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The LGBT club night promises ‘stylish polysexual clubbing’

There’s something to be said for aspiring to affluence. How else can we explain the success of elite private members clubs or programmes like Gossip Girl and Made in Chelsea? It can’t be the storylines. I’m 97 per cent certain I have seen more…

The best Scottish websites

The top 30 websites made for and by Scots

When putting together this list, we weren’t necessarily looking for the biggest or the best-known cultural websites in Scotland. We were looking for unique and interesting ideas, cleverly realised and lovingly maintained on the web. This might mean that…

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut

Morag Fullerton's stage adaptation is a charmingly chaotic classic

It’s almost impossible to tell that the team behind Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut have not staged their increasingly lauded production in the Tron before tonight. Originating as part of Òran Mór’s Cult Classics series during its pint/pie-filled…

Memory Tapes - The Arches, Glasgow, Fri 8 Jul 2011

Blissed out set from the captains of chillwave

Chillwave: an apt descriptor of an entire musical movement? Or a conveniently coined faux genre linked by a few bands with loosely similar influences? Whether you approve of such pigeonholing or not, Memory Tapes are regarded as one of the key purveyors…

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2011 - Fact file

The display of massed military viewed by 100 million people annually

1 The Edinburgh Tattoo first took place in 1950. It was first shown on colour television in 1968. 2The word 'tattoo' comes from the old Dutch phrase 'doe den tap toe', meaning 'turn off the taps', which was a call used at closing time in 17th century…

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2011 - Highlights

Brass bands on bikes among highlights of music extravaganza

Have you ever wondered if you are a 'Bad Scot'? If soor plooms, Mel Gibson's take on William Wallace, dodgy recitals of Burns' poems and other things associated with stereotypical Jock culture make you recoil like a moggie from a festering puddle, you…

Lydia Lunch - Pivotal figure of New York’s No-Wave scene

UK tour from Sonic Youth and Michael Gira collaborator

She’s one of the most influential figures to come out of New York’s No-Wave scene. Founder of the inspirational Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Lunch has collaborated with Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, Michael Gira, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party and Omar…

Metronomy and The Kills among best of this week's singles and downloads

Wu Lyf's Dirt take Single of the Week

Glasvegas, right – they’re not for everyone. But The List don’t believe in hatin’ on your neighbours, so gave ‘Shine Like Stars’ (Sony) a spin. Bummer, though, because the latest single from EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\, may be polished synth-tinged…

Bare Behind Bars, Sea Purple, Here Come the Girls 3 and Dare

LGBT DVD Roundup

If it’s a quiet night on the sofa you’re after, beware Bare Behind Bars (Arrow Video ●●●●). Described as a ‘chicks in chains grindhouse explosion’, we’re given sadistic lesbian guards, a permanently aroused screwball nurse and convicts with cabin fever…

Wee Jaunt features musicians performing in the most unlikely places in Edinburgh

Detour's one-day festival from David Weaver and Ally McCrae

We at List HQ take great pride in our ability to give you all the details you could possibly need to pack your lives chock-full of top-notch, culturally-fulfilling activities every month. So imagine our confusion when we tried to write about something…

The Dodos - No Colour

Grunge-influenced alt.rock from the thoughtful duo

(Wichita) The Dodos were a two-piece, then a three-piece, then a two-piece again (keep up, dear reader). While 2009’s Time To Die was a softer, less frenzied affair, Meric Long’s apparent penchant for the flannel era is well utilised on No Color…

Pride Scotia's Edinburgh events gearing up to take place a month early

Pride Scotia is returning to Auld Reekie in May, a month earlier than we usually see it. But, you ask, is Pride still relevant? Well, yes. And we’re not just saying that because we watched that Scott Mills documentary on gay rights in Uganda on iPlayer…

James Blake, Nice'nSleazy, Sun 27 Mar 2011

LIVE MUSIC REVIEW Let’s get it out the way. Yes, James Blake is ‘that guy who did that Feist cover’. And to others he is ‘that guy who came second in that BBC talent poll thing’ (BBC Sound of 2011, to be exact, in which he came second to Jessie…

