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Review: Tectonics Festival »

Tectonics takes over Glasgow City Halls and Old Fruitmarket

Any comparison between last weekend’s Tectonics festival and the standard Scottish festival setup both starts and ends with wristbands and beer in plastic glasses. Centered around curator Ilan Volkov, alongside the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestr...

Thu 23 May 2013 by Ailsa Clark | Read more »

Blackfriars  »

Blackfriars: self-titled 'best kept secret in Glasgow'

As we step inside Blackfriars, my boyfriend’s face scrunches. ‘It smells like…like…something’, he says, as we grab a table on the wooden tier that serves as the dining section of the pub. It is a pungent sting of disinfe...

Fri 17 May 2013 by Kate Martin | Read more »

Hiatus - Parklands »

Hiatus - Parklands

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Two years after the release of his debut album Ghostnotes, Cyrus Shahrad aka Hiatus returns with Parklands: an LP that turns out to be the perfect balm to a brain in exam overdrive. Named after the South London apartment block where the producer spent...

Sat 11 May 2013 by Kate Martin | Read more »

On Before »

Carlos Acosta

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The weekend saw a packed Festival Theatre for the first of two performances of Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta's On Before; a collection of innovative work by different choreographers, woven loosely together into a ‘doomed love’ narrat...

Thu 02 May 2013 by Sophie Tolley | Read more »

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold »

Parquet Courts' Light Up Gold

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The first thing you notice when you first hear the debut album of low-fi garage rockers Parquet Courts, is that Light Up Gold is no game-changer. What you notice soon after, is that you couldn't care less. The Parquet Courts make it cle...

Tue 30 Apr 2013 by Lorenzo Pacitti | Read more »

Blackfriars »

Kat Abdullah

Nestled comfortably on a Cowgate side street is the newly opened Blackfriars Restaurant and Bar, formerly the beloved Black Bo’s vegetarian restaurant. While the location has a history to live up to, Blackfriars’ menu and atmosphere provide...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Mary Kinsella | Read more »

Spring Breakers »

Spring Breakers

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For fans of Harmony Korine’s films, the first segment of Spring Breakers may be slightly off-putting; a montage of topless glamour models and muscle-bound jocks bouncing about a prosiac sunny, sandy beach to drum and bass in youthful bliss, seemi...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Blair C Dingwall | Read more »

Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee: Here and Now »

Here and Now: correspondance between Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee

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Here and Now collects the correspondence between Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee, two writers who occupy similar constellations in the literary imagination, written between 2008 and 2011. After meeting for the first time in 2008, Coetzee proposed to Auste...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Daniel Davies | Read more »

Review - The Childhood of Jesus »

J.M. Coetzee's 'The Childhood of Jesus'

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The Childhood of Jesus is a book that represents a significant divergence from the rest of Coetzee’s oeuvre. Instead of a bleak, dystopian tale, this is a perversely comic, intellectually profound and obscurely allegorical novel. Protagonists S...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Vivek Santayana | Read more »

Bombskare »

Bombskare

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Ska music, nurtured under the West-Indian sun and progressing through the decades donning sharp suits with the mods and bomber jackets with the skinheads, has seen many incarnations. In the present, self-proclaimed ska juggernauts, Bombskare, fly the f...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Jamie Brotherston | Read more »

Field »

Field

In these days of compromised luxury and tightened purse-strings — let us be honest here — it isn’t with the greatest enthusiasm that one reads “Michelin-standard cuisine”, “stripped back” and “b...

Sun 21 Apr 2013 by Ben Kendall | Read more »

Bernie »

Bernie

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The question at the centre of Bernie — Richard Linklater's hilarious comedy that is finally getting a UK release — is how much you should be prepared to forgive someone just because they are a thoroughly nice person. It isn't a f...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Nathanael Smith | Read more »

Wide Days (Garden of Elks) »

Garden of Elks

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Following Saint Max and the Fanatics with a rough-and-ready attitude, this little-known group sparked genuine excitement in set that was all too brief. There was a moment, between their first two songs, when it looked as though none of the members of ...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Elizabeth Morrison | Read more »

Quiz Show »

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Traverse patrons fill the seats of the live studio audience of a pseudo-realistic game show False. Staff bustle around the set touching up make-up before a trio of contestants enter to provide cliched responses to presenter Daniel Caplin's (Jonathan Wa...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Celia Dugua | Read more »

Wide Days (Fat Goth/Fatherson/Roman Nose) »

Fatherson's Ross Leighton at Wide Days

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Line-ups, quite simply, do no get much stranger. If the two earlier showcases were the metaphorical first steps into novel writing, then this would be Wide Days' literary pièce de résistance: a brazen concoction of alternative r...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Harris Brine | Read more »

Olympus Has Fallen »

Olympus

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Gerard Butler stars in this preposterous but ultimately enjoyable action-thriller as Mike Banning, an ex-Special Forces and former Secret Service agent. Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House when it comes under attack from a rogue North ...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Ross Miller | Read more »

Evil Dead »

Evil Dead

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There’s a moment in Evil Dead, a decisively pointless updating of Sam Raimi’s 1981 low-budget classic, when a character who has been taken over by a demon spews blood all over someone’s face for five seconds. It’s a disgusting m...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Ross Miller | Read more »

Wide Days (Saint Max and the Fanatics) »

Three years ago, when a teenage Justin Bieber was penning lyrics of 'Baby' — “You know you love me/ I know you care/ Just shout whenever/ And I'll be there”, another 15-year-old was hastily scribbling down his inner musings on lo...

Sat 20 Apr 2013 by Harris Brine, Jamie Brotherston | Read more »

PEACE  »

PEACE

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PEACE, the hippest cats on the indie block, return north once more, not long after sitting down with The Journal while dazzling audiences nationwide on the NME Awards Tour. They are at home in the dark of The Arches and proceed to launch into a fine d...

Wed 17 Apr 2013 by Jamie Brotherston | Read more »

Trance »

McAvoy in Trance

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Hot off the heels of having the world in the palm of his hands with the Olympic opening ceremony last year, Danny Boyle delivers his first feature film since the harrowing 127 Hours. Trance is a bewitching puzzle of a thriller that’s off-kilter f...

Sat 30 Mar 2013 by Ross Miller | Read more »

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