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AROUND TOWN New vintage fair, A Spoonful of Vintage, will launch at Spoon café on Sun 22 Apr, 11am–5pm. Organisers promise 50s, 60s and 70s ceramics, collectables, fashions, furniture and much more. reporter who investigates him; and 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy’s comedic follow-up to 2 Days in Paris. Actor Robert Redford will appear with Nick Hornby and trip hop producer Tricky, and Placebo are scheduled to play a gig.
sets CLUBS Creamfields have announced their line-up for this year’s August dance festival. Avicii, deadmau5, Tiësto, David Guetta and Skrillex will headline at Daresbury in Cheshire from Fri 24–Sun 26 Aug, with and performances from Richie Hawtin, Calvin Harris and more. Closer to home, Glasgow’s Arches is launching LATE, Scotland’s first and only inclusive club, open to all and welcoming people with learning disabilities, on Tue 10 Apr.
F I L M Glasgow’s Cineworld Renfrew Street has received its own IMAX screen, introducing special seats that add a ‘fourth dimension’ to the movie-going experience by rumbling and vibrating. Look out for future releases, including The Hunger Games, The Cabin in the Woods, Battleship and Snow White and the Huntsman, where you can experience it in all its glory. Down in Londontown, the programme has been revealed for the inaugural Sundance London Music and Film Festival, and will be held at The O2 from Thu 26–Sun 29 Apr. Among the highlights are Shut Up and Play the Hits, a film documenting the final gigs played by LCD Soundsystem in 2011; Safety Not Guaranteed, a Duplass Brothers-produced romantic comedy about a man who claims he can time travel and the
M U S I C Travis and The Wombats have been announced as headliners for this year’s Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, in August. The two-day festival at Belladrum Estate, near Beauly, Inverness will see over 90 acts perform over five stages. Other acts confirmed include Beverly Knight, Frightened Rabbit (below, left), We Are Scientists, Nina Nesbitt See tartanheartfestival.co.uk. Elsewhere in festival news, The Drums, Friendly Fires and Mystery Jets are among the latest batch of bands to be added to the 2012 RockNess line up. They will join already-announced headliners Biffy Clyro, Mumford & Sons and deadmau5 (below). See rockness.co.uk for more info. Fink.
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upcoming THEATRE And finally, we at List HQ are excited about the National Theatre of Scotland’s recently- announced show, Enquirer, which promises to stage an investigation into the crisis in newspaper journalism. The piece will be performed on the top floor of a BBC media block in Glasgow and use real testimony taken from 60 hours of interviews. Black Watch helmsman John Tiffany will direct. NTS artistic director Vicky Featherstone said of the production: ‘Theatre is an amazing place to be able to ask questions and debate.’ It will run between Thu 26 Apr–Sat 12 May. See nationaltheatrescotland.com for full ticket info.
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■ Given that Stephen King pretty much owned the franchise on writing twisted tales set in Maine, it’s an act of errant folly that he’s not involved in Once Upon a Time (Five, Sun 1 Apr, 8pm). You can only imagine what fun the horror master would have had in getting his teeth into Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Prince Charming et al in this series which reinterprets classic fairy tales partly set in modern day America and back in whatever specific historical period fairy tales were located. Instead this is made by some hotshots who worked on Lost which will give you an idea of how lavish it looks and empty it feels. Ginnifer Goodwin and Bobby
Carlyle are among those playing dual roles (the latter almost inevitably invests his manipulative Rumplestiltskin with a dark Begbie-esque menace) while there is an overbearing Disneyness to the whole enterprise which leaves you feeling as though your back teeth are slowly rotting. A holiday season weekend trilogy might have been just about enough to stomach, but they’re giving us 22 whole chances to decide which episode of this vapid drivel to make your last. If you get beyond three, consider yourself having achieved a feat of rare endurance. ‘Where are we going?’ whimpers Snow White. ‘Somewhere horrible,’ cackles the Evil Queen. You said it.
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