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4 Oct 2007
There’s no shortage of leftfield hip hop deviants throwing down the gauntlet but New York’s El-P has hit his creative peak pouring over a global dystopia on his dark, twisted album I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead. Collaborations with Trent ‘Nine Inch Nails…
The Devendra Banhart live experience is akin to watching over-excitable teenagers being left in charge for a bank holiday weekend. Listening to him in your home is like being left out of someone else’s joke. While his folkiosyncratic ways have given…
Less flamboyant than Rufus Wainwright, less earthy than Richard Hawley, Edinburgh singer-songwriter Cornish here provides a passable debut which suggests he might yet carve out a niche of his own. Orchestral, plaintive and melancholic, the downbeat pop…
The life and work of Spanish poet, painter, pianist, composer and revolutionary Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898–19 August 1936) is celebrated in this evening of film and music. A screening of Humberto López y Guerra’s hour-long 1976 documentary…
Danish artists N55 visit Edinburgh and install a series of ‘dispensers’ in various locations as part of the One Mile Project run by the Collective Gallery. The dispensers are for public use and available for the exchange of information and goods. The…
The film arm of this excellent multi-media exploration of mental health issues, led by Glasgow Anti-Stigma Partnership, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, the Mental Health Foundation and the ‘See Me’ campaign includes free (ticketed) screenings of Ken…
Already this man deserves a medal having worked with Björk in the engineer’s capsule for almost a decade and staying patient with Lars von Trier on the soundtrack for Dancer in the Dark, a project which must have felt ten years long. Now he’s branched…
Celebrating 25 years of service in the community this month Pilton Video present new shorts from their high definition filmmaking scheme, Streetwise. This selection features Brydon Graham’s vigilante flick Running, Graham Drysdale’s Stuck (pictured), a…
For years they’ve been operating in isolation, but now some of Scotland’s most exciting theatre companies have come together under one virtual roof. Dedicated to promoting theatre for young people aged 0–25, Young Audiences Scotland is a consortium set…
Glasgow’s historic canal quarter is in line for a spot of refurbishment, and it’s not just the local community who are being encouraged to celebrate the area this weekend. A whole afternoon of messing about on the river – including kayaking classes…
Dryburgh’s most wanted and newbie Fifers Sergeant blow away the assembled masses before Primal Scream’s Mani gets on the decks to round off the evening in raucous fashion. The event is Project Scotland’s thank you to all their volunteers but List…
Telefunken brings us the best of both worlds with special guest Phil Weeks this fortnight. He might have frequented the steels at such salubrious surroundings as Circus, Ministry of Sound and Back To Basics but self-proclaimed house purist Weeks is…
If you have half an hour to spare don’t miss the GFT’s free screening of this feel good documentary about a scheme which encourages Angolan soldiers to swap guns for condoms in an attempt to quell the spread of AIDS in south central Africa. The film…
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the UK will be celebrated with this free (ticketed) all day event which includes African drumming classes, cookery classes, musical interludes, talks and martial arts workshops. Film highlights…
Don’t miss this screening of the new digital print of arguably the best film version of Charles Dickens’ 1860 novel. David Lean’s 1947 version, starring John Mills, Jean Simmons, and of course Lean regular Alex Guinness, is a masterwork of technical…
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra premiered Tommy Smith’s sensational and much-expanded arrangement for jazz orchestra of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Brian Kellock as the piano soloist at the 2006 Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and this is a…
This is the third show to grace this newly opened exhibition space, focusing on graphic work, photography and graffiti. All the work on show has an upper limit price tag of £40 and includes pieces by over 20 up-and-coming, young Scottish artists.
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