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The Son(s) – Leviathan EP
24 May 2012
Remarkable EP of lo-fi subtlety and intimacy from the mystery-shrouded artist(s)
Having consulted an online resource to find a definition of the word 'leviathan' I was met with the task of trying to come to terms with how a mythological sea creature that is manifested as some kind of demon incarnate would find context in the lush…
Melvins Lite – Freak Puke
24 May 2012
Experimental craziness from the long-running grungers' reduced incarnation
You can never really expect every album by these insanely experimental men to sound the same. Even after 29 years of performing and recording together, The Melvins (or Melvins Lite, in this case) somehow manage to remain enthusiastic and creative in an…
Cannes 2012: Killing Them Softly
24 May 2012
Andrew Dominik’s stylish gangster film is visually impressive if occasionally lacking momentum
Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik’s third film following Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, is a bleakly humourous gangster flick with an underlying commentary on modern day moral bankruptcy. It begins with…
Cannes 2012: Trashed
24 May 2012
British documentary about waste pollution could have done with burrowing deeper
Watching British documentary Trashed it’s curious to think who the filmmakers imagined their audience to be. Exploring the impact and problems of waste disposal, the film barely scrapes the surface of its subject matter, giving the air of a dry…
DZ Deathrays – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Tue 22 May 2012
24 May 2012
Raw and intense show from the Brisbane duo
2012 should be a landmark year for DZ Deathrays. The Aussie duo were included in NME’s Top 20 Most Exciting Bands of 2012, and their debut album Bloodstreams has met with generally favourable reviews. In the meantime though, it’s pleasing to see them…
Tim Hecker / Wounded Knee / Matthew Collings
23 May 2012
Pilrig St Paul's Church, Edinburgh - Sat 19 May 2012
Anyone au fait with Sacred Music, BBC 4's two-series trawl through the history of choral worship, from plainchant to polyphony and beyond, will be as versed in the integral relationship between music and church architecture as they are with presenter…
Profile: Rob Kennedy
23 May 2012
Artist's exhibition seeks to shift focus from personality and biography
My exhibition at the CCA is a ‘solo’ exhibition that also includes work by other artists, these are included in part to shift the focus away from the biographical/personality aspects of an artist’s work that often dominate a solo exhibition while also…
CATS awards to be hosted by Alan Cumming
23 May 2012
David Harrower, Maureen Beattie and Stuart Bowman in the running for prestigious theatre awards
He’s one of the busiest actors at work today, preparing for curtain up on his one-man version Macbeth, but Alan Cumming is to take time out from rehearsals to host this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. The CATS, which this year celebrates…
Paul Brannigan, star of Ken Loach's The Angels' Share - profile
23 May 2012
The actor is also set to appear with Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin
Born 1987, Glasgow, Scotland Background After working as a football coach in the Barrowfield community in Glasgow and helping to tackle knife crime as part of a Strathclyde Police initiative, Paul Brannigan was spotted by screenwriter Paul Laverty…
Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - listen to the 16 finalists announced so far
23 May 2012
Listen to 16 of the finalists ahead of Eurovision final on Sat 16 May
It's Eurovision Song Contest time. The epic, pan-European assault on the senses that everyone loves to ridicule is screening at 8pm this Saturday. It's every European country's annual opportunity to take out their historic and current grievances through…
Scott Myles: This Production
23 May 2012
Dundee artist and former skater reclaims DCA building’s interior
It makes sense that the site of DCA used to be Scott Myles’ playground. Back then he was a skater boy and it was a bricks-and-mortar garage re-imagined as the sort of makeshift skate-park for local heroes and future high-flyers, which, under the…
What To Expect When You’re Expecting
23 May 2012
A witless and bland work based on the pregnancy self-help book
‘You don’t know what love is until you’ve wiped someone’s ass,’ offers one of the many baby-boomers in Kirk (Waking Ned, Everybody’s Fine) Jones’ multi-stranded adaptation of the bestselling self-help book about the dos and don’ts of pregnancy.
