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Sex in the 21st century

Sex in the 21st century

5 Feb 2009

By now, you must have heard of Feuchtgebiete, the debut novel by 30 year old television presenter Charlotte Roche, routinely described in interviews as ‘Germany’s Davina McCall’. You know, the one that the press are up in arms about. The one with the 18…

Comedy of Errors

Armando Iannucci - Comedy of Errors

5 Feb 2009

Armando Iannucci has a ringing in his ears. He’s just back from the Sundance Film Festival in the States where his debut feature film as writer and director, In the Loop, had its world premiere. The film’s reception was so overwhelmingly positive that…

Tricky

Tricky

5 Feb 2009

Tricky is difficult and moody, right? That’s the perception of the Bristol-born rapper that still persists, 14 years after he was launched into the nation’s musical consciousness with his startling, groundbreaking and bestselling debut…

Sex in the 21st century - Alternative Valentine’s

Sex in the 21st century - Alternative Valentine’s

5 Feb 2009

‘Hello, is it me you’re looking for …?’ Some of the most romantic words ever written have come via the medium of song, so why not throw caution to the wind, and go all Sonny and Cher this February. Book you and yours into a recording studio for an hour…

Sex in the 21st century - Rude Britannia

Sex in the 21st century - Rude Britannia

5 Feb 2009

The Scots are at it like rabbits. 10,000 Scots go dogging every year. I’d find people at it on a Monday night in East Kilbride, next to a landfill site. Or we’d drive up some country lane and spot a white bottom moving up and down, lit by the light from…

Sex in the 21st century - Valentine’s Day Clubs

Sex in the 21st century - Valentine’s Day Clubs

5 Feb 2009

With Valentine’s Day landing at the weekend this year, there is ample opportunity for those hoping for a love injection on the dance floor Love will be in the air like a tropical smog on 14 February, and every club and bar you walk into will be playing…

Russell Brand

Russell Brand

5 Feb 2009

STAND-UP With Jonathan Ross back on the box and Russell Brand returning to our stages with the merest of minor tabloid outrage, it seems that the Sachsgate furore has at last subsided. Some Radio 2 heads may have rolled but the key characters can now…

Glasgow Film Festival: Audrey Hepburn

5 Feb 2009

The Film Star Allison Gardner co-director of Glasgow Film Festival Although she’s remembered best as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey wasn’t just a ‘fluff’ actress. She has great depth, and always wanted to stretch herself as an…

Glasgow Film Festival: Richard Jobson and Jim Hickey interview

Glasgow Film Festival: Richard Jobson and Jim Hickey interview

5 Feb 2009

Film directors Richard Jobson and Jim Hickey both have low-budget genre films appearing as part of Glasgow Film Festival’s Great Scots strand. Jobson’s New Town Killers sees Dougray Scott’s hedge fund manager hunting a teenage boy in a white-knuckle…

Valentine’s Day entrepreneurs

Valentine’s Day entrepreneurs

5 Feb 2009

Michelle Aaron, cupcake baker from Glasgow Everybody loves to see a cupcake. If I’m selling them at a craft fair, people always stop and smile. I guess they evoke childhood memories and look fun. All that sticky frosting and sweet indulgence – there’s…

Glasgow Film Festival: Jason Edwards interview

Glasgow Film Festival: Jason Edwards interview

5 Feb 2009

It’s hard to pick which event will be best – they’re all going to be pretty epic. We want to attract people who are not necessarily into live gigs but might like going to the cinema, and vice versa. Shhhh! An Evening of Not So Silent Movies is a…

Glasgow Film Festival: Short Films

Glasgow Film Festival: Short Films

5 Feb 2009

A highlight of last year’s programme was the short films strand, so it’s great to discover local shorts showcasers the Magic Lantern offering another varied programme for 2009. Things kick off with True Things, a retrospective of shorts from…

