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T in the Park: Goes pop

T in the Park: Goes pop

25 Jun 2009

Nick Cave battered Kylie to death with a rock and in doing so resurrected pop. For when the implausible twain married larynxes – on 1995’s hit murder ballad, ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’ – it caused a schism in the pop continuum. By 1996, the prince of…

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend

25 Jun 2009

Friday The whole festival starts in considerable style with The Maccabees and ‘No Kind Words’ before shifting in gloriously mental fashion with ‘Roulette Dares’ by The Mars Volta so sing along now … ‘Exoskeleton, junction at the railroad delayed!…

Rudo y Cursi - Brothers beyond

Rudo y Cursi - Brothers beyond

25 Jun 2009

Mexican cinema took the world by storm at the turn of the millennium with the glorious hat trick of Amores Perros, The Devil’s Backbone and Y Tu Mamá También. Eight years after that last title – the hilariously raunchy sex comedy And Your Mother Too in…

Crying with Laughter

Crying with Laughter

25 Jun 2009

The hot ticket among the Scottish films screening at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival is Justin Molotnikov’s Crying with Laughter, a thriller starring Scotland’s Stephen McCole. Familiar from roles in Wes Anderson’s high school comedy…

Edinburgh International Film Festival highlights

Edinburgh International Film Festival highlights

25 Jun 2009

The Girlfriend Experience Steven Soderbergh’s dark and fascinating study of working girls and their credit-crunched clients. American adult film industry star Sasha Gray features. Cineworld, Wed 24 Jun, 9.30pm & Sat 27 Jun, 8.45pm. 35 Shots of Rum…

Glen David Gold interview - Post haste

Glen David Gold interview - Post haste

25 Jun 2009

Glen David Gold is not a writer who likes to be hurried. The American author’s debut novel, Carter Beats the Devil, was a big commercial and critical success upon its publication in 2001. A fictionalised account of real-life American magician Charles…

Singin’ in the Rain - Long to rain over us

Singin’ in the Rain - Long to rain over us

25 Jun 2009

Anna Millar looks forward to some old-school hoofing in Singin’ in the Rain

T in the Park: Future music

T in the Park: Future music

25 Jun 2009

Chris Cope picks eight faces new to T in the Park eager to show some love in Balado

West side story

West side story

25 Jun 2009

For decades, the West End has meant one thing to non-WEndies: Byres Road, and while that esteemed thoroughfare is still geographically pivotal, its tributary roads have formed little communities of their own, each with an increasingly distinctive…

Sixteen again

Sixteen again

25 Jun 2009

A few years back, Joel Pomfret worked front-of-house at No Sixteen on Byres Road for Margaret and Ronald Campbell, the couple who had established the bijou restaurant as one of the most fondly regarded bistros in Glasgow’s West End. Working alongside…

First Word - Geoff Ellis

First Word - Geoff Ellis

25 Jun 2009

First record you ever bought ‘My Generation’ by The Who for 10p from a jumble sale (original 1965 release on Brunswick label and very warped). Also got ‘Band of Gold’ by Freda Payne a few minutes later at same jumble sale. First new record purchased…

Jane Bussmann - The Worst Date Ever

Jane Bussmann - The Worst Date Ever

25 Jun 2009

‘You know you’ve arrived when Britney Spears snubs you and Nicole Richie congratulates you.’ Journalist and comedy writer Jane Bussmann is smiling as she peruses the LA stomping ground, which so mercilessly provides fodder for her memoir, The Worst Date…

Michael Franti

Michael Franti

25 Jun 2009

Political songwriters can fall into the trap of being preachy, but not Michael Franti. In a career spanning over 20 years, the former frontman of The Beatnigs, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and latterly Spearhead, has always struck the right balance…

Outdoor clubbing

Outdoor clubbing

25 Jun 2009

With the unpredictable nature of Scottish weather al fresco clubbing isn’t quite the major deal in Scotland that it is in, say, Ibiza or Miami. But parties under canvas, on boats and in beer gardens have proven to be the best ways for Scots to hedge…

Affair of the art

Affair of the art

25 Jun 2009

Every movement needs its muse. So it was with the surrealists’ boys club, whereby Picasso, Man Ray, Max Ernst and co turned the art world upside down while leading equally tempestuous private lives. Take poet and painter Paul Eluard, for instance, whose…

T in the Park: Nine Inch Nails

T in the Park: Nine Inch Nails

25 Jun 2009

Trent Reznor has always had issues. With God, with the devil, with drugs, with the record industry, with the critics, with former paramours – and now he has issues with social networking. Last fortnight, Reznor posted a missive on the nin.com forums…

T in the Park: Peter Doherty - Who's the man

T in the Park: Peter Doherty - Who's the man

25 Jun 2009

‘I first saw The Libertines at Camden Monarch in 2002,’ says Anthony Thornton, NME writer and author of the group’s autobiography Bound Together. ‘I was there to see The Vines, who were supposed to be the next big thing, but The Libertines were…

