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Downhill Downtown – Nevis Centre, Fort William, 8 & 9 June 2012
23 Aug 2012
Two-part music festival and mountain biking event features great acts but low turnout
One of 2012’s new kids on the festival block, Downhill Downtown showcases both established and emerging Scottish musical talent, whilst piggybacking on a truly international event – the Scottish stage of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, which draws the…
Secret Motorbikes EP review - I Get Up
9 Jul 2012
Gnarly and rewarding listen from new Glasgow based noiseniks
New Glasgow based noiseniks, Secret Motorbikes, deliver 'I Get Up', their second offering in as many months, after their previous effort 'This Is Not A Hostel'. This relentless DIY ethic that the guys pursue clearly serves them well as their playful…
Here, Then and One Mile Away honoured at EIFF 2012 awards
6 Jul 2012
Penny Woolcock, Andrea Riseborough and Brid Brennan among the winners
The 66th EIFF awards took place at the Filmhouse cinema on Saturday, with Mao Mao’s Here, Then and Penny Woolcock‘s One Mile Away among the films honoured. Here, Then was declared Best International Feature Film by an illustrious jury, including…
Scotrail announce expanded Edinburgh Festival 2012 train timetable
4 Jul 2012
Additional night services to Glasgow, Dundee, Perth and North Berwick
New late-night train services to and from Edinburgh will make it easier for those outside the city to visit the 2012 festival. In Glasgow, there will be a Fringe box office at Queen Street station from July 27. Tickets bought online in advance can be…
How to visit the Edinburgh Festival
2 Jul 2012
A guide to getting the best from the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe
The phrase 'planned itinerary' might might be at odds with the spirit of chaos and wild abandon you associated with your visit to the Edinburgh Festival. The brutal truth is that shows do sell out, so book tickets to things you definitely want to see.
God Bless America
2 Jul 2012
Dark satire from comedian Bobcat Goldthwait about an oddball duo who embark on a killing spree
Ironically titled but sincerely intended, God Bless America is a comedy drama about ‘going postal’. Boiling with rage at society’s ills are two avenging oddballs; they’re Bonnie and Clyde for anyone tired of being reduced to a mere consumer. From…
Q&A: Arab Strap singer Aidan Moffat chats to Gregory's Girl's Colin Tully
29 Jun 2012
The 2012 SAY award winner talks to saxman and composer of Glasgow's cult 80s classic before one-off
Aidan Moffat: How did you come to work with Bill Forsyth? I know you worked on his first film, That Sinking Feeling – had you known each other beforehand? Colin Tully: Can't say I knew Bill well before That Sinking Feeling. His…
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
29 Jun 2012
Powerful piece exploring the many Scotlands that exist in the wee hours
Not even the most hardened cynic could sniff at the ambition of this Vital Spark project headed up by Cora Bissett, who has invited writers and musicians from across the land to create work exploring the many Scotlands that exist between the hours of…
The Amazing Spider-Man
29 Jun 2012
Marc Webb breathes new life into this Marvel comic favourite
Originally envisaged as the fourth film in the Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man became a re-boot once those two names departed. Rather than a weak imitation however, incoming director Marc Webb succeeds in breathing new life…
Martin Creed - Love to You
29 Jun 2012
Turner Prize Winner produces rollercoaster of a record
It’s de rigeur for Turner Prize winners to play in bands these days, and anyone familiar with Martin Creed’s oeuvre from his 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival show at the Fruitmarket Gallery and accompanying live song-and-dance routine at the Traverse will…
Twin Shadow - Confess
29 Jun 2012
George Lewis Jr proffers poised pop record midst worldwide tour
George Lewis Jr is the perfect 21st century pop star. Handsome, talented, fêted and ridiculously cool, it’s quite possible he was grown in a petri dish to satisfy the desires of contemporary audiences who feel they can discern what is genuine from…
The View to play T in the Park 2012
29 Jun 2012
The Dundonian group will take to the Main Stage on Saturday under the name The Dryburgh Soul Band
After the somewhat inevitable news that Pete Doherty would yet again forego a stint at T in the Park, ticket holders have been mollified with better news: The View will perform a main stage set Saturday 7 July, under the sly pseudonym The Dryburgh Soul…
Peaking Lights - Lucifer
29 Jun 2012
Bonged out whimsy only part of charm of Wisconsin duo's new record
