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King Tut’s Summer Nights 2014: The renowned Glasgow venue will host 25+ bands over seven dates in July.

Thursday 17th: The Calm Fiasco + Seaside Sons + The Senses + Revolving Doors Friday 18th: Lemonhaze + Feet of Clay + Sergio Sergio Sunday 20th: Schnarffschnarff + Algernon + Start Static + Scarlet Shift Thursday 24th: Madison + Dilectrics + We Were Kings + Tumfy and the Deecers Friday 25th: Gerry Cinnamon + Jamie Coleman + Paul John MacIver + Aaron Fyfe Saturday 26th: Manky Savage + The Bawlers + Casino Circus + Irrational Fever Sunday 27th: The Travels + The Near + Tribal High + The Trend For more info, check out www.facebook.com/kingtutswahwahhut or www.kingtuts.co.uk.

Upcoming festivals: T in the Park has found a new home.

Strathallan Castle, near Gleneagles, will play host to the event from 2015 after almost two decades at Balado.

Promoters DF Concerts were forced to relocate following concerns about the safety of an oil pipeline running underneath the airfield.

Geoff Ellis, CEO of DF Concerts, said, “We’re absolutely thrilled to announce Strathallan Castle as our new home. We’ve had 18 tremendous years at Balado but now we’re moving on to pastures new – this time with a castle overlooking the site.” T In The Park first took place in 1994 at Strathclyde Country Park near ­Motherwell before moving sites three years later.

Geoff added, “We already loved Strathallan Castle and had been hoping to host an event there for many years. The landscape is stunning and it has a fantastic natural amphitheatre which will lend itself beautifully for the main stage. It will truly be one of the most beautiful festival sites in the UK.

“More news about 2015 will be revealed soon, but before then, we look forward to welcoming everyone this July for the very last party in Kinross. We’ll make sure Balado gets the spectacular send-off it deserves.” The final Balado T in the Park will take place 11-13 July. Headliners are Biffy Clyro, Calvin Harris and Arctic Monkeys. For more info and tickets, head to www.tinthepark.com.

Pitch up and chill out for charity as Linkylea returns for its 10th year.

The small, family-friendly festival has raised over £35,000 in the last decade for disadvantaged children and young adults in Gwalior, India.

Organiser and Linkylea founder Bonny Squair told the Advertiser, “All our bands play for free. They don’t even take expenses and everyone works for free, so all the money made goes to the children’s project in India that we are involved with. The main project at the moment that we are supporting is a school in a slum area with 1000 pupils.” Acts booked to appear include Bombskare, Hector Bizerk and Scottish Album of the Year award-winners Young Fathers.

Bonny added, “This year it’s a Bollywood theme. There will be some amazing art installations, as well as children’s workshops and lots of performers.” Linkylea will take place 5-6 September at Colstoun Estate, Haddington. For tickets, check out www.linkyleafestival.org.uk.

The Wickerman Festival will take place 25-26 July, East Kirkcarswell near Dundrennan. Headliners are Dizzee Rascal and Del Amitri. www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk.

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival will take place 8-9 August, Belladrum, Beauly. Headliners are Tom Jones and Razorlight. www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk.

Doune The Rabbit Hole will take place 22-24 August at Cardross Estate, Port of Menteith. Headliners are Peatbog Faeries, Errors and The Wave Pictures. www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk.

Tammy Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) is having a bad day. After totalling her clunker car and is fired from her thankless job at a greasy burger joint, she returns home to find her husband Greg (Nat Faxton) in the arms of another woman (Toni Collette). Broke and without wheels, Tammy hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon) - who has a car, cash and an itch to see Niagara Falls.

Tammy is the Bridesmaids star’s new project alongside her husband Ben Falcone. The couple co-wrote the comedy, with McCarthy producing and Falcone directing.

McCarthy has come into her own in the last few years and seems to have found her niche in toilet humour-style comedies, as seen with Identity Thief and The Heat.

The 43-year-old’s timing is spot on and with a solid support cast in the shape of Sarandon, Collette, Kathy Bates, Sandra Oh, Dan Aykroyd and Gary Cole, Tammy is on target for being another Box Office hit for the former Gilmore Girls actress.

Personally, movies like this can be a hit or a miss for me. Bridesmaids I loved, The Heat not so much. As a fan of Oscar-winning Susan Sarandon, I might be persuaded to watch this on the big screen. However, if the script falls flat I’ll leave the cinema raging at having paid so much to see it. To be honest, with Transformers: Age of Extinction out next week I’ll most likely keep my cash for that and wait for Tammy to show on Sky.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Lionsgate has released viral posters and the first teaser trailer for the next instalment in The Hunger Games series.

The propaganda promo video for Mockingjay - Part 1 features President Snow (Donald Sutherland) delivering a warning to district residents who dare to resist the Capitol.

Snow sits on a white throne flanked by Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) as he addresses viewers, “Since the dark days our great nation has known only peace. Ours is an elegant system, conceived to nourish and protect. Your districts are the body, the Capitol is the beating heart. Your hard work feeds us, and in return we feed and protect you.” The speech then takes a turn for the malevolent, with Snow declaring, “But if you resist the system, you starve yourself. If you fight against it, it is you who will bleed. I know you will stand with me, with us, with all of us, together, as one.” Mockingjay - Part 1 is set for release on 21 November. Part 2 will follow next year.

Predator The Arnold Schwarzenegger classic is to be remade with Iron Man 3 director Shane Black at the helm.

Black - who starred in the original Predator as Hawkins and penned the 1987 smash-hit Lethal Weapon - will also write the treatment for the project.

Summer reads: Sleep Tight by Rachel Abbott; How far would you go to hold on to the people you love? When Olivia Brookes calls the police to report that her husband and children are missing, she believes she will never see them again. She has reason to fear the worst - this isn’t the first tragedy that Olivia has experienced. Now, two years later, Detective Chief Inspector Tom Douglas is called in to investigate again, but this time it’s Olivia who has disappeared. All the evidence suggests that she was there, in the family home, that morning. But her car is in the garage, and her purse is in her handbag on the kitchen table. The police want to issue an appeal, but for some reason every single picture of the family has been removed from albums, from phones, from computers. And then they find blood. Has the past caught up with Olivia? Sleep Tight – if you can. You never know who’s watching.

Unlucky 13 (Women’s Murder Club) by James Patterson; When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people. While Lindsay starts to piece the case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting. Sightings of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been reported. Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody, but now she’s ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends.

Bannjaxx Comics’ top titles released this week: Rocket Raccoon #1 (Marvel) Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy’s Most Wanted #1 (Marvel) Legendary Star Lord #1 (Marvel) Bannjaxx Comics, 13 Stirling Arcade, Stirling, FK8 1AX. For more info, go to www.bannjaxxcomics.org.uk.

Stirling’s macrobert presents National Theatre Live: Skylight.

Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), broadcast live from the West End by National Theatre Live.

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

National Theatre Live: Skylight. Thursday 17 July, 7pm, £10-£12.50. For more information, full show times and to reserve your space, go to www.macrobert.org or call the Box Office on 01786 466666.