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The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class

(2 stars)22 Jan 2009

COMEDY/MUSICAL Olivier Award-winning dramatist Peter Barnes’ adaptation of his own acclaimed play, directed for the screen in 1972 by Hungarian émigré Peter Medak (The Krays, Let Him Have It), was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and secured…

The View - Witch Bitch?

The View - Witch Bitch?

(4 stars)22 Jan 2009

INDIE ROCK Packing indie festival anthems, bar room garage, cheeky backstage ditties, stadium rock and orchestral grandiosity The View’s follow-up to 2007’s Hats off to the Buskers has it all – all besides a coherent identity that is. As an album…

Also Published - 5 Paperback Novels

22 Jan 2009

Vikas Swarup - Six Suspects A half dozen individuals all have very good reasons for gunning down a corrupt politician’s son. But which of them actually pulled the trigger? Black Swan. Will Ferguson - Hustle Slick comedy about a trio of sharks…

Edinburgh picks up another Michelin star

22 Jan 2009

Edinburgh – and more specifically, Leith – has picked up another Michelin star with Tony Borthwick's Plumed Horse joining the list of culinary luminaries in Scotland. Scotland made a net gain of three stars in the 2009 awards, taking its total to…

The Qemists - Join The Q

The Qemists - Join The Q

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

DRUM & BASS AND BEYOND This debut album for Brighton-based producers The Qemists smacks of the rock and drum & bass hybrid that pushed the likes of Pendulum too far centre-field, but it’s subtler than the Aussie troupe’s dance-rock racket – and more…

Somabeta 002

Various - Somabeta 002

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

ELECTRONICA Technophiles hold tight. Here come Soma with yet another mighty compilation of brand spanking new electronica talent. Right down to the artwork for this vanguard album, an innovative design plucked the Soma 2008 Artwork Competition…

Bricolage

Bricolage - Bricolage

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

INDIE JANGLE POP Glasgwegians Bricolage are up to their necks in thrall to the jingle, jangle and dodgy knitwear of early 80s indie as espoused by Vic Goddard, Aztec Camera and Orange Juice. Indeed, singer Graham Wann affects Edwyn Collins’ pompous…

Lafayette Afro Rock Band

Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Darkest Light: The Best Of . . . Remastered Edition

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

JAZZ FUNK There’s nothing overtly African or rocky about Lafayette Afro Rock Band, an American funk outfit who relocated to Paris in the 1970s and acted as session band for Pierre ‘Berjot’ Jaubert, a one-time Motown artistic director. Their cult…

Secret Machines

Secret Machines - Secret Machines

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

ROCK For a few months, four years ago, Secret Machines were pretty much the best band in the known universe, blowing minds and melting fillings with the hypnotic, silvery glam space walks of their debut Now Here is Nowhere. That album remains a…

Protected: Massive Samples

Various - Protected: Massive Samples

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

COMPILATION In 2007, Rapster gave us Discovered, a CD full of original tunes which Daft Punk had plundered for their sampling requirements and now it’s Massive Attack’s turn. Not that the Bristol trip hoppers are overly keen on the word ‘sample’.

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

BAROQUE POP Mr Hegarty returns, with his mesmerising whine and theatrical warble grabbing the back of the neck like frosty fingers. The follow up to the Mercury prize-winning I am a Bird Now explores the spaces between male and female, shelter and…

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

(3 stars)22 Jan 2009

ALT.POP Crafted from hand claps, whistles, glockenspiels, violins, guitars and drums, this grower of an album from the intelligently eccentric Andrew Bird sneaks up on you after the third or fourth listen. The warm alt.pop melodies on Noble Beast…

Vegas!

Vegas!

22 Jan 2009

OK so we’re all sick to death of the phrase ‘credit crunch’ but, like it or not, most of us are a bit skint – especially through the post-festive month of January. But if you don’t want to cut back on your glamorous clubbing why not head to Vegas! for…

Monet

Impressionism and Scotland

22 Jan 2009

This major collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a stunning showcase of some of the greatest names in Western art, including impressionists such as Monet, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh and…

Florence and the Machine

Florence and the Machine

22 Jan 2009

Howling or whispering her way between folk and punk – with quirky, arty pop flourishes in between – Florence Welch is the beautiful, flame-haired nutter who just won the Brits’ Critics Choice Award. Catch her live before she releases her debut album…

Sub Rosa

Sub Rosa

22 Jan 2009

Theatrical innovator David Leddy uses the hidden nooks, crannies and crawl spaces of the Citz to create a gothic Victorian narrative, which explores the nature of power through music hall milieu. Cora Bisset, David Magowan and Alison Peebles star in the…

Howard Donald

Howard Donald

22 Jan 2009

A few years back, a DJ set from an ex-member of Take That would have meant half empty dancefloors, but due to one of the most unlikely resurrections in pop history TT are now at the top of their game, selling out a massive three nights at Hampden this…

Kathleen MacInnes

Celtic Connections - Ceol’s Craic featuring Kathleen MacInnes

22 Jan 2009

With her low and husky tones, the beautifully luminous voice of the actress and singer from the Hebridean island of South Uist will be teaming up with Belle & Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson at one of the Celtic Connections specials of the monthly Glasgow…

In Case of Fire

In Case of Fire

22 Jan 2009

Fast rising Northern Irish trio are the opening act of the Kerrang! Tour in anticipation of their debut album, Align the Planets. As you’d expect the full line-up is a snap shot of modern metal including young tykes Black Tide and their old school metal…

The Lost World Read 2009

The Lost World Read 2009

22 Jan 2009

This year’s One Book - One Edinburgh text is Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Look out for free copies of the special 150th anniversary issue, yes, with Wallace and Gromit on the cover, at various events throughout the year. It all kicks off on…

Karla Black

Karla Black

22 Jan 2009

The work of the Glasgow-based artist, who has several international solo shows and a place in last year’s Art Now exhibition at Tate Britain under her belt, is generating justifiable buzz at present. Her solo exhibition at Mary Mary features sculptures…

Carrie Rodriguez

Celtic Connections - Carrie Rodriguez

22 Jan 2009

Before being a fiddle-toting, mandoguitar-slinging Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, Carrie was a violin student in Texas absorbing the influences of an opera-obsessed mother and folk-singer father. It was only when she went to Berklee College of Music…

Australia Day

Australia Day

22 Jan 2009

Calling all Aussies! Missing the homeland, on this most sacred day of your Antipodean calendar? Get ye down to the Espy bar in Portobello, where they've put on a (shivering) barbie on the beach Especially For You, plus Neighbours–themed karoke and a…

Dead Boy Robotics

Dead Boy Robotics

22 Jan 2009

Two fellas from Edinburgh construct something wonderful out of the dance/ noise/punk/electro sound they’ve been building. Seeing that this gig is part of the Cab’s Duty Free sessions this live set at Sick Note will be free entry and the resident DJ team…

Marlena Shaw

Marlena Shaw

22 Jan 2009

With a forty year career, tours with Sammy Davis Jr and Ray Brown, the legendary Marlena Shaw will be teaching a lesson in jazz and soul music as part of the Bulleit Bourbon Originals series also featuring Digital Jones plus DJ sets form Jazzanova, Greg…

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