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Storm Thorgerson

Storm Thorgerson

30 Apr 2009

Born in 1944, Storm Thorgerson’s childhood would not have been thought unusual were it not that he went to school with Roger Waters and Syd Barrett. ‘Roger and I had two connections, one of which was through our mothers, who happened to be pals, and…

Star Trek

30 Apr 2009

There’s an old Star Trek salutation – to live long and prosper. But not even original series creator Gene Roddenberry could have imagined just how long and prosperous Star Trek would be. Since airing on American TV in 1966, the show has spawned six…

White Lies

White Lies

30 Apr 2009

Despite its grand themes of life and death, To Lose My Life or Lose My Love was the first album of 2009 to go straight in at number one. Not bad for a debut album and a cracking start to the year for London trio Whites Lies. Having begun life as punky…

Gregory Burke: Hoors

Gregory Burke: Hoors

30 Apr 2009

Gregory Burke feels more mellow, more at home with himself than the thirtysomething who entered the public domain with the premiere of Gagarin Way in 2001. At that time there was a sense of a man dazzled by the sudden attention the play brought him.

Old age and Hollywood

Old age and Hollywood

30 Apr 2009

Hollywood producer and one time Clinton supporter Mike Medavoy understands. Old age and Hollywood is the double you just don’t mix. In between closing deals and sitting on the board of California’s Anti Terrorism Information Center, Medavoy once penned…

Swimming

Swimming

30 Apr 2009

Underwater, swimming guru Steven Shaw has the effortless grace of an aquatic creature. Sheathed in a short wetsuit – half-man, half-seal – he whizzes from one end of the pool to the other, propelled only by the occasional flick of a limb. Along with…

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Metamorphosen

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Metamorphosen

30 Apr 2009

JAZZ While brother Wynton has garnered greater attention over the years with a string of ambitious large scale projects, the saxophonist has arguably produced the more consistently satisfying body of work on record. This quartet with pianist Joey…

Star Trek

30 Apr 2009

ACTION/ADVENTURE Star Trek is something that didn’t appear to need rebooting. The show debuted in 1966 and over the next 40 odd years, we’ve had 79 episodes of William Shatner, several TV spin-off series (The Next Generation and Voyager etc) and ten…

Marmaduke Duke - Duke Pandemonium

Marmaduke Duke - Duke Pandemonium

30 Apr 2009

ELECTRONICA/ROCK The second album from the collision of chaos that is Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil and JP Reid of Sucioperro is the next chapter in the life of the mysterious and magnificent Marmaduke Duke. And it seems to be that chapter where we find…

Phil Collins: The World Wonât Listen

Phil Collins: The World Won’t Listen

30 Apr 2009

REVIEW INSTALLATION PHIL COLLINS: THE WORLD WON’T LISTEN This is one of those rare exhibitions where a verbal articulation cannot do justice to the work on display. The three-part video installation ‘The World Won’t Listen’, filmed in Colombia, Turkey…

Sounds Like Teen Spirit

Sounds Like Teen Spirit

30 Apr 2009

DOCUMENTARY This endearing pop-documentary, the debut feature of Brit Jamie Johnson, fits into the growing genre of ‘kids competition’ films, for which Jeffrey Blitz’s 2003 spelling bee documentary Spellbound is still the benchmark. Johnson’s subject…

Paul Vickers & The Leg

Paul Vickers & The Leg

30 Apr 2009

INDIE/POST-PUNK OPERA It’s not at every pre-weekend indie night you witness the premiere of a 20-minute post-punk opera performed by a supergroup quartet of men in animal costumes. Yet that’s exactly what’s on offer in the debut of Itchy Grumble, a…

Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter

Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter

30 Apr 2009

ANIMATION/ADVENTURE Tales of the Black Freighter, or ‘the pirate story’ as it’s also known, is the comic-within-the-comic that threads through the narrative of the Watchmen graphic novel. Excised from the film adaptation, it appears here as a…

. . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

. . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

30 Apr 2009

ROCK … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are one of those few acts who have established a strong and loyal fanbase without the majority of the world’s population being any the wiser. Having evaded the sting of a troubled flirtation with a…

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

30 Apr 2009

WAR/DRAMA For his penultimate American film in 1958, Douglas Sirk, master of Hollywood melodrama, returned to his native Germany to shoot his most personal film. Adapted from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (author of All Quiet on the Western…

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion

30 Apr 2009

DRAMA Briefly seen in the UK under the title Never Give an Inch, Sometimes a Great Notion was a long gestated but never accomplished project by Sam Peckinpah before becoming one of the most unfairly underrated gems in the directorial canon of the…

Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Gok

Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Gok

30 Apr 2009

JAZZ/FOLK Inhabiting the Cartesian co-ordinate that melodically aligns Tokyo with Falkirk, Gok is a sublime anthology of avant-garde lullabies and gentle jazz, from Scots outsider dignitary Bill Wells and Japanese folk-punks Maher Shalal Hash…

First Word: Miles Jupp

First Word: Miles Jupp

30 Apr 2009

First record you ever bought? The first LP I bought was Tony Hancock’s ‘The Blood Donor’. The first piece of music was possibly Starship’s ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now’. I think I bought that at a fête when I was about seven, I’m not sure why. I’ve…

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

30 Apr 2009

It’s a well-worn belief within literary circles that knocking out a short story collection is a sure-fire way to financial ruin. They just don’t sell well. Never have and probably never will. Yet many of literature’s towering figures have dabbled in the…

21212

21212

30 Apr 2009

Next month, chef Paul Kitching and his partner Katie O’Brien complete their move from Juniper, Manchester’s only Michelin-starred restaurant, to a full townhouse on Royal Terrace on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill. A £4m project, this 38-cover restaurant – plus…

Sugaring-Off Cabin and How Do I Get Up There?

Sugaring-Off Cabin and How Do I Get Up There?

30 Apr 2009

SKETCH SHOWS The stock of the TV sketch show couldn’t be lower right now after the vastly-hyped airing and subsequent critical mauling of Horne and Corden. And this monstrosity dribbled our way not too long after similar BBC3 calamities such as…

Craft Mafia

Craft Mafia

30 Apr 2009

Craft. It’s in. You’re thinking of knitting, aren’t you? Tea-stained doilies at bric-a-brac stalls, maybe? Or drippy hippy macramé at earnest rallies. Wrong. Very very wrong. As these pictures show, somewhere along the way, craft got hip and a little…

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

30 Apr 2009

DRAMA Much as Gran Torino provided a dignified swansong for Clint Eastwood’s popular tough guy persona, John Intermission Crowley’s new film draws on the reservoir of affection that several generations harbour for Michael Caine. Caine plays…

Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked

Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked

30 Apr 2009

DRAMA An unsung gem of 1970s indie Brit cinema (and not to be confused with the Stallone flick from 1981), Nighthawks chronicles the double life of a guarded, vulnerable and semi-closeted schoolteacher by day who spends most nights cruising bars and…

Guy Delisle - Burma Chronicles

Guy Delisle - Burma Chronicles

30 Apr 2009

TRAVELOGUE COMIC French-Canadian animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle previously documented his experiences in far-flung inaccessible countries with Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China and Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. His third graphic travel…

Jeffrey Rotter - The Unknown Knowns

Jeffrey Rotter - The Unknown Knowns

30 Apr 2009

SATIRICAL TALE This debut novel by a graduate of New York’s Hunter College takes its title from Donald Rumsfeld’s famously bamboozling quote. Jeffrey Rotter may have given himself a high watermark of unintentional satire to live up to, but he…

Polly Scattergood

Sneaky

30 Apr 2009

Fish Fry is always one of the best stops in the capital for a dose of serious funk, but this fortnight they have very special live guest Sneaky for some deeply danceable bass. Best known as the bass half of double bass and turntables duo Fingathing…

Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts

30 Apr 2009

Fellow Norwegians Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch may have been born 35 years apart but, for a brief moment in the late 19th century, their artistic eras collided: Munch – who was yet to create his legacy, ‘The Scream’ – designed the set for Ghosts, a new…

Harri - Subculture

30 Apr 2009

‘God, it doesn’t feel like 15 years,’ says Harri, key member of the DJ team behind the Sub Club’s decade-and-a-half old house institution Subculture. ‘It’s flown in, and I was there back when the Sub Club was Lucifer’s more than 22 years ago. I used to…

Julian ArgÃ¼elles

Julian Argüelles

30 Apr 2009

Saxophonist Julian Argüelles is originally from the Birmingham area, but has spent a lot of his time in East Lothian since moving to Scotland five years ago to join his partner, singer Cathie Rae. He may be an adopted local, but his work on the jazz…

Julian House: The New Spirit Happening

Julian House: The New Spirit Happening

30 Apr 2009

The future as we imagined it floated into view somewhere between 1950 and 1975. This was when a peculiarly English strain of science-fiction emerged, fuelled by postwar possibilities and Cold War paranoia. Quatermass and The Pit and Village of the…

Cupcakes

Cupcakes

30 Apr 2009

As anyone with embarrassing Millenium-era photographs of themselves wearing an ugly corsage the size of their head will testify, Sex and the City launched a lot of strange trends. None, however, is as persistent as the cupcake. The scene in which Carrie…

ECA's Fashion Show

ECA's Fashion Show

30 Apr 2009

Edinburgh College of Art’s annual fashion degree show has long been a key date in the calendar of fashion-forward ‘Burghers, who know that the innovative designs on display tend to transcend expectations for a student fashion show. ECA graduates have…

Certified sustainable fish

Certified sustainable fish

30 Apr 2009

More guidance at www.msc.org South African hake One of the most easily available MSC-labelled seafood products, hake are deep-sea members of the cod family. Although they have a more subtle flavour than cod, they are considered one of the best fish…

Film Books Round-Up

Film Books Round-Up

30 Apr 2009

Liberal, Jewish, prolific, daring and bald – there can be little doubt that theatre and film director Otto Preminger (pictured, above) was one of Austria’s greatest gifts to Hollywood. Literary consideration of Preminger’s oeuvre, which includes a…

Les Ballets C de la B: Ashes

30 Apr 2009

The so called mid-life crisis comes in many forms, but Koen Augustijnen has found a more creative outlet than most. The choreographer knows he’s still got plenty of good years ahead of him, but can’t help noticing the passing of time. ‘It probably has…

The Ducky

The Ducky

30 Apr 2009

‘Michelle is one of those people who doesn’t seem to have much luck in life,’ says Hannah Donaldson. ‘As soon as she gets over one obstacle, another one comes along and smacks her in the face.’ It’s fair to say that on that front, Donaldson and her…

Coraline

Coraline

30 Apr 2009

(PG) 100min ANIMATION/FANTASY Although The Nightmare Before Christmas reflected the gothic imagination of Tim Burton, much of the charm was down to the directorial skills of Henry Selick, whose latest film Coraline places him alongside Nick Park as a…

Profile - Jamie Johnson

30 Apr 2009

Name Jamie J Johnson Born 14 September 1976, Hammersmith, London Background The son of a painter, Johnson initially followed in his father’s footsteps before deciding that moving pictures were more to his liking, and started creating flick…

Labels of Love - Optimo Music

Labels of Love - Optimo Music

30 Apr 2009

Based in: Glasgow Roster: Big Ned, Den Haan, Dollskabeat (pictured), Divorce, Older Lover. Bosses: JD Twitch, one half of the DJ duo behind ever-uncategorisable Glasgow club night Optimo. Sounds like: See ‘ever-uncategoriseable’, above.

