Henry Northmore

Touching the Blue

A wonderfully constructed character story leaves you hanging

Clive Russell is instantly engaging, capturing the highs and lows of one-time snooker champion Derek Hodges as he stands on the brink of a comeback in a blackly comic monologue that gets progressively darker as the story unfolds until a shock ending…

Real Lives by Peter Bagge

Since rising to fame with Hate, his comic book chronicling the slacker generation, Peter Bagge has specialised in capturing realistic characters trapped by the frustrations of real life. Here, he casts his eye on the false personalities people project…

Club Noir and Scottish Opera collaborate on A Night At The Opera

Burlesque night prepare for unlikely pairing

Henry Northmore talks to the burlesque night as they prepare for one of this festival’s most unlikely collaborations

We Are ... Electric celebrates fifth birthday

Night in two instalments as residents play alongside Scottish talents

We Are … Electric If you thought Wednesdays weren’t built for clubbing, We Are … Electric have been proving you wrong for five years. They’re celebrating their fifth birthday across two weeks, starting with a massive Scottish talent Showcase featuring…

Fabio heads up dance acts at Wickerman 2010

Dr Huxtable and Big Toe’s HiFi also set for Dumfries and Galloway festival

While the likes of The Charlatans, Tony Christie and The Futureheads will be playing across the weekend, the Wickerman Festival has a very strong dance presence with the Axis Sound System Reggae Tent (featuring the likes of Dr Huxtable and Big Toe’s…

Phobia and His Name Was Jason release on DVD

Horror DVD round-up

For this issue’s delve into the world of summer horror we’re taking a trip around the globe. Starting in the US with one for real horror aficionados, His Name Was Jason (Stax) ●●●● is an exhaustive look at the history of everyone’s favourite…

Gilbert Shelton - Not Quite Dead: Last Gig in Shnagrlig

(Knockabout) Gilbert Shelton will always be most famous for his irreverent take on hippie culture as beloved by stoners across the world in his Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strips and its off-shoot, Fat Freddy’s Cat. And among his other achievements…

The Bays play Edinburgh show for Departure Lounge's seventh birthday

Name Departure Lounge Occupation Edinburgh’s home of ‘heavyweight global sounds’. What exactly are ‘heavyweight global sounds’? Departure Lounge takes in everything from hip hop to funk and jazz to dub with a healthy dose of world music…

Pioneering spirit - Andrew Weatherall interview

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…

Devil Disco Club host HRH, Simonotron and Kris Wasabi

The Trouble duo of Hobbes and Erik d’Viking welcome us back for yet more seedy backstreet disco thrills and edgy glamour, courtesy of brand new Edinburgh electro-pop band HRH and regular DJs Simonotron (Club For Heroes) and Kris Wasabi (Wasabi Disco)…

Peter Milligan & Davide Gianfelice - Greek Street: Blood Calls For Blood

(Titan/Vertigo) Peter Milligan is one of the comic world’s most interesting writers. From back on his days at 2000AD (where he gave us the wonderful ‘Bad Company’) through oddities such as Skin to his natural home at Vertigo, where his Shade the…

Doc Daneeka set for Fortified vs Stay Plastic

This isn’t, as you may have already anticipated, the character from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 who actually knows what Catch 22 is. Instead, Swansea producer Mial Watkins is one of the rising stars of the UK clubbing scene, although which scene we’re not…

Mightyfools visit Muck and Dirty Noise

Anyone who can turn Owl City’s garish ‘Fireflies’ into a dancefloor-crushing bassline monster demands our attention. Not that Dutch duo Andy Samin and Jelle Keizer wouldn’t do that anyway. From the ‘Partyjunkies’ EP onwards (er, a sample from the…

Seth Troxler set for Tictactoe Glasgow date

The only Scottish set this year by one of the world’s hottest young DJs, this rescheduled date wouldn’t even be happening if the Glade Festival hadn’t been cancelled. Working in his native Detroit’s Melodies & Memories record store alongside the likes…

Cotton Cake vs Thunder Disco Club

Two of Glasgow’s finer club nights team up for a new quarterly night of house, disco, kitsch electronic delights and more besides, all in aid of the Princess Royal Trust. With visuals by Joe Crogan, photography by Tommy Ga Ken Wan and reportage from…

Will.i.am set for UK DJ tour 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…

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

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…

The Collector

(18) 86 min Horror is constantly searching for icons, figureheads and antiheroes. It celebrates its directors (the John Carpenters, Wes Cravens and Tobe Hoopers) like no other genre and worships its villains, with the likes of Freddy, Jason and…

Cannibal Apocalypse

(18) 93min (Optimum) During the late 1970s/early 1980s a handful of Italian directors unleashed a spate of cannibal films (including the infamous Cannibal Holocaust) most of which were promptly banned as ‘Video Nasties’ in 1984. Despite being…

Slash embarks on 2010 UK tour

Since Guns N’ Roses conquered the world (selling over 100 million albums) Slash has lent his guitar skills to music by Michael Jackson, Alice Cooper, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles; formed his own band, Slash’s Snakepit; started Velvet Revolver with…

Rock Ness: Festival director Jim King's guide to the event

Rock Ness festival director Jim King guides us through the three days of must-see acts

2 Many DJs/Soulwax at Rock Ness

They’ve been at Rock Ness four times before, now they’re back in 2010, hosting their own tent. Henry Northmore speaks to David and Stephen Dewaele, aka Soulwax It Takes Two They’ve been at Rock Ness four times before, now they’re back in 2010…

Kevin Bridges, Derrick May and Green Velvet on Rock Ness 2010 bill

Rock Ness has more to offer than just great DJs and lashings of live music, as Henry Northmore finds out

Leftfield headline Rock Ness 2010 - Neil Barnes interview

Electronic duo Leftfield (aka Neil Barnes and Paul Daley) are responsible for some of electronic music’s most enduring tracks. Their debut, Leftism (1995) mixed house, techno, deep dub and post punk in a unique exploration of the possibilities of…

Soulfly

Studio 24, Edinburgh, Wed 19 May

Since quitting/being thrown out of Sepultura back in 1996 (it’s all still a bit murky), Max Cavalera has been anything but idol, there’s been the short-lived Nailbomb, recent reunion with brother Max for Cavalera Conspiracy and collaborations with…