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Keeping the Captain Warm

Keeping the Captain Warm

Faltering sketch comedy with moments of greatness

(3 stars)15 Aug 2011

Rather like a live rehearsal, about half-way through this show, the four-piece sketch act finally hits the ground running, and what began as a middling muddle of cliché actually finds its feet. Some of the performances tower over others and there is a…

His Eyes Were Like Oysters

His Eyes Were Like Oysters

Pop culture references, surreal concepts and non-sequiturs

(3 stars)18 Aug 2010

Imagine The Mighty Boosh without the mellowing constraints of consistent characterisation and mainstream success. Oyster Eyes’ sketches are a bewildering tissue of pop culture references, surreal concepts and non-sequiturs gummed together by dour…

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Gold Sheep
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Stone lithography prints and watercolours from Czech artist Lucie Hrnickova and woodcut prints and mixed media work from Andy Cumming, both award-winning recent graduates.
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4 Jul–9 Jul Mon & Wed–Sun 10am–8pm
3 Jul 6pm 		Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh
West End Festival
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One of the widest-ranging multi-arts festivals in the country, the West End Festival seems to swallow the West End's entire cultural output for the three weeks of its duration. The sterling music line-up (which in 2011 featured The Horrors, Alasdair Roberts and the Fence Collective) and the carnivalesque Festival Sunday are especially noteworthy. On the final Saturday, The Hidden Lane Festival opens the door on the city's creative collective, including open studios and exhibitions .
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1 Jun–24 Jun Times vary West End, Glasgow
Atmosphere: Belief
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Video documentary or 'cinematic data visualisation' that is the final part in the Flat Earth Trilogy, created by Matthew Jarvis, John Cobban, Alison Craighead, Jon Thomson and Steve Rushton. The installation comprises a montage of video footage sourced from YouTube, coupled with a projection of a map that shows where in the world each clip is from. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Atmosphere Programme.
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Group exhibition by four third-year Fine Art students featuring cinematic and atmospheric oil paintings, plus a range of subject matter and styles from abstraction to realism.
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26 Aug–28 Aug Mon, Tue & Sun 6pm–midnight Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
Prints By Peter Rhoades: A Retrospective
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Rarely viewed works by the Oxfordshire-based artist and former lecturer at the Ruskin School of Drawing.
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27 May–24 Jun From May 27, May, Mon, Wed–Sat 10.30am–1pm, 2pm–4.30pm, Sun 2pm–4.30pm, Jun, Mon, Wed–Sat 10.30am–5pm, Sun 2pm–5pm, ends Jun 24 Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford
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