Edwyn Collins: Wildlife 1

Edwyn Collins: Wildlife 1

30 Apr 2009

Pop star Edwyn Collins’ life-threatening stroke has been well documented. This project, which deliberates obsessively on his relationship with the subject matter – animals and birds – is a metaphorical ‘safari’ illustrating his return to health. The…

5 Things you might not know about - Freddie Starr

5 Things you might not know about - Freddie Starr

30 Apr 2009

1 Let’s get the unpleasantness out of the way first. Back in 1986 came the most notorious moment of wild boy Frederick Leslie Fowell’s showbiz career when The Sun carried its iconic headline: ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’. He has continually denied…

Copenhagen

Copenhagen

30 Apr 2009

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen is that rarest of beasts: a fictionalised account of real-life events, dense in historical research, that manages not to lose sight of the human dilemma at its centre. Springing from a fascinating premise (a meeting between…

Introducing . . . Vintage Violence

Introducing . . . Vintage Violence

30 Apr 2009

Residents Long-time friends Anastaziya Violence and Christopher Fast, whose previous night, Fast Punk Club, clocked up five years as one of Edinburgh’s finest evenings out before finishing up in January. Guests Billed for the second edition of VV…

Bullet:Dodge

30 Apr 2009

TECHNO While there’s a surplus of techno nights springing up in venues across Glasgow at the moment, Gareth Whitehead believes his new monthly residency has an advantage which sets it apart. Bullet:Dodge is a forum for the artists involved with the…

Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne

30 Apr 2009

POP It’s customary these days, upon the release of a band’s greatest hits collection, to ask if they’re splitting up. Having brought out London Conversations last year, Sarah Cracknell gets the denial out of the way early: ‘I know it’s a funny…

Sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights/Drawn Out & Painted Pink

Sh(OUT): Contemporary Art and Human Rights/Drawn Out & Painted Pink

30 Apr 2009

GROUP EXHIBITION While each work in GoMA’s striking and thoughtful social justice-related exhibition for 2009 can easily be traced back to a gender-related starting point, more universal ideals of love and tenderness are writ large throughout.

Side Dishes - Food News

30 Apr 2009

● Just over a year on from the opening of the Dogs, David Ramsden has taken over adjacent street-level premises at 104 Hanover Street and plans to open a similarly styled venue serving Italian dishes. With typographical cussedness not seen since the…

O’Horten

O’Horten

30 Apr 2009

DRAMA/COMEDY Maturity, loneliness and the inherent freedoms of breaking with routine are investigated in delightful sixth feature from the gifted Norwegian filmmaker of Kitchen Stories and Factotum. Odd Horten (Baard Owe) is about to retire. After 40…

Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler

30 Apr 2009

AMERICANA We journalists are forever putting musicians into convenient categories, only for artists to spend their careers trying to escape them. So it is with Marissa Nadler, American purveyor of sweeping dream-folk over her last three albums, who’s…

After Mary Rose

After Mary Rose

30 Apr 2009

Collaborating with director Nicholas Bone of Magnetic North, playwright D Jones has given JM Barrie’s 1920 ghost story Mary Rose a dust down so it has less of the creaky haunted house about it and more of the privations of war. But in structure and…

Also Released - Film

30 Apr 2009

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (12A) 100min •• Promiscuous celebrity photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is visited by the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), the hard-partying ladies man upon whose exploits he has modeled his…

Tron Stripped: Bliss + Mud

Tron Stripped: Bliss + Mud

30 Apr 2009

Just a year into his tenure as artistic director, Andy Arnold is already transforming the Tron into one of Scotland’s most innovative producing theatres. His latest outing, Tron Stripped, offers up a double bill of North American plays: Bliss, by…

Show Scotland

Show Scotland

30 Apr 2009

BANK HOLIDAY FUN Museums and stately homes can be lively places during the day, but at night they’re pretty much dead – quite literally in the case of Pollok House. On Saturday 2 May, the halls of the popular Glasgow residence will be crawling with…

