Issue 558

Tutti Frutti - feature

Cult fiction

12 Sep 2006

Steve Cramer talks to John Byrne about history, our relationship with the past and his new stage adaptation of his cult television hit, Tutti Frutti.

Of minds and men

Theatre editor Steve Cramer rounds up the themes a

7 Sep 2006

The coffee and cigarette diet (smoke until you’re too hungry, then eat a cigarette) of the Festival is, at last, over. As ever, it was an exhilerating experience, but beyond this, it was a genuinely strong festival, as might be attested to by our…

Remote Control

Brian Donaldson finds that celebs and sluts still

7 Sep 2006

TV round-up The cult of celebrity has been handled by comedians and satirists in so many ways that it seems almost impossible to find a new way to approach the depiction of famous folk. Star Stories, pictured above (Channel 4, Fri 15 Sep, 9pm) may well…

Platform

Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, run ended

7 Sep 2006

NEW WORK There is a long precedent for plays that parallel the alienated processes of an atomised modern society with sexual dysfunction, with such notables as Trevor Griffiths and Howard Brenton contributing to the conversation since the 70s. Of…

Three Sisters

King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, run ended

7 Sep 2006

REVIVAL The fascinating thing about Chekov is the way in which, as his work crosses cultural and national boundaries it alters from comedy to tragedy to wistful elegy, yet still contrives to fascinate. The several different versions of The Seagull…

Stage Whispers

7 Sep 2006

? Whispers writes from a darkened room, with a warm damp towel on his head and his feet in a bucket of hot soothing water after the rigours of the festival, but has enough life left in him to lean toward his keyboard and type his regular missive to you…

NTS Ensemble Season

North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Thu 7-Sat 9 Sep, then

7 Sep 2006

ENSEMBLE THEATRE Ensemble work was, for some time, completely unseen on Scottish stages, which is a shame, because the particular confidence it can bring actors in approaching different pieces with the same colleagues often sees an all round…

Merchant City Festival

Tales of the Merchant City

7 Sep 2006

This year’s celebration takes place from 20-24 September across Glasgow’s vibrant artistic quarter, and features more than 300 events in 70 venues, which this year includes the recently renovated Old Fruitmarket and City Halls. Jason Byrne and Adam…

Low Winter Sun

Channel 4, Thu 14, 21 Sep, 9pm

7 Sep 2006

CRIME DRAMA Corrupt cops have been ten a penny down the TV years. Everything from The Sweeneyto The Shieldhave focussed on gung-ho anti-heroes who bent the rules to their own ends, usually to net the baddies but not always for reasons which…

Hitlist

7 Sep 2006

Tutti Frutti John Byrne’s cult television series, not seen since its release in 1987 is here transposed into theatre courtesy of the NTS. Under the direction of Tony Cownie, a strong cast lead this tragi-comedy with music. This could well be a highlight…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dundee Rep, until Sat 16 Sep

7 Sep 2006

CLASSIC Reinhardt’s 1934 version of A Midsummer Night’s Dreamwas set on a hillside amidst a specially planted forest; Brook’s 1971 vision was in a white box space with trapeze artists and Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film placed the action in 19th century…

News in Brief

7 Sep 2006

? The List is delighted to report that our intrepid Festival columnist, Jane Bussmann won the Best Comedy category at this year’s Tap Water awards. Jane received her prize at a glittering ceremony at the Bongo Club hosted by Mikelangelo of The Black Sea…

My Dark Sky

Tramway, Glasgow, Sat 16-Sat 30 Sep, then touring

7 Sep 2006

NEW WORK There seems to be stirrings of activism in our student population for the first time in a generation. For a long time young people seemed to have responded to their programming to do nothing and keep their heads down, watching shows about…

Henry V & Playboy of the Western World

Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, Tue 12-Wed 13 Sep, t

7 Sep 2006

REVIVALS Henry V, often perceived as the great play of English nationalism, has never really found a natural home in Scotland, for reasons one need hardly explain. Yet, in missing the play, Scots have also missed out on significant themes that have…

Queen's Hall saved from closure

7 Sep 2006

Fresh from its Edinburgh festivals programme, which included the highly successful Three Mo’ Tenors and a number of International Jazz Festival events, the Queen’s Hall has been granted a stay of execution by the city council. It had been feared that…

