come more from social conservative elements in the party than from fiscal hawks. Members who either were kicked out of the PCs or became disaffected with Ford joined two breakaway right-wing parties, the New Blue Party and the Ontario Party. Both fielded significant numbers of candidates across the province in the 2022 and 2025 elections, but did not come anywhere close to winning a seat.
CBC
11-06-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Meet 'Project Ontario,' pushing Doug Ford's PCs to be more fiscally conservative
There's a mysterious move afoot to push Premier Doug Ford's Ontario PC government to adopt more fiscally conservative policies. Calling itself "Project Ontario," the initiative launched quietly on the weekend with a one-page website and an unsigned manifesto posted by The Hub, an online news and commentary outlet. "When conservatives lose their principles, Ontario loses its way. Let's change course," says the website. "We're organizing an assembly of Ontario conservatives this fall that we'd love to tell you more about," it adds, encouraging people to submit their name, email address and postal code to get more details. The call for change comes only a few months after Ford led his Progressive Conservatives to a third consecutive majority, something that no party leader has accomplished in the province since the 1950s. It's unclear who's behind Project Ontario. The editor-at-large of The Hub, Sean Speer, told CBC News he is not involved, but offered to pass on an interview request to the authors of the manifesto. CBC News also sent a message to the Project Ontario website, but received no response to any inquiry. Ginny Roth, a longtime organizer within both the Ontario PC Party and the federal Conservative Party, posted a link to Project Ontario on social media and wrote, "I'll be signing up to be part of the conversation." CBC News asked Roth for an interview, but she declined. 'Grassroots movement of conservatives' The manifesto published on The Hub goes into more detail than the group's web page about the philosophy behind Project Ontario. It speaks of the province in bleak terms, describing economic decline, punitive tax rates and businesses weighed down by mounting red tape. "Project Ontario is not just another political group. It is a grassroots movement of conservatives who are ready to think big, act boldly, and put forward practical, principled solutions," says the article. "We are bringing together conservatives from across Ontario — party members, business owners, policy experts, and engaged citizens — to build a shared vision for the province's future," it continues. "Together, we will craft a policy framework that applies conservative values to today's most pressing issues." There are no signs Ford and his PC Party are particularly worried that the so-far anonymous push from Project Ontario poses any sort of political threat. "The premier is focused on delivering his mandate to protect Ontario, which he secured with his third consecutive majority election victory," said an official from Ford's office in an email to CBC News. Kory Teneycke, who managed all three of Ford's successful campaigns, dismisses Project Ontario as a small thing. 'Far outside the mainstream' "They're far outside the mainstream of the party and they're far outside the mainstream of the conservative voter coalition," Teneycke said in an interview. Ford is "the most popular conservative in Canada by a country mile," said Teneycke. Patrice Dutil, a professor of politics and public administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, says Ford's record of running large budget deficits runs contrary to the wishes of many conservatives who want smaller government in the province. "There has long been in Doug Ford's Ontario a rump of conservatives who are deeply unhappy with the way he governs," said Dutil in an interview. WATCH | Conservative Jamil Jivani rips into Doug Ford during CBC's election night coverage: Jamil Jivani slams Doug Ford during fiery interview 1 month ago Duration 13:35 Jamil Jivani, the Conservative incumbent for Bowmanville-Oshawa North who is known for his friendship with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, is projected to win his seat. During an interview with CBC's David Common, Jivani made some sharp remarks about Ontario Premier Doug Ford, saying that he's 'not doing anything particularly well.' The way Ford governs "speaks to conservative values on occasion, but it's also almost indistinguishable from the liberal approach to spending," he said. But Dutil says it's hard to tell at this stage what exactly Project Ontario intends to accomplish. "At this point, it's really nothing more than what seems to be a seed," said Dutil. "Maybe they'll put some some policy meat on their bones. But right now we don't even have bones." Competing visions for conservatism in Canada have been on full display in the aftermath of Ford's election win in February and Pierre Poilievre's failure to lead his Conservative Party of Canada to victory in April's federal election campaign. Tensions between Ford's and Poilievre's teams burst into the open when Teneycke publicly and sharply criticized the Conservatives for blowing a 20-point lead in the polls and failing to pivot the focus of their campaign to the threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. Then on election night, Conservative incumbent Jamil Jivani unloaded on Ford during a live interview with CBC's David Common, slamming the premier he once worked for as an "opportunist" and calling his advisers "goons." WATCH | Ford backs his campaign manager over criticism of Poilievre: 'Sometimes the truth hurts': Ford on criticism of Poilievre election campaign 2 months ago Duration 0:28 Ontario Premier Doug Ford, speaking from Toronto on Monday, says Pierre Poilievre 'would not be in the position he's in right now' if outspoken strategist Kory Teneycke were running the federal Conservative leader's campaign. But Ford added there is 'still a lot of time left.' Teneycke says the timing of Project Ontario's launch is unusual given Ford's election win and the federal party's loss. "I think they would lose a lot less if they emulated Doug Ford more," Teneycke said. Melanie Paradis, president of Texture Communications and a veteran conservative strategist, dismisses Project Ontario as a "faceless, nameless group" offering no substance. "Anyone who thinks Doug Ford is insufficiently conservative has fever-dreamed an impossible standard of conservatism that no politician in Canada could meet," said Paradis in a text message. The advent of Project Ontario is not the first time there have been rumblings against Ford from the right, but those previous critiques have come more from social conservative elements in the party than from fiscal hawks. Members who either were kicked out of the PCs or became disaffected with Ford joined two breakaway right-wing parties, the New Blue Party and the Ontario Party. Both fielded significant numbers of candidates across the province in the 2022 and 2025 elections, but did not come anywhere close to winning a seat.
