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Summer Festivals 2012: Community
25 May 2012
Solas, Leith and West End Fests among the best community-focused fests around Scotland this summer
West End Festival Where: Various venues, West End of Glasgow, 1–24 Jun, westendfestival.co.uk Price: Free–£20 for bigger gigs Line-up: James Yorkston, Howard Marks, Suzanne Vega, Michael Marra, We Were Promised Jetpacks You want to learn Gaelic in…
Summer Festivals 2012: Best dance music live shows
25 May 2012
Which of this year's superstar DJs have visuals to match their beats?
Picture the scene. Dusk has fallen on the festival site. Tens of thousands of inebriated and euphoric festivalgoers have assembled at the main stage. They’re waiting for the headliner, whooping and hollering in anticipation. Then it happens: a guy…
Summer Festivals 2012: Ones to watch
25 May 2012
A selection of industry experts and List writers choose their musical highlights for this summer
Lanterns on the Lake Chosen by Jonny Ensall, Editor, The List What does that name bring to mind? Boats on the water? A night to remember? An ethereal choir of knitting together a sense of the magical past and the optimistic future? You’re spot on with…
Austra, The Unthanks and Richard Hawley set for No Direction Home 2012
23 May 2012
New festival with focus on quality from team behind End of the Road
End of the Road has been the latte-drinking, glam-camping Guardian reader's weekender of choice almost since it's inception in 2006. Picking up plaudits from The Times and The Guardian (of course) as well as an award for 'Best Small Festival' last year…
Friends - Manifest!
22 May 2012
An insidiously hooky album that's sometimes brilliant, sometimes bloomin’ annoying
There are songs you can’t get out of your head, and then there are songs you wish you could get out of your head. In the latter category: ‘Hey Baby’ by DJ Otzi. In the former: Friends’ ‘Friend Crush’ and ‘I’m His Girl’. The Brooklyn band’s well-blogged…
Video: animated street art at Newhaven
4 May 2012
Edinburgh artist Spaceboy animates a 150 metre-long mural along fishmarket shutters
Edinburgh artist Mike Inglis, aka Spaceboy, has collaborated with Red Stripe on transforming the shutters of Newhaven fishmarket into a Jamaica-inspired animation. The first cut of the video can be seen below. Spaceboy pasted his illustrations…
Major Lazer - O2 ABC, Glasgow, Sun 22 Apr
26 Apr 2012
A ballsy and daft neo-dancehall party that wasn't shared enough with the audience
‘Make some noise for all the asses!’ encouraged super-producer, and one half of Major Lazer, Diplo, midway through the band’s dancehall blitzkrieg of a live show. A dozen Glaswegian girls had been hoisted from the audience onto the O2 ABC stage to…
Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
22 Feb 2012
Reasonably consistent album of simple, emotional music from multi-instrumentalist smartypants
(Bella Union) There are signs on Break It Yourself that multi-instrumentalist and genre-hopping smartypants Andrew Bird has mellowed out somewhat. The album is reasonably consistent and settles in a gentle neo-folk groove that shows off Bird’s…
GFF 2012 - Kid With a Bike and On The Ice
20 Feb 2012
Dardennes brothers film strikes a chord but Inuit thriller fails to excite
Before the Film Festival began, when talking to people about highlights, one of the picks that kept coming up was the Dardennes brothers' Kid With a Bike. The Dardennes (Jean-Pierre and Luc) are the Belgian filmmaking pair responsible for La Promesse…
GFF 2012 - Opening Gala: Your Sister's Sister
17 Feb 2012
Mumblecore director Lynn Shelton introduces her latest film at the opening of the Glasgow Film Fest
Director Lynn Shelton was at the Glasgow Film Theatre last night to introduce her opening gala feature, Your Sister's Sister. She seemed ecstatically happy to be there, hugging co-director Allison Gardner ahead of the screening. Then, after the usual…
Five reasons to go see . . . The GZA
1 Feb 2012
The GZA of Wu Tang approaches the Arches
He’s a genius The Genius, to be precise. GZA, aka The Genius, (Gary Grice to his mum) is a founding member of Wu Tang Clan, along with his cousin, producer The RZA, and gravelly-voiced rap heathen Ol’ Dirty Bastard (RIP). The Clan emerged out of New…
Azari & III - Azari & III
1 Feb 2012
Credit due delivering a straightforward house music manifesto with compelling four-to-the-floor forc
(Island) This self-titled debut is actually a major label re-release of an album that, until recently, was widely available as an import – including on Spotify. It’s getting a reboot in the UK in CD form (you remember CDs right?) though really the…
Vieux Farka Touré set for Celtic Connections 2012
27 Jan 2012
Blues and country influence from son of legendary Malian guitar player
Farka Touré. Where have you heard that name before? Vieux is the son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka Touré, one of the true stars of the world music scene. Farka Touré senior passed away in 2006, but junior has picked up where he left off…
The high energy, high concept dance-rock of Justice is French through-and-through
27 Jan 2012
To these new gods of French electronic music, we say Salut!
