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St Deluxe at SXSW: Part IV – The Last Day, Way Out West »

Sun 21 Mar 2010

Brian McEwan: It's our official showcase tonight at the famous Austin club Antone’s. Big Star were due to be headlining, but due to the sad passing of Alex Chilton it's now a tribute show. This means that there are lots of guest singers performing with the rest of...

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National Review, Day 4 »

Sun 21 Mar 2010

Gareth K Vile: “I’ve read so much about them.” “They are on my course’s essential reading.” “I can’t wait to see Forced Entertainment, my lecturer is obsessed with them.” By the weekend, The NRLA fills up with studen...

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St Deluxe at SXSW: Part III – The Scots Invade and Jad Fair Approves »

Sat 20 Mar 2010

Martin Kirwan: We finally got the chance to play a gig and two of them came along at once. First, we played the Dart International Music showcase, who help bands like us get visas and cheap gear hire if you're out touring. Jad Fair came down to see us and we had a nice ...

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NRLA. Day Three. »

Fri 19 Mar 2010

Gareth K vile: Having wrested control back from Charlie Montgomery, I continue to stroke my chin over the definition of Live Art. I know that Iona Kewney is performing in a few hours time, and the excitement is taking hold. I have almost given up expecting anything, mere...

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St Deluxe at SXSW: Part II - Hangovers, Über-burgers and a Mexican Brekkie »

Fri 19 Mar 2010

Brian McEwan: Day 2 at SXSW. We wake up about ten in our communal room, hung-over and jetlagged but excited about the day ahead. The sad news about Alex Chilton passing away casts a bit of a shadow. Our show with Big Star was to be the highlight of the trip and we know ...

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National Review of Live Art: Wank & Naked People Thursday 18th March edited highlights »

Fri 19 Mar 2010

Charles Montgomery, Live Art ex-virgin: As a veteran cabaret performer and raconteur of some years vintage, various chums from the hip and arty burlesque scene were recently encouraging me to "dip a toe" in the "live art genre". I actually don't have any toes, but that's a story for an...

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National Review, Day Two »

Fri 19 Mar 2010

Gareth K Vile: It’s day two, and the ugly sight of a performance critic boring performers with his dogmatic opinions is repeatedly noted in The CCA and Arches bar. I catch up with Amber Hickey and Stephanie Black, two of the stars of last week’s Into The New,...

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The Dullest Blog: The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival edition »

Thu 18 Mar 2010

Keir McAllister: I’ve never been one to be thrilled about the onset of Spring. I’ve always felt that it undermined the validity of my misanthropic perspective on life. Say what you like about winter, you fucking know where you are with it; cold, dark, unc...

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National Review: Day One »

Thu 18 Mar 2010

Gareth K Vile: It’s a tough job serving two muses, especially when they’ve both been denied funding from the Arts Council of Olympus for three thousand years. And they rarely agree on anything: one is all artifice, surface and humour; the other is abstract, i...

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St Deluxe at SXSW: Part I - Westbound and Down »

Thu 18 Mar 2010

Martin Kirwan: Our first day in Austin has been a rollercoaster to say the least. We were lucky enough to be given a place to stay thanks to the SXSW housing program. The people that are putting us up for the duration come to meet us at the airport; they give us a ride t...

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When Werner met Nicolas »

Mon 15 Mar 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: Getting shot on TV has been a good career move for Werner Herzog. The video clip of the incident, which occurred while being interviewed by Mark Kermode for The Culture Show, has become Youtube’s Zapruder film with over a million hits. The shooting i...

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The Dullest Blog: Springtime Blog »

Mon 15 Mar 2010

Jeff O'Boyle: Every year since I can remember having a full compliment of canines, I have given up sweeties for Lent. This year I gave up Lent – the unintended consequence of my sacrifice is that now I have to eat sweets, even when I don't want to. Especially when...

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Four Deaths and a stone circle »

Fri 12 Mar 2010

Gareth Vile: Since my understanding of life is that wisdom is the gradual recognition of how utterly fucked I am, and that a series of traumas have taught me the moments of innocence that doomed to me to heart-break and, eventually, cynicism, it is no surprise that I a...

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The Dullest Blog: The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival edition! »

Fri 12 Mar 2010

Teddy: The Magners Glasgow Comedy Festival is upon us! To join in with the spirit, The Skinny will be bringing you a selection of Dullest Blogs on the subject of Springtime, all sorts of crazy days of the week. Springtime means different things to ...

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The Death of 6 Music »

Thu 04 Mar 2010

R. J. Gallagher: “The problem with 6 Music is… It’s not a station that makes much sense from a value for money point of view” said the BBC’s Director General Mark Thompson earlier this week, as he announced live on television the planned clos...

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The French for Boring »

Wed 03 Mar 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: I started writing this blog entry last week full of enthusiasm for all the avant-garde and experimental films that I’d discovered online. It was exciting to find that these rare films, which previously could only be seen at amateur screenings where w...

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Wed 03 Mar 2010

Chris Lindsay: I’m one of those people who tried really hard to hate Skins, (Thursdays, 10pm, E4) the teen drama that arrived in a hail of sex, drugs & vomit in 2007 and which is currently airing its 4th series. My hostility stemmed from the experiences of my t...

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On theatre blogging »

Wed 03 Mar 2010

Gareth Vile: I am feeling a little out of step with the world this week. It might just be the absinthe, or the continued evolution of a romantic sensibility I can’t quite name, but I have been worried by my response to plays that have been receiving positive revi...

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Girls Girls Glas(s) »

Tue 23 Feb 2010

Gareth Vile: If, as Luther Blisset suggests in Death of Hermeneutics, performance is merely the mirror in which the reviewer sees themselves, I am not sure that I like the unshaven, dishevelled reflection that is staring back. I woke up with this morning with helium-fi...

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Ballet and The National Review of Live Art »

Thu 18 Feb 2010

Gareth Vile: Back in the early twentieth century, a conflux of anarchic aesthetes and free thinkers challenged the foundations of western high art. Dada, the surrealists, even the early cinematographers challenged realism, while contemporary choreographers threw off th...

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Performing the VD weekend blues »

Thu 18 Feb 2010

Gareth Vile: I kicked off the VD blues with The Zeros Keep Going, a timely meditation on the social impact of hardcore pornography. Rather like the public debate, the two sides of the argument - the porn industry and the feminist objectors - never managed to speak on c...

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Speed dating, absinthe and theatre »

Thu 11 Feb 2010

Gareth Vile: An evening of speed dating turned out to be an excellent rehearsal for Etiquette. Part of The Arches’ off site programme, Etiquette sits two strangers opposite one another, and instructs them in their conversation, through a pre-recorded script....

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TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly »

Wed 10 Feb 2010

Chris Lindsay: Duff! Duff! Duff-duff-duff-duff-duff-duff! Is there any other TV theme as instantly recognisable as the EastEnders drum roll? When something plays in your living room several times a week it’s no wonder it sounds inherently wrong when messed with - l...

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A performance-themed Valentine's Day »

Mon 08 Feb 2010

Gareth Vile: Given that my idea of an appropriate first date is either some demonic clowning from Al Seed or a quick burst of Sarah Kane’s Crave (sample line: “What ties me to you is guilt”), it is no surprise that I’ll be spending this Valentin...

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A Perfect World »

Mon 08 Feb 2010

Keir Roper-Caldbeck: There are few things more galling in life than seeing a person, already immoderately successful in their chosen field, try something new and make a success of it. This has become a depressingly common experience in the movies. First it was the phenomenon o...

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