Christopher McDougall - Born to Run

Christopher McDougall - Born to Run

30 Apr 2009

SOCIAL TRAVELOGUE In 2001, former war correspondent and much-injured running nut Christopher McDougall asked his doctor why his foot hurt so badly. The medic, an expert in sports medicine, informed McDougall that at over six foot tall, his body was…

Thunderheist

Thunderheist

30 Apr 2009

ELECTRO RAP Canadian girl-boy electro/rap duo Isis and Grahm Zilla, aka Thunderheist, may not be the first band to owe their existence to the internet, but they’ve certainly taken digital-age creativity to impressive lengths. The two began as casual…

Barbara Probst

Barbara Probst

30 Apr 2009

German artist Barbara Probst’s photographic work ‘Exposure #48: Munich, Minerviusstra(e 11, 01.06.07, 3:17pm’, images a double portrait of a model. In the first photograph the girl looks directly into the lens, and in the second her face, carrying the…

Cheri

Chéri

30 Apr 2009

ROMANCE Adapted from Colette’s controversial 1920s novels Cheri and The Last of Cheri, which centre on a six-year love affair between a young man, Cheri, and ageing courtesan Lea de Lonval, and its aftermath, Stephen Frears’ film is a complex and…

Hear Me

Hear Me

30 Apr 2009

With RE-ID and As You Always Do Gappad established a reputation for devised physical theatre which addresses issues affecting the Polish diaspora in Scotland. Its latest piece takes the company in a completely new direction. Performer Agnieszka…

Michael Wilkinson: Lions after Slumber

Michael Wilkinson: Lions after Slumber

30 Apr 2009

This exhibition’s title is taken from a poem by Shelley but also references a song by post-punk group Scritti Politti. Glasgow-based artist Michael Wilkinson adds new cultural meaning through an intelligent array of aesthetic play. Encountering a…

The Threshold Houseboys Choir

The Threshold Houseboys Choir

30 Apr 2009

AVANT GARDE Across recent decades of esoteric weirdness in music, few have stood closer to the frontline than Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson. Born in Leeds in 1955, he first emerged during the 70s as a graphic artist and photographer, predominantly as…

5 Reasons To Go See - 1990s

5 Reasons To Go See - 1990s

30 Apr 2009

They love numbers more than Carol Vorderman does. They can turn a bus journey into a sociological study. They get their inspiration from unusual sources. They’re fearless rhymers. They’re cosmically minded.

Food for Thought - Charles MacLean (Whisky Writer)

Food for Thought - Charles MacLean (Whisky Writer)

30 Apr 2009

Breakfast is a quart of strong coffee, drunk through the morning, which is when I do my best writing. Whisky tasting begins at midday – your nose is much better before lunch than after. But, hey, when the samples are as good as the ones in front of me…

Also Released - Music

30 Apr 2009

The Maccabees - Wall of Arms (Fiction Records) Brighton’s biblically named five-piece are swiftly earning a reputation as one of Britain’s finest live bands. This new effort is full of sincere indie and provides a fresh expanse of melodic goodness and a…

The Telescopes

The Telescopes

30 Apr 2009

NOISE/SPACE ROCK While fellow noisemakers of a similar vintage such as Kevin Shields and Jason Pierce can still perform before audiences of hundreds or even thousands two decades on, The Telescopes’ Stephen Lawrie remains such an anonymous figure…

Polly Scattergood

Polly Scattergood

30 Apr 2009

POP/ELECTRO The wispy, diminutive Brit School graduate may seem ill-suited to the sweaty, underground musk of Sneaky Pete’s – what with her sparkling blue dress, poofed out at the bottom, and her ever so sweet, ever so timid greetings – but behind…

Helen Oyeyemi - White is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi - White is for Witching

30 Apr 2009

GOTHIC DRAMA There is clearly much promise in the 24-year-old fingertips of Helen Oyeyemi but the scorching hype she’s been on the end of to date has been a little excessive. Her tale of a Devon-based family torn apart by the mysterious loss of the…