Aberfeldy

The secret history

4 Sep 2006

Launch a pop career with the opening gambit ‘I love everyone/everybody underneath the sun’, as Aberfeldy did in the first lyric of 2004’s debut album Young Forever, and you will fight against a certain tide of conceptions. Particularly if you a) are a…

The Wicker Man

4 Sep 2006

Love can make us do the strangest things. Just ask Neil Labute, the writer/director of In the Company of Men, Our Friends and Neighbours and The Shape of Things. Labute, for all his inconsistencies, has long been noted as the foremost chronicler of the…

Long Good Friday, The

The Mafia's marina

4 Sep 2006

INTERVIEW In The Long Good Friday, Harold Shand takes a group of businessman on a luxury yacht over the Thames to entice them to invest in his scheme to develop the run down Docklands area. With Tower Bridge looming behind him, Shand holds his…

Walkmen, The

The Walkmen,

4 Sep 2006

INDIE The life of a touring indie band involves a hell of a lot of hanging around doing sack all. To fill the hours in the back of the van, bands might invent puerile games, take a PlayStation or even read a book. New York oddballers The Walkmen took…

Singles and Downloads

4 Sep 2006

Were the Singles and Downloads desk to dish out an award for Most Obvious Candidate For Being in an Advert of the Fortnight, it would have to go to Zero 7 featuring Jose Gonzalez ’ ‘Futures’ (Atlantic) ***. Just imagine that for a minute … it’s MOR…

Hitlist

4 Sep 2006

Mark Olsen and the Creekdippers Wholesome and vibrant Americana from Olsen, his wife Victoria Williams and Ben Weaver all the way from Joshua Tree, California. ABC, Glasgow, Sat 10 Sep. (Rock & Pop) The Joyriders The Edinburgh-based pop-grungers…

The Fallen Idol

4 Sep 2006

Between 1947’s Odd Man Out and 1949’s The Third Man, the great British filmmaker Carol Reed made this tiny gem of bewilderment, childhood perception and very adult deceptions. The Fallen Idol was the first of three collaborations between Reed and Graham…

Islay Jazz Festival

Various venues, Islay, Fri 15-Sun 17 Sep

4 Sep 2006

JAZZ Nine years ago, the announcement that a jazz festival was to be launched on the outwardly unlikely location of the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides raised a few eyebrows. Many felt it would be a one-year wonder, or might manage to roll on…

Dispatch - Roddy Woomble

Roddy Woomble ponders the big birthday question: a

4 Sep 2006

I never really ever expect anything for my birthday, which is why in recent years I’ve been unexpectedly surprised and delighted by the way things have turned out. This year I spent it on a beach in Iona, eating banana and pineapple birthday cake, then…

Fionn Regan

ABC, Glasgow, Sat 16 Sep

4 Sep 2006

FOLK Fionn Regan is the latest in a long line of quality folk-influenced singer songwriters to come from Ireland. His recent debut album, The End of History, is so brimming with talent and assurance that it’s hard to believe it almost never got…

Dykeenies, The

The Dykeenies

4 Sep 2006

If the Arctic Monkeys weren’t enough to convince you that having an iffy moniker needn’t hold a talented bunch back, this catchy Cumbernauld quintet have been sending shockwaves through the Glasgow gig scene with a whole host of hysteria-fuelled shows…

Bob Dylan - CD review

Bob Dylan

4 Sep 2006

BLUES FOLK ROCK Dylan’s long-gestating 32nd studio album may not, as the man pointed out in a recent, much publicised interview, sound half as good on CD as it did in the studio, but there is plenty here to warm the hearts of those who rallied behind…

Rough Cuts

Film news and giveaways for beautiful cineaste typ

4 Sep 2006

Rough Cuts - Film news for beautiful cineaste types

Thief of Baghdad, The

Thief of Baghdad,

4 Sep 2006

ADVENTURE Two decades before Ray Harryhausen’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad indelibly imprinted the Arabian Nights fantasies upon the minds of film lovers, the sword and sorcery adventures were being realised on the silver screen under the all seeing eye…

