Issue 575

Reader Offer - Win tickets to a Knockengorroch Festival

9 May 2007

Knockengorroch, famous for its folk roots line-up and grass roots ambience, presents a double bill of festivals in 2007; The World Ceilidh from Fri 18-Sun 20 May, featuring Transglobal Underground with special guest Natacha Atlas, Mr Scruff…

Dance

8 May 2007

David Hughes Dance Company David Hughes knows a thing or two about pain. As one of the most interesting dancers of his generation, Hughes has performed with the UK’s finest companies, from Rambert to DV8. But with his 40th birthday on the horizon…

Six Cities Design Festival

8 May 2007

We don’t often stop to consider the impact design has on every aspect of our lives. This month, a Scotland-wide festival aims to encourage us to do just that. The Six Cities Design Festival, www.six-cities.com, features established and up-and-coming…

Travel

Life & Style

8 May 2007

(Picture: © Anne Pinniger) ‘Tropic of Capricorn’. It’s just there, written clearly on a road sign in the middle of nowhere. Dirty yellow sand in the air, the track ahead glittering with fool’s gold as though it had been chucked away. The landscape…

Travis

8 May 2007

New album The Boy With No Name is more of a grower than your other ones. Have you had time to go back, reflect on it and enjoy it? Fran Healy We’re beginning to get a bit of distance from it so you get an idea of what it’s about. Dougie Payne…

Chloë Sevigny

8 May 2007

Britney and Madonna, you may want to take note. That young kook Chloë Sevigny shaved her head while she was still in high school and had a contract with H&M before she was out of her teens. It seems there is not much that this remarkable young actress…

A taste of Scotland

News

8 May 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe Tickets are now on sale for the Taste of Edinburgh festival, which aims to celebrate and promote the capital’s culinary talent as well as Scotland’s world class food, drink and produce. The festival, which runs from Thursday…

South meets West

News

8 May 2007

A cunning fusion of Brazilian and British musical skills is being showcased at a series of gigs in Glasgow this July. The series of gigs, in association with TrocaBrahma beer, are the result of an exchange programme where UK artists travel to South…

Remote Control

8 May 2007

What on earth could be funny about a man who slaughtered millions of people and influenced many a nutter in the post-cyanide years? Quite a lot, according to Jacques Peretti in his very fine Hitler: The Comedy Years (Channel 4, Thu 10 May, 11.05pm, 4…

Angels in America

8 May 2007

Theory without practice, like sex without love, is a pretty barren affair. But a combination, in both cases, is problematic in a secular age. This seems to be the bottom line of Tony Kushner’s mighty, epoch-defining epic, a sprawling theatrical poem of…

Peter Liversidge

8 May 2007

‘It’s kind of like when you are a child, and you really want a certain toy, but can’t have it, so you make your own version instead,’ says London-based artist Peter Liversidge of his own homemade versions of everyday and perhaps not-so-everyday things…

Eat - Bijou

8 May 2007

The Meal In the previous issue of The List we announced this year’s Eating & Drinking Guide Awards. One of the places we looked at long and hard this time round when judging the hotly contested Newcomer of the Year category was Bijou, located on the…

Sunshine On Leith

8 May 2007

MUSICAL The joyful, if slightly fanciful tone of the Evening News banner ‘Beckham Signs for Hibees’ combined with the more sobering ‘Posh Spice seen in Jenners’ that appear early on in Dundee Rep’s stunning Proclaimers musical by Stephen Greenhorn…

The Bad Drive Well/Tongue Lie Tight

8 May 2007

NEW WORK Interesting idea: take two half-hour plays by young writer-directors who happily admit that they’re accustomed to ‘an above-average level of control’ over their own work. Give them a rehearsal room and a shared cast of two, and have them…

Alex Pollard: Black Marks

8 May 2007

SCULPTURE AND WORK ON PAPER Major Tom’s a junkie, and John Wayne Gacy’s a serial killer - it’s no wonder that clowns get a bad rap these days, and that bozophobia is apparently running rife amongst the seemingly sanest of folk. But in Alex Pollard’s…

Interview - Keren Cytter

8 May 2007

Alexander Kennedy Can you tell us what you’ll be showing at the Collective and about the work’s subject matter? Keren Cytter I’m showing seven videos in one room called ‘The Dates Series’ and three videos in another room with wall text. The subject…

Carthage Must Be Destroyed

8 May 2007

NEW WORK It is incontestable that politicians aren’t held in high esteem these days, but what is often missed by those who criticise the political classes is that it might be the system itself that dehumanises our leaders, rather than their…

What I Heard About Iraq

8 May 2007

VERBATIM THEATRE On a brilliant and sunny July morning last year, I sat opposite Eliot Weinberger in a downtown café in Manhattan. A small, balding man, perhaps in his mid 50s, he spoke in that New York accent that reminds the outsider irresistibly…

Gavin and Stacey

8 May 2007

SITCOM With ITV and Channel 4 still flailing around from one comedy outrage to another and dishing out sitcom calamity after sitcom calamity, it’s BBC3 who can proudly wear the telly crown when it comes to making this digital nation laugh. And main…

Home Hinderance

8 May 2007

NEW WORK In our current state of hyper reality the boundaries between the real and fiction have lost their clarity. We have an obsession with reality made fiction and problems differentiating between the two, issues addressed by David Leddy in his…

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

8 May 2007

Patti Smith More than 30 years after her debut ‘Piss Factory’ helped ignite the flames of punk, Smith is older, wiser but her passion live remains unabated. The intimate poetry shindig she hosted last year was just a taster for this, a full band show.

