Music :: Feature 26 Aug 2008
Paul Mitchell: Joan Wasser struggles to come to terms with the increasing public and critical adulation her sophomore album To Survive is currently receiving. “I can never know what people are gonna think or feel about the record. It’s always a personal e...
Music :: Preview 23 Aug 2008
Jorge Marticorena: 135 compulsory reasons to go and see Wire: (1) They are Wire (2) They are still playing music after 30 odd (odd being the operative word here) years (3) They were post-punk before the fall of punk itself (4) They can be challenging (5) They can be easy...
Film :: Review 22 Aug 2008
Kevin McHugh: In The Strangers, a simple-enough plot revolves around a couple returning to their home in the country. But once back, their every move is watched, by strangers in the dark waiting to terrorise them on the longest nights of their lives. The climax may ...
Music :: Live Review 22 Aug 2008
Nick Mitchell: Before they play a note, you just know what Glasgow's Fangs (***) will sound like. Look-at-me hair + New Romantic fashion + luminous make-up + studied nonchalance = filthy, arty electro-punk, with lashings of synth. It would be easy to label them 21st ...
Fashion :: Deviance :: Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial subtext might first imply. Looking more like a mortgage advisor than a fashion rep, Wolfgang (...
Records :: Review 21 Aug 2008
Nick Mitchell: Like their contemporaries Frightened Rabbit, Y'All Is Fantasy Island are a band who seem to take the conveyor belt approach to music production: write, record, and repeat. But that's where the factory motif ends, because just three months since produci...
Music :: Review 21 Aug 2008
Austin Tasseltine: Although Empires (***) have a right good stab at some very Scottish indie rock, aided by their tasteful use of violin (not to mention the amusing juxtaposition of World's Highest-Held Guitar/World's Lowest-Slung Bass), frankly they always faced an uphi...
Music :: Live Review 21 Aug 2008
Dave Kerr: Paradoxical Undressing is the extreme state of hypothermia where the illusion of body heat causes sufferers to remove their clothes and worsen their condition. Tonight, Kristin Hersh uses the syndrome as an analogy to explain the casting away of her pe...
Album Review 20 Aug 2008
Ally Brown: Welcome to the bonkers world of Super Adventure Club - Edinburgh's radgest new band - who'll knock you over one minute with an armour-piercing guitar assault before lifting you back up with a lullabied line about "Jabba The Hut phoning Pizza Hut, drink...
Heads Up :: News 20 Aug 2008
Dave Kerr: Edinburgh's Born To Be Wide is to host a festival special on Thursday [21 Aug], with all guest DJs taking the form of Fringe festival participants. In something of a coup for the Scottish music scene social, enigmatic alternative rock queen Kristin Her...
Music :: Feature 20 Aug 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: It sometimes seems like an age ago, yet conversely, it now seems like only a couple of months have past since a friend gave me a copy of Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev, such is the timeless quality of their magnum opus. Unbeknownst to myself, and prob...
Records :: Single Review 20 Aug 2008
Ally Brown: It's become a backhanded compliment to say a band is "big in Japan," but Bis really were much bigger in the Far East than they ever were in Scotland, despite that incredible 1996 appearance on Top of the Pops while they were still unsigned. Manda Rin, ...
Music :: Live Review 20 Aug 2008
Jaco Justice: With their own MTV show in their native Brazil, an album deal with Domino Records plus an appearance due the following night at the suffocating ‘stylismo’ that is the Arches' Death Disco there's much reason to be present for the drippingly ...
Film :: Heads Up 20 Aug 2008
Erin McElhinney: A host of stars, including Samuel L Jackson and Chris Rock, were a few amongst thousands who started arriving nearly four hours early on Saturday for the funeral of Bernie Mac. Legendary comedian Mac died on 9 August following complications from a bout...
Jason Morton: If this record had a scent, it'd be pine or lemon - while perhaps not the number one aroma for many, a large cross-section of the populace can agree these two to be pleasant, and indicative of some effort on the part of the staff to keep things tidy. A...
Jason Morton: Every once in a while, life hands you little reminders that those old proverbs we hear so often aren't completely hackneyed. In the case of Dawn of the Dead, that proverb is 'don't judge a book by its cover' - with the depictions of the band as flesh-...
Heads Up :: News 19 Aug 2008
Chris Buckle: In the wiki-torrent age of infinite information updates, it's always nice when a record (or two) appears like a curveball and manages to announce itself seemingly out of the blue. First Los Campesinos! unveiled plans for an impending second album mere...
Music :: Feature 19 Aug 2008
Shaun Love: Having almost entirely written, performed and produced Elect the Dead, has the experience of going solo improved or changed you much as a musician? "Absolutely, as a songwriter it presented a lot of interesting challenges and as a musician I got to ex...
Music :: Preview 19 Aug 2008
RJ Thomson: Girls always look super hot at festivals: the sun's out, the sounds are soothing, you've provoked your loins with some substance or other, and a general whiff of 'life is beautiful' is on the air. So, when I found out that this year's Bestival fancy dr...
Music :: Live Review 19 Aug 2008
Jason Morton: If there's one thing to be realised at Cabaret Voltaire tonight, it's that the kids dig Noah and the Whale. Playing to this young assembly, the Whalers steam through just about all of Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down with note-for-note precision. Indee...
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