Games :: Feature 10 Oct 2008
Dave Cook: When Microsoft launched Live Arcade on Xbox 360, it initially appeared as a bit of a mystery. Cheap, downloadable games that could be stored on your hard drive certainly appeared to be a nice and convenient way of doing things, with the service boastin...
Film :: Feature 10 Oct 2008
Lindsay West: When selecting your slice of Tennessee Williams cinematic majesty this Glasgay!, do Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, indulge in The Glass Menagerie, and drink in Streetcar; but how about talking a chance on Boom!? Going down in history as one of the best failed...
Clubs :: Feature 10 Oct 2008
Emma Kilday: You reach an age where knocking on old ladies’ doors and shouting “TRICK OR TREAT!?” stops being cute and starts to run the risk of landing you on Crimewatch. But don’t dismay – there are plenty of other reasons to adorn y...
Clubs :: Feature 09 Oct 2008
Liam Arnold: It would have been all too easy to dismiss Lan Muzic as another Berlin techno label pumping out tracks for the Watergate: 12”s by Touane, Philip Sherburne and label bosses Exercise One offered little more than familiar shuffling rhythms and fract...
Travel :: Feature 09 Oct 2008
Arun Sood: The toothless tuk-tuk driver grinned and proclaimed in his strong Indian accent : “In the grand scheme of existence, we are all one and the same; each of us with five fingers and five toes...only I have six fingers.” Sure enough, the frai...
Steve Clarkson: “The best way to find yourself,” said Gandhi, “is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Arranging to stay with someone you've met on the internet, who is willing to host you and others in their town or city, anywher...
Music :: Feature 08 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: As well as procuring the usual track list for a desert island mix-tape, this month we asked former Icarus Line and Nine Inch Nails axe man Aaron North to envisage a post-apocalyptic future where he chooses the opponents and selects the conditions for c...
Deviance :: Feature 07 Oct 2008
Slutty McWhore: This month I can barely bring myself to write about erotic massage or my life as a sex worker. I've been working as a masseuse in the United States for well over two years now, and boredom and frustration have finally set in, so much so that it pains m...
Music :: Feature :: Label 07 Oct 2008
Billy Hamilton: If variety is the spice of life then FatCat Records are piquant enough to have even the most resistant tastebuds burning. Established almost 20 years ago by Dave Cawley and Alex Knight, the label has developed into one of the UKs finest purveyors of m...
Music :: Feature 06 Oct 2008
Finbarr Bermingham: A conversation with Kurt Wagner is a lot like listening to him sing. His voice wavers between a deep throaty growl and a gentle higher pitched whisper, depending on how interested he is in the question. From time to time he'll get excited, but since un...
Music :: Feature :: Preview 06 Oct 2008
Jason Morton: Judging them on a purely cosmetic level, one could make the mistake of thinking Noah and the Whale had somehow crossed into the third dimension from a classic kids cartoon: The group consistently dress in similar outfits - eye-catching blue-and-yellow ...
Clubs :: Travel :: Feature 05 Oct 2008
Alex Burden: With the highest number of clubs per capita in Europe, Zurich is also rated as having the best standards of living in the world, and continually drives money and resources into cultivating itself further. There is a culture of reclaimed spaces: disused...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 03 Oct 2008
Ally Brown: Like the eligibility rules for international football that see Nigerians playing for Poland, Englishmen playing for Scotland, and Brazilians playing for just about everyone, the conventions for deciding where a band originates from are haphazard at bes...
Music :: Feature 02 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: “People always call into question your authenticity,” sighs Jenny Lewis. “I refer them to the great tradition of bands like the Stones doing country songs. Fuck it, you just have to sing the songs that come from your heart and soul. I...
Books :: Feature 02 Oct 2008
Keir Hind: Here’s one from the department of phenomenally good ideas: The Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have teamed up for a project called ‘Days Like This’, inviting members of the public - yes, that means you and me - to submit a story...
Clubs :: Feature 02 Oct 2008
Âme: 1. Tokyo Blackstar - Game Over (Locodice remix) (Innervisions) Fantastic remix from the Locodice/Buttrich camp for our own label Innervisions; it's a journey. 2. Leonid Nevermind - Away (Squonk) Killer record from this new artist out of Valencia, cle...
Film :: Music :: Feature :: DVD Review 01 Oct 2008
Ewen Millar: The mandate for Burn to Shine is simple: find a house that is due to be demolished; recruit a number of local bands to play there; film the demolition of the house and release the DVD. Produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty, each DVD is rigidly formulaic ...
Music :: Feature 01 Oct 2008
Milo McLaughlin: Last month's issue featured an interview with Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote but the first podcast in this two part special on the Fence Collective cruelly left out any of his tracks. This month we make up for it with an absolute belter of a tune ca...
Nick Mitchell: Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys have differing memories of the DeLorean DMC-12, the fabled supercar that moonlighted as a time machine in Back to the Future. Bip (real name Bryan Hollon) recalls that, in the American Mid-West of his youth, "it was always like ...
Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Oct 2008
Nick Mitchell: If this was the mid-90s and Oasis were in their pomp, The Shock of the Lightning (**, Out Now) would be an album track at best, and certainly not the lead single from a new album. But that says more about what Oasis have become than it does about the t...
