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Forever now
David Hare believes Netflix and Amazon have ushered in another golden age for screen writers. By Victor Eaves
I Have Fallen In Love With The Forth Bridge
A poem by Keith Armstrong
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Meeting Jim
A new documentary about a key character in the story of the Edinburgh Festival gets lost in plodding self-importance, writes Victor Eaves
Still waters
Daisy Johnson talks to Naomi Richards about the power of myths, metamorphis and the art of writing her new novel.
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Earth for sale
A protest group use visual satire to call out the double speak of a major global oil corporation and the celebrities who endorse them
Just like gold
No-one writes love songs like Roddy Frame.Alistair Braidwood hails Scotland’s most articulate and hopeful romantic
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Over the wall
Victor Eaves on a moving documentary about the Israeli Palestinian conflict
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Blind vision
Is HyperNormalisation journalism or entertainment? Sibylla Kalid sifts through the arguments
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Down the rabbit hole
Live action updates of Disney classics are a pale imitation of the originals, and only one shall go the ball, writes Nathanael Smith
Testing times
Against international evidence about its negative effect, the Scottish government has introduced testing throughout the education system, beginning at Primary 1. Sue Palmer sets ministers their own test
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Mister Malcontent
Bill Hicks has been derided as an anti-corporate fanatic, UFO devotee and gun fetishist. But what he would really have hated is being described as the lost saviour of stand-up, writes Allan Brown
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Wild Devotion
Jade Starmore, a photographer and textile designer from the Hebrides, creates wearable art inspired by the Scottish landscape
The end of the habitable world
A short story by Tracey Emerson
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Game, set and match
An appreciation of the 1969 film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Alistair Braidwood
High Hedges 9 by Malcy Duff
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She Punks
Sam Knee talks to Neil Cooper about Untypical Girls, his new book about pioneering all-female bands from post punk to riot grrrl
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Johnny Cash’s stepdaughter gave me a kiss
A new short story by Naomi Richards
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Denise Johnson
Ahead of two Scottish dates, velvet-voiced soul singer Denise Johnson talks to Neil Coooper about her new album of acoustic covers of Manchester bands
Silent Spring
Set in a near-future Earth devastated by global warming, The Book of Joan is a rare attempt to deal with a colossal issue. Sybilla Archdale Kalid on why climate change can’t be contained in modern literature
The Divided Self
Artist Sekai Machache explores ideas of identity and self.
Hip priest
Neil Cooper on four decades of the contrary, belligerent and brilliant Mark E Smith
Lux Lives!
Nine years since he left the party, an exuberant annual celebration of the Cramps’ colourful frontman is still in full swing, writes Paul Robinson
A big big love
They may be ambivalent to one another, but the Pixies’ music is still adored as the documentary charting their reunion reveals. By Alastair McKay
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Adventures close to home
Alistair Braidwood talks to Viv Albertine, legendary guitarist with pioneering all-girl group the Slits.
Those to whom evil is done
Chris Harvie on warnings from history and the shitstorm to come
Dance away
Jannica Honey met strippers on their way to and from work in their dressing room
Bdy-Prts
@Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh.