Monica Ali - In the Kitchen

Monica Ali - In the Kitchen

30 Apr 2009

MODERN DRAMA This third novel from Monica Brick Lane Ali ticks plenty zeitgeist boxes: multiculturalism in today’s Britain, the seedy business of human trafficking and the apparently exciting world of top-class chefs. But despite some nice writing…

Also Published - 5 Crime Novels

30 Apr 2009

Walter Mosley - The Long Fall Moving away from Easy Rawlins and the 1950s, Bill Clinton’s favourite writer brings us a modern-day New York PI Leonard McGill. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Nury Vittachi - The Feng Shui Detective’s Casebook A murder in the…

Dave OâHiggins Quintet - Sketchbook

Dave O’Higgins Quintet - Sketchbook

30 Apr 2009

JAZZ Sessions featuring two tenor saxophones have been a staple of jazz at least since the heyday of Jazz At The Philharmonic, but can often turn into a rather overbearing display of athletic rather than musical abilities. No such worries here as…

Big in Falkirk

Big in Falkirk

30 Apr 2009

While Edinburgh and Glasgow’s various festivals get bigger and starrier every year and T in the Park hoovers up exclusive rights to Scottish dates on any band with even the possibility to make headlines, one not-so-little festival in the Central Belt…

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

30 Apr 2009

Icelandic music is unusually prominent in May with the SCO’s world premiere of Haflidi Hallgrimsson’s (pictured) Concerto for double bass and orchestra plus a concert of Icelandic chamber music. The new concerto has been written specially for the SCO’s…

Peaches - I Feel Cream

Peaches - I Feel Cream

30 Apr 2009

ELECTRO ROCK Toronto’s gap-toothed, potty-mouthed electro-punker is back, and although album five is not Peaches’ most energetic or hardcore, there’s still plenty to like. It’s weird to hear the lady who once sang ‘Fuck the Pain Away’ now in New…

Bob Log III - My Shit is Perfect

Bob Log III - My Shit is Perfect

30 Apr 2009

LEFTFIELD COUNTRY Supposedly based in both Arizona and Australia, Bob Log III is a one man band anomaly who gets his kicks through frenzied slide-guitar blues that deviates severely from tradition and is, as one might deduce from his fourth album’s…

Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care

30 Apr 2009

ELECTRO If Junior Boys’ first album, Last Exit was a colour, it would be icy blue. Cool, glassy art-electro with a sulky sexiness proved the Canadians to be a electro-pop force to be reckoned with. Five years later, third album Begone Dull Care has…

Tom Brosseau - Posthumous Success

Tom Brosseau - Posthumous Success

30 Apr 2009

FOLK BLUES Bobbins to the album title, Tommy B; this finger pickin’ North Dakota man won’t have to wait until his expiration date to enjoy basking in a little glory. His style has evolved from the basic one voice, one acoustic guitar set-up (as seen…

Silversun Pickups - Swoon

Silversun Pickups - Swoon

30 Apr 2009

ROCK With album number two California’s Silversun Pickups certainly won’t be shaking those Smashing Pumpkins comparisons. Especially in the higher registers Brian Aubert’s vocals take on a Billy Corgan whine. But is that necessarily a bad thing?

Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top

Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top

30 Apr 2009

INDIE It’s a busy old year for Mr Coxon, Blur are back together (and headlining T in the Park), he’s been playing with Peter Doherty (live and on recent album Grace/Wasteland) and now he’s got his own solo album to punt. And it obviously suits him…

Jon Hopkins - Insides

Jon Hopkins - Insides

30 Apr 2009

ELECTRONICA You don’t expect an electronica album to start with two and a half minutes of mournful fiddle, but that’s the kind of expectation defying that sums up Londoner Hopkins. This moving, bittersweet instrumental record blends sweeping…

Esser - Braveface

Esser - Braveface

30 Apr 2009

ELECTRO POP Chiselled electro-pop boxer Ben Esser runs the risk of being eclipsed by his quiff, but on the evidence of Braveface, the swaggering Essex techno-dude may yet outshine his sleek coiffure. Addled with a fire-crack amalgam of digital…

