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AROUND TOWN The Olympics may well be over but Glasgow still has cause to celebrate its local talents this September when the city welcomes home Scottish gold medal winners Chris Hoy and Katherine Grainger, among others, for official celebrations within the city, on Fri 14 Sep. Edinburgh will also host their own jamboree, with a parade through the city, so check out list.co.uk for more events details as we have it. BOOKS There was a lot of love being felt in the List offices this issue, when news came in that DC Thomson’s children’s comic Dandy was to stop printing. If, like us, you’re feeling a bit nostalgic for your youth, worry not, the publishers have said it is not the end for many of the comic’s characters, including the much- loved Desperate Dan. Look out for a special edition on the comic’s 75th anniversary in early December, as well as a reprint of the first
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FESTIVAL Glasgay! has has eme announced that the theme will for this year’s festival will ion, question acts of union, rced whether ‘they be forced, failed, falling apart, personal or political, blessed or corrupt’. The creative minds behind this year’s fest will question how we define ourselves in the 21st century. Check it from from 15 Oct–3 Nov. See http://glasgay.co.uk for more. romantic, new,
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FILM Elsewhere, we are very excited to hear that God Help The Girl, the musical feature film, written and directed by Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of the group Belle and Sebastian is now complete. We can’t wait to see it.
MUSIC The Captain’s Rest and M th their mighty fine array of gigs are t to be no more. Well, no more on Great Western Road anyway, with plans to re-open on Sauchiehall Street, in the near future. In its place comes the Hug & Pint, so named after named after the Arab Strap album. We like them already. THEATRE Finally, in quirky theatre news, Adrian Howells, who impressed List HQ with his 2011 Fringe outing The Pleasure of Being is to bring his latest opus Lifeguard to Glasgow in October, courtesy of National Theatre of Scotland and the Arches, and in association with Govanhill Baths Community Trust. Performed in the training/toddlers pool of Govanhill Baths, creator and performer Howells’ latest piece examines human beings and their relationship to water and swimming.
WHAT WE SAID: ‘It’s a pretty big surprise to hear an album that’s cohesive, adventurous and at times, crushingly heavy . . [but] familiar enough to please the faithful.’ THE LIST WHAT THEY SAID: ‘Remarkably Bloc Party sound full of potential where just four years ago they sounded depleted. Indeed, Four may be 2012’s most exciting guitar album, and who would have predicted that?’ BBC
‘This combination of sounds and personalities diagnoses the band and album number four with bi-polar disorder. Let’s pray they never recover.’ CLASH Four is clearly intentioned as a return to roots . . .British indie music is in a weird place, there’s no focused scene to speak of, guitar bands are niche once more and we need Bloc Party more than we ever have.‘ DROWNED IN SOUND