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First ‘Road To Hogmanay’ Showcase Announced

Heads Up :: Feature 26 Nov 2008

Sarah Nisbet: King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and Winterfest Glasgow have confirmed the first of three showcases for this year's ‘Road to Hogmanay’ live music extravaganza. Set to take place at Glasgow’s George Square at 7pm on Thursday, 27th of Nove...

Caring Christmas Trees

Heads Up :: Feature 26 Nov 2008

Edward Whelan: Don't you just love trees? We do! If you buy a real tree from Caring Christmas Trees this year, you'll actually be performing a conscience-placating double whammy: an environmentally friendly manoeuvre, and a donation to a local charity. Real Christmas...

Virgin Trains refuse to advertise The Stand

Heads Up :: Comedy :: Feature 20 Nov 2008

Ariadne Cass-Maran: Virgin Trains have refused to advertise The Stand Comedy Club because of concerns that their logo [pictured] promotes gun crime. Tommy Sheppard, the owner of The Stand, has directly appealed to Richard Branson for good sense, following Virgin's decisi...

Money or your Arts: £50 million pound Aberdeen pledge caught up in confused messages

Heads Up :: Feature :: News 14 Nov 2008

Jaco Justice: Major doubts have arisen regarding the Peacock Visual Arts led campaign to bring a centre for contemporary arts to Aberdeen. The recent completion of planning and financial details for the new Peacock centre, along with confirmation of funding, was bi...

Dancebase: Bust Dem Moves

Heads Up :: Feature 30 Oct 2008

Erin McElhinney: Yo yo yo, listen up. My girl Mi Mi is in the house and she be teaching us some moves, dawg. Ahem. Fortunately, Turn Up & Hip-Hop Beginners – one of the many drop-in classes available at Dance Base in Edinburgh – doesn’t actually r...

Ten Tracks: To the Future

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 ...

Panic on the Streets of Glasgow: The Mighty Boosh Storm Zavvi

Heads Up :: Comedy :: 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...

Club Snafu: A Fourtuitous Birthday

Heads Up :: Clubs :: Feature 08 Sep 2008

Nicol J. Craig: The Skinny has been slowly penetrating the north: first Dundee, and now the Granite City of Aberdeen, where one subterranean nightclub paradoxically stands above the rest - Snafu. Celebrating its fourth birthday this September, club owners Mo and Aman...

Merchant City Festival 2008 @ Various venues, Glasgow, 25-28 Sep

Theatre :: Heads Up :: Feature :: Preview 05 Sep 2008

Gareth K Vile: With the Edinburgh Festival season safely tucked away, Glasgow immediately stakes its claim to be Scotland's festival city for a bit. The Merchant City Festival is brief - running from 25 to 28 September - but dynamic, bringing together guerrilla perfo...

James Yorkston Sidesteps a Radiohead, Opts For A Willy Wonka

Music :: Heads Up :: Feature 01 Sep 2008

Milo McLaughlin: This month James Yorkston releases When The Haar Rolls In, his follow-up to 2006's The Year of the Leopard. Whilst that album was beautifully produced by Rustin Man, this time Yorkston has taken the helm himself and the result is a rich and full sound ...

The Homeless World Cup: Mel Young on Practical Change

Heads Up :: Feature :: Features 01 Sep 2008

RJ Thomson: Eighty per cent of participants in the Homeless World Cup have made dramatic changes to their lives soon after taking part. That's some record; and it's one that Mel Young, who has worked on homelessness issues for more than twenty years since founding...

Edinburgh Fringe Festival Director Resigns

Heads Up :: Feature 28 Aug 2008

Ariadne Cass-Maran: After what appeared to be a disastrous Fringe Festival this year and the wettest August in eight, Jon Morgan resigned from his position as Fringe director, effective immediately. Despite any obvious circumstances surrounding his departure, he said in h...

Edinburgh Interactive Festival '08

Games :: Heads Up :: Feature :: Preview 07 Aug 2008

Josh Wilson: For the last eight or so years the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival has joined the other hoards of arts based festivals over the month of August, normally playing host to an industry conference and a few videos of upcoming games. This year'...

Fringe Freeze: A Guide to Festival escapism

Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature 04 Aug 2008

Shelley Blake: The joys of Edinburgh in August! Theatre, music, comedy and creativity oozing from every possible orifice. The festive season is creeping underneath the skin of us all, with the sun finally shining and smiles appearing on even the most cynical of fac...

Sneakin' in After Hours

Heads Up :: Clubs :: Feature :: Preview 01 Aug 2008

Nicol J. Craig: The Bongo Club Bongo favourites Mutiny and Technical Resistance have come together to present drum and bass duo The Panacea and Limewax for their Scottish debuts (8th, £7). Scamp, Tekamine, Esquire and Naas TSC take up the earlier slots. Upstair...

We are telly addicts: Edfest.tv - Edinburgh Festivals 2008

Heads Up :: Feature 31 Jul 2008

Penny Green: Everyone knows sifting through the plethora of promotional material to find something to go to in the festival can be time consuming at best, and The Skinny and edfest.tv believe watching previews of shows could be invaluable for the discerning festiva...

Jonathan Mills on what an international festival should be

Theatre :: Music :: Heads Up :: Feature 28 Jul 2008

RJ Thomson: There are loads of folk out there who will readily make vague general statements about how inter-disciplinary practice, and breaking down the boundaries between things, are what they're 'all about'. But for Jonathan Mills, the Director of the Edinburgh...

The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema Of Dreams

Film :: Heads Up :: Travel :: Feature :: Preview 23 Jul 2008

Jaco Justice: Move over Cannes, Edinburgh and Co - prepare to have the glam replaced by jam. In August the North East town of Nairn hosts a new film festival, inspired by childhood big-screen epiphanies, over eight and a half magical days celebrating the romanticism...

Kings Of Leon Announce New Album

Heads Up :: Feature :: News 26 Jun 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: Okay, so they may not be breathing down the neck of the late James Brown just yet, but by comparison to some of their peers, Kings of Leon are certified workhorses. Just six months after completing an expansive arena tour on these shores (not to ment...

EIFF launch: On the Carpet with Keira Knightley et al

Film :: Heads Up :: Feature :: News 25 Jun 2008

Jonathan Grant, Lucy Keen: Flashy. Fake. Distant. Three things we, as young reporters and fresh eyes on the world premiere of The Edge of Love starring Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys, definitely expected. One of these expectations was soon proved wrong when we m...