Health

How to get fit through jogging, swimming, skateboarding, frisbee and tennis

14 May 2010

Hey you! Lazybones! It’s warm outside, which means there’s no excuse for your sofa addiction anymore. Niki Boyle has the best suggestions for getting sporty through spring and summer...

FrontRunners is Glasgow first running group for the LGBT community

Club combines social and keep-fit agenda

3 Nov 2010

Runners of all ages and abilities are invited to pull on their trainers for the launch of Glasgow’s first running group for the LGBT Community. Glasgow Frontrunners (GFR) will celebrate their official inception at Glasgow Caledonian University’s Arc…

Edinburgh Festival of Sport

2 Jun 2010

It’s a sad but true fact that the closest many parents come to sporting activity is dropping their kids off at the swimming pool or standing at the touchline on a Saturday morning. Which is why Edinburgh’s Active Schools campaign has just launched its…

Courses, classes and activities

8 Jan 2009

Alternative Therapy Edinburgh Aromatherapy Far superior to a nasty blast of air freshener, learn the subtle art of aromatherapy, with beginner’s classes in essential oils and massage. An 8-week non-vocational course is available through the…

Health to provide Max Payne 3 soundtrack

The LA noise rockers follow the game-soundtracking example of Opeth, Trivium and others

24 Apr 2012

Ever since the very earliest days of home gaming and the release of the Atari 2600 (1977), videogame music has become a part of cultural life. The lack of processing power meant it was necessarily tinny, bleepy and repetitive. Despite this, 8- and…

Shivago Thai Clinic

8 Jan 2009

Mental note to self: stop channelling Gwyneth. As a glass cup is set alight, blown out then placed on my back, things at the Shivago Thai Clinic, off Edinburgh's High Street, are feeling decidedly un-Hollywood. Indeed, as the foreign contraption comes…

David Shrigley's top ten tips

19 Aug 2010

Kevin Eldon COMEDY ‘My wife and I saw him last week in the Edinburgh Festival. He’s very funny. It’s sort of character-driven comedy, and then he goes off on these weird rants. It gets quite otherworldly, and a bit surreal. It’s very verbose, and…

Edinburgh Skate Park opens

14 May 2010

It’s mean, it’s green, and it’s obscenely fun – Edinburgh Skate Park is now open for business. Sam Patterson, a long-time skateboarder himself, has been present at all stages of the park’s development. Niki Boyle speaks to him about his skate park…

The most amazing thing I did last week

23 Apr 2010

Thousands of people a day donate blood. And thousands of people don't. Yet it's easy, quick, completely different. Plus you get to do something that could save another person's life. And how good does that feel?

Various Artists - Fuck Dance, Let’s Art

26 Oct 2010

(K7) For all of its swearing and sloganeering, Fuck Dance Let’s Art: Sounds from a New American Underground comes on less like a counter-cultural snapshot and more like a cash-in on the hipster genres variously tagged as chill-wave, dream-pop…

John Famiglietti from Health - interview

We talk to member of US quartet

22 Aug 2010

First record you ever bought The Stooges – Fun House. First film you saw that really moved you A Clockwork Orange. Last lie you told ‘I don’t have any STDs’. First movie you ever went on a date to Knocked Up. Last time you…

Health, Prayer Rug and Mr Peppermint set for Glasgow show

LA noise-rock quartet on UK tour

22 Aug 2010

Some of the first gigs this LA noise-rock quartet played were in a punk and experimental music space called The Smell, which ended up being the title of their debut album. (Pocahaunted, No Age, BARR and Lavender Diamond are also fans of The Smell, and…

Time to burn: Calorie counting

14 May 2010

How much exercise will offset that last custard cream you ate? Alice White is on hand with a handy comparative guide to burning off those calories...

Health

Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Tue 20 Apr

29 Apr 2010

In such a tightly-packed venue with such a low stage, it’s impossible to see anything that’s going on up the front. Only bassist BJ Miller’s wildly flailing long dark hair is visible, and a wedge of people, slowly but determinedly butting their heads…

Health, Divorce and Prayer Rug play Glasgow date

15 Apr 2010

Screechy, pounding, crunching noise and pulverising drums from La-La Land, when the heavily-hyped and yet actually genuinely good, Californian foursome, Health (above) play this one Scottish date. Local noiseniks, Divorce, can't really be relied on to…

More for less: Health, exercise and beauty

20 Jan 2010

Looking great doesn’t mean shedding vital pounds from your purse – Niki Boyle offers some sneaky hints on budget beauty Being a hairdresser’s ‘model’ can sometimes be a daunting prospect, but you can get a quality trainee cut at Rainbow Rooms in…

Health - Stereo, Glasgow, Sun 19 Apr

22 Apr 2009

As the well-dressed masses stream into stereo tonight, it might be easy to write Health off as perhaps just a fashionable mess. A behemoth of 'noise-rock' and horrifically dirty electro, Health give the impression - along with their general style and…

Health

16 Apr 2009

Everyone’s favourite LA-based noiseniks Health are back, with a brand new record under their belts. More frenzied death riffs, beast-like shrieks and start-stop thundering drums then? Well, yes and no. We catch up with bassist John Famiglietti, fresh…

Gut Feeling - The science bit

19 Mar 2009

What follows is an interview with Jane Ross who was in charge of the colonic hydrotherapy treatment that I write about in Gut Feeling). In order to support the feature with more in depth and scientific information about the digestive system and colonic…

Gut feeling: The science bit - Part two

19 Mar 2009

What follows is an interview with Anna-Lise Miller, one of Scotland’s leading colon therapists and trainers (visit www.ipch.org.uk and www.colonictraining.co.uk for more information). Jane Ross the nurse and owner of Nevo Health who I interviewed here…

Exposure: Health

9 Mar 2009

Combining displays of tight instrumentation and technical ability, with unprecendented lashings of noise and experimentation, L.A. quartet Health, are a sound to behold. In their short time together, the band have made a name for themselves in their…

Last word: Amanda Hamilton

22 Jan 2009

Best known for detoxing the nation, nutritionist and television presenter Amanda Hamilton stops by to talk Morten Harket, Buddhist retreats and extra-terrestrials

Floatariums

8 Jan 2009

‘I usually take sessions twice a month,’ says an amiable Roger Tyler, co-owner of Glasgow’s Willow Trading Rooms, and home to Glasgow’s only flotation tank. ‘Flotation tanks,’ he explains, ‘provide a unique experience for each person, the feeling of…

Also Published - 5 Health Books

8 Jan 2009

Bruce Byron - Fat Bloke Slims Actor from The Bill and hubbie of Dr Tanya spills the beans on how he shed the pounds. Penguin. Joe Fournier & Jordan Paramor - Red Carpet Workout Fronted by celebrity sporting trainer Fournier, this is a short-term…

Health

1 Oct 2008

The NHS (National Health Service) was set up in 1948 to offer free, affordable healthcare to all. It is now a gigantic organisation, which employs well over one million people and has a budget roughly equal to that of a small country.