Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 08 Oct 2008
Dave Hynes: Sound 2008 is a festival dedicated to new music based in various parts of North East Scotland (although it is concentrated around Aberdeen University) and is one of Scotland's true hidden gems in terms of exciting contemporary events. Now in its fourt...
Film :: Heads Up :: Preview 07 Oct 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: In association with Africa in Motion: the Edinburgh African Film Festival - see our preview in the Film section - The Bongo Club are playing host to the legendary Rita Ray. Ray is a world-class DJ and top buff of Afrobeat, desribed as a "combination o...
Heads Up :: News 02 Oct 2008
Dave Kerr: Born To Be Wide - the Edinburgh based Scottish music scene social - tonight (2 Oct) hosts a panel discussion amongst gig bookers hailing from all over the country, dubbed 'How To Get A Gig'. Participating in the seminar will be Solen Collet (Cabaret V...
Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 01 Oct 2008
Ted Maul: With a sound that is only slightly edgier than Bob Holness in oven gloves, much touted Sheffield lads Little Man Tate nevertheless look set to provide a polished set of crowd-pleasers at Fat Sam’s in Dundee on 3 Oct. Bouncy riffs, cheeky lyrics, ...
Ewen Millar: With the four major cities in Scotland blessed with vibrant music scenes, it's easy to assume that the quadrant that exists between The Lemontree, The Barrowlands, The Doghouse and The Liquid Room represents the nation-state for all that is currently i...
Music :: Heads Up :: Feature :: Features 30 Sep 2008
Paul Mitchell: This month sees the launch of Ten Tracks, a new platform for the marketing and retail of music for which ten bands provide a track each per month. All ten are available to listeners for £1 per month (or £10 per year, with the added option ...
Heads Up :: Comedy :: News 29 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: The comedy community breathed a sigh a relief last night as comic Scott Agnew scooped the top prize in HaHa Comedy’s Scottish Comedian of the Year 2008, following last year’s controversy over accusations of injustice and bias amongst the ju...
Heads Up :: Preview 25 Sep 2008
Edward Whelan: Chances are you know someone who has had some kind of mental health issue effect their life, most of us have. Yet the perception of mental illness is still all about the stigma; enter the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, the largest of it...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 25 Sep 2008
Fergus Ray Murray: Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School makes a triumphant return to Edinburgh next weekend, and very glad we are to see it too. The burlesque life drawing class came to the capital in 2006, and it's been encouraging artists and amateurs alike to whip out their ...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 24 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: On Saturday 27 September about seventy grand old buildings will open up, giving us the chance to satisfy our curiosity about what weird and wonderful lands may lie beyond their often hallowed doors. The city's guts are briefly, quiveringly, exposed; th...
Heads Up :: Comedy :: Preview 21 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: The Scottish Comedian of the Year contest is with us once more. This annual competition is open to everyone from Joe Open Spot to Billy Connolly; the only criteria is that you must come from, or base yourself in, Scotland. Winners have been chosen fr...
Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 19 Sep 2008
Euan Ferguson: Fife has always been on the map. It's that little bit between the Central Belt and the Highlands, and was once, as Fifers never tire of pointing out, the site of ancient Scotland's capital. On the musical map, however, it took a bit longer to make its ...
Ally Brown: We've been pleasantly surprised by the way The Tennent's Mutual seems to be going so far. Perhaps it was the sheer chutzpah of the idea that led to scepticism in some quarters, but the Season One line-up is mightily impressive, and it's led by a really...
Music :: Heads Up :: News 15 Sep 2008
Dave Kerr: A statement from a spokesman for Pink Floyd has confirmed that founding member, keyboardist and sometime vocalist Rick Wright has died at the age of 65. The musician is understood to have been battling against cancer, though his family do not wish to ...
Music :: Heads Up :: Preview 15 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: For the last time in its ten years of being one of Scotland's finest and most authentically rural festivals, The Hairth offers thumping good music from 19 to 21 of September in a family friendly, Celtic roots sort of fashion. The festival is definitel...
Heads Up :: Feature 15 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Hoards of screaming teenagers lining up in the rain and camping overnight in Glasgow city centre. Security guards leaping on bins to protect the stars. A 14-year old getting a guitar signed. Everyone has not only the T-shirt, but the makeup, the outfit...
Heads Up :: News 12 Sep 2008
Johnny Langlands: The former site of the Revolution nightclub and ill-fated Gig on Edinburgh's Lothian Road is set to re-open its doors as the Picture House this weekend. Playing the first show in the newly refurbished venue will be local indie rock heroes Idlewild. Ro...
Books :: Heads Up :: Comedy :: Preview 12 Sep 2008
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Feeling dreary? Feeling just a little bit too close to reality? You need never have that feeling again, as now for the first time ever you too can have a tiny, surreal, fragment of the Mighty Boosh on your book shelf. The Mighty Book of Boosh arrive...
Art :: Heads Up :: Preview 11 Sep 2008
Ariadne Cass-Maran: One Creative Scotland may well be one of the most satisfyingly messy events Glasgow sees this month, with artists from a huge spectrum of disciplines getting together to exhibit their work against a backdrop of live music. It's a brilliant idea &ndash...
Music :: Heads Up :: News 09 Sep 2008
Dave Kerr: Following the recent announcement of warm up gigs to be headlined by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy in mid-September, further details of The Tennent's Mutual's forthcoming 'Season One' live music programme have been revealed. Set to take place across ...
