1 MUSIC: MOBYMoby's new album, Last Night, is intended to sound like a night out in New York. To promote it, he's leading fans on nights out in various cities, dropping into Glasgow today and Edinburgh this Saturday. The evening
begins at 4pm with a DJ set in one of the city's best – and, be warned, tiniest – record shops, Avalanche. From there he goes on to play an acoustic set in Mono on King Street at 6pm. Catch him if you can.
• Avalanche, Glasgow, 4pm. First come first served.
2 ARCHES SCRATCH NIGHTIt's a new era at the Arches. The always innovative venue, where club nights help subsidise cutting-edge theatre, has a new director, Jackie Wylie. Aged just 28, she was an unexpected choice, but has already made her mark as arts programmer, putting together the Arches Theatre Festival and events like the regular Scratch Nights, at which performers get ten minutes to try out new ideas in front of an audience. The event returns tonight.
• The Arches, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0141-565 1000
3 FILM: WALL-EPixar's astonishingly accomplished tale of a lonely rubbish-collecting robot is bold, ambitious and full of cinematic wizardry, but WALL-E swells the heart as much as it dazzles the eyes. It's a film that is both visually sophisticated and admirably pure in terms of the basic story it is telling.
• Cinemas nationwide. See listings, p50
4 MUSIC: THE MACDONALD BROTHERSYep, it's the singing brothers from the X Factor, taking their loveable tartan schtick on a month-long Highland tour. Catch them between now and 14 August, from Strathpeffer to Skye, as they play old favourites plus songs from their new album, The Great Big Scottish Song Book.
• Brodick Hall, Arran, 8pm, 01770 302065
5 THEATRE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHINGGlasgow's Bard in the Botanics season is one of the great survivors of Scottish theatre, undeterred by tempests, cash crises, and the recent Kibble Palace refit. The intrepid outdoor company here offers the second show of its 2008 season, a promenade version of a favourite Shakespeare comedy.
• Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, 7:45pm, 0141-276 1614
6 MUSIC: ATTIC LIGHTSBig choruses, sparkling harmonies, and a clear musical debt to the likes of Big Star, Teenage Fanclub and Travis – yes, Attic Lights are another bright new Scottish mainstream pop hope. Songs like new single Bring You Down certainly show promise. Whether they stay the course may depend on their first album, out soon.
• King Tut's, Glasgow, 8:30pm, 0141-221 5279
7 VISUAL ART: HARRY BENSON, A PHOTO-GRAPHER'S JOURNEYIf you're taking the family to Kelvingrove, don't miss this retrospective of one of Scotland's most successful photographers, whose portraits include everyone from the Beatles to US presidents.
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, 10am-5pm, 0141-276 9599
8 THEATRE: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ACCORDIONISTMore tour dates for this enduring Highland Festival show, which can also be seen at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Nothing to do with Dario Fo, despite the pun, it's a comedy ceilidh murder mystery that's full of manic energy.
• Glengarry Community Hall, Invergarry, 7:45pm, 01809 511220
9 VISUAL ART: IMPRESSIONISM AND SCOTLANDIn this five-star exhibition, work by famous French Impressionist painters is hung alongside work by their Scottish contemporaries. It's a thoughtfully assembled show that demonstrates this country's contribution to a revolutionary art movement.
• National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 10am-5pm, 0131-624 6200
10 THEATRE: STRANGERS ON A TRAINTheatre is thin on the ground in most parts of Scotland this week, as companies gear up for the first week of the Edinburgh Fringe, but you can catch this locally produced stage version of Patricia Highsmith's famous story of two men who make a deal to swap murders.
• Aberdeen Arts Centre, 7:30pm, 01224 641122
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