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Girls Aloud

Preview 2009 - Pop Music

8 Jan 2009

‘Pop is back!’, Same Difference exclaim in typically camp fashion on the advert for their not-so-innovatively-titled debut, erm, Pop. Simon Cowell’s karaoke factory might not be the best example of it, but their statement is bang on. Strictly speaking…

Doc Martens

Preview 2009 - Fashion

8 Jan 2009

For years now, predicting the upcoming season’s trends has been a matter of guessing which decade of the 20th century we’ll be nicking our looks from. Mini dresses and go-go boots? Flares? Flares again? Flares on men? All this rifling through the…

Lorraine Kelly

Last Word - Lorraine Kelly

8 Jan 2009

First record you ever bought ‘School’s Out’ by Alice Cooper. An all-time classic. Last time you were chatted up I’m afraid the last time I was chatted up was back in 1986 when Steve (who is now my husband) asked me to go and see Dundee United…

Seether

Staind & Seether - 5 Reasons to go see

8 Jan 2009

1 It’s a killer double bill It’s great when the support act is as good as the headliner and Staind and Seether are the perfect alternative metal partnership. 2 Metal with heart Staind have their detractors with words like ‘morose’ and ‘depressing…

Underneath The Arches

Underneath The Arches

8 Jan 2009

Glasgow’s Arches, as anyone who’s worked there will tell you, is the sort of place that doesn’t so much defy your expectations as consistently confound them. Audiences might marvel at the sort of building that can stage a theatre show, art exhibition…

Chocolate cake

Red Sugar - Not such a raw deal

8 Jan 2009

This number is important: 47.7. In Celsius, that’s the hottest food can get if it’s to remain raw. According to raw food theory, cooking food not only destroys key digestive enzymes but also exposes the body to potentially harmful toxins. It can seem…

Massage

Courses, classes and activities

8 Jan 2009

Alternative Therapy Edinburgh Aromatherapy Far superior to a nasty blast of air freshener, learn the subtle art of aromatherapy, with beginner’s classes in essential oils and massage. An 8-week non-vocational course is available through the…

The Wrestler

Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler

8 Jan 2009

I’ve had a poster of Mickey Rourke on my wall for over 20 years now. A black and white blow-up from Alan Parker’s Angel Heart, it pictures Rourke as private detective Harry Angel, freshly demobbed after WWII, his hair back-combed into an untidy quiff…

Ewan Morrison

Preview 2009 - Books

8 Jan 2009

It’s another hot year for the Scottish contingent with Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh and Ewan Morrison all bringing out books (July) although arguably the country’s most intriguing 2009 publication comes from Dundee debutant Gavin Bain. California Schemin…

The Wrestler

The Wrestler

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

DRAMA/SPORT ‘What happened, did the price of tights go up?’ a sneering store-manager taunts Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson (Mickey Rourke) when the impoverished wrestling star comes looking for work. Fighting a losing battle with his own finances, Randy…

Franziska Furter: Spark Erosion

Franziska Furter: Spark Erosion

(3 stars)8 Jan 2009

Swiss artist Franziska Furter here presents a challenging series of sophisticated conceptual works. The skin and bones of this exhibition are graphite drawings, PVC pebbles, and electrical tape sculptures, none too exciting or provocative in their own…

Cupping

Shivago Thai Clinic

8 Jan 2009

Mental note to self: stop channelling Gwyneth. As a glass cup is set alight, blown out then placed on my back, things at the Shivago Thai Clinic, off Edinburgh's High Street, are feeling decidedly un-Hollywood. Indeed, as the foreign contraption comes…

Slipknot

Slipknot

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

METAL For any rock band worth their salt, it’s all about the guitars. BIG. HEAVY. GUITARS. Slipknot have their fair share of shredding riffs and six string belligerence, although the first thing that hits us tonight, aside from the explosions and…

Sex Drive

Sex Drive

(1 star)8 Jan 2009

COMEDY Determined not to start college a virgin, semi-nerdy teenager Ian (Josh Zuckerman, best known as Young Dr Evil in the Austin Powers sequel Goldmember) drives across country to bed a red-hot babe he met on the internet named Ms Tasty. Fuelled…

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

ROMANCE/DRAMA Adapted by Simon Beaufoy from Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A this winning story of a Mumbai street urchin (Skins’ Dev Patel) who makes it to the final round of India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? might well be the film that…

Julia

Julia

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

THRILLER/DRAMA What begins as a grim character study of a middle-aged alcoholic becomes a blackly funny crime caper/road movie. Tilda Swinton is in ferocious good form as the titular 40-year-old drunk, a woman whose natural good looks and flamboyant…

Karla Black - Material world

Karla Black - Material world

8 Jan 2009

If 2008 was a good year for Karla Black, 2009 is going to be even better. After several international solo shows and inclusion in Art Now at Tate Britain, the Glasgow-based artist is on the cusp of another busy 12 months. Solo exhibitions are in the…

Syntheme

Syntheme

8 Jan 2009

Expect some seriously squelchy acid techno from Planet Mu signing Syntheme at 2009’s first instalment of Inner City Acid. At once forward thinking yet lovingly retro Syntheme (aka Louise Woods) will be coaxing some distorted dancefloor grooves form her…

Rustie

Scottish DJs and Producers 2009

8 Jan 2009

House music was born in the 80s and morphed into techno under the guiding hands of the Detroit masters. More recently, drum & bass and electro-clash swept though clubland whilst grime and dubstep have are the newest configuration of dance beats, not to…

Johnny Griffin - Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Johnny Griffin - Live at Ronnie Scott’s

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

JAZZ This live recording from the Soho club last May proved to be the swansong for the hard-hitting American tenor man, and if the octogenarian was no longer at his peak, he more than holds his own in some very fast company, including American…

The Shee - A Different Season

The Shee - A Different Season

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

FOLK The Shee have been attracting favourable comment for a while on the live circuit now, and this impressive debut album bears out the growing reputation the six-piece all-women band have accrued. Harpist Rachel Newton, fiddler Olivia Ross and…

Eddi Reader - The Songs of Robert Burns: Deluxe Edition

Eddi Reader - The Songs of Robert Burns: Deluxe Edition

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

CELTIC For Burns to endure for 250 years, every generation needs its own way of appreciating him. Five years ago, Eddi Reader provided her take on the Songs of Robert Burns and not only was the folk world enraptured by one of the great Scottish…

Gavin Richardson

Substance

8 Jan 2009

We admit it can be hard to get motivated to head out clubbing in early January: you’ve been partying non-stop for almost two weeks as it is. But techno night Substance is the perfect antidote to any midwinter malaise with live sets from Espion, Stick…

Celtic Connections

Gaelic film festival announced as part of Celtic Connections

8 Jan 2009

Film companies Craic and MG ALBA have announced details of an all Gaelic film festival to be held between 22–24 Jan at the CCA in Glasgow, presented as part of this year’s Celtic Connections festival. Held over three days, the festival will showcase…

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader

8 Jan 2009

Fairground Attraction’s former frontwoman continues her love affair with Ayrshire’s philandering ploughman poet, as she sings the songs of Robert Burns, accompanied by the Orchestra of Scottish Opera. Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Sun 18 Jan. (Folk)

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