YOU MAY NOTICE A BIT OF A theme in this week's Critique. Yep, the Edinburgh Festival is all over it like a rash. It's an annual dilemma for a national newspaper based in Edinburgh. This weekend, there are just so many interesting things about to happen on our doorstep that we can't help but want to tell you about them. A lot. But what if you live in Forres, or Inverness, or Dumfries, and don't care?

If this is the case – and by some miracle you are still two paragraphs into a feature on this very subject – then the news is about to get worse, I'm afraid. From next Saturday we'll be publishing a daily 24-page Festival Review magazine, with more comprehensive Edinburgh Festival coverage than you will find anywhere else. Sorry.

We're going to town on it. Previews. Interviews. Hundreds of Fringe reviews. Reviews of every single show at the Edinburgh International Festival. Daily coverage of the Book Festival and the Art Festival. Pages and pages and pages of listings for things which, if you live in a Highlands hideaway and have no intention of going to the Festival, will be completely and utterly useless to you. What can we say? The Edinburgh Festival is one of the biggest cultural extravaganzas in the world and it's right outside our office window. Hey ho.

In case we can't tempt you to come and join us, though, right now we are going to make a promise. From next Saturday, Critique will be an Edinburgh Festival-free zone. No comedians from London trying to get telly shows. No earnest student productions of Dario Fo plays. In fact, if you spot a reference to the Edinburgh Festival in Critique on 2, 9 or 16 August, then write in and we'll give you a prize. How about that? And we promise that the prize won't have anything to do with the Edinburgh Festival.

There are, after all, lots of things going on in Scotland outside the Festival. Here are a few which we'll be covering in the next few Critiques.

• A major retrospective of the late artist Steven Campbell's work, at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art.

• A varied crop of summer films including Death Defying Acts, Elite Squad, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, etc.

• Fringe by the Sea. If you live on the east coast and want to escape from the Edinburgh Fringe madness, check out this new festival in North Berwick, featuring Dougie MacLean, Tommy Smith and more.

• Pittenweem Arts Festival. A beautiful festival in a picturesque setting, and another annual respite from the Fringe.

• Hydro Connect at Inveraray, aka T in the Park for grown-ups, with Franz Ferdinand and Goldfrapp included on the line-up this year.

• The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, an intriguing new film festival in Nairn organised by Tilda Swinton, Mark Cousins and friends.

So, we don't have completely one-track minds. Meanwhile, if you're not interested in the Festival, skip straight to the book and TV sections. Thanks.