Rufus Wainwright

Glasgow International - Mark Cousins meets Douglas Gordon

15 Apr 2010

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art returns this fortnight with a mouth-watering programme of work by over 50 artists in venues across the city, based around the theme ‘past, present, future’. Opening the festival, internationally renowned…

Rufus Wainwright's upcoming tour features set designed by Douglas Gordon

31 Mar 2010

The son of singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III and brother of kooky chanteuse Martha brings his baroque pop to town for these two Scottish dates, including one at the freshly spruced up and reopened Usher Hall. Rufus will be doing his thing in front…

Family Affair - musical parents and children

24 Jul 2009

Living up to a world famous parent is probably not the easiest way to grow up – just look at what happened to Luke Skywalker (though that was more 'galaxy' than 'world'). Mastering the Force and battling evil across the galaxy is nothing compared to…

Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall

4 Jan 2008

SHOW TUNES (Polydor) There can have been few camper shows in living memory: 21st century gay icon Rufus Wainwright, performing a carbon recreation of ultimate 20th century gay icon Judy Garland’s legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall concert. Staged six times…

Top gigs to watch out for over the next few months

10 Sep 2007

Richard Hawley Sheffield-born singer-songwriter and ex-Pulp/Longpigs man returns with more highly acclaimed epic guitar pop. Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 0131 668 2019, Fri 14 Sep. Gwen Stefani Everyone’s favourite ska rocker turned electro pop…

Rufus Wainwright

Album

21 May 2007

POMP POP Conceived as a more commercial release than the acclaimed but largely overlooked Want One and Want Two, Release the Stars is nothing of the sort, not so much radio-unfriendly as radio-oblivious, despite the presence of Neil Tennant as…