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Cannes film festival: What Pete Doherty and Ronan Keating have in common
You wouldn’t normally expect to see Ronan Keating and Pete Doherty mentioned in the same sentence. But then it isn’t every day that the Boyzone star and former Libertine come to Cannes to talk up their film acting debuts.
Why I can’t stay away from Eurovision
THERE’S usually an awkward pause, followed by the word “really?” (whilst trying to stifle a giggle) when I explain to folk that I’m about to set off to spend the next fortnight amidst diva-esque singers, nymph-like dancers, camp choreographers, overtly fey stylists and a plethora of “hugely important” delegates at the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Smarts: Coming to the Fringe this year are... oh, you knew that already?
THE Edinburgh Fringe will launch its 2012 programme at the end of May. But will there be anything left to announce by then?
The arts diary: new fringe shows revealed
LOVE Letters to the Public Transport System is one of 12 shows in the Edinburgh Fringe’s Made in Scotland line-up, unveiled yesterday at Creative Scotland’s HQ on Waverley Gate and is presented by the National Theatre of Scotland.
What might an album by Shirley Manson and Paul Buchanan have sounded like?
THE new albums by Garbage and Paul Buchanan seem like musical polar opposites - one is sleek, hard-edged guitar pop that seems tailor-designed for daytime radio. The other, as you’d expect from the former frontman of the Blue Nile, is music for listening to late at night - slow, sparse, full of quiet ache and longing.
What The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp reveals about Michael Powell
In November last year, Martin Scorsese regaled an audience at the British Film Institute in London with tales of Robert De Niro’s method madness.
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How the world woke up to The Wake
My earliest experience of The Wake – whose first album of new studio material since 1994, A Light Far Out, is released this week – came a few years ago through a vinylphile friend, who arrived at my flat proudly clutching a copy of their 1987 EP Something That No One Else Could Bring, the rare spoils of a day of crate-digging.
Why Simon Amstell as Simon Amstell beats Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc
Even if one day he becomes the first man to set foot on Mars, Matt LeBlanc will always be better known as “former Friends star Matt LeBlanc”.
The Smarts: In space, no-one can hear you talking about Prometheus
POSTERS for new movies usually include endorsements from critics who have seen it. The latest posters for Ridley Scott’s new sci-fi movie – full-page newspaper ads, a month before the film is released – include quotes from people who haven’t seen Prometheus, talking about how much people are talking about the film.
Who knew that John Peel was an A-ha fan?
“The best of them, the ones that I regarded as being the best… still sound terrific,” says John Peel in the distinctive world-weary sigh which soundtracked an adolescence spent listening to his show just as much as The Fall or punishing, obscure hardcore techno white labels that sound like they were tape-recorded in a Berlin squat.
The weekend Madchester comes to Scotland
The Stone Roses are not scheduled to land in Scotland until early July when they will provide the most pressing reason to attend this year’s T In The Park.
How Spoken Word made its voice heard at the Fringe
Time was, poets would simply toil away in their garrets, till fame or tuberculosis carried them away. Their passion and spleen tended to go unnoticed, until fumigation, hasty cremation and/or publication. Then came live poetry slams and reliable Wi-Fi. Suddenly, in coffee shops across the land, bards and storytellers were banding together to demand a Spoken Word section in the Edinburgh Fringe brochure. The revolution wasn’t televised but it did have a committed Facebook campaign.
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