Where Wisconsin electro-dub/ chillwave husband-wife duo Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis’ acclaimed second album, 936, released last November, was the soundtrack to an imaginary summer, its prompt follow-up appropriately arrives just in time for your…
Gregory La Cava Retrospective
28 Jun 2012
A look at the glamour, irreverence and eccentricity of the under-appreciated Hollywood director
It’s touching somehow that Nora Ephron’s sad death coincided with the arrival of a Gregory La Cava retrospective at EIFF and Filmhouse. His masterworks of screwball action and improvised banter occupy just the sort of eternal Old Hollywood cocktail hour…
Five things you didn't know about the Edinburgh International Film Festival
28 Jun 2012
Five fun facts featuring John Huston, Bill Forsyth and Barry Norman
‘The Only Festival Worth A Damn’ EIFF is rightly proud of this tribute by John Huston, made in 1972 when he brought Fat City to the festival. But he had a debt to repay. Houston had attended Edinburgh in 1954, an uncongenial two day visit characterised…
Differently, Molussia
28 Jun 2012
Stories of the paradoxical and obscure, inspired by extracts from an unpublished Gunther Anders book
Differently, Molussia is a 16mm film made up of nine short segments that with each screening are shown in a different order. There are only three prints available: one subtitled in English, one subtitled in French and one in the original German: the…
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
28 Jun 2012
Insubstantial documentary about the photographer and filmmaker
Early in this all-too reverent and ponderous documentary it becomes apparent that the man at its centre is not as fascinating an interview subject as director Klaartje Quirijns believes. Dutch photographer – and more recently film director – Anton…
Berberian Sound Studio
28 Jun 2012
Striking and unsettling film from Peter Strickland set in a 1970s Italian horror sound studio
Films that address the artifice, fakery and manipulation inherent in their own medium obviously offer geeky thrills for knowing buffs, but they also draw out the intriguing emotional complexity of the filmmaker/viewer relationship: the fact that we…
Interview: Chew Lips' vocalist Tigs in the run-up to their 2012 UK tour
27 Jun 2012
Alice Huertas of London synth-pop trio on songcraft and mixtapes
How would you say Chew Lips have progressed from the first record? I think we’re completely different. It sounds…
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27 Jun 2012
Robert Carlyle gives a fine performance as a washed up Britpop musician forced to face his demons
Screenwriter and director Marshall Lewy apparently wrote the role of burnt-out Scottish rock guitarist and former star of the nineties Britpop music scene Lachlan MacAldonich specifically for his leading man Robert Carlyle. It’s certainly a canny…
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
27 Jun 2012
The comic duo’s first film is a brutal satire of Hollywood but sadly lacks laughs
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie is perhaps the worst comedy since Tom Green’s Freddy Got Fingered. Like Freddy, Billion Dollar Movie features a cult TV comedy act directing a feature film for the first time, and going overboard with bad taste…
V/H/S
27 Jun 2012
A thoroughly nasty series of handheld horror vignettes
Using ‘found footage’ as its central theme, V/H/S delivers six different stories for the price of one. In the overarching narrative ‘Tape 56’, a group of thugs raid a seemingly empty house in search of a specific video cassette, filming their actions as…
Sleep, The Arches, Glasgow, Sun 22 May
27 Jun 2012
Stoner metal from the Bay Area brings transcendent heaviness
The live Sleep experience could only ever function with obscene amounts of volume. Obviously the sticky green stuff might also be advisable to punters - depending on one’s propensity for light narcotics - but tonight it's about decibels. And low end.
Day of the Flowers
26 Jun 2012
Likeable but uneven drama about two Scottish sisters in Cuba
This light drama about family uniquely connects Glasgow and Cuba through its story of chalk and cheese sisters Rosa (Eva Birthistle) and Ailie (Charity Wakefield), the former an anti-capitalist activist, the latter a materialistic party girl, who steal…
Brave
26 Jun 2012
Beautifully realised Scottish-set animation from Pixar, featuring Kelly Macdonald and Emma Thompson
Historians might chafe at the vague approximation of medieval clan politics, and linguists query the anachronistic slang, but on the whole you’d have to be a paranoid curmudgeon indeed to take offence at this much-vaunted trip to Scotland by Pixar…
