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Pere Ubu, Mogwai, Thomas Truax and Zombie Zombie set for The Glasgow Music and Film Festival

Pere Ubu, Mogwai, Thomas Truax and Zombie Zombie set for The Glasgow Music and Film Festival

17 Feb 2010

The Music and Film Festival is a strange beast, full of contradictions and tangents that threaten to pull apart its coherence, but ultimately make it the most exciting strand of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. Co-curated by the Arches, and featuring…

Kill Your Timid Notion 2010 seeks to rewrite the rules of engagement

Kill Your Timid Notion 2010 seeks to rewrite the rules of engagement

17 Feb 2010

This experimental sound and image festival has been disrupting the peace in Dundee for seven riotous, challenging and boundary-pushing years. For 2010, however, the artists are seeking something straightforward from their audiences – participation.

Edinburgh Quartet - 50th anniversary gala concert

Edinburgh Quartet - 50th anniversary gala concert

17 Feb 2010

As the highlight of their golden anniversary season, the Edinburgh Quartet celebrate in style with a special gala concert and new commission from composer Howard Blake, he of Snowman and ‘Walking in the Air’ fame. Blake also appeared as pianist in the…

Errors set for date at Grand Ole Opry, Glasgow

Errors set for date at Grand Ole Opry, Glasgow

17 Feb 2010

‘God, I hope it doesn’t get to the point where we all try to outdo each other and turn into Rush,’ shudders Errors’ drum leviathan James Hamilton, talking about the Glasgow quartet’s rousing group dynamic. ‘But the thing about playing in an instrumental…

Exposure: So So Modern

Exposure: So So Modern

17 Feb 2010

They’re hard men to pin down, are So So Modern. In the midst of a 28-date European tour over 31 days when The List tries and fails to collar them for a chat (somewhere over France, in fact), the quartet from Wellington, New Zealand are clearly adherents…

Girls set for Glasgow live date

Girls set for Glasgow live date

17 Feb 2010

Bleary-eyed San Fran duo, Girls, follow up last October’s Scottish dates with another gig, as part of a frankly stomach-churning US/European tour. The pair, comprising of Chet ‘JR’ White and Christopher Owens, released their debut – simply titled, Album…

Sir Richard Bishop

Sir Richard Bishop

17 Feb 2010

For the past three decades, avant-garde guitar wizard, Sir Richard Bishop has dazzled, confounded and disturbed, both as a member of Arizona freaks Sun City Girls, and as a wildly inventive solo artist. While less deranged than Sun City Girls’ sprawling…

Field Music

Field Music set for Glasgow date

17 Feb 2010

Sunderland indie types Field Music have included members of The Futureheads and Maxïmo Park amongst their ranks at various times and while they share a certain quirkiness with said bands they are a more thoughtful proposition as showcased on their new…

Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu set for Edinburgh and Glasgow dates

17 Feb 2010

Jamie Stewart (the only constant member of Xiu Xiu) makes pop music. But it’s the weirdest pop music you’ll ever hear, but still encompasses the chirpy tunefulness, lyrical hooks and bouncy playfulness of the form, but imbues it with enough electronic…

Mastodon

Mastodon to showcase Crack the Skye at Barrowlands

17 Feb 2010

Huge, multifaceted progressive metal as the mighty Mastodon return. Rumour has it they are still playing their latest album, Crack the Skye (a complex masterpiece detailing the astral journeys of a paraplegic), in its entirety for the first half of…

Graeme Stephen Sextet with Ben Davis

Graeme Stephen Sextet with Ben Davis

17 Feb 2010

The sextet expands to a septet as cellist Ben Davis of Mercury Music Prize nominees Basquiat Strings joins inventive guitarist Stephen for a night of free improvisation, Celtic and world music influences. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Fri 26 Feb…

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