Des Dillon-penned black comedy Six Black Candles is given a long overdue homeland revival

First performed at Edinburgh’s Lyceum in 2004, Des Dillon’s Six Black Candles has not been back on home turf since, despite popularity further afield – and more’s the pity. Dillon, a sort of Bruce Springsteen figure of Scottish theatre, has a knack for…

Heather Peace interview: Multi-talented Lip Service star set for UK tour

'Like a pluckier Sheryl Crow, mixed with a rockier Eva Cassidy'

Bored on a road trip? Tired of playing I Spy? Try to think gay British actors or actresses who aren’t typecast according to their sexuality. After you get past the Stephen Frys and Ian McKellans (hello, national treasures), you might get a bit…

Five of the best: Independent record shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Monorail, Avalanche, Elvis Shakespeare, Rubadub, LOVEMusic

Monorail 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, 0141 552 9458, www.monorailmusic.com Pick through lovingly stocked, carefully edited alterna-indie vinyl in this musical cubby hole (many would say Scotland’s finest record shop) started by Stephen Pastel (of The…

Five of the best: Vintage clothes shops in Scotland

Vintage Guru, Starry Starry Night, Barnardos Vintage, Herman Brown

Vintage Guru 195 Byres Road, Glasgow, 0141 339 4750, www.vintageguru.co.uk Existing as a web distributor for 15 years, Vintage Guru is now 3D, catering for the ladies and oft-neglected retro-hungry gents. Past List favourite finds include a white and…

Glaswegian theatre and arts collective Flatrate

Rob Jones and Stephen Redman from team behind Initial Itch

Flatrate are a Glasgow-based theatre and arts collective run primarily by theatre graduate Rob Jones and writer Stephen Redman. Their modus operandi is supporting local artists whilst also staging interesting, stripped-back productions on next to no…

Marilyn a witty take on celebrity and feminism in the 1960s

Two strong-willed women wrestling to be taken seriously in male-dominated society

Certain actresses have an image that resonates throughout popular culture long after their departure from the silver screen. Almost none have remained as morbidly fascinating as Marilyn Monroe, and her appeal is explored compellingly in Sue Glover’s new…

Death Disco’s XXXmas Party

Arches, Glasgow, Sat 18 Dec 2010

Christmas is a tricky one. Sure, it’s a time for giving, good will and generally being merry, but it can feel strangely moot when one is no longer a wean oneself or has no weans to fawn over, making the season (allegedly) cuter and more socially…

DVD: In Their Sleep (Dans Ton Sommeil)

Quietly unsettling psychological thriller

French psychological thriller directed by Caroline and Eric du Potet, and starring Anne Parillaud (Nikita).

Classic play Staircase comes to Tron Theatre

Pared down adaptation of Charles Dyer’s 1960s drama

Some say the classics never go out of fashion – and the Tron will be hoping that this rings true when their pared down adaptation of Charles Dyer’s 1960s drama, Staircase, opens at the end of February. Last staged in London 45 years ago, the play…

Theatre show The Belief Project examines convictions about life

Glasgow theatre collective Flatrate stage show at Tron

The concept of belief is something songwriters, authors and playwrights have mulled over for generations. Flatrate, a small Glasgow theatre collective, are the latest creative types to take a stab at the phenomenon with their new piece, The Belief…

The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

Quartet's latest album full of poignant intimacy and warm, earthy tone throughout

Following 2008’s Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, reviewers in their droves compared The Low Anthem to Tom Waits and labelmates Fleet Foxes. Yet, writing the quartet off as a cheap copy would be to do them a disservice. Mixed by Saddle Creek warlock Mike…

Sleigh Bells - Stereo, Glasgow, Sat 22 Jan 2011

Pounding bass and uncompromising riffs underpin Brooklyn duo's set

If you have heard Treats, Sleigh Bell’s 2010 debut LP, you will be able to easily imagine what the Brooklyn duo are like live. Eardrum poundingly loud bass and uncompromising riffs underpin the set which is, like their album, anthemic but short.