Issue 559

A personal history of clubbing at the Arches

Arche de Triumphe

18 Sep 2006

I first stepped into the cavernous spaces of the Arches in the year 2000 to hand in an application form for a press position. I remember Andy Arnold taking me on a tour of the building (works) and showing me a massive hole in the floor (the Café Bar…

Andrew Maxwell

18 Sep 2006

While it’s clear that this Dublin-born stand-up (or clown, as he prefers to call those in the comedy trade) lives to make people laugh, his priority during most of September was surely catching up on some kip. In August, he performed a hilarious daily…

Andy Riley - Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids

Andy Riley

18 Sep 2006

COMIC ILLUSTRATIONS I suppose anyone who has worked closely with Armando Iannucci, Dylan Moran and Dom Joly must have a naturally devilish streak in them. But only the most brutally callous would imagine a bloodbath involving the Tweenies, have a…

Antiques Roadshow

18 Sep 2006

Raid the attic and dust off your priceless heirlooms, the BBC’s antique experts are in town! You won’t be allowed in unless you have something to be valued. And no, taking your granny along just because she fancies Michael Aspel, doesn’t count.

Arches Live

Arches, Glasgow, Thu 21-Sun 30 Sep

18 Sep 2006

MINI FESTIVAL I’m aware that you’ve read plenty about The Arches in our features, but there’s so much more to say. This youthful and creative hub, enjoying its 15th year putting ideas into spectacular practice, has the treat of its Arches Live…

Artbeat

Gossip, chat and rumour from the gallery floor

18 Sep 2006

Congratulation to Craig Mulholland for being awarded the Scottish Arts Council and Screen and Artists Film and Video Award. The money will go towards developing his successful experiments with digital film, evidenced in his exhibitions at last year’s…

Autumn music special - Jay-Z

President Carter

18 Sep 2006

1. With more pseudonyms than Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Sawn Carter’s Jay-Z alias is an abbreviation of his neighbourhood nickname Jazzy, appropriated for his smart dress sense. His Reebok S Carter was the first line of non-athlete training shoe and remains…

Autumn music special - live highlights

18 Sep 2006

Jurassic 5 More of that proverbial classic rap, in spades. Carling Academy, Glasgow, 6 Oct.

Autumn music special - live highlights

18 Sep 2006

Jurassic 5 More of that proverbial classic rap, in spades. Carling Academy, Glasgow, 6 Oct.

Autumn music special - Sparklehorse

Why the long face?

18 Sep 2006

It’s been five years since alt.country troubadour Sparklehorse last released a record, the atmospheric genius of It’s a Wonderful Life. Instead of bearing a grudge for the delay, we should be grateful Mark Linkous (for Sparklehorse is he) ever got round…

Autumn music special - The Fratellis

Rock follies

18 Sep 2006

In the wake of Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys it seems that record companies have adjusted their tactics. Every year now sees a selection of hatchling bands being signed, tooled up and sent over the parapet to face the artillery of the Top 40.

Autumn music special - The Fratellis

Rock follies

18 Sep 2006

In the wake of Franz Ferdinand and the Arctic Monkeys it seems that record companies have adjusted their tactics. Every year now sees a selection of hatchling bands being signed, tooled up and sent over the parapet to face the artillery of the Top 40.

Autumn music special - your new favourite bands

18 Sep 2006

Dot to Dot sound like the bastard sons of Orange Juice and Lloyd Cole and their aim seems to be to get you dancing. They like their jangle, and they sometimes shamble, but their shows are always worth catching, and with their debut single, ‘Dusty…

Badly Drawn Boy

King Tut’s, Glasgow, Sat 9 Sep

18 Sep 2006

ROCK ‘Glasgow, you are the best audience we have had in years!’ So shouts Damon Gough, his bass player nodding in acquiescence. All in all, it’s been a successful gig for Badly Drawn Boy. Such is the popularity of the band that King Tut’s could have…

Bed, The

The Bed

18 Sep 2006

CONTEMPORARY DANCE How does sleeping with 40 strangers in one night grab you? Well, the mother of all one night stands is about to arrive in Glasgow, so dig out your best pyjamas. Despite how it sounds, The Bed is in fact a perfectly respectable…

Black Keys, The - album review

The Black Keys

18 Sep 2006

ROCK’N’ROLL When The White Stripes’ take on garage minimalism went global it fucked over a whole bunch of duos pushing their own bottled blues moonshine. With four long players under their snake belts now the Jack’n’Meg comparisons are like water off…