Surface Noise

Surface Noise

4 Sep 2006

Returning to the real world post-Festival madness, The List has spotted bloody millions of perfectly fine live pop concerts coming your way between now and Kwanzaa (or Christmas for all you non-African Americans out there). For starters, in the ‘by god…

Classical music hitlist

The best classical and opera

4 Sep 2006

Classical Music hitlist - the best classical and opera

Three ... Extremes

(18) 121min (Tartan DVD retail)

4 Sep 2006

HORROR This 2004 anthology of Asian horror allows three directors from across the continent to showcase their capacity for creating extreme content. The wonderfully named Fruit Chan weighs in with the queasy Dumplings, which has since been expanded…

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore (Bloomsbury)

4 Sep 2006

It would have been so easy for Al Gore to have become a horribly embittered individual after being cheated out of the US presidency in 2000. No one would have faulted him for spending the rest of his life sticking pins into effigies of Florida governor…

Sandi Thom - CD review

Sandi Thom

4 Sep 2006

POP Now that everyone’s getting a bit bored with the whole ‘marketing hype or not’ argument over Sandi Thom’s webcasts (let’s face it, which musician has ever been a chart success without hype?), people are finding new ways to have a dig at the poor…

David Hamilton Boxset

(18) 242min (Jeff DVD retail)

4 Sep 2006

SOFT CORE COLLECTION In the late 70s and early 80s, London society photographer David Hamilton turned his hand to filmmaking and directed a couple of soft focus impressionistic sex dramas. His three best-known films, which are featured in this…

I Am Curious Yellow/I Am Curious Blue

(18) 220min (2nd DVD retail)

4 Sep 2006

SEX DRAMA A very welcome re-release of director Vilgot Sjöman’s seminal sexploitation movie. In 1966 Sjöman went to his producer and asked for 100,000 metres of black and white film and total freedom to make a film without a script. The result was…

Tim Reis - CD review

Tim Reis

4 Sep 2006

JAZZ New York jazzman Tim Reis has been playing saxophone with The Rolling Stones since 1999, and has used that experience as the launching point for jazz arrangements of ten Jagger/Richards tunes, recorded in different times and places with a galaxy…

William Douglas

Waterloo Function Suite, Edinburgh, Sat 26 Aug

4 Sep 2006

BLUES Betwixt a straggly mop and pair of white trainers, something indeterminably wicked stirs in the soul of William Douglas. Despite his performing only a short set tonight, sans The Wheel (his trio of like-minded blues troopers), this was the…

Porch Song Anthology, The - CD review

The Porch Song Anthology

4 Sep 2006

The Porch Song Anthology, Spell of the Trembling Earth - CD review

Mastodon - CD review

Mastodon

4 Sep 2006

METAL Loud, for some reason, has always been equated with stupid (Spinal Tap have a lot to answer for presumably), but as these four fairly well-adjusted young men from Atlanta prove, metal can be both big and very, very clever. They still indulge…

Nina Nastasia - CD review

Nina Nastasia

4 Sep 2006

FOLK POP As trite as comparisons may seem sometimes, we’re going to go with one anyway. If this record were to be compared to something, it wouldn’t be another piece of music but a piece of art. Imagine something painted on rich, tick creamy paper…

Brightblack Morning Light - CD review

Brightblack Morning Light

4 Sep 2006

Brightblack Morning Light, Brightblack Morning Light - CD review

Joyriders, The

The Joyriders

4 Sep 2006

Rock’n’roll is peppered with sob stories. Meet The Joyriders. In the early 90s, the Edinburgh-based pop-grungers released two EPs which were both awarded NME Single of the Week, played with Nirvana, The Lemonheads and Mercury Rev and had a reputed dozen…

OM - CD review

OM

4 Sep 2006

JAZZ OM were one of the more interesting groups to come out of the jazz-rock explorations of the early 70s, and remained together for a decade before disbanding in 1982. Saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, guitarist Christy Doran, bassist Bobby Burri and…

Peter Bjorn and John - CD review

Peter Bjorn and John

4 Sep 2006

INDIE Find nu-rave nonsensical and hipster bands quite horrifying? Then take comfort in the warm fuzzy guitar pop of this scene-swerving Swedish trio, who, with their third LP, offer up something more substantial. Writer’s Block is by far the band’s…

