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53 PAUL LAVERTY WATERBOARDING FOR BEGINNERS
51 SWG3 ARTS WAREHOUSE VENUE
The go-to guy whenever Ken Loach needs to go to a guy for a conscience-stirring script, the Spain-based
lawyer and screenwriter did it again this year with Route Irish. The war in Iraq acts as a backdrop for this latest tale of state-sponsored terror and exploitation of the weakest. (BD)
52 DF THEIR GIGS ARE TOO BOOTYLICIOUS FOR YOU
Among all their concert promoting achievements we are going to single out one of DF’s gigs this year – Beyoncé at T in the Park. Seeing Bey do her perfectly proportioned thing at Balado was a highlight of our year. Inevitably T sold out within 0.045 seconds, and it lived up to its promise to be a bigger, more diverse festival than ever. Added to which their programme of shows, big and small (from The Who to WU LYF) kept us excited all year. (JE)
If Lloyd Grossman peeked through the keyhole of this warehouse in Glasgow’s West End, depending on when he showed up, he’d find visual artists and photographers at work in the studio spaces; clubbers grinning and sweating through a weekend festival; walls adorned with exhibitions from local artists and visiting collectives . . . all-in-all, a colourful, multi-purpose space, innnovatively made use of by the city’s creatives. (CS)
50 DANANANAN AYKROYD POSTHUMOUS HONOUR FOR THE POP PREMIERS
AVERAGE WHITE BAND 40TH (cid:2) KARINE POLWART VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ (cid:2) CULLIVOE CEILIDH BAND JANIS IAN (cid:2) MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS BRUCE HORNSBY (cid:2) BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY (cid:2) AARON NEVILLE BAND OMAR SOSA (cid:2) SESSION A9 (cid:2) BONNIE PRINCE BILLY SALSA CELTICA (cid:2) PUNCH BROTHERS (cid:2) THE BIG DISH UCS 40TH WORK-IN ANNIVERSARY (cid:2) SHOOGLENIFTY MATT MOLLOY, JOHN CARTY & ARTY MCGLYNN DICK GAUGHAN (cid:2) MÀNRAN (cid:2) JACK BRUCE WITH LAU THE WIYOS (cid:2) FLOATING PALACE WITH KT TUNSTALL TO KILL A KING (cid:2) SMOOVE & TURRELL (cid:2) JOSH ROUSE ORCHESTRA BAOBAB (cid:2) FAIZ ALI FAIZ (cid:2) JULIE FOWLIS FOUR MEN & A DOG (cid:2) ANA MOURA (cid:2) THE UNTHANKS ADMIRAL FALLOW (cid:2) CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS EMIR KUSTURICA & THE NO SMOKING ORCHESTRA AND MANY, MANY MORE...
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up a five-star review in The List, then split following a November UK tour. ‘For a band called Dananananaykroyd,’ they mourned, ‘we’ve done more than we ever expected.’ (DP)
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