The hair; the crotch-hugging denim; the ‘tude - everything about Justice’s demeanour screams metal. And with good reason. The band, comprising Xavier de Rosnay (monobrow, flaired nostrils) and Gaspard Augé (hair of Robert Plant, moustache of a Deep…
Preview of 2012 - The best events this year
9 Jan 2012
Featuring the Cultural Olympiad, The Dark Knight Rises, WU LYF, Glasgow International and more
It’s 2012, but fear not, things aren’t as bad as they seem. Before you decide to occupy government property, or smash a brick through Dixons, take heart in the folklore of a simpler age. For when times are black, you can always rely on the comfort of…
Edinburgh gets first IMAX screen
20 Dec 2011
Cineworld Fountain Park to launch IMAX cinema with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Cineworld Fountain Park is to introduce Edinburgh's first IMAX screen from 21 December. The new cinema promises, 'ground-breaking, crystal clear digital projection, cutting edge audio technology and one of the largest screens around'. With 3D…
The Hot 100 2011: 100-50
16 Dec 2011
The definitive list of Scottish creative talent
100: Gordon Ferris. Kilmarnock crime author makes good. The already packed Scottish crime writing field has finally found a bit of elbow room for another burgeoning talent. Joining the likes of Rankin, Brookmyre, McDermid and co is this Ayrshire-born…
Hot 100 2011 - No. 49 to 1
16 Dec 2011
The definitive list of Scottish creative talent
The Hot 100 is the definitive list of Scottish creative talent. From fashion designers to performance artists, everyone who has made a sizeable splash in 2011 has a place in this countdown. It’s for people who’ve created a buzz, but it’s also about…
Hot 100 2011 - No. 54: Summerhall venue offers something special
16 Dec 2011
Festival debut marks beginning of major creative space in Edinburgh
Before this August it seemed the Edinburgh Festival was already home to every sort of show and venue imaginable. So, when an entirely new major space sprang up, it was difficult to see what it might offer above the usual. On the programme at…
The Hot 100 2011 - No. 32: Remember Remember interview
16 Dec 2011
Graeme Ronald’s complex compositions get the full-band treatment
‘Steve Reich on acid,’ is how one List critic described Graeme Ronald’s second album as Remember Remember, released this year. True, it has Reich’s trademark repetition – albeit combined with melodies that could only be Scottish – but Ronald is unsure…
Django Django - Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Thu 24 Nov
13 Dec 2011
Infectious fun from band with no agenda other than having a good time
Django Django’s music could be described as folk-rave, or math-beat, or perhaps contemporary hoedown. It’s hard to explain, really, why the combination of American West, Merseyside and East London rhythms should sound so good, meaning that, joyously…
It's Funtime - Edinburgh pub quiz that thinks it’s a 70s gameshow
18 Nov 2011
The all-singing, all-dancing brilliantly twisted world of It's Funtime
All across the country this coming Saturday night families will sit down in front of the TV to watch people be mocked and derided in the name of entertainment. They’ll gawp at the outrageous outfits worn by the mentally unstable on X Factor. They’ll boo…
The List Hot 100 Awards to honour the best and brightest in Scottish arts and culture
16 Nov 2011
List Award and List Newcomer Award celebrate artistic achievement
It’s stating the obvious to say that Scotland is full of great artists and performers. Our cultural stars dominate the Turner Prize every year, grab lead roles in Hollywood films, and write epoch-defining novels and poetry. We publish an annual Hot 100…
Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat - interview
7 Nov 2011
Moffat and Middleton are set to team up again to celebrate Nice'n'Sleazy's 20th birthday
The mid-90s Arab Strap song ‘I Saw You’ was inspired by The List’s lonely-hearts feature of the same name. Do you remember using I Saw You at that time? That I Saw You feature had just started, and it was quite exciting and cool. I did attempt to use…
The best Hogmanay holiday ideas
28 Oct 2011
The best ways to bring in the New Year
Get on the farm Forget Carry on Camping, the crew at Comrie Croft in Perthshire know how to do camping in style, with this eco-friendly farmstead conversion. Located in Crieff, surrounded by gorgeous vistas, bring in the bells around a campfire…
