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Music
Thom Yorke shares track from Suspiria soundtrack
Those Radiohead boys really know their way around a film score. The cult band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood has become one of the film world’s most... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Music
Hidden Door: Maranta and Post Coal Prom Queen on collaboration
The idea of musical collaborations is not a new one – as Russian Doll’s Nadia would say: “Collaborations. What a concept.” But some o... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Music
Spotlight On... Lost Map presents Weird Wave
As the iconic Scottish indie label Lost Map Records turns ten this year, label boss Johnny Lynch – aka Pictish Trail – has teamed up with seven o... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago -
Festivals
Central Europe: Music Festivals Guide 2018
Best Kept SecretHilvarenbeek, The Netherlands, 8-10 Jun2018 will see The Netherlands' Best Kept Secret festival celebrate its sixth edition, held on the grou... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival: 2019 Report
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is nothing if not self-aware. Taking place annually in Hawick, the festival is alive to the fact that its celebration ... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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I am Son – Sanpapié @ Dance Base
An existential quest, this is an ambitious piece exploring the contemporary emptiness of Western/European society in its post-war context, but sometimes less... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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50 Acts – Wendy Houstoun @ Dance Base
Stunning videos and humourous use of text, mime, speech and movement, make this an inventive piece of experimental physical theatre, full of authenticity abo... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass @ The National Library of Scotland
Long awaited, after the smash-hit success of The Moira Monologues, Alan Bissett's new drama, is an equally hilarious series of monologues all played by Bisse... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Fruitful Ties and Bone Dust – Steinvor Palsson/Mathew Hawkins and Lucy Suggate The Bodyfarm @ Dance Base
Fruitful Ties by former Royal Ballet member, Matthew Hawkins and Steinvor Palsson is outstanding: an elegant, stylish and stylised multi-layered piece, perfo... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Theatre
We Think Not: Karl Jay-Lewin & Anushiye Yarnell
This is the kind of Zen koan that came to mind watching We Think Not. These are two different works of great interiority. I felt like... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Lost in Details – Aleksandra Borys @ Dance Base
This is visceral dance theatre at its best. Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, Polish Aleksandra Borys's piece is steeped in Lewis Carroll but it is... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Tam O'Shanter @ Assembly Hall
The acclaimed company Communicado is back at full throttle: reminiscent of the legendary 7:84 company, many of the cast can sing, dance and play a tune on tr... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Heads Up @ Dance Base
Heads Up is a smorgsbord of delights over 3 days, each day a new, last-minute programme of extracts of what's on at Dance Base, but also a cornucopia of... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Fidelio @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
Re-settings in historical eras seem to be de rigueur for opera productions nowadays, so why not set Fidelio in futuristic outer space, with 21st centur... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience @ B'est Restaurant
Hilarious, delicious, Faulty Towers: the Dining Experience is a Fringe Legend. Now in its sixth consecutive year at Edinburgh, the show plus ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Stuart: A Life Backwards @ Underbelly
Stuart is a homeless man suffering from motor neurone disease, a larger-than-life motormouth, enchanting but unpredictable, and at risk, criminal and ment... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Hamlet: The Wooster Group @ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival
The Wooster Group's Hamlet is an experimental, challenging work with an avant garde genesis but a more general appeal through its sense of humour and use of&... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Madame Freedom @ King's Theatre
Tradition and modernity meet head-on in this stunningly beautiful interactive performance of dance, film and innovative computer-generated visuals by a husb... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Heads Up @ Dance Base
A delightfully varied taster of different dance styles, Heads Up is a midday pick-me-up with three different programmes and a mixture of professional and com... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Dance Base Week 3 Reviews
"So…" begins Luke Murphy in that engaging Irish way of beginning a story. For both these shows, Your Own Man [★★★★☆] and Mad Notions [★★★★☆], are half... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Theatre
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A treat. What better way to celebrate the festive season than this rambunctious, zany version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland written and directed ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
Festivals
We Think Not – Karl Jay-Lewin & Anushiye Yarnell @ Dancebase
What is the sound of one hand clapping ? This is the kind of Zen koan that came to mind watching We Think Not. These are two different works of great int... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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What the Folk @ Dance Base
With all the famed wit and verve, hospitality, and gift of the gab of the Irish, not least a cup of tea and a piece of cake (Oh go on, go on), this... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Leave to Remain @ St John's Church
Away from the razzmatazz of the festival, I slipped into the chapel of St John's to experience Leave to Remain, where former Traverse playwright in residenc... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Sluts of Possession @ Dancebase
Rosie Kay returns with Brazilian Guilherme Miotto in a fascinating new show, which invades consciousness through its physicality and mesmeric power. A fusion... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Seven: Ballet am Rhein @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 20 Aug
Pointe ballet shoes, bare feet and boots sum up this contemporary ballet inspired by Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, superbly played by the Royal Scottish N... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Sylvie Guillem: Life in Progress @ Festival Theatre
Subtle, intelligent, playful and moving, Life in Progress exemplifies Sylvie Guillem’s attitude through the 39 years of her dance career: balancin... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Edinburgh Fringe Reviews: Dance at Zoo Venues
Sacrifice of Roaring (★★★☆☆), is a descent into the Taiwanese spirit world combining modern choreography with traditional Asian movements. A man li... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Art
Stephanie Mann: The Skinny Showcase
Stephanie Mann graduated from Edinburgh College of Art MFA in 2013 and works from her studio at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Upcoming show: The transparent... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Festivals
Within This Dust: Smallpetitklein Dance Company @ Dance Base
Inspired by Richard Drew's photographs of a man falling from the World Trade Center, this is a memorial to those who died on 9/11. Inevitably the question ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago