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Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

27 Nov 2008

Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it In addition, for detailed…

Trade secrets

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

Angelina Jolie

Missing in action - Angelina Jolie interview

27 Nov 2008

Playing the real-life mother of a missing child in Clint Eastwood’s latest film was an emotionally fraught experience for Angelina Jolie, she tells Rob Carnevale

Alien War

Alien War

27 Nov 2008

In 1979 Ridley Scott’s Alien quite literally burst into the public consciousness as the ultimate in sci-fi horror. In 1986 James Cameron upped the ante with the heart stopping action of sequel Aliens and even if David Fincher’s Alien3 (1992) wasn’t as…

Charles Avery

Charles Avery

27 Nov 2008

‘Be not afraid,’ says Caliban in The Tempest, ‘the isle is full of noises that bring delight and hurt not.’ Charles Avery might disagree. For the Mull-born-and-bred artist, it was the sounds of the woods around Lochdon that got his childhood imagination…

James Yorkston

James Yorkston

27 Nov 2008

It’s no longer news to say a James Yorkston album has been ‘critically acclaimed’ – because they always are. Since coming to John Peel’s attention in 2001, releasing early material through the Fence Collective and moving on to recent albums with Domino…

The Beano

The Beano

27 Nov 2008

As a wee nipper there wasn’t a more exciting day of the week than ‘Beano day’, when your local newsagent would drop a copy of the cartoon compendium onto your doormat alongside your parent’s newspaper. Often rapidly devoured before heading to school…

Modern Lovers

Modern Lovers

27 Nov 2008

For a club night which has been one big, glorious celebration of the retro soul, funk, psych and freakbeat sounds for eight years now, Modern Lovers has an eye on the future this fortnight. The regular monthly event in Edinburgh is both the eighth…

Pantomimes

Pantomimes

27 Nov 2008

Earlier this year, I took a trip to Scarborough to check out the headquarters of the Qdos Entertainment empire. This is the organisation responsible for 21 pantomimes in the UK alone, not to mention a handful of theatres, a couple of talent agencies…

Illuminations - Shinsuke Ogawa

Illuminations - Shinsuke Ogawa

27 Nov 2008

Illuminations is Filmhouse’s first standalone documentary festival outside of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Programmed by Jenny Leask, a former programmer of the EIFF Document strand, Illuminations aims to screen generically different…

Woodlands Bumper Value Comedy Club

Woodlands Bumper Value Comedy Club

27 Nov 2008

NEW CLUB With parts of the Jongleurs’ chain under threat of sell-off, these are interesting times for comedy in Scotland. Even more so now with the growing number of smaller nights emerging to challenge the Stand-Jongleurs hegemony and spread the…

Beehive

Beehive

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

COMEDY The phrase ‘all-female sketch show’ shouldn’t necessarily send a shiver down the spine, but it just does. And before anyone says Smack the Pony I’ll trump you with Tittybangbang. But maybe things are changing. After a good Fringe for female…

Che Camille

Che Camille

27 Nov 2008

In the beginning, there was The Chateau, a shambling old tenement warehouse on Glasgow’s Southside, rented out at rock bottom prices to a loose collection of artists, designers and performers, and Franz Ferdinand, who staged now-legendary guerrilla…

The Ceilidh Tree

The Ceilidh Tree

27 Nov 2008

Long before willows were stripped and white sergeants were dashed, a ceilidh used to mean a social gathering where songs were sung and tales were told. Giant Productions go back to this original meaning with their charming, interactive show for…

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

COMEDY The phrase ‘all-female sketch show’ shouldn’t necessarily send a shiver down the spine, but it just does. And before anyone says Smack the Pony I’ll trump you with Tittybangbang. But maybe things are changing. After a good Fringe for female…

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe department

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe department

27 Nov 2008

As a child, Kirstin Innes always wanted to go to Narnia. Instead, she got the next best thing: a whole day backstage at the Lyceum Theatre as they try and bring that world to life.

Happy when it rains

Happy when it rains

27 Nov 2008

Going on holiday in Scotland? In the winter? Ach, you’ll have heard the jokes. You might have made some of them yourself. No, it probably won’t be that sunny. Or warm. However, as the pound plummets abroad and air fares shoot up, holidaying at home is…

Remote Control

Remote Control

27 Nov 2008

There are a few gossipy titbits in showbusiness that are generally read as fact. Madonna and Guy were not quite made for each other. Jordan isn’t the sharpest nailfile in the drawer. And the Jackson family is, well, a bit weird. Wacko you might say.

