The List
25 June 2009
Simian Mobile Disco might regret the name, but Claire Sawers finds they’re serious about good tunes
‘We like our live shows to be a more austere, leaner version of our studio stuff,’says James (Jas) Shaw, one half of techno-pop duo, Simian Mobile Disco. For their recent crowd-rocking show at Primavera, Barcelona, laser lights [...]
The Scotsman
23 May 2009
A few bright sparks
There is a spring heatwave in New York. Flip flops are sticking on melted tarmac and strange smells come wafting out of warm Chinatown bins.
The List
19 February 2009
For his debut novel, Dundonian Jason Donald has drawn on his summers as a child in South Africa to produce something shocking, meditative and affecting. Claire Sawers meets him
The List
19 February 2009
School of Seven Bells formed in 2007 after Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis met identical twins Alejandra (left) and Claudia Dehaza, then part of On! Air! Library!
The Sunday Times
20 November 2005
A sexy forensic scientist is muscling in on the Edinburgh detective’s literary patch and could prove just as successful, discovers Claire Sawers
The List
27 November 2008
When David Bowie watched Human League play an early gig in 1979, he said he’d just seen ‘the future of pop music’ and their sci-fi, deadpan brand of electronica was ‘like listening to 1980′. Almost 30 years later, with synth-pop bleeping its way through another revival, his forecasting seems pretty accurate.
Metro
22 October 2008
Five questions for…
AIMEE MANN
Perhaps best known for her Grammy-nominated hit Save Me on the Magnolia soundtrack, downbeat, thoughtful rocker Aimee Mann releases new single Thirty One Today next week.
The Sunday Times
22 August 2004
My Edinburgh
The former Perrier award-winner Hardy gave up his life as a “bar-room hellraiser” to pursue a career in stand-up 20 years ago
The Sunday Times
17 August 2008
Wax drags neuroses out of the closet
With her new stage show, Ruby Wax has dropped the loud-mouthed persona to tackle the stigma attached to mental illness
Metro
03 August 2008
The cult of New York-based indie-folk singer Nina Nastasia began when she released her debut album, Dogs, in 2000. John Peel picked up on the understated and delicate beauty of her voice, and invited her to play six times on his show.
