Performance

Adele confirms Grammys comeback

Music Gossip

31 Jan 2012

Adele has confirmed she will make her live comeback at the Grammy Awards next month. The 'Someone Like You' hitmaker - who underwent surgery on her vocal cords for a benign polyp last year, forcing her to cancel a string of concerts in America and…

Tori Amos played gay gig at 13

Music Gossip

14 Jan 2012

Tori Amos played her first gig in a gay bar when she was just 13 years old. The 'Professional Widow' hitmaker always knew she wanted to be a professional musician and says the shows - to which she was accompanied by her minister father - taught her a…

Bletherheads

Literary and performance talent on the cheap

21 Aug 2009

Why would you bother forking out your last twenty quid for a probably patchy big-name comedian when you can see the cream of Scotland’s literary and performance talent, live, for less than the price of a fish supper? The increasingly ubiquitous…

5 Things You Might Know About: Blue Man Group

14 May 2009

BLUE MAN GROUP 1 The original Blue Men are Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink, New York street performers who established their own Club Nowhere outside the Copacabana in the late 1980s. Previously, they had hammered away at their plumbing pipes…

Three Blows

3 Jul 2008

PERFORMANCE St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 5 & Sun 6 Jul As the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, St Cecilia’s Hall is in possession of unique acoustic properties. St Cecilia, of course, was the patron saint of church music, whose…

Melanie Gilligan

8 May 2008

PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 10 May This exhibition by London-based artist and writer Melanie Gilligan takes place not in the usual Transmission gallery, but in an upper Wasps studio space opposite. The…

Kalup Linzy

24 Apr 2008

FILM, PERFORMANCE AND PAINTING Washington Garcia, Glasgow, until Sun 27 Apr New-York based Kalup Linzy is more Vaginal Davis than a ‘Paris is Burning’ starlet, more Judy la Bruce (Bruce’s alter-ego) than Hedwig. But it cannot be denied that all of…

Body Parts 3

RSA, Edinburgh, run ended

13 Mar 2007

PERFORMANCE The essence of performance art is its unpredictability. From the medium’s rise in the 1960s and 70s with early shock tactics, such as artist Chris Burden’s infamous ‘Shoot’ where the artist was shot in the arm at close range, to work like…

Giles Bailey - Sound Examples for 'Average Performance' Experiments

Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, until Sat 18 Nov

11 Nov 2006

INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE What are we other than a bag of warped memories with some genitals attached? The decentered subject that was heralded almost 40 years ago is a theoretical construction that has just not caught on. The postmodern subject…