Burlescape

Burlescape

25 Jun 2009

What is it about burlesque just now? There’s a new club or class popping up every day, hundreds of dancers queuing up for slots at nights like Club Noir and Rockaburley, and now here comes the Glasgow Cabaret Festival, a week-long festival all over the…

Christine Jeffs interview

Christine Jeffs interview

25 Jun 2009

Kiwi filmmaker Christine Jeffs (pictured centre right) wasn’t the obvious choice to direct the American indie comedy Sunshine Cleaning. Her previous two features, the New Zealand marital breakdown drama Rain and the British dead poet biopic Sylvia…

Edvard Munch: Prints

Edvard Munch: Prints

(4 stars)25 Jun 2009

Death, existential angst and the impossibility of love are recurring themes in this exhibition of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s prints. Devised as a cunning strategy to publicise his paintings, the appeal of the prints is more timeless, and the…

Chick Corea

Chick Corea

25 Jun 2009

Chick Corea has been a fairly regular visitor to Scotland over the years, but I can’t recall him playing a solo concert here before now. It is a format that he has returned to periodically over the years, both live and in recordings, including an early…

Film Book round up

Film Book round up

25 Jun 2009

Former stand-up comedian Robert Sellers hops across the pond to detail wild and fast times of Hollywood’s original bad boys with Bad Boy Drive (Preface) ●●●. Following on from his previous opus Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard…

Couple of bookworms - Literary couples

Couple of bookworms - Literary couples

25 Jun 2009

Inspired by Glen David Gold and Alice Sebold, Brian Donaldson peeks at the dust jackets to uncover other literary couples Jonathan Safran Foer & Nicole Krauss As a teenager, Nicole Krauss had a crush on German philosopher Walter Benjamin.

New Work New Worlds

New Work New Worlds

25 Jun 2009

The New Writing New Worlds festival at the Arches has become something of a fixture on the Scottish arts scene over the past few years. This year there’s a subtle but important title change to this rough-hewn showcase for developing work. ‘New…

Pride Scotia

Pride Scotia

25 Jun 2009

Scotland’s bi-annual LGBT celebration, Pride Scotia is returning to the capital with its usual array of provocative and outrageous happenings. Revellers are asked to assemble at noon on Sat 27 Jun at the City Chambers for speeches from local politicians…

Profile: JJ Feild

25 Jun 2009

Born Boulder, Colorado, US in 1978. Background Although he was born in the US, the handsome young actor’s family relocated to the UK when he was a baby. Growing up in London, he got the acting bug young and before he left school Field and his mates…

Seymour Mace

Seymour Mace

25 Jun 2009

In these serious times, comedy can be seen as a force of salvation for those finding life tough. Their choice of fun-seeking though may be informed by the exact feeling desired at the end of a show. If you want a comedy gig in which your political…

T in the Park: Simian Mobile Disco

T in the Park: Simian Mobile Disco

25 Jun 2009

‘We like our live shows to be a more austere, leaner version of our studio stuff,’says James (Jas) Shaw, one half of techno-pop duo, Simian Mobile Disco. For their recent crowd-rocking show at Primavera, Barcelona, laser lights and smoke provided an…

Public Enemies

Public Enemies

(4 stars)25 Jun 2009

Public Enemies always had the potential to be special given that it’s a crime saga from the director of Heat that follows one of America’s most colourful outlaws, as played by one of Hollywood’s most versatile and talented stars. Fortunately, Michael…

Year One: 5 caveman films

Year One: 5 caveman films

25 Jun 2009

One Million Years BC (1940/1966) Hal Roach and star Victor Mature created the template for many future cinematic evocations of the prehistoric era with their original tale of exile, volcanoes and gigantic beasts. Don Chaffey’s now iconic remake gave the…

Mendelssohn on Mull Festival 2009

Mendelssohn on Mull Festival 2009

25 Jun 2009

At a time of year when classical music in the central belt takes a bit of a breather in anticipation of the abundance of the Edinburgh International Festival, the annual Mendelssohn on Mull Festival offers a refreshing change of scene. Celebrating its…

Balgay Hill

Balgay Hill

25 Jun 2009

Simon Macallum’s Balgay Hill sets out to celebrate the life and work of the late Dundonian pop star Billy Mackenzie, but the Associates frontman actually remains pretty elusive throughout, and what emerges in the end is a well-intentioned, if somewhat…

Profile - Brodinski

Profile - Brodinski

25 Jun 2009

Occupation Parisian purveyor of cool beats, techno, bass and minimal soundscapes. Yet more French taste makers? It’s true that France has been at the cutting edge of dancefloor innovation for a good while now – from Daft Punk through Sebastian…

High Tease and Vegas!

