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Iggy Pop compares music to cheap drinks

Music Gossip

30 Mar 2012

Iggy Pop compares today's music to "cheap drinks you get in a bad supermarket." The 'Lust for Life' rocker is wary of today's rock stars, and thinks most modern records are missing integrity and authenticity. He said: "I think there are some ages…

Siege Perilous present Suspicious Minds at GRV

14 May 2010

It may be 33 years since Elvis shuffled off his mortal coil, but his sequinned spirit lives on, making regular appearances in theatre, film and cabaret. The King haunts the latest piece of new writing brought to the stage by Edinburgh-based theatre…

Andy Arnold directs Lee Hall's play Cooking With Elvis

23 Jul 2009

The American comedienne Carol Burnett once observed that ‘comedy is tragedy plus time’. Never has this axiom been more aptly applied than in the case of Lee Hall’s Cooking With Elvis. The subject matter, which includes child abuse, alcoholism, eating…

What's going on in the rest of the world?

1 Dec 2008

Busker Festival For 'buskers', read extravagant street performers and various freaky people who really would be more at home in a circus atmosphere. Lovely folk though. The pick of the bunch are Bendy Em, who proclaims to be able to twist, turn and…

Elvis vs Spankox - Elvis Re:versions

4 Sep 2008

The world is a hard cruel place. War, famine, death, destruction, pain, suffering, poverty and disease all blight our soon-to-be not very green planet. Why, oh why then add to the misery with something so callous, contemptible and unthinking as this…

InvAsian festival set to host Elvis Idol competition

14 Aug 2008

Calling all Elvis wannabes. Auld Reekie will be transformed into a veritable Graceland during a two-day tribute to the king of rock'n'roll this month. Organisers of the InvAsian Festival, an event dedicated to promoting Asian arts and culture, have…

Vigil marks Elvis death anniversary

16 Aug 2007

Elvis fans from around the globe are gathering together to mark the 30th anniversary of his death at his former home, Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. Tens of thousands of thousands of fans are expected to file past Elvis’ grave to pay homage to “The…