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Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

(4 stars)18 Sep 2008

POP Lewis is a sultry indie poster girl with Rilo Kiley and delivered a beautifully moving country record, backed by The Watson Twins, two years ago. This second solo album lacks the focus of those projects, but it’s still a cut above the average…

Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight

Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight

(4 stars)18 Sep 2008

ROCK The Rev are like an indie version of Madonna, constantly reinventing themselves and their sound with each album, and this seventh studio outing is another successful reincarnation for these dreamy loons. Their early drone-rock weirdness and even…

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…

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…

Ruby Turner

Ruby Turner

18 Sep 2008

R&B singer who’s career kicked off in the 80s with hits like ‘If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)’ (a duet with Jonathan Butler), ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ and ‘It’s Gonna Be Alright’ (which went to the top of the US R&B charts). Specialising in Motown soul…

Sunset Song

Sunset Song

18 Sep 2008

Voted Scotland’s favourite novel after the publication of The List’s 100 Best Scottish Books of all Time in 2005, Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song is a work that soars above its set-text status. In the first in-house production by Aberdeen’s His…

Arches LIVE!

18 Sep 2008

Although billed as a theatre festival, the Arches’ annual celebration of performers who are ‘determined to subvert and surprise’ is just as likely to delight art-lovers, many of the events crossing the boundary between performance and installation. One…

The Experiment

The Experiment

18 Sep 2008

Another chance to see Oliver Downfall Hirschbiegel’s 2001 psychodrama based on the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in which 20 men are hired to play prisoners and guards in a filmed research unit prison. The Experiment is being shown to coincide with…

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…

Love Letters and Live Wires

Love Letters and Live Wires

18 Sep 2008

This selection of newly restored (by the British Film Institute) General Post Office (GPO) short films made between 1936-39 includes seminal British documentary poem Night Mail, avant-garde animation Trade Tattoo (pictured) and musical comedy The Fairy…

Approximately Infinite Universe

Approximately Infinite Universe

18 Sep 2008

Subtitled ‘a caravan of raw sound magic from Finland and the US’ Approximately Infinite Universe is a showcase of innovative experimental acts from the underground. From acid folk to ‘steam punk’ and trance from the likes of Kemialliset Ystavat & Axolo…

Born Ruffians

Born Ruffians

18 Sep 2008

First headline tour from Canada’s Born Ruffians as they promote their debut album Red, Yellow & Blue. A subtle mix of twinkling electronica and nu folk with an indie vibe that they modestly describe as ‘hootin’ and hollerin’ to create a sound we call…

Fujiya & Miyagi

Fujiya & Miyagi

18 Sep 2008

Despite the name, Fujiya & Miyagi are from Brighton and formed after discovering a shared deep love and appreciation of the legendary masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki and Krautrock. Each member taking on a pseudonym Steve Lewis (Fujiya), David Best…

Savage Grace/Far From Heaven

Savage Grace/Far From Heaven

18 Sep 2008

Unmissable Julianne Moore double bill. She plays two very different wives in Tom Swoon Kalin’s underrated wealth and incest real life crime drama and Todd Haynes’ Douglas Sirk influenced melodrama set in the 1950s (pictured). Cameo, Edinburgh on…

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