25 Jun 2009

Not only is this glamorous team-up night a celebration of American Independence Day, there’s also another kind of emancipation going on. After eight years running a regular monthly event at Glasgow’s Ferry, the Edinburgh-based VEGAS! crowd have decided…

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Edge Festival add to line-up

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Edge Festival add to line-up

25 Jun 2009

From a Poet Laureate to cult TV show writers, this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival launched in style, with a programme boasting writers, poets, politicians, photographers and artists from 45 countries. Highlights of the August line-up…

Site Specifics: The Falkirk Wheel

Site Specifics: The Falkirk Wheel

25 Jun 2009

Occupation? The world’s only rotating boatlift. There are two canals which run through Falkirk but don’t connect, see? The Wheel lifts boats from one to the other. And commemorates the millennium. Aye, nine years ago it was millenniums as far as the eye…

Helen Baker: In colour

Helen Baker: In colour

(3 stars)25 Jun 2009

PAINTING Helen Baker describes her new paintings as resembling ‘shrunken Bridget Rileys, frayed and left on the wrong wash cycle’. It’s a canny comparison. Where Riley’s op-art pieces were born from a precise structural aesthetic, Baker’s mosaic-like…

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs

25 Jun 2009

Despite none of us really knowing what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the earth, the BBC made a fine attempt at recreating it a few years back. Walking with Dinosaurs took nature documentaries to a whole new level, using scientific research and…

Foodies Festival hits second year

25 Jun 2009

Following its inaugural success last year, the Foodies Festival will return to Edinburgh this summer for a foodie extravaganza in and around Holyrood. Following the pattern of last year’s line-up, this year’s programme boasts demonstrations from…

Numbers

Numbers

25 Jun 2009

The trailblazing stargazers from Glasgow’s Numbers are throwing a party to celebrate a milestone of significant arithmetical value. Six years ago they arrived on the scene, bright eyed and bushy tailed, unwittingly setting new standards in a clubland…

White Denim

White Denim

25 Jun 2009

Relentless touring can have strange effects on a band, but in White Denim’s case it left them so stroppy that they came up with their best record to date. Fits takes its title from the ups and downs and tantrums of the recording process as the Texan…

Self Help/Respect

Self Help/Respect

25 Jun 2009

Three years after her Fringe debut Pendulum attracted positive reviews, Anita Gallo is staging a new double bill of work at The GRV. Self Help and Respect – directed by Pendulum actor Andy Corelli – were initially written to be performed as separate…

Also Released - Film

25 Jun 2009

Blood: The Last Vampire (18) 91min Vampire hunter Saya (Gianna Jun) is unrivalled, but that’s because she is half bloodsucker herself – on her mother’s side. Will she go to the dark side or will she carry on fighting for the mortals? Popular anime gets…

Lionel Loueke

Lionel Loueke

25 Jun 2009

Guitarist Lionel Loueke came to jazz via an early immersion in African music in his homeland of Benin, a grounding that has contributed to the distinctive style that caught the ears of Herbie Hancock and Terence Blanchard, both of whom have called on…

Homegrown

Homegrown

25 Jun 2009

The Homegrown showcase at the Glasgow Jazz Festival is now in its fifth year and offers an opportunity to both the public and a number of invited promoters and agents to catch up with the latest work of a range of Scotland’s best musicians. More…

Katyn

Katyn

(4 stars)25 Jun 2009

The secret 1940 execution of 22,000 Polish POW and other patriotic citizens and its legacy is examined in this multi-thread historical drama from veteran Polish filmmaker Andrej Wajda (Danton, Man of Iron, Ashes and Diamonds). Shortly after Germany’s…

The Canterbury Tales

(3 stars)25 Jun 2009

ADAPTATION Made in 1971, the second of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s noted trilogy, The Canterbury Tales has much to admire about it, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of his earlier adaptation of The Decameron. The answer as to why this might be is…

Sunshine Cleaning

Sunshine Cleaning

(3 stars)25 Jun 2009

Suicide may be painless, but in the world of black comedies, it’s the cleaning up afterwards that really hurts. After her hesitant Sylvia Plath biopic, director Christine Jeffs has latched on to a solid if unexceptional script by first-time writer Megan…

This Year’s Thing

This Year’s Thing

25 Jun 2009

It’s been 40 years since the death of Judy Garland and the (arguably unrelated) Stonewall Riots, a violent police raid on a New York bar that’s often seen as the beginning of the gay rights movement. To mark the anniversary, Edinburgh’s foremost LGBT…

5 Reasons to go see: The Felt Tips

5 Reasons to go see: The Felt Tips

25 Jun 2009

1 They’re high flyers The Felt Tips met while enjoying a classic rock’n’roll past time – not freebasing cocaine at 10,000 feet, but flying a kite on Largs beach in 2006. 2 Big specs and cardigans are a must The jangly Glasgow quartet continue a long…

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