The Horrors - Primary Colours

The Horrors - Primary Colours

30 Apr 2009

ROCK This second album is so wildly different from The Horrors’ schlocky, B-movie, overhyped garage debut that it’s hard to believe it’s the same band. Gone are the irritating punk rants and big hair, replaced by ghosts of The Cure, Joy Division and…

Manhunt

Manhunt

30 Apr 2009

HORROR Europe is the best place for horror at the moment with Spain (The Orphanage, [Rec]), France (Frontier(s), Martyrs) and Sweden (Let the Right One In) producing some of the most startling, original and terrifying films of recent years. With…

Andi Neate - Crows, Rooks and Ravens

Andi Neate - Crows, Rooks and Ravens

30 Apr 2009

FOLK Versatile Scottish singer-songwriter Andi Neate covers a lot of bases on this, her fifth album, inspired by her childhood on a remote west coast island, ancient myths and a cupboard full of characters including circus lion tamers, bearded ladies…

William Orbit - My Oracle Lives Upstairs

William Orbit - My Oracle Lives Upstairs

30 Apr 2009

DANCE The man best known as the studio button-pushing monkey for Madonna’s Ray of Light album has apparently given up production duties of late to concentrate on his own muse. On this evidence, it’s a big mistake, because Orbit is not an inspired…

1000 Years of German Humour

1000 Years of German Humour

30 Apr 2009

There’s nothing like breaking down a rubbish national stereotype or 50 and Henning Wehn and Otto Kuhnle are making it their business, in a roundabout way, to trash all this über-efficient, towel-and-beach interface nonsense. Certainly the Aussies loved…

Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway

30 Apr 2009

As well as being one of the most original, lyrical writers from the current crop of major Scottish novelists, Janice Galloway is also one of the best performers of her own work that we've had the pleasure to hear. She’s going to be reading sections from…

Dressed to kilt success

Impractical Clothes' inspiring Dressed to Kilt success with Amber Lee Ettinger

30 Apr 2009

Edinburgh designer Irene Wadsworth has made her debut at Dressed to Kilt 2009 in New York, showcasing her label. ‘Obama Girl’ Amber Lee Ettinger, famous for online video ‘I Got a Crush … on Obama’, wore one of Wadsworth’s signature tartan corsets and a…

Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen

30 Apr 2009

French avant garde musician and composer Yann Tiersen is famed for composing the score to the movie Amélie. Favouring the piano, accordion and violin, he’s also been known to have a tinkle on the typewriter when it takes his fancy. The 38-year-old has…

Morrissey

Morrissey

30 Apr 2009

The neurotic animal rights fanatic has yet another jaunt round the globe to promote his new album Years of Refusal. Last seen complaining about the ‘smell of burning flesh’ at Coachella, he promises great music, outspoken banter and the usual enraptured…

Gallows

Gallows

30 Apr 2009

Ferocious English hardcore punks Gallows are at the forefront of the UK punk scene. They are promoting their bleak new album, Grey Britain, pepped up by vocals from Simon Neil of Scots rockers Biffy Clyro. The Kerrang Award winners are famed for their…

Ivo Papasov Wedding Band

Ivo Papasov Wedding Band

30 Apr 2009

This is not your conventional cheese-tastic wedding effort. The Bulgarian clarinettist Ivo Papasov and his bandmates are legends on the international music scene with their exuberant mix of bright sounds and big personalities. The musical accompaniment…

Melting Pot Weekender

Melting Pot Weekender

30 Apr 2009

There’s another Bank Holiday on the horizon and disco-house kings Melting Pot are planning on taking full advantage. Kicking off on the Saturday night with a residents special, on Sunday they team up with Million Dollar Disco for very special guest…

Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah

30 Apr 2009

You know you’re in for some quality hip hop when anyone from Wu-Tang is in the house. The New Yorker, who has seven solo albums to his name, recently recorded ‘Message from Ghostface’ dedicated to victims of domestic violence, after pop sensation…

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