Black Sun

70min

18 Sep 2006

DOCUMENTARY French artist, documentary filmmaker and author Hugues de Montalembert describes his life after he was attacked in his apartment in New York and blinded with paint stripper. This is less the story of an artist coming to terms with his…

Brendan McCarthy - Solo (comic)

Brendan McCarthy

18 Sep 2006

COMICS As a child brought up on the surreal and sometimes vicious images of British artist Brendan McCarthy, it’s a pleasure to report I don’t feel nearly as damaged as I should. Once a regular on 2000AD - where he forged an ahead-of-its-time…

Callum Innes - From Memory

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 Sep-19 Nov

18 Sep 2006

PAINTING Abstract painting initially appears to have had a tempestuous and polarised history of either obsessively concealing or proudly parading its own creative process. From Mondrian’s sleek matrix paintings, to Pollock’s grandious splatterings…

Children of Men

(15) 114min

18 Sep 2006

DRAMA/ADVENTURE/SCI-FI It’s 2027, and various crises relating to immigration, terrorism and biological insecurities are just the minor symptoms of a larger problem facing mankind; no children have been born worldwide for nearly two decades. When…

Clerks II

(15) 97min

18 Sep 2006

COMEDY ‘With no power comes no responsibility,’ declares the tagline on the poster for Clerks II, neatly summarising the minimal progress made by Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson) as they leave behind their jobs as time wasting…

Colin Towns & NDR Big Band - album review

Colin Towns & NDR Big Band

18 Sep 2006

JAZZ Recorded live at the Moers Jazz Festival and released simultaneously with Lend Me Your Ears, a fine studio album of Towns’ own compositions also featuring the NDR Big Band, this exuberant disc celebrates Zappa’s idiosyncratic music while…

Davey Graham

Oran Mor, Glasgow, Sun 24 Sep

18 Sep 2006

FOLK Lauded by Bert Jansch and Eric Clapton, Davey Graham is the guitar hero’s guitar hero. But despite his revolutionary impact on acoustic guitar playing and British folk music in the early 1960s, Graham has remained a relatively obscure figure. So…

David Icke: Was He Right?

Five, Mon 2 Oct, 11pm

18 Sep 2006

SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY When a mound of grass in Peru started talking to David Icke, his life was never to be the same again. Having plied his trade as a goalkeeper for Coventry City before introducing snooker coverage for the BBC, his overnight…

Devendra Banhart

ABC, Glasgow, Sat 2 Sep

18 Sep 2006

FOLK The reasons you loved a live show don’t always match the reasons you went along in the first place. Those who dropped by to sample the artful folk of this Texan troubadour and his band (considering their bank of guitars and that woodland of…

Doug Johnstone - Tombstoning

Doug Johnstone

18 Sep 2006

MYSTERY DRAMA This debut from polymath Doug Johnstone (novelist, journalist, multi-instrumentalist with Fence Collective band Northern Alliance) is a book about returning and reassessing. ‘The past wasn’t a scary place,’ says thirtysomething…

Drenched

Tron, Glasgow, Thu 21-Sat 23 Sep, then touring

18 Sep 2006

NEW WORK There’s something about a company willing to embark on adventure and experiment that will always attract attention in the theatre. Boilerhouse, that stylish, occasionally erratic and sometimes brilliant theatre company is a case in point.

Echo Park LA - interview

Fairy godmothers

18 Sep 2006

‘Todd [Haynes] really champions touching domestic dramas. It’s something that he did in Far From Heaven and in a different way it’s something that we’re trying to do with this film.’ Wash Westmoreland, Echo Park LA’s English co-director is clearly still…

Echo Park LA - review

Echo Park LA - review LA (Quinceanera)

18 Sep 2006

DRAMA Tony Richardson/Shelagh Delaney’s 1961 drama A Taste of Honey is the direct inspiration for this beautifully composed teenage drama. Young Latina Magdalena (Emily Rios) is blissfully preparing for her Quinceañera (15th birthday celebration…

End of the road for Arab Strap

The party's over

18 Sep 2006

‘Then on Friday night we went through to the Arches . . . There was only one car going, so some of us had to get the train. We got through quite late. Then we went to a pub to take the gear. There were no problems getting in - we saw some others waiting…

Fedde le Grand

Fedde le Grand

18 Sep 2006

Stereotype’s Huggy (XFM) can spot a rising star from 1000 yards, and Fedde le Grand is the latest guest he has signed up for this night of quality house. The Dutch master is perhaps best known for one of the biggest tracks of the year, ‘Put Your Hands…

