Music and Previews

Wu-Tang Clan set for 2010 UK tour

Five reasons to go see: Wu-Tang Clan

21 Jul 2010

1. They’re back and ‘formin’ like Voltron’ This is the first Scottish performance to feature ALL associated Wu members since 2007’s T In The Park. So expect RZA, GZA, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, U-god, Masta Killa and…

Doc Brown: Rapper turned stand-up hits Edinburgh

Unfamous rapper turned on to comedy by big sister Zadie Smith

16 Jul 2010

Rapper geek turned stand-up Doc Brown has always felt like an outcast despite moving in some rarefied media circles. Claire Sawers discovers that he’s fine talking about his famous author sister. For now …

Festival collaboration unites Alonzo King Lines Ballet with Zakir Hussain

EIF show fuses Indian classical music and contemporary American ballet

16 Jul 2010

Zakir Hussain was always destined for musical greatness: one look at his childhood bedtime routine will tell you that. For years he would come home from school and go straight to sleep, only to be awakened by his father at midnight to rehearse through…

Vuvuzelas banned from T in the Park

7 Jul 2010

Happy days! Following their rather dubious outing at this year’s World Cup, festival-goers have been told not to take vuvuzelas to T in the Park. Festival heads are concerned that the controversial South African horn will put off the artists. Organisers…

Pioneering spirit - Andrew Weatherall interview

7 Jul 2010

To say that Andrew Weatherall has had a diverse career is a bit of an understatement. He started way back in the late 80s DJing the backroom at Shoom (often credited as the birth place of Britain’s acid house scene). ‘I’d be the kid that would play at…

King Creosote and Ballboy set for Charity Baw II

7 Jul 2010

After welcoming acts like Vashti Bunyan, Aberfeldy and Meursault last year, (meanwhile raising thousands of pounds for charity) the ‘Baw’ is back with an even bigger line-up. Acoustic folkster King Creosote will be headlining the ‘main stage’, giving…

Gould Piano Trio and Doric String Quartet set for Music at Paxton

7 Jul 2010

It’s only a few years old, but the Music at Paxton festival of top-notch chamber music in a beautiful setting is an event looked forward to by music lovers far and wide. Whether resident in the peaceful Borders countryside where Paxton House sits by the…

Graeme Clark guests as The Revenge at Return to Mono

5 Jul 2010

For Graeme Clark, aka The Revenge, this is something of a golden period. As if to prove the point, The List has to conduct an email interview with him all the way from Japan, where he’s on tour. It’s a long way from his home in Glasgow and even farther…

JakN continue the minimal techno at the GRV

5 Jul 2010

Now heading into their seventh year, it seems a pleasure for the boys at Edinburgh techno night JakN to be able to report a positive change on the horizon. After all, they’ve already endured two venue changes (one forced on them when their original…

Five reasons to see: Rod Stewart - honourary Scot

2 Jul 2010

1. He’s faux-Scots, innit? Roderick David ‘Rod’ Stewart was born and raised in Highgate, north London and has the accent to match, yet he never stops banging on about his love for all things tartan. And for that we love him. 2. He ‘sings like a…

Martha Reeves set for UK tour - interview

30 Jun 2010

‘I’m happy to say I’m back in full-time showbusiness,’ declares Motown icon Martha Reeves. After four years of splitting her days between music and politics – as a Detroit city councillor – she’s now focusing her energy on reviving the legendary R&B…

Will.i.am set for UK DJ tour 2010

30 Jun 2010

Name Will.i.am Occupation He’s in some band, The Black Eyed Peas, you might’ve heard of them … So what’s he doing in the club section? BEP are headlining the Radio 1/NME Stage at T in the Park and Will’s heading straight to Glasgow…

Glee Club hits Glasgow’s Theatre Royal

30 Jun 2010

Glee may have left our television screens but Glasgow’s Theatre Royal is giving kids the chance to be their own Rachel Berry or Finn Hudson this summer. Children can take part in the theatre’s popular series of workshops, giving 8–16-year-olds a chance…

