Edinburgh immerses itself in art during the whole month of August. From the Castle to the Georgian New Town, the city lives and breathes arts and hosts the Edinburgh Festival, the largest arts and cultural celebration in the world.

The Edinburgh Festival is a common term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in the Scottish city town each summer. The festival fever starts with the Jazz Festival and the Tattoo, followed by the Fringe, then the International Festival and the Edinburgh Book Festival.

The original festivals are the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival fringe, being the latter the world's biggest arts festival. The Edinburgh International Festival was born in 1947 to provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit as an antidote to post-war gloom.

That same year eight theatrical companies gatecrashed the official Festival by organising an alternative event, which is now known as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Both the EIF and the Fringe continue to be independent bodies and run separate programmes.

Today the International Festival is a marvelous mix of classical, dance, drama, and opera productions at some of the best venues of the city, such as Usher Hall and the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.

The Fringe features the performing arts, especially theatre and comedy, but dance and music are also represented. The festival encourages big-name comedians to kick-off major tours and A-list Hollywood stars to do a pre-West End run in the event.

In the Edinburgh Book Festival, top authors arrive to discuss their new books and the issues of the day.

The celebrations climax with the International Festival's massive fireworks display from the Castle.

Franz Ferdinand

is going to ‘take the UK out' for a music tour to remember. The indie band started to hit the road back in 2014 after the success of their 2013 comeback album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions, which debuted at number 6 in the UK Album Charts and number 1 on the UK Indie Chart.

Well Franz Ferdinand, You know the fans are here waiting for you. They're just a cross-hair. They're just a shot away from you. And they are lucky the band is touring at all, especially after frontman Alex Kapranos recently admitted he nearly ended the band during their break from music.

The fun went out when I felt I was working to someone else's schedule or deadline, the frontman said in an interview with The Observer.

I'm not naturally the kind of person who works well under those conditions. In fact, my whole adult life before that point, if I'd been in a job where I felt I was under pressure, I would usually just jack in the job. And suddenly I couldn't do that anymore. But maybe... Maybe, that's what we did after the third record.

When he was asked whether or not the band actually split up, Kapranos explained: I met up with Bob (Hardy, bassist) in Orkney about two years ago. I wanted to split the band up, because in my head it felt like one of those jobs... the ones I had to jack in. I didn't like the routine and the obligations. And whether those obligations lay with my contemporaries, my peers, my record label, the fans, the audience - or maybe myself... I felt... It was time to stop that.

Here are the upcoming dates for the UK tour:

June 16, 2015 The Glasgow School of Art 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, UK

June 29, 2015 Troxy 490 Commercial Road, London, UK

August 24, 2015 Festival Theatre Edinburgh 13-29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, UK

August 25, 2015 Manchester, UK

They say that a picture is word a thousand words, but when it comes to the depth and emotion in quotes from French movies, an image falls short. As Amelie is a favourite, most of the quotes are from Jean-Pierre Jeunet's classic, yet there are many other quotes from other marvelous French films.

These are hard times for dreamers Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. At least you'll never be a vegetable - even artichokes have hearts. We pass the time of day to forget how time passes. A woman without love wilts like a flower without sun. - Amelie

I have an idea. Would you like to be called ‘Belle de Jour'? - Belle de Jour

Sophie was back in the game! Pure, raw, explosive pleasure! Better than drugs, better than smack! Better than a dope-coke-crack-fix-shit-shoot-sniff-ganja-marijuana-blotter-acid-ecstasy! Better than sex, head, 69, orgies, masturbation, tantrism, Kama Sutra or Thai doggy-style! Better than banana milkshakes! Better than George Lucas's trilogy, the muppets and 2001! Better than Emma Peel, Marilyn, Lara Croft and Cindy Crawford's beauty mark! Better than the B-side to Abbey Road, Jimmy Hendrix and the first man on the moon! Space Mountain, Santa Claus, Bill Gates' fortune, the Dalai Lama, Lazarus raised from the dead! Schwarzenegger's testosterone shots, Pam Anderson's lips! Woodstock, raves... Better than Sade, Rimbaud, Morrison and Castaneda! Better than freedom, better than life! - Love me if you dare

You're better suited for making love than for making war. - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

Nobody is entirely evil: it's that circumstances that make them evil, or they don't know they are doing evil. - Delicatessen

MMMBop! They are back! Hanson, the three American brothers who took the world by storm back n 1997 are back in the Europe in December to promote their latest album Anthem.

The pop-rock trio released their newest album back in July 1st with their single Get the girl back. The music video pleased the band's fans with a melodious song that is true to the band's signature soulful pop-rock sound, an interesting plot and the stars of the moment: Two Broke Girls' Kat Dennings and Twilight's Nikki Reed.

The tour will bring the band back to the UK after two years and a half. The last appearance took place in London for the band's 5 of 5, a series of concerts in which the band performed one album per gig.

ANTHEM was produced and written by the band, and mixed by the epic Tom Lord-Alge. The guitar-driven sounds of the band displays the band's rock and R&B influences ranging from The Beatles, Michael Jackson and AC/DC.

From December 3rd to December 8th, fans of the band will queue for hours outside popular venues across Europe. The tour starts in the UK in Glasgow on December 3rd and ends in Milan on December 17th.

Tour Dates:

3 December Glasgow, UK 5 December Manchester, UK 6 December Cardiff, UK 7 December Birmingham, UK 8 December London, UK 10 December Tilburg, Netherlands 11 December Cologne, Germany 13 December Paris, France 14 December Solothurn, Switzerland 16 December Rome, Italy 17 December Milan, Italy

Anthem track listing:

1. Fired up 2. I've got soul 3. You can't stop us 4. Get the girl back 5. Juliet 6. Already Home 7. For your love 8. Lost without you 9. Cut right through me 10. Scream and be free 11. Tragic symphony 12. Tonight 13. Save me from myself.