R34 at India of Inchinnan

R34 at India of Inchinnan

27 Nov 2008

Stand on the observation deck at Glasgow Airport, cast your eyes over the runway towards the mossy rise of the Campsie Hills and you will see a large white building. This is R34 at India of Inchinnan, a restored Art Deco factory where tyres were made…

Sanjeev Kohli

Last word: Sanjeev Kohli

27 Nov 2008

First record you ever bought ‘From Langley Park to Memphis’ by Prefab Sprout. Had I been financially solvent at the age of 11 it would have been ‘Snooker Loopy’. Last time you were chatted up The last time I wore a kilt, a very drunk female…

Close Up

Close Up

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM ‘Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.’ The early 18th century poet Alexander Pope’s wrote that, perhaps in a moment of peevishness. Between Pope’s witticism and writer and critic William Hazlitt’s…

Taste Test - Instant porridge

Taste Test - Instant porridge

27 Nov 2008

Ready Brek Original • Various stockists including Tesco, Morrisons and Asda. £1.89 for 750g. Tasting like mushy Weetabix and looking a lot like Polyfilla, this soggy and bland excuse for porridge is awful. Its one redeeming feature, a smooth and…

Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany

27 Nov 2008

Paul Bettany has rediscovered the joy of acting. Over the coming months, he’ll be seen playing a racist peach farmer in America’s Deep South for The Secret Life of Bees and then a royal adviser and future prime minister to Emily Blunt’s queen in The…

Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us

Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

NEW PLAY It’s hard to shake off the feeling that this final production in the National Theatre of Scotland’s series of Traverse Debuts is set in a bygone era. The story of a young man returning home from the seminary, disillusioned with Catholicism…

Musicians' guide: Open mic nights

Musicians' guide: Open mic nights

27 Nov 2008

Mondays Glasgow Nice 'n' Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall St, 333 0900. 8pm. The Monday Acoustic Jam, 8pm–midnight. Free to all performers. Bring your instrument and join in the fun. Open Mic NIght - Pivo Pivo 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 6pm.

Spectacular

Spectacular

27 Nov 2008

NEW WORK Contemporary Western Culture is at a greater distance from death than any that parallels or precedes it. While we endlessly represent death in movies, television and the theatre, these fictionalised, sanitised versions of an event all of us…

Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti

27 Nov 2008

‘I went to a public reading of the novel Quiet Chaos by the author Sandro Veronesi who I have known for years. Outside the bookshop I happened to bump into a woman from the production company, who told me that they had already bought the rights to turn…

The Prodigy

The Prodigy

27 Nov 2008

ELECTRO ROCK Fierce – a horrific word for ‘cool’, that’s for sure, but totally accurate if you’re describing a new Prodigy album. When The List catches up with Liam Howlett in a New York hotel room, days before the completion of the long-awaited new…

Musicians' guide: Great music websites

27 Nov 2008

The List’s Daily Exposure. Nothing like kicking off with a bit of shameful self-promotion but The List recently launched an online initiative to showcase a different new band every day on our site. Read about the band, hear the band, watch a video, even…

Singles & Downloads

Singles & Downloads

27 Nov 2008

What’s that Lassie? Name+Relucto are trapped down the well? ‘Spawnofspoon EP’ (Hum+Haw) ••• is a plinky-plonky kind of techno that is thankfully less like being punched hard in the face over and over, and more like the voices in your head have taken to…

Summer

Summer

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

DRAMA There is no Shakespearean ‘eternal summer’ for Shaun (Robert Carlyle) and Daz (Steve Evets). Shaun looks after wheelchair bound Daz in an impoverished ex-mining community in Derbyshire. Daz is mouthy, bitter and demanding while Shaun is silent…

Spotlight on Titian

Spotlight on Titian

27 Nov 2008

Hopes were revived earlier this month that Edinburgh’s national galleries may be able to acquire Titian’s Diana and Actaeon. The piece, which has resided in the National Galleries of Scotland for more than 60 years, courtesy of their owner the Duke of…

Introducing . . . Paragraph

Introducing . . . Paragraph

27 Nov 2008

The best new labels in town. This month: Paragraph Who’s behind it? Slam, aka Stuart MacMillan and Orde Meikle, arguably Scotland’s biggest house and techno export. Who’s on it? Just the Slam boys, recording under the alias Paragraph. They view…

Royal Scottish National Orchestra: Damnation of Faust

Royal Scottish National Orchestra: Damnation of Faust

27 Nov 2008

CLASSICAL There aren’t many musical happenings that are too big for Edinburgh Festival Theatre, but the RSNO’s Damnation of Faust is one of them. By far the biggest event of their season, it is huge. With the Usher Hall still closed, and nowhere else…

Pitch perfect

Pitch perfect

27 Nov 2008

Pitching itself as the ‘Scottish Brits,’ the Tartan Clef Music Awards rocked into town last week in suitable glam style, setting out its stall with some of Scotland’s most celebrated acts and championing the great and good of the country’s music scene.

