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3 Jul 2007
It’s not Cajun or dance music, but their indie rock has given these five smiling north Londoners a rollercoaster 18 months. Aged 17 and still at school, they’ve supported Kings of Leon, Thom Yorke loves them and Bernard Butler is producing their next…
When art exited the gallery in the 1960s, the street outside became a theatre for performances and an arena for installations - a move that simultaneously questioned the sanctity of the art object and the white cube that protected it. Some artists opted…
TRIP POP Hailing from Glasgow, The Fast Camels pay a psychedelic tribute to the 60s in their energetic debut album. Guitar heavy, with mature harmonies and strong rhythms, the band are unashamedly influenced by the likes of Love and Pink Floyd.
2 Jul 2007
TECHNO/HOUSE Organic clubbing is alive and well in the form of the Basement, a night dedicated to house, electro and techno at the Soundhaus. The event literally started in a basement in the Southside of Glasgow and has grown into a club night to be…
The Meal On paper there shouldn’t be anything particularly special about Sadivino. A relatively anonymous Italian café/delicatessen, hidden away at the quiet end of West Richmond Street, it hardly cries out for attention, probably failing to…
Fessing up that you like to be in small, dark and dirty rooms and experimenting with bunches of strangers might seem an alarming admission. When you add that the folk you are with are liable to get naked at any moment, some rather rum conclusions might…
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Since everything released this fortnight is a bit below par let’s kick things off with these one off screenings of Sam Peckinpah’s brilliant 1974 nihilistic road movie about one unlucky pianist’s odyssey to win a…
DOCUMENTARY Two minutes into this documentary about Frank Gehry, America’s most famous living architect, the director Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, The Interpreter) admits that the documentary was Gehry’s idea. When the architect suggested it to him…
Through the side door and up the stairs of a church hall on Great Western Road, there’s a room where people fly and mermaids hang off bars. A trapeze hangs from the rafters by the big stained glass window, stopping about six feet above the floor. On the…
INDIE FOLK Glasgow-based Icelandic singer/songwriter Bela’s debut album Ticket for a Train didn’t enjoy anything like the response its fantastically warm, woozy folk pop merited upon release a year ago. Watching him pick away contently at an acoustic…
The name conjures the image of a clandestine oasis hidden within the façades of the Trongate. Perhaps in time the Secret Garden will live up to its moniker, but it’s early days and for now it is a semi-screened dining space at the back of a smart but…
GRINDCORE Pig Destroyer have always had more to them than your average grinders, largely thanks to the lit-heavy lyrics of JR Hayes. So, while Phantom Limb plays like the illegitimate offspring of early Napalm Death, there’s a deeply unhinged quality…
(Image: The Moscow train) Imagine going to Moscow and not seeing Red Square. From behind the police cordon I cursed Condoleezza Rice - not for US foreign policy, but for potentially messing up my trip. She was visiting the Kremlin and as a result…
Name Peter Powers Who’s he then? Dubbed as a ‘hipnotist’ and the ‘Ali G of stage hypnotism’, he has the ability (or, I suppose, power) to have a man standing about in women’s underwear or find a cure for the most acute of phobias. His TV work…
• T in the Park 80,000 folks have over 100 reasons on stage to get down this weekend, from Arctic Monkeys to Wu-Tang Clan (pictured) and all in between. See full running order . Balado, Fri 6-Sun 8 Jul. (Rock & Pop) • The Skids After Green Day and…
DRAMA Channel 4 haven’t been too lucky of late with their new British serial dramas what with the dire sub-Footballers Wives romp Goldplated and the wildly overblown and overrated Skins. So, when news arrived of this witness protection drama, it…
(Image: Malcolm Middleton) Think back to when you were 17 or 18. Remember the bands you enjoyed then, when music seemed like the most important thing ever? Now subtract the ones that fill you with toe-curling embarrassment and the ones that somehow…
ROCK Imagine a being rising from the primordial quagmire, shaking its thunderous fists in a display of brute strength, conjuring a whirlwind of frothy guitars and emitting an uncomprehending, enraged bellow. This is what Miami sludge rockers Torche…
You often get the feeling TV executives must have decided within themselves that there really are no fresh ideas left and all that can be done is endless recycling, rehashing and resurrection. Yet just when you think nothing new can ever come out of the…
Please note times and order is subject to change. 6 FRIDAY • Arctic Monkeys 9.20-10.50pm Sheffield’s all-conquering guttersnipe punk poets get the weekend started in earnest. • Bloc Party 7.50-8.50pm Angular London art rockers Bloc Party…
WESTERN Although filmed on the expansive plains of the Old West, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s 1994 western is a very stagy affair, switching between handfuls of dusty, dialogue-heavy scenes and boasting some scenery-chewing…
SOCIAL ANALYSIS In this bizarre and quite frankly worrying book, Nicholas Guyatt journeys to the United States Bible Belt to find out why 50 million Americans believe that the apocalypse will take place in their own lifetimes. Guyatt’s main goal is…
• Armistead Maupin Back with a sequel of sorts to Tales of the City, Maupin’s Michael Tolliver Lives proves there’s plenty of fight in the old boy yet. Waterstone’s, Glasgow, Fri 6 Jul; Waterstone’s, Edinburgh, Sat 7 Jul. • Janet Paisley In a swift…
Earlier this year mammoth record label Columbia sprung the offshoot Music With A Twist, which styles itself as ‘a home for gay artists of all genres to experience mainstream success without having to compromise any part of their identity.’ The label has…
• Alexandre Perigot: Pipedream The Parisian artist creates a life-size reconstruction of Elvis’ house Gracelands, creating a stage for various performances and events - a monument to those few short minutes in which The King touched down in Prestwick…
• Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Whether heard in the beautiful setting of Iona Abbey, or the Aros Hall in Tobermory, music at this nearly 20-year-old festival takes on an almost magical quality. String players of international renown come together on…
HARDCORE While metal is enjoying something of a renaissance as Mastodon and Tool’s esoteric leanings catch the mainstream’s attention, there’s yet to be a group to prove that hardcore is a bona fide art form. A group to attest hardcore is more than…
• Predictably, our recent Eating & Drinking Guide [pictured], has been another top seller this year. Alas, almost equally inevitable are a few wee errors of fact amid the torrent of accurate information. To set the record straight and with sincere…
JAZZ Elastic Axis got together last year in Dublin, but the five members of the band are scattered far and wide. The core of the group are the three Roth brothers, Alex (guitar), Nick (saxes) and Simon (bass), with Colm O’Hara on trombone and Peter…
YOUTH THEATRE It is perhaps the mark of a certain sickness in our society that we pay our policemen more than our teachers, for the priority given to education is certainly the barometer of a culture’s health. So it tells us something about the NTS…
• Othello Bard in the Botanics continues with Shakespeare’s classic of ambition, jealousy and intrigue. Gordon Barr’s production sees an appropriately stifling and claustrophobic use of space employed in the leafy Kibble Palace where the drama is played…
14 SATURDAY • Wilco See preview . • Midlake Glorious 70s folk-rock inspired album The Trials of Van Occunapther was one of the albums of 2006. • The Rapture Scratchy punk funk with a slick disco edge from these hipper-than-hip-New…
INSTALlATION AND DIGITAL ‘Project art’ and ‘web-based art’ sound like something hippies with palm-pads get up to of an evening after a shisha pipe and a banana beer. This anti-aesthetic guerrilla-esque expression appeals to computer geeks, the…
How best to describe Lord of The Rings Online? World of Warcraft in the land of Tolkien? Too simple. Perhaps it’s time to find out for certain by setting forth through Middle Earth. So say hello to my character, Snide the dwarf guinea pig. Day One…
LEFTFIELD HIP HOP As billed this solo outing from Radioinactive and Boom Bip associate Antimc is a freewheeling hodgepodge of avant-garde jazz sensibilities applied to punk, electro, experimental rock and hip hop. As such it can be angular, maddening…
METAL After splitting up, re-forming, and then losing vocalist Grady Avenell, Will Haven’s continued existence has been in question of late. But with the arrival of long-time friend Jeff Jaworski, the California metal quartet has finally found a…
NEW NEW WAVE The whiff of freshly heated maize that accompanies Sellotape’s vocal version of Hot Butter’s 1972 electro-disco hit, ‘Popcorn’ (the first ever totally synthesiser-based single to chart, pop-pickers) may take its subject matter literally…
JAZZ John Coltrane is the most iconic of modern jazz giants, and it was inevitable that the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra would get round to honouring the master. Tommy Smith chose the 40th anniversary of his death, and celebrated Trane’s own…
5 DEBUT NOVELS Xinran - Miss Chopsticks From the author of non-fiction hit Sky Burial comes a novel about three peasant girls trying their utmost to get to grips with life in the big city. Chatto & Windus. John Carbone - Last of the Good Guys…
Die Hard 4.0 (15) 128min, 3 Stars Renegade cop and one man destroyer of municipal property John McClane (Bruce Willis) steps up to the plate one more time. Older, but not much wiser this time out, he has to contend with a bunch of über geek terrorists.
SUPERHERO Neil Gaiman, the world’s most populist cult writer, flexes his comic muscles to update the story of Marvel’s Eternals. Originally outed in 1976 by Jack Kirby, the race of superhumans are immortal-ish, god-like creatures with human…
• Improbabble The crazy gang brings us some more games and skits and general larking about in their own inimitable Whose Line Is It stylee. The Brunswick Hotel, Glasgow, Fri 6, 13 Jul. • Jo Caulfield One of the more solid performers on the circuit…
• West End Fashion Show Edinburgh’s streets are usually quiet in July, biding their time and preparing for the oncoming storm of crazed unicyclists. House of Fraser have decided to liven things up a little by staging a huge outdoor fashion show…
COMEDY/DRAMA Your familiarity with the work of France’s most celebrated playwright may well dictate how much enjoyment you can glean from Laurent Tirard’s populist fantasy about an unwritten (and untrue) episode in the life of the great Molière.
Name Alex ‘Omar S’ Smith aka Omar S aka DJ Snotburger Occupation DJ/Producer What’s the lowdown? Omar S is one of Detroit’s hottest exports. He is the Henry Ford of underground, slightly avant garde techno and house. He is either producing or…
POPULAR SCIENCE Did you know that sea urchins were the key to understanding the process of sperm/egg fertilisation? Before microscopes came along, the theories of reproduction that reigned now seem ludicrous. In this entertaining history of science…
HOUSE/BREAKS (Image: Utah Saints) When SugarBeat started in Leeds in 2000, it wasn’t intended as any sort of major new career move for the sometime Utah Saints partnership of Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt. The duo, who were described as ‘the first…
Let’s call it the GooGoo Gaga Syndrome. It’s what happens when edgy actors have children and then want to start appearing in films that their younglings can relate to. The result is usually a line of liquid excrement leading from their trailers to the…
1 We’re talking about icons here OK, one icon, namely Debbie Harry. The rest of ‘em could be picked from a supermarket checkout queue for all anyone cares, but Harry is a worldwide musical icon, and rightly so. She was the sexiest thing to appear on Top…
CLASSIC Just as Freud’s Oedipal theories altered the modern perception of Hamlet, his dream theories exert a powerful influence on this Shakespearean classic. Freud professed that dreams were a manifestation of forbidden thoughts and unconscious…
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