Thursday 26 April - 10 May 2001

The guide to events in central Scotland

Top ten . . . May Day . . . Glasgow Green . . . REM . . . Edwin Morgan’s favourite gay stories . . . Hollywood vs Indie . . . a serious letter about comedy

10 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

It’s a great book, but does Louis de Bernieres’ wartime romance make a good film?

12 trip‘lych

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Jarvis Cocker and Derrick May are the chosen ones for our tripTych profiles.

16 Scottish Film Special

Hollywood sucks. So, here’s a taste of the

50 new Scottish directors,

cinematographers, writers, producers, animators and composers who’ll be

making waves in the coming years.

26 Irvine Welsh

The most revered/loathed writer of his

generation is back with a new novel, Glue. We sent Bidisha along to see if they could bond.

PLUS

Ken Loach (28) Orbital (47)

Robert Newman (68) Beltane (1 02)

The Jam (109) Denmark (122)

I Events

28 Film 32 Film index 40 Film listings

47 Music

51 Rock & Pop listings

56 Jazz listings

57 Folk & World listings

58 Classical & Opera listings

60 Theatre & Dance 66 Theatre & Dance listings

68 Comedy

70 Gay 71 Gay listings

74 Clubs 76 Clubs listings 87 Venues

89 Art 92 Gallery listings

98 Kids 100 Glasgow Life 102 Edinburgh Life

I The Goods

106 Best buy of the issue 106 Books

109 Comics 109 Records

1 12 Games

1 13 Internet

1 13 Video/DVD 1 14 TV

1 16 Shopping 120 Food

122 Travel

I Classified

124 Recruitment 129 Flatshare 134 I Saw You

I Rear view 136 Phil Kay & John Fardell

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