Leave To Remain

8 May 2007

NEW WORK Anyone who has experienced grief will be aware of its immense power as an emotion. This is often magnified by the fact that at least in Western society, it’s not a subject we’re encouraged to talk about. After losing his wife Susie Innes…

Hitlist - The best exhibitions

8 May 2007

Roderick Buchanan: Histrionics As part of the Blind Faith: Contemporary Art and Human Rights series of events at GoMA, Roderick Buchanan takes a personal view of the sectarian past and present in Glasgow, representing both sides of the abominable…

Hitlist - The best theatre & dance

8 May 2007

Sunshine on Leith Stephen Greenhorn’s immense, joyful and sometimes sad musical brings the songs of The Proclaimers to life in theatre, in a musical that shows that working class life is just as fit for representation in this genre of theatre as the…

I of The Needle

8 May 2007

NEW WORK Foucault saw identity, who and what we think we are, as something fluid and changeable, a product of cultural circumstances. It’s a similar concept Adrian Osmond seeks to explore in his new one man play directed by Paddy Cunneen, for this…

Hansel and Gretel

8 May 2007

CHILDREN’S THEATRE The launch of the National Theatre for Scotland saw a series of ten events staged over a few days through the length and breadth of the country in February 2006, and left, no doubt, a lasting impression on many an audience. For all…

Roderick Buchanan: Histrionics

8 May 2007

FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY. The new work by Glasgow-based artist Roderick Buchanan on show at GoMA forces the viewer to face the anti-Christian hatred that some Catholics and Protestants still revel in in Scotland. His work is a response to the sectarian…

The Patriot

8 May 2007

NEW WORK In selecting Grae Cleugh’s The Patriot as the first production of his reign, the Tron Theatre’s new director Gregory Thompson clearly had the zeitgeist in his sights. Unfortunately, the only thing he has shot is his own foot. Cleugh has…

Once Upon a Dragon

8 May 2007

CHILDREN’S THEATRE For over a decade now, Grid Iron has produced some of the highest quality site specific theatre in Scotland. Yet, their new piece, an adaptation of Pauline Mol and Moniek Merkx’s Dutch play, represents the exploration of new…

Fiona Jardine: Moltke’s Eye

8 May 2007

INSTALLATION Although Fiona Jardine claims to be influenced by everything from TS Eliot’s high literary Modernism to the pagan iconography of the Green Man (via Francis Rabelais, Brett Easton Ellis, Weiner Werkstatte, and Dagobert Peche among many…

Kindertotenlieder

8 May 2007

NEW WORK Literally translated as Songs on the Death of Children, the title of French performance artist Gisèle Vienne’s latest piece has a long artistic history. It first appeared as a collection of 425 poems by German poet Freidrich Rückert in 1834…

Vegas

7 May 2007

Voodoo lounge

Mary King’s Ghost Fest

7 May 2007

Who ya gonna call?

Liquid Room

7 May 2007

Liquid gold

George Low - Commando

7 May 2007

War games

Mitchell and Webb

Double trouble

7 May 2007

You are two very funny, funny men. Your live act is honed to perfection and your catchphrases are shouted from every street corner. So what new worlds can a comic duo conquer? Peep Show’s Mitchell and Webb have come up with a very traditional…

A Bridge Too Far

7 May 2007

San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge is the most popular suicide destination in the world. For a whole year filmmaker Eric Steel filmed the iconic monument and those who took their lives there for his documentary The Bridge. Leigh Singer questions him

DVD - Round-up

7 May 2007

From Luchino Visconti’s 1963 masterpiece The Leopard to more recently Marco Tullio Giordana’s six-hour Best of Youth, Italians have always had a certain flair for the familial epic. Made in 1976, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (Novecento) (Fox, 4 Stars) is…

Singles & Downloads

Singles & Downloads

7 May 2007

(Picture: Asobi Seksu) Yob poseurs the Kaiser Chiefs turn soothsayer this fortnight with ‘Everything is Average Nowadays’ (B-Unique, 3 Stars) forecasting a slew of unoriginality in singledom. They have, however, stepped it up from the workaday…

Hans Canosa

Profile

7 May 2007

Canosa’s parents were fundamentalist Christians who believed that movies are the devil’s work, so didn’t see a film at the cinema until he was 17 years old. On leaving home he was disinherited for attending Harvard College. He directed many plays and…

Also Released

7 May 2007

Goodbye Bafana (15) 118min (2 Stars) Well intentioned but dreary and overlong adaptation of the recanting memoirs of white Afrikaans warder James Gregory who was in charge of Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned on Robben Island. Directed by Dane Bille…

Black Snake Moan

7 May 2007

Writer/director Craig Brewer does here for the blues what he did for hip hop in sleeper hit Hustle & Flow. In that film Brewer used the synoptic imagery contained in gangster rap to show the reformation of a pimp through music. Here he uses that…

Scottish Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor

7 May 2007

OPERA They have been described as wild, cheerless and bleak, but it is the landscape of the Lammermuirs, these low, rolling hills that characterize the area bounded by the Berwickshire coast, that provide the setting for Sir Walter Scott’s gothic…

Paul Sinha

7 May 2007

MY COMEDY HERO

MNX Recordings

7 May 2007

Profile

The Wombats

The Wombats

7 May 2007

Exposure

Bank Of Scotland Children’s International Theatre Festival

7 May 2007

FESTIVAL

Battles

7 May 2007

FUTURE ROCK

Greenskeepers

7 May 2007

FUNK HOUSE

The Edinburgh Boat Party

7 May 2007

HOUSE