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FILM Ill Manors Plan B’s urban drama is bare good, blud, innit, etc.
MUSIC Ultravox No Vienna. BOOKS Tales from the Mall Ewan Morrison gets lost in the lingerie dept.
NEWS Celebrity deaths Donna Summer, MCA, Robin Gibb and Booker T’s Donald Dunn join the supergroup in the sky.
MUSIC Hot Chip Showing hipster laptop jockeys how it’s done, over and over again.
FILM Casa de mi Padre Senor Will Ferrell’s primero film en espanol es . . . unfunny-o.
EVENTS Diamond Jubilee Tabloid headline bingo: She’s a Diamond, Lovely Jubilee, Liz Have a Party.
THEATRE Jesus Christ Superstar New production features Chris Moyles, Mel C and despair.
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■ We like being involved in cool things, and not just writing about them. So we were pleased to have had a hand in the success of the National Museum of Scotland’s most recent Museum Lates gig, specifically in booking band- of-the-moment Django
Django to play a mesmering set. Take a
gander at their folk- rave stylings here: bit.ly/djangostorm. We still like Avengers:
Assemble, but aren’t sure how we feel about the epithet ‘mewling quim’, which is used by bad guy Loki as an insult to Scarlett Johansson. Inappropriate in a 12A film? Or
Malcolm Tucker-esque brilliance? M You can keep up-to-date with all Y MQ news via the @MewlingQuim M Twitter account. T Almost as controversial is the
upcoming Eurovision song u contest (the Grand Final is 26 c May). The UK’s hopes rest heavily M on the shoulders, and sideburns, of o Engelbert Humperdinck and his song ‘Love Will Set You Free’. We suspect he might get trounced by Anri Jokhadze, the Georgian entrant, thanks to the lyrical brilliance of his song ‘Joker’. ‘I’m a joker, I’m a poker, I’m a broker, I’m a stoker,’ claims Anri, before barking the command, ‘Hands up! Booty up!’ What, at the same time!? same time!?
We leave you with our favourite daydream from the mountain man-lovin’ Bonivererotica blog (boniverotica.tumblr. com): ‘Today Bon Iver wrapped me in his flannel, which smelled like charred pine and licorice, and took me outside to show me a perfect spiderweb.’ Oh Justin Vernon, our quims mewl for you.
NEXT ISSUE Wednesday 20 June
T IN THE PARK The jewel in Scotland’s music festival crown returns with a reliable mixture of the iconic, the popular and the groundbreaking. The Stone Roses, Orbital, New Order, Django Django, Nicki Minaj, Florence and the Machine – we’ll have it all covered in our next issue. EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Yes, we covered a bit of it this issue, but the EIFF doesn’t properly hit its stride until next issue – which will be packed with previews, interviews and our pick of the programme highlights in the now- traditional official List day planner.
144 THE LIST 24 May–21 Jun 2012