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1 Aug 2007
Fed up wading through the mud and the crowds at major music festivals? Karin Goodwin gets the lowdown on an innovative alternative and finds there is a whole lot going on in Glasgow this summer
With its mix of acrobatics, dance, theatre and club, Fuerzabruta is impossible to define. Claire Prentice visits South America for a sneak preview. The DJ whacks up the volume on the decks and suddenly the whole audience erupts. Fifteen hundred people…
Ask most people what they think of magic, and you’re likely to be greeted with snorts of derision. The British public’s perception of stage magic is still recovering from the glitter-festooned nightmare of spinning plates and disappearing rabbits that…
Being a cult figure in a beloved sci-fi sitcom hasn’t harmed Hattie Hayridge’s career. Doug Johnstone catches up with her. Just don’t mention Red Dwarf. Actually, it’s not a problem, mainly because Hattie Hayridge is such a laid-back character. A more…
Jim Jeffries isn’t the only comic on the receiving end of trouble from their audience. Brian Donaldson compiles some tales of terror. At a late-night Spank! show, Andrew Lawrence (pictured) foolishly challenged a heckler to a duel. As Lawrence unpopped…
The wife of Howard gives her side to the story of their bizarre life on the run. Ebury. Graham McCann Spike & Co This is the story of how Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson launched a golden age of British comedy. Hodder & Stoughton.
John Stezaker, who creates collages from images found in books, magazines and postcards, gives a brief insight into his Festival show
Fast becoming a Fringe staple, Lucy Porter will this year invite us into her Love-In. Here, she gets all intimate with our limp Q&A.
Louis Pearl (aka The Amazing Bubble Man) explains why his Fringe show, The Greatest Bubble Show On Earth should float your boat
Its not as if we need convincing that New Zealand is anything other than a prime exporter of general hedonism to the UK, and The Black Seeds, a low-slung reggae soul outfit whose feelgood party music fails miserably in making us think otherwise.
We chat to Judith Riddle, press officer at the Vaudeville Cabaret Club, a night of eclectic exotica and risqué entertainment hosted by the ever so suave Dusty Limits (pictured). Every night at 1am it morphs into the One O’Clock Gun club, a showcase of…
Alan Greig, artistic director of Scottish contemporary dance company, X Factor lays it on the line. Give 5 reasons why people should come and see your show, Morceaux Choisis & Ragnarok - Our double bill is exciting, dynamic, physical, visual and has…
This selection of download-only B-sides and unreleased tracks will doubtless attract attention due to the fact that a pre-fame Alex Kapranos contributed guitar to a few.
If you’re a film fan you’ll have recognised the superhero outfitter Edna Mode in the Pixar animation The Incredibles as an affectionate caricature of the legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, who’s the subject of this one-woman show. If not…
Melodrama is usually evoked as a novelty these days, a kind of exercise in high camp. But there’s more to it than this, according to Randall Sharp, director of Axis Theatre’s A Glance at New York.
Could this be the year of the European comedian? Brian Donaldson cherry picks some continental comics, both real and made-up
London-based artist Alex Hartley has covered the stern exterior of the Fruitmarket with a photographic replication of itself, containing maps of the many routes he recently managed to trace across it.
Alex Horne loves a good concept. From the joys of Latin to the art of communication, he’s done the lot.
Garbage Absolute Garbage (Warner Brothers) Their last album stiffed unceremoniously so another revisiting of their finest moments might disguise the fact that musically they’re a spent force. Theory Hazit Extra Credit (Supperrappin) Most excellent ook…
When they’re not being unreasonable or scrapping over ridiculous things, brothers and sisters can often make beautiful music together. . .
She’s the face of BBC Scotland’s music programmes, who puts her success down to imagining the camera is a friendly robot. But Shantha Roberts would love nothing more than to be part of a gang of talking wildlife, even if she can’t make up her mind about…
Australian six-piece AiH have consistently shown themselves to be a cheery bunch, their heady blend of twee indie, effervescent arrangements and handclaps by the dozen producing fantastically jubilant results across two albums to date.
Saucepans and wooden spoons may form the backbone of the average kitchen, but for Katie Stephenson and Dave Smith, they’re musical instruments. For the past five years, the duo have been wowing the crowds on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with their unusual…
Basie fans will need no nudging to spot the reference in the title of this Jazz Festival celebration of the great pianist and bandleader’s music. The Atomic Mr Basie was first issued in 1957, and remains one of the touchstone recordings in the…
Prominent US evangelist Oral Roberts announced to a television audience that, unless he raised $8 million by a given date, God would kill him. Viewers duly donated $9.1 million, and just a few months ago, Brazilian husband and wife televangelist team…
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1 Aug 2007
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