Features

Simian Mobile Disco

Category: Interviews, Music previews

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 [...]

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The Twilight Sad

Category: Arts and entertainment, Features, Interviews

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.

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Creative writing - Graffiti in Scotland

Category: Arts and entertainment, Features

The List
14 May 2009
From Loanhead to Glasgow there’s a rich heritage of graffiti art in Scotland. Claire Sawers speaks to two of the key figures on the scene, Elph and Derm

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Glasgow Comedy Festival - Rob Brydon

Category: Comedy, Features

The List
5 March 2009

More than just the funniest man in Britain today, Rob Brydon is a multi-faceted man of mirth and to kick off our coverage of the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Claire Sawers explains why we love him
For the laughter
Under the Bruce Forsyth jawline and what he describes as ‘Olympic acne’ the man [...]

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Glasgow Film Festival: Audrey Hepburn Retrospective

Category: Film

The List
5 February 2009
The Glasgow Film Festival salutes the breathtaking work of Audrey Hepburn, but she was more than just a pretty face. Claire Sawers speaks to fans and family to find out what Hepburn means as an actor, style icon and activist
 
The Film Star
Allison Gardner
co-director of Glasgow Film Festival
‘Although she’s remembered best as Holly [...]

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Jason Donald

Category: Books, Features, Interviews

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

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School of Seven Bells

Category: Interviews

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!

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More than just another funny face

Category: Film

The Sunday Times
1 February 2009

 
A retrospective shows Audrey Hepburn had more range than is often credited to her
“Big feet. Too skinny. A bump on the nose. Not interesting, and not a great actress.” It’s a description few would associate with one of the silver screen’s most iconic beauties - but it’s the way Audrey Hepburn [...]

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Move over Rebus

Category: Interviews

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

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Phil Oakey

Category: Interviews

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.

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