Finn Peters - album review

Finn Peters

18 Sep 2006

JAZZ Like Neil Cowley, the London-based alto saxophonist and flautist has been working across a variety of genres for over a decade, from contemporary classical to dance music, but makes his jazz recording debut as a leader with this disc. His…

Gaydar

18 Sep 2006

Glasgay! may not begin in earnest until 14 October, but several exhibitions open this fortnight. In Graffiti Brasil, the country’s spray scene is shown through photographs of works by daredevil pichadores and the internationally renowned Os Gemeos…

Gordon Burn - Best and Edwards

Gordon Burn

18 Sep 2006

SPORT BIOGRAPHY On the day of the recent Champions League clash between Manchester United and Celtic, the shirt George Best wore while scoring six goals for the Red Devils against Northampton in 1970 was sold in auction for £24,000. It feels…

Group 7

18 Sep 2006

New art from a collection of artists who have previously shown in the Pentagon. The work includes a series of small landscapes by Stuart Mackenzie, figurative art by Craig Peacock, new work from Ernesto Vaz, cityscapes by Martin McInally, and work from…

History of the Arches

Underground resistance

18 Sep 2006

The look on Andy Arnold’s face suggests he’s more than a little bit gob-smacked to be sitting in his dapper office, in what could only be described as the cockpit of The Arches, talking about how an idea sparked over 15 years ago has led to an arts…

Hitlist

The best events, talks and sport

18 Sep 2006

Army Assault Course Challenge Release your inner drill sergeant on Dreghorn’s assault course at this fun, group event to raise funds for the Thistle Foundation. It may be the only chance you get to scream blue murder at your mother-in-law. Dreghorn…

Hitlist

The best film & DVD releases

18 Sep 2006

Mountain Patrol Breathtaking blast of pure narrative cinema from China based on the true story of a group of volunteers charged with protecting antelope from poachers in Tibet. See review, page 45. Cineworld Renfrew Street from Fri 29 Sep.

Hitlist

The best comedy

18 Sep 2006

Adam Hills The kindest Australian on the planet (you wouldn’t catch him chopping the tails off stingrays) charms the community with more tales of whimsy. City Halls, Glasgow, Fri 22 Sep. Frank Sidebottom A right blast from the past here as the…

Hitlist

The bes theatre and dance

18 Sep 2006

Tutti Frutti (pictured) John Byrne’s cult TV classic is turned into theatre for the first time under the direction of Tony Cownie for the NTS. A comedy exploring Scottish identity through an ageing rock band on what might be its final tour, this piece…

Hitlist

18 Sep 2006

Adam Ant After coming far from his face-painted days, the 1980s pop star has delivered an autobiography about the business and his battles with depression. Waterstone’s, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 226 2666. 1pm. Free. Tue 26 Sep; Borders Books, 98…

Hitlist

The best pop, rock, jazz and folk

18 Sep 2006

Jay Z Ignoring his own self-imposed retirement completely by appearing on everyone’s else’s records, the self-professed CEO of hip hop arrives for his first ever Scottish live date. See feature, page 20. SECC, Glasgow, Fri 22 Sep. (Rock & Pop) The…

Hitlist

The best dancefloor action

18 Sep 2006

Xplicit Mampi (pictured) Swift double drops hard and fast jungle. Distorted basslines and raw drum & bass come as standard. The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Fri 22 Sep. Bad Robot Loosjoints and Stevie Elements take over this new weekly. Guest John…

Hitlist

The best exhibitions

18 Sep 2006

Killing Time Graham Fagan and Graham Eatough collaborate on an excellent project that brings together theatrical elements, installation, performance art and sculpture. The artists set up dramatic situations that references plays by Osborne, Beckett…

HIV - The Comeback Tour

All venues, Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond

18 Sep 2006

HEALTH & RELATIONSHIPS Remember that disease that was big in the 80s? You know - AIDS it was called - all over the telly at the time. They said it would be absolutely massive in the UK, but it never quite happened. You don’t hear much about it now. I…

Hoodwinked

(U) 81min

18 Sep 2006

ANIMATION/COMEDY Like a bedtime story told by an amiable drunk, Hoodwinked is a hackneyed narrative redeemed by great creative embellishment of the telling. Writer/directors Corey and Todd Edwards have come up with a noir setting that’s equal…

Hoodwinked - profile - Cory Edwards

Profile

18 Sep 2006

Name Cory Edwards Born 21 August 1968, Anderson, Indiana, US. Background Actor/writer and director team Cory and his brother Todd started out making Hoodwinked as an animated short, then decided the material would stretch to feature length.

