1 MUSIC: JAY-ZHe's got 99 problems but Oasis ain't one – as if the biggest rap star in the world needed the validation of a Glastonbury headline slot when he could just snuggle up at home with Beyoncé and watch the cash roll in.
As we now know, it was a storm in a cowbarn, Jay-Z silencing the naysayers in style with a storming show. If this gig is anything like his set there, expect rapper, band and no nonsense.
• AECC, Aberdeen, doors 6:30pm, 08444 77 9000
2 MUSIC: THE B-52SThe crazy kitsch cats from Athens, Georgia, are back, touring their first new album in 16 years. Some might ask whether the B-52s are too old for this cartoony electro-surf malarkey. Their queasy innuendo is a bit too much to take from Fred Schneider, whose camp ringmaster act gets creepier as time goes on, but for the B-52s, weirdness is to be celebrated. Their sound has become more mainstream, but their individuality has never been diluted.
• Carling Academy, Glasgow, 7pm, 0844 477 2000
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.
4 THEATRE: ARCADIAPlaying in repertoire throughout Pitlochry Festival Theatre's summer season, this is the Scottish premiere of Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning detective story, which is set on a dramatic weekend at a stately home in 1809, and a century later, as an academic tries to find out exactly what happened.
• Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 8pm, 01796 484626
5 THEATRE: 66A CHURCH ROADTonight is your final chance to catch this "work in progress" trial run of Daniel Kitson's new theatre show, before it transfers to the Traverse in Edinburgh for a month at the Fringe. If last year's C90 is anything to go by, expect his new show, a tribute to his former flat, to be funny and poignant.
• The Arches, Glasgow, 8pm, 0141-565 1000
6 VISUAL ART: IMPRESSIONISM AND SCOTLANDIn this five-star summer show, work by famous French Impressionist painters is hung alongside work by their Scottish contemporaries, demonstrating this country's contribution to a revolutionary art movement.
• National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 10am-5pm, 0131-624 6200
7 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
8 MUSIC: BALLBOYEdinburgh's ballboy (not Ballboy) are possibly the indiest band in Scotland, continuing to perform their witty, literate but perpetually unfashionable guitar pop to much the same small, loyal audience. You can bet they'll still be around long after the Ting Tings are history, but go see them now anyway.
• Doghouse, Dundee, 8pm, 01382 206812
9 VISUAL ART: KENNY HUNTERA fox sitting on a wheelie bin and a cat perched on an old fridge may not immediately seem the stuff of monumental sculpture. But they are among the works that artist Kenny Hunter has made for this new – and rare – solo show, inspired by his daily cycle ride to work along the Forth and Clyde canal.
• Tramway, Glasgow, 10am-5pm, 0845 330 3501
10 VISUAL ART: HARRY BENSON, A PHOTOGRAPHER'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
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