Music from the Films of Martin Scorsese - CD review

Various

4 Sep 2006

Various, Music from the Films of Martin Scorsese - CD review

Beck

Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Tue 22 Aug

4 Sep 2006

INDIE Beck almost threatened to outshine Radiohead in this triumphant support slot. The atmosphere was that of an upbeat funk party complete with dancing bears, cutlery as instruments and puppets galore. For once the flourishes didn’t feel like…

Jeff Finlan

4 Sep 2006

Having your songs covered by the likes of Bruce Springsteen must soften the blow a bit something which speaks volumes about the depth and quality of Jeff Finlin’s songwriting. The nice twist for these gigs however, is that his backing band is none other…

Jaleel Shaw Quartet

4 Sep 2006

While the backbone of the Islay Jazz Festival remains the crucial crop of Scottish and local talent on offer there are a few overseas visitors to keep the mix novel. When Philadelphian Jaleel Shaw brings his alto saxophone skills to bear on the Columba…

Shona Moony - CD reviews

Shona Moony

4 Sep 2006

FOLK Fiddler Shona Mooney emerged as the eventual winner of the Young Scots Trad Musician 2006 final at Celtic Connections in January, and this debut recording on Simon Thoumire’s Footstompin’ label is part of her prize. The music is steeped in the…

Mercury Tilt Switch

4 Sep 2006

This Dundonian fivesome are more resiliant than most, growing up from awkward Nirvana-ites to develop into a solid, if acerbic rock outfit with flashes of brilliance. One such moment is the new single ‘Get Ready for the Trench Run’ an impatient piece of…

Badly Drawn Boy

4 Sep 2006

It’s not often you get to see an artist of this calibre squeezed onto the stage at King Tut’s, unless there’s a very special reason. Here he’s touring in support of Oxfam with all proceeds going to the charity as they gear up for their large scale Oxjam…

Larrikin Love

4 Sep 2006

Free flowing bluegrass punk and chirpy indie are seamlessly merged by Larrikin Love. Treading a similar ground to The Zutons, but with less sax and more fiddles, they may sport some of the most ridiculous haircuts in rock, all askew boho, looking like…

BBC Proms in the Park

4 Sep 2006

Be one in a million as Proms in the Park brings the magic of the Last Night of the Proms to five outdoor locations across all four UK nations. In Glasgow, the BBC SSO is joined by trombone palayer extraordinaire Christian Lindberg and Canadian soprano…

Alice Russell

4 Sep 2006

The voice of The Quantic Soul Orchestra (as well as TM Juke, Bah Samba and Kushti) steps out on her own two feet. Boasting a rich soulful voice, she easily crosses the jazz/dance divide, hitting the road with an eight-piece backing band expect maximum…

Breed 77

4 Sep 2006

Sepultura aren’t the only purveyors of Latino metal out there. London based Gibraltans Breed 77, may not be as heavy (who is?) but rock hard with a flamenco flourish, a sound akin to Soundgarden jamming on the Costa del Sol. New album In My Blood (En mi…

Blood Arm, The

The Blood Arm

4 Sep 2006

Sharp, intelligent indie-punk from LA quartet The Blood Arm. Sharing aesthetics with previous touring partners Maximo Park and Franz Ferdinand. Their incisive lo-fi resonates with swirling organs, grand ideas and raw darkness. Just check recent single…

Cassius - CD review

Cassius

4 Sep 2006

ELECTRONICA They landed with us in the jet stream caused by Daft Punk’s glorious landing in 1997 but Phillippe Zdar and Hubert Boom-Bass have always been smarter than the average bears when it came to the dancefloor. Despite cameos from Pharrell…

The Black Dahlia

Fade to black

1 Sep 2006

Fade to black - In anticipation of a new film based on Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved murder, Allan Radcliffe explores the ongoing fascination with the Black Dahlia mystery.

Tony Wilson

Factory worker

1 Sep 2006

Factory worker - The legendary boss of Factory Records, Tony Wilson, tells Sandra Marron why he likes scremo and why there’s no place like the Hacienda.

Regular Lovers - Feature

Wild innocence

1 Sep 2006

Wild innocence - As Phillipe Garrel’s Regular Lovers finally reaches Scottish screens, Tony McKibbin offers a cut out and keep guide to the man they call the ‘the Rimbaud of French cinema’.

