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23 Apr 2007

Tony Carter (pictured) We’ve recently seen Will Andrews twiddling the knobs and flicking some switches as a tech guy for other comics, but we love him most when he’s bounding on stage as his feckless Geordie jester alter ego. Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Thu…

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Hitlist

23 Apr 2007

Neil Clements: Paranoid The Glasgow-based artist examines the relationship between art and music, focusing on the simultaneous emergence of Bridget Riley as the ‘High Priestess’ of Op Art in Britain and the nosey ‘birth’ of the de-tuned guitar. The…

Interview - Sarah Polley

Interview

23 Apr 2007

Sarah Polley’s directorial feature debut about the relationship between a couple who have been married for many years as they cope with Alzheimer’s is a self assured and intelligent piece of filmmaking. How did she enjoy directing? ‘You do have to fight…

Joan Allen

Morality bites

23 Apr 2007

Joan Allen is by far one of America’s most respected actresses. Brian Cox, who appears alongside her in the forthcoming espionage thriller The Bourne Ultimatum, says she’s the best he’s ever worked with.

Joshua Spassky

Gwendoline Riley

(2 stars)23 Apr 2007

EXISTENTIAL TALE Young Mancunian writer Gwendoline Riley is much-praised in literary circles, but it’s hard to see why from this turgid sliver of immature existential angst. A young female novelist from Manchester (hmmm) and an older American…

Neil Clements: Paranoid

SouthSide Studios, Fridge Gallery, Glasgow (viewing by appointment Sat 14-Sun 29 Apr)

(5 stars)23 Apr 2007

PAINTING AND INSTALLATION The small, dimly lit Fridge gallery acts like a mausoleum for Glasgow-based Neil Clements to create a painting, light and sound installation that takes an image of Op Art heroine Bridget Riley and the emergence of the…

The Opposite House

Helen Oyeyemi

(3 stars)23 Apr 2007

SOCIAL DRAMA Helen Oyeyemi’s family left Nigeria when she was four and she draws on this experience and themes of cultural dislocation for her second novel. The Opposite House follows pregnant singer, Maja, as she tries to find ‘her Cuba’, a place…

Peter Jaques: Babble

The Corn Exchange Gallery, Edinburgh, Fri 27 Apr - Thu 14 Jun

23 Apr 2007

PHOTOGRAPHY Locking yourself in a pitch black basement with a dog and writing excerpts from ancient Greek texts such as Orpheus and Eurydice and The Twelve Labours of Hercules onto photographic paper with an old style quill pen dipped in chemicals…

Remote Control

Brian Donaldson finds that the schedules have an even more rancid stench of death than usual

23 Apr 2007

Millionare socialist with a heart of gold? Or moneygrabbing wretch with less scruples than Stalin? During his lifetime, public opinion was heavily divided on Robert Maxwell, but history will probably prove to be less kind. In Maxwell (BBC2, Fri 4 May…

Re:Union

Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, until Sat 27 Apr, then touring

(3 stars)23 Apr 2007

NEW WORK The traumatic and uncertain business of separation, be it of nations, lovers or families, creates a lasting emotional impact upon who we are and how we define ourselves. In 7:84’s new piece, composed of four separate short plays, each…

The Seven Sins of England

Channel 4, Tue 8 May, 10pm

(2 stars)23 Apr 2007

SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY Before anyone gets on their high horse, let’s admit straight off the bat that the Scots might claim to have a largely pacifist Tartan Army, but the seven sins of our Anglo Saxon brethren could be matched and probably surpassed by…

Yourcodenameis:milo

King Tut’s Glasgow, Mon 30 Apr

23 Apr 2007

ROCK To paraphrase Blur: modern rock is rubbish. Particularly here in the UK where the current rock ‘saviours’ consist of nice guy fops and knuckle-dragging oiks getting by on gee-shucks modesty or self-aggrandising pomp, respectively. So far, so…

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