Hitlist

Hitlist - the best Festival music

9 Aug 2007

International Festival Opening Concert: Candide Jonathan Mills kicks off his first Internataional Festival at the helm with a concert that aims to bridge the gap between the Fringe and the Festival, featuring Bernstein’s vivacious Candide with Laura…

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

9 Aug 2007

• Ari-Up She’ll always be best known as the lead singer of seminal grrrrl punks The Slits but now, club night Pretty Ugly welcomes her back witha new band The True Warriors, who will be playing new material plus the songs of The Slits with a heavy…

Hitlist: Theatre

9 Aug 2007

• Damascus David Greig’s play will be the toast of the Fringe. A comedy of manners set in the city of the title, the piece involves a Scot on a business visit, and the effects of his cultural assumptions on those he encounters. See review, page 79.

Hitlist - The Best Festival Clubs

9 Aug 2007

The esteemed Headspin crew are joined by a true pioneer of drum & bass, Marc Mac (4hero, pictured), for a night of D&B, neo soul, nu jazz and breakbeat. The Bongo Club, 558 7604, Sat 11 Aug, 11pm–5am, £10.

Hitlist - Look Who's Talking

9 Aug 2007

Rabbi Lionel Blue: Godly and Gay The much-loved broadcaster talks about his experience of coming out as a gay man in religious circles and a religious man in gay circles. Part of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace. See…

Hitlist - the best Fringe comedy

9 Aug 2007

Stewart Lee Still surfing on his own wave of post-Springer glory, the 41st Best Stand-Up Ever delivers a routine would rocket him further up that chart if they had another poll today. Hilarious and confrontational. UdderBELLY’s Pasture, 0870 745 3083…

Hitlist - The best exhibitions

9 Aug 2007

• David Rokeby – Silicon Remembers Carbon The Canadian-born installation artist brings a collection of interactive works together to create his first major Scottish show and retrospective at the CCA. Work on show includes the pioneering sound…

Hitlist - The best dancefloor action

9 Aug 2007

• Baby Go Boom Taking laughter and dancing just one step further. Basically, it’s a comedy show with Scott Agnew and Hugh Reed & the Velvet Underpants telling the jokes followed by a disco to keep you moving. Genius. The Woodside Social Club, Glasgow…

Hitlist - the best kids' Festival shows

9 Aug 2007

Aesop’s Fables With the aid of three hugely talented performers, former Children’s Laureate, Michael Morporgo transforms Aesop’s morality tales into a fun five star show for both adults and children. Assembly Rooms, 623 3030, until 27 Aug (not 13)…

Hitlist - the best Festival dance

9 Aug 2007

With four programmes and a kids show to pick from, you’ll be spoilt for choice at Scotland’s National Centre for Dance. Contemporary, Indian, hip hop, dance theatre – it’s all here and more.

Hitlist - The best Festival theatre

1 Aug 2007

Romeo and Juliet, Fuerzabruta, England, Life in a Marital Institution, Damascus, Exits and Entrances

Hitlist - Festival Clubs

1 Aug 2007

I Fly Spitfires More indie malarkey as I Fly... team up with T on the Fringe to bring you the punk folk/rock of Make Model (live). Dogtooth The electro punk funk party has been on hiatus since May but hits the ground running here with a live set of…

Hitlist: Escape

1 Aug 2007

• Truckfest Scotland See trucks crush cars! See trucks roar! Drink beer! Eat meat! Beat chest! Insert your own ‘... and that’s just the girls’ joke here! Royal Highland Centre, Sat 4–Sun 5. • Dr Sketchy’s Burlesque Art Salon Pack your pencil case…

Hitlist - The best music

1 Aug 2007

Hitlist - The best kids

1 Aug 2007

Hitlist - The best dance

1 Aug 2007

Leitmotif Andrew Dawson follows up 2005’s stunning Absence & Presence with this multi-media one-man show, created with eight different collaborators. Assembly Aurora Nova, 623 3030, 4–27 Aug (not 7, 14), 6.05pm, £12–£13 (£9–£10). Previews 2 & 3 Aug, £5.

Hitlist: Festival Art

1 Aug 2007

The best exhibitions in the Edinburgh Festival

Music Hitlist

The best pop, rock, jazz and folk

1 Aug 2007

Make Model, My Cousin

Hit List: Visual Art

1 Aug 2007

The Best Exhibitions

Hitlist - The best events, talk and sport

The best events, talk and sport

1 Aug 2007

Family Fun Day Take part in a ceilidh, highland dancing display and a whole host of fun activities. Miss Baxter’s Back to School Do it proper old school as you dress up and take a history lesson in an authentic Victorian classroom.

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

17 Jul 2007

• A Band Called Quinn, Maxi Geil! and Playcolt Glasgow’s very own up and coming indie kids Quinn are joined by Brooklyn’s finest arch-camp art-rockers Maxi Geil and Playcolt, who are playing in Scotland for the first time. Classic Grand, Glasgow, Tue 24…

Hitlist - The best exhibitions

17 Jul 2007

• Alexandre Perigot: Pipedreams Silver scaffolding delineates the outer edges of a diminutive mansion, bringing Elvis’ Graceland to Glasgow. Alexandre Perigot presents an installation that subtly comments on celebrity, collective memory and the…

Hitlist - The best theatre & dance

17 Jul 2007

• Damascus There’s a special preview of David Greig’s new play, a Traverse company flagship, at the theatre before the run begins in earnest. The story of cultural cross purposes and international strife takes place when a Scottish man visits the city…

Hitlist - The best dancefloor action

16 Jul 2007

• Cotton Cake Prepare yourself for one of the best live shows on the planet as electronic rockers Blackstrobe take on Glasgow. Sub Club, Glasgow, Fri 20 Jul. • Departure Lounge They love jazz, funk, beats, Latin, world grooves and everything…

Hitlist - The best books, comics & events

16 Jul 2007

• Harry Potter Week Regardless of whether you love or loathe JK Rowling’s teenage wizard and his fearsome chums, the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the culmination of the most successful children’s book franchise ever, is cause…