The Black Dahlia

1 Sep 2006

The facts: on 15 January 1947, a 22-year-old fledgling East Coast actress called Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Short was discovered brutally murdered in downtown LA. The murder of the actress the press dubbed ‘the Black Dahlia’ (because of the black outfits she…

I Fly Spitfires

Barfly, Glasgow, Sat 9 Sep & Sat 16 Sep; Cabaret V

1 Sep 2006

I Fly Spitfires, indie at Glasgow's Barfly and Edinburgh's Cabaret Voltaire

The Truman Capote Talk Show

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 12-Sat 16 Sep

1 Sep 2006

THEATRE In Murder By Death, the daft 1976 spoof whodunnit based on a Neil Simon screenplay, five sleuths arrive at the mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain. He plans dinner, and then a murder, which they must solve. Aided (and hampered) by…

An Inconvenient Truth

1 Sep 2006

Perhaps because somebody pointed out that jetting all over the US warning the masses about climate change was just a tad hypocritical (he’s still happy to fly to film festivals, mind), Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim have brought his global…

Justice

PROFILE

1 Sep 2006

Name Justice Occupation Your summer-soundtracking ‘Friends’. Who are they? French duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, who toiled in electro-producing obscurity until getting their big break as remixers/cut-up auteurs with one of the summer’s…

Autumn highlights

1 Sep 2006

STAND-UP/SKETCH SHOWS Come early September and a realisation dawns on the comedy world. Yes indeed, there is life beyond the Edinburgh Fringe. Of course, those who help to schedule our comedy viewing pleasures all-year round have had their future…

Fireman Sam - To the Rescue!

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Fri 8-Sun 10 Sep

1 Sep 2006

Fireman Sam - To the Rescue! at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre

Little Miss Sunshine

(15) 102min

1 Sep 2006

Meet the Hoover clan from Albuquerque, New Mexico. There’s bankruptcy-facing motivational speaker Dad (Greg Kinnear), a highly stressed Mum (Toni Collette), a Nietzche-obsessed adolescent son Dwayne (Paul Dano) undertaking a vow of silence, a suicidal…

DJ Bone

Inner Rhythm at the Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Sat 9

1 Sep 2006

TECHNO Following the up-coming closure of Progression as a regular night, it’s heartening to see that the Liquid Room has found itself another event dedicated to respectable dancefloor action. Following on from their opening night at the more…

Right at Your Door

(15) 95min

1 Sep 2006

THRILLER This seems to be the year that Hollywood has decided it was safe to address 9/11, with both Paul Greengrass’ United 93 and Oliver Stone’s forthcoming World Trade Centre underlining the need of the American people to heed the NeoCon way. It…

Hitlist

The best comedy

1 Sep 2006

John Hegley Everyone’s favourite lyrical lad from Luton returns to please his west coast fans after having a bonzer time in Edinburgh this August with his Uncut Confetti malarkey. You don’t have to be keen on potatoes, dogs and spectacles to get the…

Michel Faber - The Apple

Short story collection

1 Sep 2006

SHORT STORIES Often, the image of an author is someone beavering away in the privacy of their own soul not caring a jot for anyone other than the characters and their own measuring of success. So, it’s almost reassuring to hear when a writer has not…

Regular Lovers (Les Amant Reguliers)

(18) 184min

1 Sep 2006

Regular Lovers (Les Amant Reguliers) - Meditation/Romance

Word up

The latest club news

1 Sep 2006

First up, Solescience wanted to say ‘a huge thanks to all who came down in August despite DJ Heather’s very late cancellation due to the terrorism scare.’ It really was a case of circumstances beyond anyone’s control. However Subculture’s ambassadors…

Hitlist

The best books, comics and events

1 Sep 2006

Robert Harris The former TV news reporter, current brother-in-law to Nick Hornby and author of bestselling romps such as Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel returns with Imperium, the first of his Roman saga trilogy. Borders Books, Glasgow, Thu 7 Sep.