Exposure: Silk Flowers

30 Jun 2010

Formed in a Manhattan art gallery, electronic experimentalists Silk Flowers – Aviram Cohen, Ethan Swan, Peter Schuette – make music which is artful but uncategorisable, and have released on No Age’s Post Present Medium label. Think Throbbing Gristle…

T in the Park 2010: Richie Hawtin on the rebirth of Plastikman

24 Jun 2010

Richie Hawtin is one of the true pioneers of electronica. Born in Oxfordshire, he moved to Ontario, Canada, at the age of nine, where his love of alternative music (the likes of Echo & the Bunnymen, New Order and Depeche Mode) grew until he heard a new…

T in the Park 2010: Delphic interview

24 Jun 2010

‘A dance aesthetic with proper songs’ is how Delphic’s Matt Cocksedge describes his band’s musical outlook. Given that the Stockport-formed quartet Delphic (founders Cocksedge, Richard Boardman and James Cook, plus recently recruited drummer Dan Hadley…

T in the Park 2010: T Break Stage's Ones to Watch

24 Jun 2010

Want to know who’s worth keeping an eye on at this year’s T Break stage? DJ Hobbes, DJ at Trouble and promoter of Limbo at the Voodoo Rooms, the live music night once described as ‘the barometer of pop in Scotland’, picks his five acts to watch

The Phantom Band, 1990s and Astral Planes set for Commercial Alternative festival

24 Jun 2010

This debut festival outing takes place at the lovely Mono Café Bar, and has a cracking line-up for £20. This gets you a full day of performances, including a great Scottish contingent of The Phantom Band, 1990s, Astral Planes, Remember Remember, Golden…

T in the Park 2010: Festival insider - Crae Caldwell

24 Jun 2010

Name Crae Caldwell Occupation DFC Artist Production How many TITP’s have you been to? 11 Favourite festival moment? Standing on the Slam Stage with The Chemical Brothers making the whoopee with the lasers. What items will you…

Nick Cave makes Irregular appearance in Edinburgh

24 Jun 2010

No, you didn’t just hallucinate that. Nick Cave’s popping down to the Roxy. This Canongate Books/Edinburgh International Film Festival multimedia event brings the Aussie music/film/literature icon, who will be reading from his novel, The Death of Bunny…

Unicorn Kid lined up for Cab Vol, T in the Park, Belladrum, Wickerman and Bestival

24 Jun 2010

Ahead of a bunch of summer festival shows including T in the Park, Belladrum, Wickerman, Bestival and more, Unicorn Kid is showing he has the work ethic to back up the hype that’s currently swirling around him, with a rigorous tour around the UK. Rob Da…

Kid Canaveral launch Shouting at Wildlife with Scottish gigs

24 Jun 2010

St Andrews indie-poppers and Fence darlings Kid Canaveral are finally gracing us with a debut album after a string of great singles and their jubilant ‘Left and Right’ EP last year. Shouting at Wildlife comes out this fortnight (see review, page ??), so…

List film editor Paul Dale discusses Sun Ra on radio show

17 Jun 2010

The List’s reclusive film editor Paul Dale will be making a very exclusive appearance this Saturday on Scotland’s best jazz radio show. Dale will be guesting on the mighty DJ Oscar Askin’s Jazz and Beyond show from 10pm-Midnight on Saturday 19 June to…

A Midsummer Day’s Dream brings Nurse With Wound to Glasgow's Tramway

16 Jun 2010

Former Monty Python Minister of Silly Walks John Cleese isn’t the first name that springs to mind when you think of Steven Stapleton’s veteran underground institution, Nurse With Wound. Without Cleese, though, NWW would probably never have existed.

Crosby, Stills and Nash line up 2010 UK tour

16 Jun 2010

Since their guest-starring role at last year’s Glastonbury (playing in proximity to, but sadly not alongside, their erstwhile fourth member Neil Young), this trio have been pounding the rock’n’roll comeback trail so favoured lately by bands of their…