December 2nd. By Neil Cooper
Faust
@Summerhall, Edinburgh. November 29. By Neil Cooper
History repeats
Did the former Stoke MP lift sections of a long ago OU book for his 2004 historical tome? One of the original authors Chris Harvie finds it oddly familiar
Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot Theatre: Riot Days. @Glasgow Art School. Nov 21. Review by Neil Cooper
I Sing The Body Electric
Jola Sopek’s intimate portraits of everyday life elevate the banal into something beautiful and infinite
Mother Father
Artist Lucie Rachel discusses identity, intimacy, respect and the creation of her remarkable work detailing the arc of her parents’ relationship
High Times
The creators of Britain’s first counter cultural paper talk to Neil Cooper about their new visual catalogue of the ’60s radical underground press
Wire
@Mash House, Edinburgh. Monday November 6. Review by Neil Cooper
Passion play
Author Malcolm Devlin discusses fairy tales, genre-jumping and placating restless stories with Naomi Richards
Beyond Rock and Roll
Neil Cooper on the tireless invention of post punk visionary Vic Godard
Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band
@Oran Mor, Glasgow. October 5. By Neil Cooper
Sing choirs of angels
Communal singing is uplifting and radical, veteran post punk Boff Whalley tells Neil Cooper
Room 29
@King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. August 24. By Neil Cooper
Jenny Hval
@ Summerhall. August 20th. Review by Neil Cooper
Live review
Very Cellular Songs – The Music of The Incredible String Band. Playhouse, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Speed of life
Alistair Braidwood is charmed by a book of recollections from Bowie fans and collaborators
Live review
PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project. Playhouse, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Here comes the summer
Neil Cooper on the year’s most unashamedly joyous record
Hope and despair
The Glasgow-based chanteuse has produced a remarkable treatise on love, loss and redemption, writes Alistair Braidwood
Here comes the sun
Sound of Yell’s third release is a woozy slice of summer joy, writes Neil Cooper
Live Review
F For Fake – The Secret Goldfish, Spectorbullets, The Sexual Objects. Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, June 24. By Neil Cooper
Live Review
Japanese New Music Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh. Sunday June 18th. By Neil Cooper
Platonic Dialogue
A story by Teo Rivera-Dundas
Draw you in
Graham Domke previews the new Rob Churm show at Glasgow’s CCA
Live Review
Damo Suzuki’s Network, Mash House, Edinburgh, Scotland. By Neil Cooper
Album review
Indie-pop survivors resurface with a record rich in off-kilter charm, writes Neil Cooper
Album review
Former Soup Dragon returns with a second instalment of inspired dance floor euphoria, writes Neil Cooper
Billy Wilder
Arch,camp and supremely talented, Billy Mackenzie would have been sixty this week. Graham Domke celebrates Scotland’s Scott Walker
Here comes the sun
Product writers choose their favourite summer songs to brighten the darkest sky
Pick up the pieces
Neil Cooper on a new collection of instrumentals exploring the shadows of Dundee’s changing urban landscape
Cmon feel the neuz
Neil Cooper on the beat/punk roots of Neu! Reekie!
Here come the men in pants
Neil Cooper on the return of the lustrous Special Love
Live Review
Public Service Broadcasting: The Race for Space Live. Usher Hall, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Album review
Glasgow’s talented all girl gang banish twee with a soaring fusion of indie and bubblegum, writes Neil Cooper
All around the world
With three films out this year, exile-turned-actor Jamie Robson is on the brink of a big screen breakthrough
The Daily Hate
Sibylla Kalid discusses ethics with the founder of a campaign to discourage corporations advertising in tabloids which pedal racial prejudice
Album review
Creeping Bent stalwarts return with a sublime collection of shimmering indie pop, writes Neil Cooper
Live Review
Karate Priest, Rhubaba, Leith. By Hugo Fluendy
Live Review
Mick Harvey, Summerhall, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Shining
A poem by Cara L McKee
Album review
Ex-Banshee releases another slice of bass-heavy ambient exploration, writes Neil Cooper
Radio Days
Neil Cooper talks to Johny Brown about adapting Bill Drummond’s plays for radio
Flowers in the dustbin
Neil Cooper on a thunderous EP from the Blue Orchids’ latest incarnation
Power couple
Neil Cooper on two fine new releases shot through with inventive exuberance
Power in the darkness
Neil Cooper meets Syd Shelton, chronicler of the seminal ’70s Rock Against Racism campaign with new relevance for today’s protest movement
Album review
Neil Cooper finds hidden depths in a thrillingly contemporary folk album
Live review
Pet Shop Boys, The Playhouse, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Album review: Usurper
Neil Cooper gets lost on a sonic safari of bizarre out takes and playful hidden meanings