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FEATURES Traverse 50 Summer Festivals
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O ur Around Town and LGBT editor Lauren Mayberry leaves us this issue, but her name is unlikely to be absent from our pages for too long. She’s off to concentrate on her success with the band Chvrches who, as we speak, are
preparing for a summer of festival-going, starting with T in the Park in July.
We’ve become a bit festival-obsessed at The List these past few weeks. Scotland is teeming with them in the next few months, there are so many that even each letter of the alphabet wasn’t enough to cover them all (see our A-Z guide, page 19). Also this issue the Traverse Theatre celebrates its 50th birthday. Find out about their colourful history (including an onstage stabbing, 6ft costumes of genitalia and an obscenity complaint in the House of Commons) on page 13.
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SUMMER FESTIVALS Ah, the joy of the festival season. No, not that colossal happening that takes over the capital every August (although we’re looking forward to that too) – we’re talking about those annual events that give us an opportunity to over-indulge in the art forms of our choice, in venues set apart from our daily lives, with people who share our passion for whatever we’re there to experience. Sound like something to get excited about? Of course it does – read on from page 19.
Festivals essentials STAYING IN
The Fall / Frankie ABCs of Death Neil Young Journeys
FOOD & DRINK
Blackfriars Roast
AROUND TOWN Zoo Nights Glasgow Science Festival
BOOKS James Robertson Kate Manning Joe Hill
CLUBS Koreless RockNess
COMEDY Reginald D Hunter Judah Friedlander Eddie Izzard
FILM The Great Gatsby Byzantium The Iceman
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TRAVERSE 50 As Scotland’s new writing theatre marks a venerable five decades on the scene, we look back at how it has kept pace with the times over the last 50 years. BYZANTIUM 19 years after Interview with a Vampire, director Neil Jordan reacquaints himself with the immortality, bloodlust and ennui that comes with being a creature of the night.
CORRECTION The photographs in last issue’s Arika feature should have been credited as follows: Terre Thaemlitz, photographed by Ruthie Singer-Decapite; Daniel Carter, photographed by John Rogers; (M)IMOSA, photographed by Paula Court. In addition, the Episode 5 club dates should have read Fri 24 May, not April. The List apologises for any confusion caused.
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T A E R G
Win VIP tickets to the Closing Film and Party at the EIFF Win tickets to Edinburgh Zoo Nights
Win a family pass to the Edinburgh Mela £20 off Highland Warriot triathalon entry fee
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Win tickets to Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner 7 Win tickets to the Edinburgh International Magic
Festival
Win weekend tickets to the Kelburn Garden Party Win weekend tickets to Wickerman
Win outdoor theatre tickets
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Win VIP tickets to T in the Park 8
Win weekend tickets to RockNess 23
Win two nights accommodation at goNORTH 33
Win passes to Southern Fried Festival 33
Win weekend tickets to Knockengorroch World Ceilidh 91
Doune the Rabbit Hole Win weekend camping tickets to Belladrum
Win a VIP pass to Strictly Confidential Win a bottle of 12 year old anCnoc
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The Day I Swapped My Dad for a Goldfish 78
LGBT Arika Episode 5: boychild
MUSIC
A$AP Rocky Toro Y Moi Neil Young THEATRE
Noises Off Let The Right One In Dance: Sutra VISUAL ART
Stephen Sutcliffe: Outwork Peles Empire
CLASSIFIED Recruitment
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