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T Break: United Fruit
But enough already, here's the story so far from one of the bands we dig the most on this year's T in the Park bill. Sunday night in out-patients anyone?Back... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Postcard from Auld Reekie – Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream
“I find them hard work, rock books.” Vic Godard is sitting backstage in the Traverse Theatre having completed his second and final rehearsal wit... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
Truth and Perspective: London Grammar Interview
London Grammar's Hannah Reid talks overcoming stage fright, the physical toll of touring, and the band's second album Truth is a Beautiful Thing In the... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Things To Do
Events Calendar – Scotland, September 2015
i AM 5.1Tue 1 Sep Resident i AM young guns Beta & Kappa ripen to the grand old age of five, celebrating with i AM 5.1 in their beloved Sub Club lair, ... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Unbound 2012: The Events
Become Unbound every night from 12-27 August in The Guardian Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens, as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. A... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Clubs
Teenage Geekery: Atjazz questions his existence
A softly spoken sound-designer from the heart of County Durham, Martin Iveson plies his trade somewhere in rural Derbyshire, miles away from the club setting... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Art
Opinion: What's your Northwest?
Dominic Berry Poet When I left school I had no idea what I was doing with my life besides the fact I hated every job I got and wanted to do 'something arty... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Music
De La Soul's Posdnuos unveils And the Anonymous Nobody
“It’s been a while, it’s been a while…” Kelvin ‘Posdnuos’ Mercer acknowledges that a confluence of paralysing circ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Music
Rise of The Cavalera Conspiracy
“I was on tour with Soulfly – Iggor wanted to see me and patch up, but it had been more than ten years. That was an awesome phone call because it... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
Music
Pretty Good Year: Stina Tweeddale on Honeyblood's SAY nomination
Musicians are seldom known for their modesty or for praising bands other than their own. But Stina Tweeddale is as happy to talk about the other groups short... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – February 2015
Right, c’mon, that’s enough sitting around indoors lamenting the inevitable collapse of your foolishly concocted new year’s resolutions and... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Protest: Laura Hird leads the resistance at EIBF
The editor of Protest, Ra Page, has achieved an extraordinary and timely feat, considering our current political climate: a collection of short stories, each... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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The Best of Edinburgh Fringe 2016: Comedy
"Those of us lucky enough to get a ticket to see Nish Kumar were not disappointed: he brings really incisive and eye-opening analysis to all the satire he cr... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Cara Comedian: Josie Long on her new show Cara Josephine
It’s a cliché to say that comedians are just big kids; that being a comedian is less a career and more a means of extending one’s adolesce... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Top Events Northwest 13-20 Nov | Ben Frost, Video Jam + Hankering for Classification
Top Events Northwest 13-20 Nov | Ben Frost, Video Jam + Hankering for Classification Music 1. Ben Frost Go... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Theatre
Joyce McMillan: Theatre and reflecting a nation
If anybody reading this went to the Borders Book Festival to see Joyce McMillan, and if her voice gave way mid-event to leave a silent abyss... well then, we... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Books
A Bookish Christmas Gift Guide
For… anyone with the slightest interest in Scottish Culture A biography doesn’t need a fascinating subject to be a great book – but it&rs... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
Film
School Daze: Carol Morley on The Falling
It’s 8.30am on a bright February morning in Glasgow. The Falling, a heady tale of teenage friendship and mass hysteria, played to a full house at the c... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
Music
Done is Done: Young Fathers put 'Dead' to rest
For Young Fathers, looking backwards doesn’t come easy. The group’s approach to writing and recording is brutally fast: take a week in the studio... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Music
At Home, At Work, At Play: Franz Ferdinand and Sparks discuss their union
The unsmiling visage of Ron Mael is one of the most recognisible in popular music. Famed for playing his keyboard while apparently motionless, it was somethi... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Events Northwest 6-13 Nov | Syndrome 3.0, Philip Glass + Gretchen Bender
Top Events Northwest 6-13 Nov | Syndrome 3.0, Philip Glass + Gretchen Bender Music 1. Syndrome 3.0: The P... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Books
Begbie’s Back: An interview with Irvine Welsh
Begbie is back, with the April publication of The Blade Artist and Danny Boyle's sequel to Trainspotting filming in May. Ahead of his promotional tour, we ge... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Kid Canaveral at SxSW: How the West was won and where it got us
Well, that was quite something. I’ve now got a proper-sized keyboard, so hopefully there’ll be less typos in this one [I’ve just read it ... Read more »| Updated about 13 years ago -
Music
Breaking The Static: We Came Out Like Tigers Interviewed
“When everyone is self-conscious you are stuck in your place, because you’re always aware of everything, and you will never make the big leap lik... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Books
Sabrina Mahfouz & Iona Lee on women in poetry
Women have been historically excluded from the literary canon: it’s a fact. Academics and historians widely acknowledge that the social mores of the pa... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Unbound 2017: Stornoway to India
In addition to pioneering Asian Blues with Aziz Ibrahim and working with musicians such as The Stone Roses and Paul Weller, Dalbir Singh Rattan is now one of... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
Trail of Dead Unveil The Century of Self: Exclusive Track-By-Track Preview
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead return this month with The Century of Self, inspired by what front man Conrad Keely considers “a sens... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
Music
The Seer Returns: Michael Gira on Swans' ever-evolving live show
Following the ambitions of post-rock bands like Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor towards an oceanic, expansive and orchestrated ecstasy, Swans’&n... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Comedy
Isy Suttie on The Actual One
Isy Suttie's new memoir The Actual One – and tour of the same name – revolves around her life about a decade ago: specifically the time after a b... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Books
Lemn Sissay: Calm Before the Storm
Imagine being commissioned to write and perform a poem to commemorate Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech – surely one of the most poetic uttera... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago