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Scottish news bulletin: 8th January 2009

8 Jan 2009

Restaurants: Record closures loom for Scottish restaurants, with fears of large scale closures and job losses. (Scotsman page 1). Law Firms: Leading law firm Thornton’s Solicitors cuts one in seven jobs, sparking fears of widespread job losses in the…

UnCreative Scotland?

8 Jan 2009

As the arts world waits for a clear proposal from Creative Scotland, the current stalemate is potentially damaging, argues Robin Hodge

The Wrestler

Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler

8 Jan 2009

I’ve had a poster of Mickey Rourke on my wall for over 20 years now. A black and white blow-up from Alan Parker’s Angel Heart, it pictures Rourke as private detective Harry Angel, freshly demobbed after WWII, his hair back-combed into an untidy quiff…

Béla Fleck

Celtic Connections - Béla Fleck

8 Jan 2009

What’s in a name? In the case of Celtic Connections, not much, or at least, nothing too literal. Anyone who insisted on the strict application of the name would have found themselves left well behind almost from the launch of the festival back in 1994.

Steve McQueen - Queen and Country

Steve McQueen - Queen and Country

8 Jan 2009

This exhibition by Steve McQueen, the Turner Prize-winning artist behind the film Hunger and current official war artist, commemorates the British soldiers who have died in Iraq through the creation of books of stamps depicting the soldiers. A campaign…

The Man Who Had All the Luck

The Man Who Had All the Luck - O lucky man

8 Jan 2009

Arthur Miller took perhaps the hardest knock to his reputation early on in his career, in 1944 when his Broadway debut, The Man Who Had All the Luck opened and closed within a week to empty houses and much derision from the critics. His first major play…

Julia

Julia

8 Jan 2009

THRILLER/DRAMA What begins as a grim character study of a middle-aged alcoholic becomes a blackly funny crime caper/road movie. Tilda Swinton is in ferocious good form as the titular 40-year-old drunk, a woman whose natural good looks and flamboyant…

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

8 Jan 2009

ROMANCE/DRAMA Adapted by Simon Beaufoy from Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&A this winning story of a Mumbai street urchin (Skins’ Dev Patel) who makes it to the final round of India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? might well be the film that…

Kate Nash

Preview 2009 - Albums

8 Jan 2009

The start of ‘09 sees a hip hop war brewing, with new records by some of the genre’s heaviest hitters landing on the streets. First we’ve got to survive January, though, and what more uplifting way than with Bruce Springsteen ’s Working on a Dream?

Ewan Morrison

Preview 2009 - Books

8 Jan 2009

It’s another hot year for the Scottish contingent with Denise Mina , Irvine Welsh and Ewan Morrison all bringing out books (July) although arguably the country’s most intriguing 2009 publication comes from Dundee debutant Gavin Bain . California…

Slumdog Millionaire

Preview 2009 - Danny Boyle

8 Jan 2009

It’s not uncommon for the films that turn out to be the best of any given year to have been released at the beginning of that year. Think of Lust, Caution, No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juno and There Will be Blood – all…

Doc Martens

Preview 2009 - Fashion

8 Jan 2009

For years now, predicting the upcoming season’s trends has been a matter of guessing which decade of the 20th century we’ll be nicking our looks from. Mini dresses and go-go boots? Flares? Flares again? Flares on men? All this rifling through the…

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Preview 2009 - Film

8 Jan 2009

There are three years to go until the end of the world, according to Mayan prophecies and it seems filmmakers can’t stop looking back to look forward. Let’s start at the beginning of the year when the 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, civil rights…

The Phantom Band

Preview 2009 - Local talent

8 Jan 2009

MUSIC: The Phantom Band We’ve been tipping this Glasgow sextet, who make what’s most succinctly described as ‘experimental krautrock’, for greatness for a wee while now. Their debut album Checkmate Savage lands in late January, fresh off the Chemikal…

Girls Aloud

Preview 2009 - Pop Music

8 Jan 2009

‘Pop is back!’, Same Difference exclaim in typically camp fashion on the advert for their not-so-innovatively-titled debut, erm, Pop. Simon Cowell’s karaoke factory might not be the best example of it, but their statement is bang on. Strictly speaking…

Nokia N97

Preview 2009 - Technology

8 Jan 2009

If 2008 was anything to go by, 2009 should bring many great techy things to our lives. Firefox 3 made everything easier and better as domestic broadband got cheaper and faster. The house of innovation that is Google will be hard pushed in 2009 to better…

Be Near Me

Preview 2009 - Theatre

8 Jan 2009

Recession? What recession? If you believe the old adage that entertainment thrives in hard times (proven by the rise of the cinema in the austere 30s) surely theatre, which offers escape into alternative worlds, is the ideal diversion from dreary…

Attic Lights

Shoeshine Showcase

8 Jan 2009

CELTIC CONNECTIONS The Shoeshine imprint isn’t so much a label (although it’s that too) as it is a catch-all umbrella term for any venture which Francis Macdonald has a hand in. The Glasgow-based musician, producer, manager and musical entrepreneur’s…

Underneath The Arches

Underneath The Arches

8 Jan 2009

Glasgow’s Arches, as anyone who’s worked there will tell you, is the sort of place that doesn’t so much defy your expectations as consistently confound them. Audiences might marvel at the sort of building that can stage a theatre show, art exhibition…

Alex Smoke

Alex Smoke

8 Jan 2009

TECHNO Despite his own career as a DJ and producer, and the fact his third album Lux is lined up for release this spring, it’s label business which has been concerning Alex Smoke of late. Having released his first two albums and a selection of 12s on…

Malinky

Malinky

8 Jan 2009

CELTIC CONNECTIONS In many ways the ever-growing success of Scottish folk outfit Malinky mirrors that of Celtic Connections, a festival the band have become inextricably linked with over the last decade. The band formed ten years ago from the vibrant…

The Wrestler

The Wrestler

8 Jan 2009

DRAMA/SPORT ‘What happened, did the price of tights go up?’ a sneering store-manager taunts Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson (Mickey Rourke) when the impoverished wrestling star comes looking for work. Fighting a losing battle with his own finances, Randy…

Little Joy

Exposure - Little Joy

8 Jan 2009

For those who’ve been wondering where The Strokes have been hiding since 2006, here’s one of five answers. Little Joy is drummer Fabrizio Moretti, alongside Los Hermanos’ Rodrigo Amarante and Moretti’s girlfriend Binki Shapiro. Their self-titled debut…

Joakim

Profile - !K7 Records

8 Jan 2009

Name: !K7 Records Who’s playing? Joakim (pictured) and Chicken Lips, in the !K7 Room at this month’s Death Disco What’s !K7? A Berlin-based dance and electronic label/empire which now has offices throughout the world, including London, New York…

Karla Black - Material world

Karla Black - Material world

8 Jan 2009

If 2008 was a good year for Karla Black, 2009 is going to be even better. After several international solo shows and inclusion in Art Now at Tate Britain, the Glasgow-based artist is on the cusp of another busy 12 months. Solo exhibitions are in the…

Rep’e.t’tion

rep’e.t’tion

8 Jan 2009

REVIEW MIXED MEDIA A little jewel of a show can currently be found lodged below Argyle Street in Glasgow, featuring works by a variety of local and international artists who share a common interest in the idea of repetition. Curated by Sorcha Dallas…

Syntheme

Syntheme

8 Jan 2009

Expect some seriously squelchy acid techno from Planet Mu signing Syntheme at 2009’s first instalment of Inner City Acid. At once forward thinking yet lovingly retro Syntheme (aka Louise Woods) will be coaxing some distorted dancefloor grooves form her…

The Mighty Boosh

5 Things you might not know about - The Mighty Boosh

8 Jan 2009

1 Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt decided to become a double act while appearing as a penis and a whale in Stewart Lee’s 1997 Edinburgh show, King Dong v Moby Dick. Lee in turn directed their ‘99 bonanza Arctic Boosh which was nominated for the…

Academy Live

Academy Live

8 Jan 2009

It’s the second year of Academy Events’ UK tour of untapped talent, and Glasgow’s Any Color Black headline, with Broadcast 2000, The Winchell Riots and The Volt sharing the bill. O2 Academy 2, Glasgow, Sat 17 January. (Rock & Pop)

Also Published - 5 Health Books

8 Jan 2009

Bruce Byron - Fat Bloke Slims Actor from The Bill and hubbie of Dr Tanya spills the beans on how he shed the pounds. Penguin . Joe Fournier & Jordan Paramor - Red Carpet Workout Fronted by celebrity sporting trainer Fournier, this is a short-term…

Also Released - Film

8 Jan 2009

Bride Wars (PG) 90min ••• Bridezilla comedy pitting Anne Hathaway against Kate Hudson from the makers of Ugly Betty and Lipstick Jungle. There’s a few good jokes and set pieces but this is ultimately a girl’s flick that never quite makes it down the…

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

8 Jan 2009

COMEDY/ADVENTURE The gritty, seedy world of Mexican dog fighting evoked in Amores Perros is (unsurprisingly) entirely missing from this brightly-lit family comedy from Raja Gosnell, the auteur behind Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Beverly…

Brian K Vaughan & Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Man

Brian K Vaughan & Pia Guerra - Y: The Last Man

8 Jan 2009

SCI-FI Brian K Vaughn is one of the most interesting writers in comics Runaways, Ex Machina and Pride of Baghdad offering a new perspective when it comes to graphic storytelling. Y: The Last Man has been similarly praised and deservedly so. In…

Common - Universal Mind Control

Common - Universal Mind Control

8 Jan 2009

HIP HOP SOUL Common has been around long enough to reinvent himself a couple of times already but his social conscious that extended beyond the dime bags and low riders always set him apart from the gangsta shit. For this, his eighth album he enlists…

David Heath

Conflict and Resolution

8 Jan 2009

CELTIC CONNECTIONS The life of Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh will be celebrated in unusual fashion in this concert featuring a specially commissioned new work for musicians from Scotland and Catalonia, with the BBC…

Massage

Courses, classes and activities

8 Jan 2009

Alternative Therapy Edinburgh Aromatherapy Far superior to a nasty blast of air freshener, learn the subtle art of aromatherapy, with beginner’s classes in essential oils and massage. An 8-week non-vocational course is available through the…

Damon & Naomi - More Sad Hits

Damon & Naomi - More Sad Hits

8 Jan 2009

PSYCHEDELIC POP Back in the humble days of 1992, the people still mourned the demise of Galaxie 500. Determined to steer their lives away from music, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang were persuaded to re-enter the studio by producer Mark Kramer and…

Defiance

Defiance

8 Jan 2009

DRAMA/WAR The suggestion in Knocked Up that Steven Spielberg’s Munich was ‘Rambo for Jews’ seems to have inspired Edward Zwick’s latest project. After military epics Glory and The Last Samurai, Zwick arrives at the remarkable true story of the…

DVD Round-Up

8 Jan 2009

It’s January and the party is over. Months of belt-tightening and couch surfing lay ahead for those of us bankrupted by seasonal (or more international financial) excess. But let’s keep in mind Jean-Paul Sartre’s eulogy that ‘to read a poem in January…

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader

8 Jan 2009

Fairground Attraction’s former frontwoman continues her love affair with Ayrshire’s philandering ploughman poet, as she sings the songs of Robert Burns, accompanied by the Orchestra of Scottish Opera. Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Sun 18 Jan. (Folk)

Eddi Reader - The Songs of Robert Burns: Deluxe Edition

Eddi Reader - The Songs of Robert Burns: Deluxe Edition

8 Jan 2009

CELTIC For Burns to endure for 250 years, every generation needs its own way of appreciating him. Five years ago, Eddi Reader provided her take on the Songs of Robert Burns and not only was the folk world enraptured by one of the great Scottish…

Fame

Fame

8 Jan 2009

Pull on your leotard and button down your Oxfords as the Playhouse goes back to the 80s with a stage version of the Oscar-winning film that launched a million pairs of legwarmers. This early blueprint for High School Musical stars X Factor finalist…

Fashion photography

Fashion photography

8 Jan 2009

If you’ve ever wanted to be a fashion photographer, here’s your chance to set up your own fashion shoot using the Jean Muir handling collection (pictured). Fashion photographer and model Anna Isola Crolla will be on hand to show you the ropes. Bring…

Fighters •••• & Real Money •••

Fighters •••• & Real Money •••

8 Jan 2009

SPORT/BOX SET Ron Peck’s 1991 documentary on boxing is a romantic, idealised, even sentimental portrayal of a sport often denounced as brutal and barbaric. Die-hard lovers of boisterous fight night atmosphere may be baffled: any action in the ring…

Floatation tank

Floatariums

8 Jan 2009

‘I usually take sessions twice a month,’ says an amiable Roger Tyler, co-owner of Glasgow’s Willow Trading Rooms, and home to Glasgow’s only flotation tank. ‘Flotation tanks,’ he explains, ‘provide a unique experience for each person, the feeling of…

Frank Turner - The First Three Years

Frank Turner - The First Three Years

8 Jan 2009

AGIT POP It’s a bit cheeky to release a best of when you’ve only been around for three years. But it’s easy to forgive Frank Turner; British punk rock’s loss was UK alt folk’s gain. The songs sound as good as they always did, and the rock version of…

Franziska Furter: Spark Erosion

Franziska Furter: Spark Erosion

8 Jan 2009

Swiss artist Franziska Furter here presents a challenging series of sophisticated conceptual works. The skin and bones of this exhibition are graphite drawings, PVC pebbles, and electrical tape sculptures, none too exciting or provocative in their own…

Celtic Connections

Gaelic film festival announced as part of Celtic Connections

8 Jan 2009

Film companies Craic and MG ALBA have announced details of an all Gaelic film festival to be held between 22–24 Jan at the CCA in Glasgow, presented as part of this year’s Celtic Connections festival. Held over three days, the festival will showcase…

Gemma Weekes

Gemma Weekes - Love Me

8 Jan 2009

‘A Big Mac and a hot chocolate please,’ comes the voice down the phone. Gemma Weekes is in McDonalds, ordering lunch, pushing her son’s buggy and doing an interview. I ask if I’m calling at a bad time. ‘No, no,’ she insists, laughing and also…

Gerry Findley-Day & Various - The VCs: You’re Hit, You’re Dead

Gerry Findley-Day & Various - The VCs: You’re Hit, You’re Dead

8 Jan 2009

SCI-FI Rebellion here reprints 2000AD’s sci-fi tale of space warfare, The VCs, for the first time, in which the Vacuum Cleaners take on the power of the alien Geek empire. Created by Gerry Findley-Day (who also created Rogue Trooper) in many ways The…

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