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Books for Christmas

21 Nov 2006

Hitlist Butt Book Jop van Bennekom It’s five years since the pink pamphlet Butt first came out of Amsterdam. Defining a literate, visceral, edgy aesthetic - eschewing the waxed, gym-buffed and airbrushed models of glossy mainstream gay mags - it…

5 Reasons To Go See - The Horrors

21 Nov 2006

1 They’re horrible The zombie garage goth rock dafties (Faris ‘Rotter’ Badwan, Tomethy Furse, Joshua von Grimm, Coffin Joe and Spider Webb, apparently) hail from Southend, but look and sound as if they’ve just climbed out of some primordial rock’n’roll…

Books for Christmas

21 Nov 2006

Glasgow Almanac Stephen Terry Compiled from a decade’s worth of short vignettes that appeared in the Evening Times, this compilation of city life covers subjects from medicine to architecture, to entertainment and war, and more. Arranged thematically…

Fence Records Albums Launch

21 Nov 2006

ECLECTIC The Village, Edinburgh, Thu 3 Nov As bonny a gaff as The Village happens to be, the constant clatter coming from the adjoining bar area made trying to listen to this predominantly acoustic Fence Records dual album launch futile at…

O.B.E.

White Heat at Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Thu 9 N

(3 stars)21 Nov 2006

ROCK And here was me thinking The Fratellis were playing in Glasgow this evening. So, I don’t wish to nail O.B.E. as absolute copyists, but comparisons might easily be drawn between the two bands. Scruffy and oh-so-contemporarily indie - a major…

Jon Ronson

Out of the Ordinary (Picador)

(4 stars)21 Nov 2006

COLLECTED JOURNALISM Throughout much of his journalistic career, Jon Ronson has played a bit part in his stories, occasionally stumbling about in the background while his subjects (fascists, fundamentalists and felons mainly), hang themselves on…

Kate Mosse

Labyrinth: Illustrated Edition (Orion)

(3 stars)21 Nov 2006

HISTORICAL THRILLER Just in case Kate Mosse’s phenomenally successful thriller, set in medieval and contemporary France, has passed you by, her helpful publishers have rushed out a hefty, hardback illustrated version to put a dent in your Christmas…

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