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Exposure - Vivian Girls

Exposure - Vivian Girls

2 Dec 2008

Propelled into our lives on a wave of blog hysteria following a scuzzy masterpiece of a debut, Vivian Girls are possibly the most perfect outfit to come out of New York since The Strokes squeezed into those skinny jeans and stole our hearts all those…

Scottish news bulletin: 1st December 2008

1 Dec 2008

All newspaper references refer to Scottish editions. Where there is a link to a newspaper’s website, the relevant page reference is blue and underlined. Data courtesy of Reform Scotland Economy Home reports : Anyone selling their home in…

Why I’m leaving the late night mental arithmetic at home (along with the car)

Why I’m leaving the mental arithmetic at home (along with the car)

1 Dec 2008

Late night mental arithmetic. I’ve done it, you’ve done it. Pretty much everybody’s done it at some point. And over the simplest of questions: “Another?” A swift look at the watch. Some brow-furrowing. A quick conflab about how long you’re…

Exposure: Unwed Sailor

Exposure: Unwed Sailor

1 Dec 2008

Avoiding easy categorisation since 1998, chameleonic American instrumental rock project Unwed Sailor – originally founded in Seattle, but since based everywhere from Chicago to Washington DC, Little Rock and Lawrence – have shared stages with Low…

List.co.uk scoops Best Online Presence award at PPA Scotland Awards

List.co.uk scoops Best Online Presence award at PPA Scotland Awards

28 Nov 2008

List.co.uk was announced as winner of the Best Online Presence award at last night's PPA Scotland Awards. The ceremony, which took place at the Radisson Hotel Glasgow, was attended by over 400 people from within the publishing industry in Scotland and…

Biffy Clyro to headline Rockness 2009, with festival stretching to three days

Biffy Clyro to headline Rockness 2009, with festival stretching to three days

28 Nov 2008

Scottish band Biffy Clyro have announced that they will be headlining the final day of RockNess 2009. The festival, which takes place in Dores on the eastern banks of Loch Ness, is set for June 12th, 13th and 14th in 2009, growing from two days to three…

Scottish news bulletin: 28th November 2008

28 Nov 2008

Wages : The average wage in Scotland is now £28,300 according to the Bank of Scotland. This is £5,000 higher than five years ago and represents an above inflation increase. (Scotsman page 21 , Express page 7 , Record page 21, Courier page…

Exposure - Ten Kens

Exposure - Ten Kens

28 Nov 2008

Proving that there’s so much more to Toronto’s new music scene than two hip-ly-hooded synth terrorists, here comes the brilliant Ten Kens; and with this lot, you really couldn’t get further from Crystal Castles if you tried. The beardy and speccy…

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, Wed 26 Nov

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

Now this is how to work a crowd. ‘You’ve got the wrong band, mate’, says Nick Cave, as someone up the front makes a call for something not actually performed by he and his Bad Seeds (it must have been a Grinderman or Birthday Party track, we’re…

Scottish news bulletin: 27th November 2008

27 Nov 2008

Data courtesy of Reform Scotland All newspaper references refer to Scottish editions. Economy Woolworths & MFI : Further coverage of the economic slowdown as Woolworths and MFI call in administrators (Scotsman page 3 , Sun page 15…

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

27 Nov 2008

Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it In addition, for detailed…

Trade secrets

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

Angelina Jolie

Missing in action - Angelina Jolie interview

27 Nov 2008

Playing the real-life mother of a missing child in Clint Eastwood’s latest film was an emotionally fraught experience for Angelina Jolie, she tells Rob Carnevale

Alien War

Alien War

27 Nov 2008

In 1979 Ridley Scott’s Alien quite literally burst into the public consciousness as the ultimate in sci-fi horror. In 1986 James Cameron upped the ante with the heart stopping action of sequel Aliens and even if David Fincher’s Alien3 (1992) wasn’t as…

Beehive

Beehive

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

COMEDY The phrase ‘all-female sketch show’ shouldn’t necessarily send a shiver down the spine, but it just does. And before anyone says Smack the Pony I’ll trump you with Tittybangbang. But maybe things are changing. After a good Fringe for female…

Charles Avery

Charles Avery

27 Nov 2008

‘Be not afraid,’ says Caliban in The Tempest, ‘the isle is full of noises that bring delight and hurt not.’ Charles Avery might disagree. For the Mull-born-and-bred artist, it was the sounds of the woods around Lochdon that got his childhood imagination…

Illuminations - Shinsuke Ogawa

Illuminations - Shinsuke Ogawa

27 Nov 2008

Illuminations is Filmhouse’s first standalone documentary festival outside of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Programmed by Jenny Leask, a former programmer of the EIFF Document strand, Illuminations aims to screen generically different…

James Yorkston

James Yorkston

27 Nov 2008

It’s no longer news to say a James Yorkston album has been ‘critically acclaimed’ – because they always are. Since coming to John Peel’s attention in 2001, releasing early material through the Fence Collective and moving on to recent albums with Domino…

Modern Lovers

Modern Lovers

27 Nov 2008

For a club night which has been one big, glorious celebration of the retro soul, funk, psych and freakbeat sounds for eight years now, Modern Lovers has an eye on the future this fortnight. The regular monthly event in Edinburgh is both the eighth…

Pantomimes

Pantomimes

27 Nov 2008

Earlier this year, I took a trip to Scarborough to check out the headquarters of the Qdos Entertainment empire. This is the organisation responsible for 21 pantomimes in the UK alone, not to mention a handful of theatres, a couple of talent agencies…

The Beano

The Beano

27 Nov 2008

As a wee nipper there wasn’t a more exciting day of the week than ‘Beano day’, when your local newsagent would drop a copy of the cartoon compendium onto your doormat alongside your parent’s newspaper. Often rapidly devoured before heading to school…

Woodlands Bumper Value Comedy Club

Woodlands Bumper Value Comedy Club

27 Nov 2008

NEW CLUB With parts of the Jongleurs’ chain under threat of sell-off, these are interesting times for comedy in Scotland. Even more so now with the growing number of smaller nights emerging to challenge the Stand-Jongleurs hegemony and spread the…

Che Camille

Che Camille

27 Nov 2008

In the beginning, there was The Chateau, a shambling old tenement warehouse on Glasgow’s Southside, rented out at rock bottom prices to a loose collection of artists, designers and performers, and Franz Ferdinand, who staged now-legendary guerrilla…

The Ceilidh Tree

The Ceilidh Tree

27 Nov 2008

Long before willows were stripped and white sergeants were dashed, a ceilidh used to mean a social gathering where songs were sung and tales were told. Giant Productions go back to this original meaning with their charming, interactive show for…

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

COMEDY The phrase ‘all-female sketch show’ shouldn’t necessarily send a shiver down the spine, but it just does. And before anyone says Smack the Pony I’ll trump you with Tittybangbang. But maybe things are changing. After a good Fringe for female…

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