Musicians' guide: Live music nights

Musicians' guide: Live music nights

27 Nov 2008

The Mill Launched at the end of the summer, this platform for emerging new talent hosts gigs at The Caves, Edinburgh, and Oran Mor, Glasgow. For more info, visit www.themill-live.com Born To Be Wide A night set up to make connections between…

The Glimmers

The Glimmers

27 Nov 2008

ECLECTICA Belgium’s other premiere DJ duo the Glimmers (Mo and Benoelie) are guesting at Edinburgh’s ever reliable home of mixed musical genres, Headspin. Famed for their no holds barred approach to mixing and siphoning off the cream of any genre…

Hate and Pride in Riga

Hate and Pride in Riga

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

PHOTOGRAPHY Presented by Amnesty International, this display of work by photographer Reuben Steains documents the 2008 Pride march in Riga, capital of Latvia. In scene-setting texts, stories about the previous two years’ marches being marred by…

Also Released - Film

27 Nov 2008

Four Christmases (12A) 88min ••• Another year, another Christmas comedy starring Vince Vaughn. This time he’s teamed up with Reese Witherspoon for a likeably silly comedy about divorced parents and the pressure of yuletide family gatherings. It’s…

Food For Thought

Food For Thought

27 Nov 2008

I am on tour at the moment, and with all the travelling and late nights, we have to look after ourselves. There are eight of us on the bus, and after several years, we have fine tuned the rider so that it is a good balance of healthy food that you…

Human League, ABC and Heaven 17

Human League, ABC and Heaven 17

27 Nov 2008

SYNTH-POP ELECTRONICA When David Bowie watched Human League play an early gig in 1979, he said he’d just seen ‘the future of pop music’ and their sci-fi, deadpan brand of electronica was ‘like listening to 1980’. Almost 30 years later, with synth-pop…

Side Dishes

Side Dishes

27 Nov 2008

Glengoyne Distillery by Killearn is hosting a free Christmas Food and Drink event from 10.30am on Saturday 6 December, featuring Edenmill farm shop’s barrel smokers, beer from WEST and Brewdog, cooking demos from Monachyle Mhor’s Tom Lewis and lots of…

The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick

27 Nov 2008

MUSICAL The compelling formula of Desperate Housewives and Sex and the City can be traced to US writer John Updike’s 1984 novel, The Witches of Eastwick, in which three frustrated women invoke cosmic powers to summon their ideal man. They are…

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

COMEDY/ANIMATION When Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Marty the zebra (Chris Rock) escaped from their Manhattan zoo in 2005 hit Madagascar, they were leaders of…

Sal P

Sal P

27 Nov 2008

POST DISCO Although early-80s pioneers of the New York New Wave and post punk sound Liquid Liquid have enjoyed something of a revival in the UK during 2008, they should have been on the radar of Glasgow’s more discerning clubbers for a few years now.

Spencer Finch: Gravity Always Wins

Spencer Finch: Gravity Always Wins

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

MIXED MEDIA A little fluffy cloud made of translucent plastic filters hangs low, back-lit by a line-up of fluorescent tubes, recreating the summer afternoon light of Emily Dickinson’s home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Blue may be the saddest of…

West Side Story

West Side Story

27 Nov 2008

MUSICAL It’s a popular misconception that West Side Story started life as a film. In fact, the 1961 celluloid version followed four years after the Broadway show – giving them a little time to move things around and get it completely right. Fifty…

Neil Rafferty and Paul Stokes - Halfwit Nation

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

HUMOUR While Private Eye and The Onion remain the cornerstones of written news satire in print and online respectively, and Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You keep our square eyes tearing, the joyous silliness of spoofing website The Daily…

Lakeview Terrace

Lakeview Terrace

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

THRILLER (15) 110min What could be safer than living next door to a cop? Well just about anything if that cop happens to be played by one of America’s leading black actors. Smug young marrieds Chris (Patrick Wilson) and Lisa (Kerry Washington) move…

The Children

The Children

(2 stars)27 Nov 2008

HORROR The current fad for evil kiddie chillers – see Ils (Them) from France, Eden Lake from the UK and While She Was Out from the US – continues with another British horror flick in which children do diabolical things to disbelieving adults. As the…

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