She Monkeys
23 May 2012
Impressive coming-of-age drama with frank depiction of adolescent sexuality
A courageous, periodically unsettling coming-of-age tale, She Monkeys is the arresting first feature from director Lisa Aschan. It’s a Swedish production which - in its frank approach to adolescent sexuality - bears comparison with Katell Quillévéré’s…
Com Truise set for UK tour
23 May 2012
Live interpretations of Galaxy Melt album with synth and drums
Okay, so imagine if Blade Runner was not set in a dark, dystopian, fetid, sweaty, neon shoe-box version of LA and instead was transposed to a glaring and perma-tanned Miami of the future, drowning in UV rays, Day-Glo colours; a city as one giant…
Edvard Munch: Graphic Works from the Gunderson Collection
23 May 2012
Extended introduction to troubled Norwegian painter
Perhaps the greatest surprise for casual viewers of this high-profile new exhibition from the Scottish National Galleries is the discovery that Norwegian painter Edvard Munch had a whole catalogue of work besides ‘The Scream’. One of the most famous…
Oliver! set for run at Edinburgh Playhouse
23 May 2012
Cameron Mackintosh-produced epic featuring original Lionel Bart score
‘Cameron Mackintosh doesn’t do small,’ announces Brian Conley, his warm grin a lifetime away from the Fagin character he depicts in the Scots impressario’s successful revival of Oliver! TV star Conley’s acclaimed turns in Jolson and Hairspray suggest a…
Classic Cuts Summer Season at A Play, a Pie and a Pint
23 May 2012
Bite-sized classics being served up for lunch at Oran Mor
In what is traditionally a quiet time for theatre, Glaswegians in search of a dramatic fix are strikingly well-served, and for those who don’t fancy giving up their precious long summer evenings there’s an especially tasty array of bite-sized classics…
Austra, The Unthanks and Richard Hawley set for No Direction Home 2012
23 May 2012
New festival with focus on quality from team behind End of the Road
End of the Road has been the latte-drinking, glam-camping Guardian reader's weekender of choice almost since it's inception in 2006. Picking up plaudits from The Times and The Guardian (of course) as well as an award for 'Best Small Festival' last year…
Tony Swain: Drowned Dust, Sudden Word
23 May 2012
Using materials of newsprint as starting point for abstract painting canvasses
There’s a deliberately seductive art to the design of a newspaper page, but only within the uniform rigour of the reader’s expectations. Northern Irish artist Tony Swain subverts these norms by using the materials of newsprint as the starting point for…
Callum Innes - Works on Paper 1989–2012
23 May 2012
Demonstrates tension, richness and depth already familiar in Innes’ paintings
Callum Innes’ explorations of material processes are well demonstrated in this first exhibition dedicated to his works on paper. Abstract images of colour familiar from his paintings on canvas fill the space, each one creating particular tensions…
Paul Thek: If you don’t like this book you don’t like me
23 May 2012
Candid close-up of Brooklyn-born painter and sculptor
‘I will now call to mind our past foulness and the carnal corruptions of my soul’ goes one missive culled from the now opened pages of almost a hundred notebooks left behind by Brooklyn-born painter and sculptor Thek, which came to light following his…
Clare Grogan of Altered Images - interview
22 May 2012
The singer and actress talks to us ahead of the band's appearance at the Rewind 80s Music Festival
First record you ever bought Rock On by David Essex – still an amazing and weird sounding record. Last extravagant purchase you made Vintage Chanel dress – just had to have it! First film you saw that really moved you Meet Me In St Louis – what a…
Crispian Mills on A Fantastic Fear of Everything - interview
22 May 2012
The ex-Kula Shaker frontman has directed a black comedy starring Simon Pegg
Fearless The frontman of Kula Shaker directing a film? Given Crispian Mills’ family heritage it’s not such a surprise after all, discovers Paul Gallagher. Received wisdom might suggest that rock stars who try their hands at filmmaking are essentially…
Techno night Unseen aims to shake up Edinburgh's club scene
22 May 2012
Special guest Adam X to appear in June
One of the first shoots of a clubbing revival in Edinburgh is emerging through a group of old-stagers returning home to one of the city’s most enduring venues. Together, Patrick Walker and Mike Lavin started off promoting a nascent trance night called…
Stag & Dagger, various venues, Glasgow, Sat 19 May
22 May 2012
Eleanor Friedberger and Miaoux Miaoux play as part of 13 hour gig crawl
While its London sister seems to have died a death, presumably smothered by a surfeit of such hipster-friendly crawls and brawls in the English capital, the Glasgow leg of multi-venue one-dayer Stag and Dagger happily lives on, albeit with perhaps a…