In A Man's World - DVD review

In a Man's World

18 Sep 2006

CRIME/DRAMA OK, first things first: In a Man’s World is not a very good film, but it is interesting one for a number of reasons. Aberdonian writer/director Lee Hutcheson’s debut feature is a stilted, ultra low budget cross of Goodfellas, Sleepers and…

James Yorkston - album review

James Yorkston

18 Sep 2006

FOLKISH-COUNTRYISH-SINGER-SONGWRITER THING For this third long player, undefinable Fife troubadour Yorkston has created an eclectic collection of moody gems which exceeds his own already extremely high standards. There is huge variety here, from the…

Jason Manford

18 Sep 2006

STAND-UP The timeless criticism in which people are implored to act their age could never be more apt when directed at Jason Manford. Yet, in his case, it’s more likely that he’d be accused of acting way beyond his years; when he started his career…

Jeremy Deller - Edited rushes

The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 23 Sep-28 Oct

18 Sep 2006

FILM AND INSTALLATION It would be easy to start this small preview with the words ‘2004 Turner Prize winner’, but it’s much better to let it nestle near the middle of a the first sentence next to a comma. The fabric of Deller’s work unfolds like a…

JG Ballard - Kingdom Come

JG Ballard

18 Sep 2006

DYSTOPIAN TALE Septuagenarian novelist JG Ballard belongs to that rare cabal of authors to have had an adjective named after them. ‘Ballardian’ evokes the bleak, urban landscapes and lyrical insight into the dark human effects of technological and…

Julie

Touring

18 Sep 2006

CLASSIC Each of those cases we read of in the newspapers, where bosses fall in love with their secretaries, teachers with their students and politicians with their junior aides, reinforce our fear of the disruption of hierarchy. Yet, as the…

Keane

(15) 94min

18 Sep 2006

DRAMA ‘Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy,’ according to the great Canadian philosopher and theorist Herbert Marshall McLuhan, but it is also a surety of grief. No one thinks he knows this better than William Keane (Damian…

Killing Time

Twisted brothers

18 Sep 2006

Graham Fagen and Graham Eatough make you curious and curiouser. Attempting to decipher the product of this pair’s unique collaboration is much akin to chasing the white rabbit, falling into a warren of dead ends, traps doors and secret rooms, only to…

Klaxons

Arches, Glasgow, Thu 5 Oct

18 Sep 2006

INDIE RAVE It used to be a genre almost exclusively beloved by chavs, shitkickers and the odd ironic student, but the NME are leading the rave revival charge with a prefab movement succinctly titled New Rave. This debut Club NME tour sees a few of…

Martin Amis - House of Meetings

Home comforts

18 Sep 2006

There are few contemporary British authors whose early literary output was received by the critics as like some unstoppable train only for it to veer horrifically off course and wind up crashing and burning in full public glare. He seems to share a…

Mary Stuart

Theatre editor Steve Cramer talks to Siobhan Redmo

18 Sep 2006

Steve Cramer I suppose one of the aspects of this new David Harrower version of the text that we might expect is a certain politicality. Siobhan Redmond It’s not the politics but the politicking that goes on that you really notice. All these men are…

Merchant of Venice, The

The Merchant of Venice

18 Sep 2006

CLASSIC Shakespeare’s great commentary on the unease between Christians and Jews has suffered, over the years, with some of the most tortured attempts to make it conform to one thesis or another imaginable. All of his work, of course, has been…

Micah P Hinson

ABC, Glasgow, Tue 3 Oct

18 Sep 2006

ALT.COUNTRY At 25 years old, Micah P Hinson seems a little young for the world-weary sorrow etched into his melancholic tones, but the Texan singer songwriter has experienced more than his fair share of heartbreak and misery. Hinson was a young…

Monkees, The: Seasons 1 & 2 - DVD review

The Monkees: Seasons 1 & 2

18 Sep 2006

CLASSIC TELEVISION Nothing cripples the nostalgia-glands more than revisiting a beloved TV favourite from a distance of twenty years. Discovering that The Monkees isn’t as good as you remember is a depressing rites-of-passage through which every…

Mountain Patrol (Kekexili)

(15) 85min

18 Sep 2006

ACTION/DRAMA Unfolding against the stunning mountainous backdrops of the Qingzang Heights in Tibet’s Kekexili region, this epic drama relates real-life events from a decade ago, when an armed team of Tibetan volunteers attempted to protect the…

Neil Landstrumm

18 Sep 2006

Nice introduction to the city for all the new students as one of techno’s most innovative producers, Neil Landstrumm (Tresor/Scandinavia), guests at Glasgow School of Art’s Freshers Ball. Expect a unique take on electronica with elements of blues, dub…

Night Porter, The - DVD review

The Night Porter

18 Sep 2006

DRAMA This notorious 1974 film about a Holocaust survivor who, years later, becomes infatuated with one of the Nazis who terrorised her in the camps was just one of a number that attempted to deal with the after-effects of fascism at the time.

Nina's Heavenly Delights

(PG) 94min

18 Sep 2006

COMEDY When Pratibha Parmar, the multi-award winning filmmaker, went to the UK Film Council for funding for Nina’s Heavenly Delights, her debut mainstream lesbian feature, she was told either the lesbian stuff goes or the money does. Considering…

Once in a Lifetime - DVD review

Once in a Lifetime

18 Sep 2006

SPORT HISTORY When you think of the US and football, you might conjure up images of Diana Ross inadvertently destroying goalposts during the 1994 World Cup opening ceremony or the US being horsed by Iran four years later, but whatever you think of…

Pete Clark - album review

Pete Clark

18 Sep 2006

FOLK The Birnam-based fiddler has explored both the historical and contemporary music of Perthshire on a string of fine albums, and this is another worthy addition to that list. His own compositions are augmented by a selection of tunes by three…

Peter, Bjorn and John

Exposure

18 Sep 2006

Although Peter (Moren), Bjorn (Yttling) and John (Eriksson) are recognised in their native Sweden and have been labouring away in comfortable obscurity everywhere else for some years now, it’s taken a collaboration with a more internationally noted…

Progression

Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Sat 30 Sep

18 Sep 2006

HOUSE Over the last couple of years we’ve come to expect upheaval on the Edinburgh club scene, so it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that another familiar club night is bolting its doors. While Progression might be leaving behind its five…

PS - DVD review

PS

18 Sep 2006

ROMANCE Films set in or around art schools are still something of a rarity (although Terry Zwigoff’s Art School Confidential should be touching down sometime in 2007) so it’s something of a shame that Dylan Rodger Dodger Kidd’s second feature never…

Pussypower

The Soundhaus, Glasgow, Sat 23 Sep

18 Sep 2006

TECHNO Glasgow veterans of the underground house and techno scene Pussypower’s Jason and Terry, along with friends such as fellow techno-fausts of the time Twitch (Pure/Optimo Espacio) and Hamish (My Machines), are playing a one-off party at the…

Rage

Keep away from my theatre - or else

18 Sep 2006

King’s Theatre, Queen’s Hall, Theatre Royal, Civic Theatre, Citizen’s Theatre, National Theatre, Royal Lyceum . . . They all sound a bit archaic, part of the Empire, like old English pub names. Why do theatres puff themselves up so much? Far more people…

Rapture, The - album review

The Rapture

18 Sep 2006

PUNK FUNK The Rapture pretty much invented what people laughingly refer to as ‘new rave’. Punk funk, pulsating basslines, brass and fuzzed guitars; the scrawny illegitimate offspring of Madchester and Iggy Pop. Their last album spawned the monstrous…

Roots Manuva

Soul Biscuits at Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Fri 22 Sep

18 Sep 2006

HIP HOP Expanding his Remix brand yet further - it’s already a regular nationwide XFM show and the longest-running night at Cargo in London - the genre-skipping Eddy Temple-Morris has now turned the XFM Remix into a touring club, which gets its…

Rough Cuts

Film news

18 Sep 2006

Rough Cuts would like to dedicate this issue of The List to the memory of Shirley Gilmour (pictured). Gilmour was one of the cornerstones of the Filmhouse throughout the 1990s where her tireless administration of everything from the day to day running…

Scottish zine explosion

18 Sep 2006

Singles & Downloads

18 Sep 2006

Hopes that Lil’ Chris’ ‘Checkin’ It Out’ (Sony/BMG) (*) was the new Chris Rock CD couldn’t have been further from the truth. Turns out this Chris is some pre-teen scrote from a Gene Simmons TV show and I only know that much from seeing the little runt…

Spend a Penny

Arches, Glasgow, Tue 26 Sep-Sat 7 Oct

18 Sep 2006

SITE SPECIFIC WH Auden called it the “porcelain cabin of contemplation”. For him, the one place where you could ponder the events of your life without fear of interruption was the cludgey. Let’s face it, if you’re having a Barry White, not only would…

Stage Whispers

Theatre news and comment

18 Sep 2006

The bewildering number of openings over the next few weeks is leaving Whispers pretty breathless, with more new shows than our usual preview pages can cover, so he’s putting aside his usual ponderings to update you on what’s on. Borderline are far…

The Bronx - album review

The Bronx

18 Sep 2006

ROCK Sick of a rock scene fronted by snivelling emo types? Then you need The Bronx in your life more now than ever. After roaring into existence in 2003, the Californian foursome show no signs of letting up with this second, brilliantly brutal…

The Dispach - Vic Galloway

The Dispatch

18 Sep 2006

I do end up in some strange places with work these days. None stranger than the Balearic party isle of Ibiza. Long seen as a haven for bangin’ choons, the clubbing capital of the world is in transition right now as pop-culture swings once more towards…

The horror! The horror!

Marilyn Manson and Dave Grohl love ‘em but they remain an enigma to many. Andrew Borthwick unearths the lurid legacy of original shock punks The Misfits.

18 Sep 2006

Although Glenn Danzig couldn’t have imagined it when he formed the band 19 years ago, The Misfits have become the monster to his Dr Frankenstein: an awkward, lumbering being intent on survival, lurching slowly forward, irrespective of the fact its…

This Film is Not Yet Rated

(18) 97min

18 Sep 2006

DOCUMENTARY Kirby Dick’s hilarious but deeply worrying exposé of the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating board is one of the most thoroughly entertaining documentaries of the year. A clearly partisan Dick (his own films, among them Sick…

Torsten Lauschmann

Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Fri 6 Oct

18 Sep 2006

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND FILM There is something refreshing about an exhibition by an artist that can be read as a strong collection of differing voices and styles, avoiding the rush towards self-branding that most art workers take. Torsten…

TV Round-up

18 Sep 2006

The glacial Tilda Swinton narrates Galapagos (BBC2, Fri 29 Sep, 9pm) with a voice that would suggest she can barely believe her eyes. I know how she feels. The set of islands just off the coast of South America was denounced by early pioneers as a hell…

Violets, The

The Violets

18 Sep 2006

GOTH PUNK Go on The Violets’ Myspace site and you’ll find they describe themselves (possibly paraphrasing some grumpy reviewer or other) as a ‘cut-price Siouxsie and the Banshees covers band’. Well, if it’s good enough for the band it’s good enough…

When the Moon Was Overhead

Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Sun 24 Sep

18 Sep 2006

DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE Writing to commission can be tricky. But when Glasgow’s Hunterian Art Gallery announced an open competition for a dramatic monologue based around the life of Frances Macdonald McNair to accompany the Doves and Dreams exhibition, I…

Word Order: Concrete Poetry and its influence

18 Sep 2006

An exhibition of works examining The Word, including work by David Bellingham, Thomas A Clark, Alec Finlay, Julie Johnstone and selected works by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Ernst Jandl and Pierre Garnier from University of Stirling’s Archives.

World Trade Center

(12A) 129min

18 Sep 2006

REAL LIFE/EPIC Oliver Stone has proved remarkably adept at re-enacting pivotal moments in post-World War II American history, from the death of John F Kennedy to the anti-Vietnam war movement (Born on the Fourth of July) and his intriguing portrayal…

Yellow Moon

Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 29 Sep-Sat 14 Oct

18 Sep 2006

NEW WORK Recent enquiries seem to have proved that the government’s paroxysms of self-righteousness over the effectiveness of their ASBO system were more than a little bit hasty. Yes, now we’ve got more potential criminals, since every other youth to…

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

(PG) 95min

18 Sep 2006

DOCUMENTARY/ART Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (famed for his 24-hour version of Hitchcock’s Psycho) and his French collaborator Philippe Parreno follow in the footsteps of Hellmuth Costard’s 1970 film Football as Never Before - which profiled George…

Zurich Ballet

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Wed 4-Sat 7 Oct

18 Sep 2006

MODERN BALLET Chocolate and watches may be their trademark, but it turns out the Swiss are pretty hot at dance too. Playing in Scotland for the first time in its history, Zurich Ballet is an undiscovered gem well worth checking out. A decade ago…