Snow Cake

1 Sep 2006

An Englishman with a sorrowful past, Alex (Alan Rickman) is driving through rural Ontario when he’s involved in a car accident that kills his teenage hitchhiking passenger. Escaping unscathed he decides to visit the deceased girl’s mother to express his…

Tideland

1 Sep 2006

Poor Terry Gilliam. Having seen his dream Don Quixote project get lost in La Mancha, he then struggled to get his vision for The Brothers Grimm on-screen. Tired of the shenanigans of producers and financiers he decided to make a small budget film of…

Driving Lessons

1 Sep 2006

There’s going to be no holiday fun for vicar’s son Ben (Harry Potter’s flame-haired Rupert Grint) in the North London suburbs. Just bible classes and helping out his domineering mother (Laura Linney) with her do-gooding Christian tasks, while hen-pecked…

The Night Listener

1 Sep 2006

Robin Williams is back behind the microphone, but Gabriel Noone, his late night radio show host in The Night Listener is a lot less fun than the shock jock he portrayed in Good Morning, Vietnam. In Patrick The Business of Strangers Stettner’s adaptation…

Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson

The Boys No.1 (Wildstorm)

1 Sep 2006

ADULT SUPERHERO When you see Garth Preacher Ennis’ name at the top of a front cover, you pretty much know what to expect. While this latest series of his is set in a world of superheroes and villains, it’s not all men in tights battling to uphold the…

Al Gore

An Inconvenient Truth (Bloomsbury)

1 Sep 2006

SOCIAL ESSAY It would have been so easy for Al Gore to have become a horribly embittered individual after being cheated out of the US presidency in 2000. No one would have faulted him for spending the rest of his life sticking pins into effigies of…

Daren King

Mouse Noses on Toast (Faber)

1 Sep 2006

CHILDREN’S TALE The number of authors who shift from adult to kids fiction per year probably matches the annual rumour count about who will be killed off in the next Harry Potter. The news that Daren King was to make the shift was less of a shock…

Guy Grieve

Call of the Wild (Hodder & Stoughton)

1 Sep 2006

WILDERNESS ADVENTURE For five years, Guy Grieve worked in The Scotsman’s commercial department, climbing to be Head of Strategic Marketing. Driving home every night, his head buzzing with readers’ incentives, Grieve dreamed of escaping to the Alaskan…

Crank

(18) 87min

1 Sep 2006

ACTION/THRILLER In Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s flashy actioner, Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) finds himself injected with a deadly serum that spells certain death if his heartbeat drops below a certain level. Emboldened by this high-concept…

Maggie O'Farrell

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Review)

1 Sep 2006

SOCIAL DRAMA The parameters of mental illness have shifted over the years, but not so long ago young women could be sectioned simply for being what most parents term ‘a handful.’ The eponymous heroine of Maggie Farrell’s heartbreaking new novel is…

Mike Mignola & Cary Nord

Conan No 31 (Dark Horse)

1 Sep 2006

FANTASY There was a time when artist Mike Mignola wasn’t very sure of his own writing skills. In the early days of Hellboy he handed John Byrne a plot to be fleshed out fully by the far more established writer. Now Mignola feels confident enough to…

Ross Noble

1 Sep 2006

You have to admire the clout of the Cramlington comic who now has no need at all to get drawn into the frenetic goings-on in Edinburgh during August. This year, while everyone else in the comedy world was worrying about 36-hour shows or Eddy awards, he…

5 Reasons to Go See Dave Fulton

1 Sep 2006

1 Unlike every second comic you hear about these days, he’s actually not Australian But you’d know that as soon as he opened his mouth. An opinionated, long scraggy-haired guy from Seattle is a more accurate description of him. 2 Has his friends in…

Angus Peter Campbell

Gael force

31 Aug 2006

Gael force As Angus Peter Campbell helps launch a new publishing venture, Rodge Glass finds an author asking crucial questions about language and culture.

Cocktail masterclass

Movers and shakers

31 Aug 2006

Movers and shakers Chris Bradley takes a cocktail masterclass at Bar Soba. Now, if only he could remember what went into that Flippin’ Blueberry Martini...

Hitlist

The best events, talks and sport

31 Aug 2006

GB V Netherlands Top level basketball returns to Scotland for the first time in 30 years, as the GB Men’s team play against the Netherlands in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games. Meadowbank Sports Centre, 139 London Road, Sat 9 Sep. Look Who’s…

Pole in One

31 Aug 2006

Pole in One How to get on the latest fitness craze - poledancing