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Noises Off

Noises Off

18 Sep 2008

REVIVAL Bringing farce to the fore, Michael Frayn’s 80s parody is touring once again, revealing the merry antics of a second-rate theatre company both on and off stage as it struggles with its ludicrous sex comedy, Nothing On. Nestling at the core…

Merlin

Merlin

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

DRAMA It would perhaps be unfair to describe this new BBC1 post-teatime ‘is it ok to let the kids watch?’ show as ‘Robin Hood meets Doctor Who’, but you can see what the schedulers were going for when they plopped this fresh take on the Arthurian…

Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt

18 Sep 2008

It’s appropriate, given that Then She Found Me is about mothers, daughters and babies, that the film itself is actor Helen Hunt’s baby, and it’s one that has taken over a decade to be born. The film is April Epner’s story, a tale of a woman betrayed by…

Salo

Salo

(5 stars)18 Sep 2008

DVD (18) 112min (BFI DVD retail) Pier Paolo Pasolini’s loose 1975 adaptation of the Marquis De Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom gets an excellent two disc DVD (and Blu-ray) makeover with a ton of fantastic extras. Pasolini transposed De Sade’s tale…

Junior Jack & Kid Creme

Junior Jack & Kid Creme

18 Sep 2008

Over a year ago, Byblos planned their big launch party, with the DJs Junior Jack (pictured) and Kid Crème in place, but due to circumstances beyond their control the venue wasn’t ready, so JJ and KC never even saw the decks and spent the night cooped up…

Mother Courage And Her Children

Mother Courage And Her Children

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

CLASSIC It’s an austere landscape through which Ann Louise Ross drags her cart, scratching a living in the title role of Bertolt Brecht’s epic. Naomi Wilkinson’s set is a wall of grim metal panels, the stage a carpet of grey. Even the iconic cart is…

Profile: Baltasar Kormakur

Profile: Baltasar Kormakur

18 Sep 2008

Name: Baltasar Kormakur Born: 27 February 1966 Background: A graduate of Iceland’s National Academy of Fine Arts, Kormakur worked as both an actor and theatre director, before making his debut feature in 2000 with the slacker comedy 101…

Profile - Armin van Buuren

Profile - Armin van Buuren

18 Sep 2008

Name: Armin van Buuren Occupation: The reigning number one DJ in the world, if you believe the readers of DJ magazine. But of course, you don’t get to such a pinnacle of global popularity these days without playing trance somewhere in your set, and…

The Sick House

The Sick House

(2 stars)18 Sep 2008

HORROR (18) 104min (Showbox DVD retail) Young archaeologist (Gina Philips) finds her research into London’s great plague of 1665 barred when public health officials reveal that the former orphanage she is excavating still contains plague.

Magnificent Machines

Magnificent Machines

18 Sep 2008

Boys and their toys, eh? The pick of the vehicular crop will gather at the National Museum of Flight for ‘Magnificent Machines’ on Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 September and will welcome car enthusiasts, families and big kids alike. Expect a mouth-watering…

Art Spiegelman - Breakdowns

Art Spiegelman - Breakdowns

(5 stars)18 Sep 2008

BIOGRAPHY Subtitled ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@*!’, this was the first collected book of comic art which the Jewish-American Spiegelman had published. Created between 1972 and 1977, the volume is reissued with an illustrated 20-page…

Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle

(4 stars)18 Sep 2008

GOTHIC TALE With so many books on all our to-read lists, brevity is a virtue. The Gargoyle flouts this with great success. Framed by the sceptical voice of a severely burned car crash victim, events swing from medieval times to the present, from…

Cursor Miner

Cursor Miner

18 Sep 2008

With releases on Mute, Lo Recordings, Noodles and Seed special guest Cursor Miner (aka Rob Tubb) should fit in nicely at Substance. Dishing out a throbbing electro groove with an accessible pop sensibility and deep dark twisted edges. It’s an…

Grease

Grease

18 Sep 2008

This new digital print of Randal Kleiser’s evergreen 1978 high school musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John gets a one day outing in Glasgow while over in Edinburgh it will be shown as part of a double bill with John Hughes’ equally…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Mogwai

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Mogwai

18 Sep 2008

Is it true that you were asked to be in Mogwai because Stuart Braithwaite thought you were ‘a good laugh?’ I hope I’m still a good laugh; I’ve seen them smile at me a few times, even today. I’m quite an annoying person, really; I’m just very…

Glasgay! - Tennessee Williams

Glasgay! - Tennessee Williams

18 Sep 2008

Some years ago, I attended a conference where a debate about the work of Tennessee Williams came very nearly to blows. The bone of contention involved Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which the character Brick confesses an attraction to a friend that surpasses…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Cibelle

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Cibelle

18 Sep 2008

‘Basically Tarzan makes love to Shirley Bassey but they’re in a threesome with a hula girl,’ laughs rising electro folk starlet Cibelle from her East London abode. ‘They have been kidnapped by a UFO from the 1950s and are plonked in the jungle. Monkeys…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

18 Sep 2008

Don’t worry if you’re still scratching your head at the concept of Tennent’s Mutual – the ‘experimental’ new ‘co-creative’ music initiative, which launched its first line-up earlier this month – you’re in good company, and even Tennent’s’ Senior…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Rock’n’roll agony aunt

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Rock’n’roll agony aunt

18 Sep 2008

Dear List, I’ve just bought the tightest keks in Europe and a vest so day glow it could send a Geiger counter wild at 50 paces. Flag me up some how now danceable indie gigs at which to flash my hot new garb. Beth, Maryhill. Flaunt your new dapper…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Sam Sparro

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Sam Sparro

18 Sep 2008

Oh dear. It’s not like the summer hasn’t been one long string of achievements for Sam Sparro, aka 25-year-old singer Sam Falson, whose ‘Black and Gold’ will be remembered as one of the sleekest dancefloor anthems of 2008, but more or less the first…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Future music

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Future music

18 Sep 2008

Limbering up well in advance for the run-up to Christmas (yes, it’s only September and we’ve already dropped the C-word), all manner of superstar acts are crawling out the woodwork to release long awaited albums. Oasis pave the way with their seventh…

John Dolmayan

John Dolmayan

18 Sep 2008

There are plenty of famous faces who love comics: Jonathan Ross, Edward Norton, Sam Raimi, Jon Bon Jovi, Simon Pegg, Jerry Seinfeld, Quentin Tarantino and Nicolas Cage. Even Anthrax wrote ‘I am the Law’ about Judge Dredd. But not many are as passionate…

The Picture House

The Picture House

18 Sep 2008

For gigs of a certain size Edinburgh has long had a gaping hole where a venue should be. Up-and-coming acts love Cabaret Voltaire, smaller touring bands play the 700 capacity Liquid Rooms and then … nothing until the Corn Exchange at almost 3000…

Friendly Fires

Friendly Fires

18 Sep 2008

ELECTRO SHOEGAZE It’s quite probable that pens and keyboard fingers across the land have been itching to write/type the phrase ‘new wave of new rave’ for at least a year now, so might The List endeavour to jump in before anyone else gets there.

Cristian Vogel and Neil Landstrumm

Cristian Vogel and Neil Landstrumm

18 Sep 2008

TECHNO ‘The reason I stretch out into making music through many different avenues’, says Chilean-born, England-raised techno polymath Cristian Vogel, ‘is that fundamentally I’m not a DJ. Of course, DJing’s the quickest way of paying the bills, but…

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