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Exposure - Sixpeopleaway
27 Mar 2007
Exposure
Despite pressure from various short-sighted industry types to fill out with extra members, Glasgow-based duo Sixpeopleaway have stuck to their guns and rightly so. Forming in the summer of last year and based around the songs of Alistair Merrick…
*Hitlist
27 Mar 2007
Hitlist
Sugababes This is not secret indulgence or guilty pleasure, the greatest hits of Sugababes is one of the truly all-killer-no-filler albums of recent memory and one of the few things that keeps The List’s office manager from shouting at the staff and…
Blurt
27 Mar 2007
Optimo at the Sub Club, Glasgow, Sun 1 Apr
NO WAVE When Blurt play Optimo on April Fool’s Day, it will be vocalist/sax player Ted Milton’s first Glasgow performance since supporting the late Ian Dury at the now demolished Apollo almost 30 years ago. That was in the guise of Mr Pugh’s Velvet…
The List Digital
27 Mar 2007News
The List has accelerated its digital strategy with the appointment of an award-winning new media team. The List Digital will build on the successes enjoyed by the magazine since its launch in 1985.
Moishe's Bagel
27 Mar 2007Bongo Club, Edinburgh, Sat 7 Apr
JAZZ As pianist Phil Alexander explained on the eve of the release of their second album, Salt, the band have relaxed into their trademark blend of jazz-influenced Klezmer and Balkan music since forming back in 2003. ‘Having started largely…
Kate Nash
27 Mar 2007
King Tut’s, Glasgow, Sat 31 Mar; Henry’s, Edinburg
POP Providing further evidence that amateurism is the new professionalism, 19-year-old singer-songwriter Kate Nash makes music in her bedroom. The story goes that Nash fell down stairs and broke her foot after getting knocked back at an audition to…
The Mark Of Cain
27 Mar 2007
Channel 4, Thu 5 Apr, 9pm
WAR DRAMA As the full weight of the war in Iraq continues to bear down on us, the related dramas and documentaries will just keep on coming. After Peter Kosminky’s The Government Inspector and Michael Winterbottom’s Road to Gauntanamo, here comes…
Scottish Ballet
27 Mar 2007
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Wed 11 - Sat 14 Apr, then
BALLET (Photo: © Merlin Hendry) It’s 20 years since the death of Scottish Ballet’s founder, Peter Darrell, and you can’t help but wonder what he’d make of the company today. After prolonged periods of uncertainty, Scottish Ballet has become a…
Activity Sports - Ten...
27 Mar 2007
Ten Energetic Sporting Activities in Scotland
Indoor kart racing at Scotkart, Cambuslang (www.scotkart. co.uk, 0141 641 0222)
Australian Dance Theatre
27 Mar 2007
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Fri 30 & Sat 31 Mar
MODERN DANCE The phrase ‘blink and you miss it’, has great resonance in the dance world. Fast-paced leaps and turns can pass before our eyes, without fully registering on the brain. Which is why this full-on journey into the world of dance…
Rob Churm
27 Mar 2007
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, until Tue 10 Apr
DRAWING It isn’t clear if the drawings by Rob Churm are automatic outpourings or skillfully composed, surreal sketches - it’s more likely that the highly worked and patterned drawings by the Glasgow-based artist fall somewhere between the two.
Wael Shawky
27 Mar 2007
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Sat 31 Mar-Sat 21 A
VIDEO INSTALLATION Collective Gallery’s exhibition program resumes with a solo show of work by Egypt born Wael Shawky. Shawky’s work is multifarious but deals primarily with culture and religion, juxtaposing, comparing and contrasting one with the…
5 Reasons To Go See - The Sugarhill Gang
27 Mar 2007
5 Reasons To Go See
1 ‘I said a hip hop...’ Yep, that’s right. In 1979 the gang recorded ‘Rapper’s Delight’, the first (okay, second; but the first to hit the mainstream charts in America) rap single, and still one of the very best ever.
*Hitlist
27 Mar 2007
Hitlist
Futurology Suspect Culture explores our anxieties about the future through the story of a girl from a sinking island who attends a mighty conference about the future, particularly global warming. But it’s not a conventional play, incorporating as it…
Henri Oguike
27 Mar 2007
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Sat 31 Mar
CONTEMPORARY DANCE Hearing Henri Oguike talk about music, you could almost forget he’s a choreographer. So passionate is he about sound, movement seems to take a back seat. That is until you see his work. Oguike’s choreography is full of drama…
Lowry Painiting To Be Auctioned
27 Mar 2007
News
A painting by celebrated Manchester-born artist LS Lowry is to be auctioned for the first time, at Edinburgh’s Ramsay Cornish Auctioneers, 15-17 Jane Street, Leith. ‘Climbing the Stairs’ (pictured), produced in 1957, will go under the hammer on Saturday…
Little Doses
27 Mar 2007
Little Doses
INDIE ROCK Cabaret Voltaire sees a good turnout for tonight’s New Found Sound showcase of local talent. Though third down on the bill, Vitamin Flintheart’s swirling atmospheric set sets a solid standard. Switching between flickering melodies to…
Records - Also Released
27 Mar 2007Also Released
Tony Visconti The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy (HarperCollins) Here’s a cat who lived his and a few others’ nine lives, having produced and played on some of the greatest rock’n’roll records in history and lived to tell the tale.
Records - The Black Dog
27 Mar 2007
The Black Dog
ELECTRONICA This double-pack of some of The Black Dog’s most seminal work will have veteran techno-heads the world over salivating with anticipation, or in some cases, cursing. Vinyl pressings of most of these recordings have been changing hands…
Records - Trans AM
27 Mar 2007
Trans AM
ELECTRO ROCK There’s a feeling that you’re missing out on the joke with bands like Trans Am. What with the faux boy band press shots and the musical appropriation of everything from Rush to Harold Faltemeyer, it all seems a bit too clever-clever for…
The Abdominal Showmen
27 Mar 2007
The Abdominal Showmen
WEIRDNESS Run by two-time travelling futuristic Japanese robot space blokes, it’ll come as little surprise to hear that Club Crazi Afro Sushi Fry Up is a very silly place. Patrons are greeted with free Space Raiders. A man plays sitar in the…
Amy Macdonald
27 Mar 2007
King Tut’s, Glasgow, Tue 13 Mar
ACOUSTIC POP I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar, a wise man once said, then it meant that you were a protest singer. Quite what he’d make of 19-year-old Amy Macdonald is difficult to predict; her lyrical targets include reality TV, ‘the…
Records - Modest Mouse
27 Mar 2007
Modest Mouse
ROCK There are certain bands that make sense only on record, and there are certain bands that only make sense live. Modest Mouse are a truly odd beast in that they have never completely fit either live or on record. They have, however, on occasion…
Records - Alison Burns
27 Mar 2007
Alison Burns
JAZZ Scottish singer Alison Burns concentrates on a programme of familiar standards for her debut album, including pleasing versions of ‘You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To’, ‘But Not For Me’, ‘Shadow of Your Smile’ and ‘The Way You Look Tonight’, as…
Records - Maxïmo Park
27 Mar 2007
Maxïmo Park
INDIE It may be a cliché, but second albums are tricky. Deviate too far from the sound that took you to the big time and ‘you’ve lost your touch’. Conversely, plough on down the same furrow and ‘you’ve run out of ideas’. And it’s in the latter camp…
