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Torche

Torche

(3 stars)15 Nov 2007

ROCK In Return (Rock Action) More terrifying than Cradle of Filth coming to your house to do trick or treat and heavier than a sack of Ozzy’s spuds, Torche at least have the common decency not to take up much of anyone’s time, clocking this…

Worried

David Shrigley And Various

(3 stars)15 Nov 2007

ODDITIES Worried Noodles (Tomlab) The concept was cute, Glasgow artist Shrigley writes the words, scores of musicians – 39 of them! – from David Byrne to Franz Ferdinand to Deerhoof supply the music. The results vary wildly, from harmonious folks…

Football

Scotland vs Italy

15 Nov 2007

This is it, folks. The big one. The day when our nation discovers if we can turn 400+ years of entrenched pessimism into something beautiful. No, we don’t think we’re overreacting about this at all. Get your lucky rabbit’s foot out, let your epidermis…

Marcus Worgull

Marcus Worgull

15 Nov 2007

The Sub Club’s other great institution, Subculture, keeps things fresh with a set from German house pioneer Marcus Worgull. Having caught the dance music bug at the age of 15 he creates deep soulful house but adds a sprinkling of techno and broken-beat.

Scottish Opera Unwrapped

Scottish Opera Unwrapped

15 Nov 2007

Go behind the scenes of Scottish Opera’s latest productions, The Barber of Seville and Seraglio, with all-new evening sessions designed to ease even the staunchest aria-phobe into an appreciation of all things operatic. Talk to the performers, meet the…

Ben Westbeech

Ben Westbeech

15 Nov 2007

Skunk Funk team up with Trouble to bring you a live set of funk from Ben Westbeech. Gilles Peterson chose Westbeech’s debut single ‘So Good Today’ as the first release on his new Brownstone label so he must be doing something right. Expect soul, hip…

Max Richter

Max Richter

15 Nov 2007

Classically trained pianist and composer Max Richter was a founding member of avant garde ensemble Piano Circus, who commissioned works from the likes of Brian Eno and Philip Glass, going on to work with Future Sound of London and Roni Size. This is a…

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age

15 Nov 2007

QotSA pretty much define the phrase ‘stoner rock’. They may have lost some of their power and fury with the departure of Nick Oliveri in 2004, but new album Era Vulgaris is a return to form, a snarling Josh Homme leading the charge though the depths of…

Desire Under The Elms

15 Nov 2007

Eugene O’Neill’s drama, here revived in Jeremy Raison’s production, tells the story of the battle between an oppressed young man on a remote, dirt poor rural American farm and his conflict with his father and brothers. When dad comes home with a new…

Living Quarters

Living Quarters

15 Nov 2007

Brian Friel’s play of family dysfunction tells the story of a career army officer returning from a UN mission where he’s greeted as a hero. But tensions and repressions lurk within his family which, for all the comedy on the way, will lead to…

Godspell

Godspell

15 Nov 2007

The classic biblical tale-cum-musical revisits, one more time, the hippie generation’s take on the New Testament. We might now have reached the sunset of the Age of Aquarius, but there are enough boybanders and hoofers in the cast to make this…

Susanne Norregard Nielsen: Flowerbed

Susanne Norregard Nielsen: Flowerbed

15 Nov 2007

An exhibition of photographs documenting the flowerbed Nielsen planted at St Andrews Royal Botanic Garden in 2004. The bed was planted with flowers that Mondrian drew and painted in the early part of his career. LAST CHANCE TO SEE. West Corridor…

Ilana Halperin: Towards Heilprin Land

Ilana Halperin: Towards Heilprin Land

15 Nov 2007

The Glasgow-based artist continues her examination of how her personal biography overlaps with the history, geography and geology of selected locations, creating mythologies that utilise a wide range of media to document these suggested…

William Parker

William Parker & Billy Bang

15 Nov 2007

A rare chance to catch two of the great masters on the American free jazz scene as bassist William Parker and violinist Billy Bang team up for a spontaneous and exploratory meeting of musical minds. The Lot, Edinburgh, Wed 21 Nov.

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