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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…

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…

The Horrors - Primary Colours

The Horrors - Primary Colours

(3 stars)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…

Guy Delisle - Burma Chronicles

Guy Delisle - Burma Chronicles

(4 stars)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…

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…

Christopher McDougall - Born to Run

Christopher McDougall - Born to Run

(4 stars)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…

William Orbit - My Oracle Lives Upstairs

William Orbit - My Oracle Lives Upstairs

(2 stars)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…

Phil Collins: The World Won’t Listen

Phil Collins: The World Won’t Listen

(5 stars)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

(4 stars)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…

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion

(4 stars)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…

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…

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

(3 stars)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…

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…

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…

Michael Wilkinson: Lions after Slumber

Michael Wilkinson: Lions after Slumber

(3 stars)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…

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…

Bob Log III - My Shit is Perfect

Bob Log III - My Shit is Perfect

(2 stars)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…

Tom Brosseau - Posthumous Success

Tom Brosseau - Posthumous Success

(4 stars)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…

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…

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…

Star Trek

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…

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