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News and features
Edinburgh’s traditional arts fest unveils attractive line-up
ORGANISERS of Edinburgh’s annual celebration of traditional arts have unveiled the line-up for the tenth annual event.
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Review: David Christopherson - Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh
IT IS a pity that it is so difficult for visiting artists to market self-promoted concerts in Edinburgh out of the August festival season.
Review: Justice - Glasgow Academy
FRENCH duo Justice are the latest in a distinguished line of clued-up crossover dance acts who also know how to rock the house.
Review: Ones to Watch - Glasgow Stairway Club
ALTHOUGH it didn’t pretend to be a definitive showcase of the very best young bands in Scotland, this weekender from local promoters RCMS featured enough of the country’s brightest rising stars to be worthy of its name.
Adèle picks up six Grammy awards
ADÈLE, who captured the world’s heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at the Grammy Awards, winning six trophies including the prestigious trio of record, song and album of the year.
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Album reviews
Album review: Emeli Sandé - Our Version of Events
Having already forged a short, successful career in songwriting and backing others’ hits, this is Emeli Sandé at last standing up to make her voice heard
Album reviews: Speech Debelle | Those Darlins| Classical | Folk | Jazz
Our team of critics review the latest offerings from the world of music
Album reviews: Air | The Twilight Sad | Classical | Folk | Jazz
Our team of music critics lend their ears to the latest offerings in the music world.
Album reviews: Paul McCartney: Kisses on the Bottom | Ringo Starr: Ringo 2012
The two surviving Beatles indulge themselves with tracks that at their best manage to sound a bit like the Fab Four, but are in the main plodding pub rock
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Gig reviews
Gig review: Frightened Rabbit, Picture House, Edinburgh
HAD Scott Hutchison not been aware his band were about to break through to a whole new level when they were signed to Atlantic Records for their forthcoming album, or when he walked onto the stage at this almost-hometown show to a packed full house, an incident earlier in the evening would surely have encouraged him.
Gig review: The Twilight Sad - Glasgow Grand Old Opry
WHAT a way the Twilight Sad have come. What a band they are now. Once upon a time the Kilsyth-formed group were merely one of the brightest up-and-coming stars of the Scottish new music scene, their dramatic use of volume-laden guitars emphasised by the rich Caledonian depths of singer James Graham’s voice.
Gig review: The Twilight Sad, Grand Old Opry, Glasgow
WHAT a way the Twilight Sad have come. What a band they are now. Once upon a time the Kilsyth-formed group were merely one of the brightest up-and-coming stars of the Scottish new music scene, their dramatic use of volume-laden guitars emphasised by the rich Caledonian depths of singer James Graham’s voice.
Review: Field Music - Edinburgh Picturehouse
Nearly seven years after their debut album was released, Sunderland’s Field Music hardly qualify for the Next Big Thing title of this package gig from venue sponsors HMV – an idiosyncrasy pointed out by the band’s Peter Brewis with his assertion that they’ve been about for “a million years”.
Review: Big Country - Glasgow Barrowland
BIG Country’s return to the Barrowland ballroom, the final UK venue they appeared in before singer Stuart Adamson took his life in 2001, was always likely to be emotional.
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Jazz reviews
Review: Blues of the World - ABC, Glasgow
THE question wasn’t so much can a white man play the blues, but can a Londoner, two Native Americans, a Tennessean and four Marseillais? The answer here being a resounding yes – and then some.
Review: Bridget St John/National Jazz Trio of Scotland - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
WINSOME charm was in plentiful supply throughout the first half of this show featuring the National Jazz Trio of Scotland – pianist/multi-instrumentalist and composer Bill Wells’s wilfully misleading moniker for his un-jazzy four-piece in which vocalists Aby Vulliamy, Kate Sugden and Lorna Gilfedder also play viola, marimba and glockenspiel.
Review: The Louisiana Connection with Aaron Neville and Cedric Watson - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
AARON Neville has a magical voice – a sweet, tremulous yet completely commanding tenor which he can switch seamlessly to an almost unearthly falsetto.
Classical reviews
Review: RSNO - Edinburgh Usher Hall
WANT to know the recipe for true romance? The Royal Scottish National Orchestra would suggest a dish of familiar favourites served lukewarm and chopped into bite-sized chunks
Classical review: The Tallis Scholars. Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow
WHEN Allegri’s Miserere was first performed in the Sistine Chapel, the candles were extinguished one by one, until just one remained.
Classical review: Hebrides Ensemble - St George’s West Church, Edinburgh
INVITING composers to write companion works to long established chamber music classics is an idea which works well on a number of levels.
Classical review: Hebrides Ensemble, St George’s West, Edinburgh
INVITING composers to write companion works to long-established chamber music classics is an idea that works well on a number of levels.
Review: Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis - Edinburgh Queen’s Hall
Hearing Mark Padmore and Paul Lewis as a remarkable recording duo is one thing; hearing them deliver Schubert’s Die Winterreise live on an appropriately cold winter’s evening is quite another.
- Broken Rangers: Club signals intention to go into administration
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- Six Nations: Steadman given notice as ruthless Robinson seeks to strengthen team
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- Scottish independence: No breakthrough in talks between Alex Salmond and Michael Moore
- Scottish independence: David Cameron set to snub Alex Salmond’s separation talks bid
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