Issue 559

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Black Sun

18 Sep 2006

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 blindness (and all…

Echo Park LA

18 Sep 2006

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) dreaming of…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Hoodwinked

18 Sep 2006

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 parts Raymond Chandler…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Nina's Heavenly Delights

18 Sep 2006

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 that…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

Scottish zine explosion

18 Sep 2006