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10 Apr 2007
Frequently hailed as ‘the Queen of British Burlesque’, 25-year-old Kittie Klaw is at the forefront of the international burlesque renaissance. She is a founder of the Ministry of Burlesque which this month presents High Tease in Glasgow. She tells her…
With property prices continuing to soar and half of UK buyers reportedly being forced out of the market, buying a home has never been costlier or more nerve-wracking. But take heart, The List’s reporters have scoured the country and consulted the…
9 Apr 2007
Early experiments in film by artists remind us that the birth of psychoanalysis and cinema happened at almost exactly the same time, with surrealists adding hermetically sealed packages of poetic and suggestive images to narrative cinema.
POP It’s tough when even the music critics can’t categorise your band. Having been called everything from country, jazz, folk, rock, punk, funk, disco, bluegrass to reggae the Injuns myspace coyly asserts pop/indie/ other, where the ‘other’ can only…
11 Apr 2007
DIRECTOR COLLECTION Spike Lee was 50 on March 20 and this nine disc box set has been released to celebrate the occasion. It is an odd collection that reeks of commercialism with the films - School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle…
PS3 Remember the days when all Sonic had to worry about was running through shiny gold rings and traversing the occasional loop-the-loop? Well now he’s got a lot more to contend with. Other than rescuing his - disturbingly - human girlfriend, Sonic…
Name Edbanger Records Occupation Probably the coolest electronic record label in the world. Can you back this up? If it’s credentials you’re looking for then, it’s run by Pedro Winter aka Busy P and he counts acts like Justice, Uffie & Feadz…
Acoustic Ladyland may have drawn their inspiration from music that first blasted ears four decades ago, but their scorching aural assault has broadened considerably from the quartet’s initial acerbic fusion of Jimi Hendrix, post-Coltrane free jazz and…
REGGAE Following the soundsystem summit this time last year between Wee Red Bar residents Big Toe’s Hi-Fi and leading Glasgow practitioners Mungo’s, this spring sees the Big Toe folks invite Messenger Soundsystem, Edinburgh’s other big reggae club…
The versatile, chameleon-like Canadian actor Ryan Gosling has consistently been drawn to dark, emotionally troubling roles. He has played a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer, a teenage killer who flirts with the investigating policewoman in Murder by…
TEENAGE DRAMA The confused and lusty youthdom of Britain are everywhere at the moment from the seemingly daily scare stories on the tabloid front pages and broadsheet opinion columns to the hedonistic revelry of Skins. On literature’s side, January’s…
Early on in Swung, messed-up protagonist David is fired via email from within his own office. This would be bad enough were it not sent in the font which David himself had created to somehow soften the blow for those at the end of a sacking. But surely…
ADAPTATION The question of what precisely it means to be Scottish, of where and from whom a nation’s sense of itself derives, are bound to be at the forefront of public discourse over the next few months. Gerry Mulgrew’s production for Communicado…
A Glasgow Story: A snapshot of African and Caribbean life in Glasgow today An absorbing portrait of every day life in some of the city’s newer communities, captured by award-winning documentary photographer Roddy Mackay. Part one of the city-wide Voices…
ALT.COUNTRY Following her departure from Thee Headcoatees, this is Holly Golightly’s 14th studio effort, and after successful collaborations with Jack White, Mudhoney and Rocket From The Crypt she now teams up with long-time bandmate Lawyer Dave to…
Set in Mauritius Ajay Chandok’s Nehlle Pe Dehlla (12A) 125min (1 Star) is a reworking of the 1989 US comedy hit Weekend at Bernie’s. Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt mark time amongst the slow motion shots of lycra clad Bollywood babes, practising aerobics…
EPIC DRAMA/WAR Zhang Yimou’s third martial arthouse adventure is less action oriented than the co-writer and director’s last, House of Flying Daggers, but even more ravishing in visual terms than his first stab at the genre, Hero. At heart Curse of…
Glenn Wool According to this moustachioed Canadian geezer, you don’t go to hell for eating elephants. It’s certainly a reassuring theory, but what can it mean? This may be your chance to find out. Jongleurs, Glasgow, Thu 12-Sat 14 Apr.
Arches Theatre Festival The brilliant TEAM return after their fringe triumph with Particularly in the Heartland (pictured), an enchanting allegory about three orphans on a Kansas farm and their unlikely mentors. Sneakily witty and politically…
Roderick Buchanan: Histrionics An exhibition examining the sectarian past and present that still manages to haunt the streets of Glasgow. Buchanan presents films, photographs and an installation that will take over the large main gallery in GoMA for six…
Isabel Allende Inés of My Soul Based on true events, this is the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive in Chile with the Conquistadors of the 1500s. Fourth Estate.
The Fence Collective are often wrongly tagged as an exclusively folky bunch, but there is a much more diverse array of music on offer from its members. To showcase that fact, collectee Gavin Brown aka On The Fly set up De-Fence, an offshoot label…
SOCIAL DRAMA When you think about Nick Broomfield and his work, you probably don’t think grimy, subtle and slow. Though, you might conjure up an image of a posh guy with a camera upsetting all manner of ruthless crooks and political outcasts with his…
Fashion Fundraiser ‘Living in this country, we’ve just got no concept of how hard it is for people out there,’ says Annalese McDermott, director of Edinburgh modelling agency Stolen, and co-founder of the UK branch of Mission in Action. Mission in…
FAMILY DRAMA Charlotte Mendelson returns with a sweeping familial drama charting the decline and fall of a well-to-do, very Jewish London family funnelled through the revolving narrative ciphers of three characters in crisis. Rabbi Claudia, son Leo…
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