New Wave

The Virgins

16 Apr 2009

Their name may suggest an aura of the un-cool but New York trio The Virgins are far from a group of fumbling, sweaty palmed boys with who look like their Mothers dress them. Their new-wave inspired rock with tangible dancefloor potential is sure to go…

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno finally sees the light of day

30 Oct 2009

Several years ago the French film restoration specialist Serge Bromberg went to visit the octogenarian widow, Ines, of the director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the man responsible for such misanthropic classics as The Raven, The Wages of Fear and Les…

Julian Plenti... is Skyscraper

7 Aug 2009

It’s not always surprising when a guitarist or keyboard player unveils solo desires, but when the frontman of a band steps up, it seems a bit weird. Now, as Julian ‘Strokes’ Casablancas attempts to convince us that he really is the brains behind his…

The B-52s

Preview - Carling Academy, Glasgow, Mon 21 Jul

17 Jul 2008

Aside from almost daily radio outings for ‘Love Shack’ and ‘Rock Lobster’, new wave pioneers turned camp party pop stars The B-52s have been all but unheard of since their last album Good Stuff came out in 1992. The Athens Georgia quartet have been…

Vampire Weekend

24 Apr 2008

The Paul Simon revival, inexplicably, just might start here. Preppy New York quartet Vampire Weekend borrow elements of their sound from Afrobeat, post-punk and new wave, but the fact of four well-off white kids co-opting African rhythms can’t fail to…

The Magnificents

3 Jul 2007

ELECTRO ROCK The Magnificents were always ahead of the game. Formed seven years ago at Edinburgh Art College, the eccentric but brilliant foursome set about assaulting audiences with a relentless, high-octane blend of post-punk and new wave, at a…

Franz Ferdinand

18 Jun 2007

NEW WAVE At the first of this intimate, exciting two-night warm-up residency for their continental summer festival dates, Franz Ferdinand served notice of a dramatic change in style to compensate for the rather underwhelming fare which made up most…

DVD - Eric Rohmer: The Early Works

Eric Rohmer: The Early Works

26 Mar 2007

NEW WAVE The French New Wave debuts of the late 50s that we all know about are Godard’s Breathless and Truffaut’s 400 Blows, but Eric Rohmer’s too little seen 1959 debut feature, Le Signe Du Lion (Sign of the Lion) is easily their equal.

Introducing . . .

The best new nights in town, this month: Club Anti

12 Mar 2007

Residents John Goucher, Craig Harper and Sean Clinton.