The Sensational Sixties Experience is to come to Scotland next month, a touring show which play at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow.
The show, on October 8, features five acts from the 1960s, including Mike Pender of The Searchers.
Other acts include Chris Farlowe, Herman’s Hermits, The Fortunes, and The New Amen Corner.
The Searchers were a key part of the Liverpool music scene, and had hits including Needle and Pins.
Herman's Hermits had 23 hit singles and 10 successful albums.
www.atgtickets.com/glasgow
A collection of 16th century Spanish tiles have been found in an Edinburgh basement by Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers.
Some of the ceramic tiles match important pieces originally uncovered in a Spanish church in the 19th century.
Over 200 pieces were discovered by Lyon & Turnbull’s specialists during a routine valuation of the Edinburgh house and are valued at £10,000-15,000.
They will be sold at their forthcoming Fine Furniture & Works of Art auction on September 27.
The tiles may have come from the church of Santiago in Carmona which lies in the province of Seville.
In the late 19th century a discovery was made at the church when a bricklayer, repairing the church roof, uncovered a ceiling of around 2,000 tiles, disguised behind the existing decoration.
The tiles dated to the first half of the 16th century, and displayed various different patterns in glazes so typical of tiles produced in the region during this time.
Some of the tiles were sold: in February 1881 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired 42 pairs of ceiling tiles, recovered from the church, and it was claimed that Lord Rothschild also bought some. In around 1890 a museum in Cologne acquired tiles with comparable decoration and four years later the National Museum of Scotland procured similar items too.
www.lyonandturnbull.com
The Folio Society and House of Illustration have announced the 2018 Book Illustration Competition to illustrate ‘The Selected Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes’ by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The competition gives illustrators, both student and professional, the opportunity to win a commission from The Folio Society to illustrate a selection of Sherlock Holmes short stories.
A partnership between The Folio Society and House of Illustration, this year’s BIC is open for entries from September 19 until January 17.
The competition asks entrants to create an illustration for each of three short stories – A Scandal in Bohemia, The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Musgrave Ritual – and design a binding for the entire collection.
The longlist will be exhibited online throughout February 2018.
The annual international competition is open to illustrators over the age of 18.
www.houseofillustration.org.uk
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