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Documentaries

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Documentaries

5 Feb 2009

The Age of Stupid Chilling drama/documentary imagining how the last surviving human would collate news footage of man’s environmental destruction of the earth. Pete Postlethwaite stars. GFT, Sun 22 Feb, 4pm. Anvil! The Story of Anvil…

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Miscellaneous

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Miscellaneous

5 Feb 2009

24 City Chinese auteur Zhang Ke Jia’s pseudo documentary about a factory closure in a Chinese town is a highlight for fans of outré world cinema. GFT, Fri 13 Feb, 1.30pm. The Grosvenor, Sun 15 Feb, 6.15pm. In Conversation with Bill…

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Comedies

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Comedies

5 Feb 2009

Hamlet 2 Bad taste high school comedy starring the multi-talented Mr Steve Coogan. Cineworld, Sun 15 Feb, 7pm & Mon 16 Feb, 2.30pm. Lake Tahoe Deadpan and occasionally whimsical Mexican comedy from Fernando Duck Season Eimbecke.

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Oldies

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Oldies

5 Feb 2009

Captain Blood Rip roaring 1935 swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn, showing to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tasmanian devil. GFT, Wed 18 Feb, 11.30pm. The Divine Lady Rare screening of Glasgow born Frank Lloyd’s 1929 romantic drama.

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended drama/thrillers

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended drama/thrillers

5 Feb 2009

Still Walking Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda’s Ozu-esque familial drama. Film of the festival, without a doubt. GFT, Mon 16 Feb, 3.15pm & Tue 17 Feb, 1.45pm. The Class Laurent Cantet’s Palme D’Or winning portrait of life in a Parisian…

Friday Night Takeaway

Friday Night Takeaway

5 Feb 2009

Miranda Ralston and Angie Koorbanally believe that Friday nights are where it’s at clubbing wise. The duo, both Arches employees and Octopussy and Death Disco workers, are the brains behind Friday Night Takeaway, a one-off night in conjunction with…

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

5 Feb 2009

‘What we wanted to do with Lost Girls was to come up with a different form of pornography. We realised we had the ideas for something enormous and wonderful.’ Alan Moore, who’s widely considered to be the finest writer working in comics today and is…

James Houston - Cryptic Nights

James Houston - Cryptic Nights

5 Feb 2009

What happens to your average art school student in the six months after they graduate? A spell travelling? A job waiting tables to finance their next project? Probably not a flurry of media attention, more job offers than they know what to do with…

Educating Rita

Educating Rita

5 Feb 2009

PREVIEW REVIVAL If there’s a consistent thread that runs through the work of Willy Russell, it’s the need for escape, usually from a stagnant class system that oppresses his protagonists. Yet his work is more nuanced, less moralistic than you might…

The View

The View

5 Feb 2009

INDIE ROCK First time around with their Mercury Prize short listed 2007 debut album Hats Off to the Buskers, young Dundonian rapscallions The View left a trail of drug busts, trashed hotel rooms and US Visa rejections in their wake. The quartet are…

Slabs of the Tabernacle

Slabs of the Tabernacle

5 Feb 2009

TECHNO ‘It’s not that we don’t want to book bigger-name DJs and artists,’ says Slabs of the Tabernacle DJ and co-promoter Andrew Ingram, ‘but we just can’t afford them. So our club’s the way it is for financial reasons as much as anything else.…

Jackhammer/Creative Industries

Jackhammer/Creative Industries

5 Feb 2009

TECHNO It’s certainly a busy month for the folk at Jackhammer and Creative Industries. Not content supplying the capital with their usual brand of high quality techno, minimal and electro, they are hosting a full weekend of techno and at the end of…

Magazine

Magazine

5 Feb 2009

POST-PUNK As second comings go, few have been more anticipated than that of Howard Devoto’s hugely influential troupe of post-punk pioneers. Formed after Devoto left Buzzcocks and the one-chord wonderings of punk behind, Magazine were an infinitely…

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