3rd December 2008
Jamie Ross This time last year, I was exactly the same as many of you reading this. A rosy-cheeked, eighteen-year-old fresher being gradually corrupted by all that Glasgow University had to offer. I prowled the disconcertingly sticky floors of The Hive, too inebriated to notice that it had already claimed both of my shoes. I ...
3rd December 2008
Michelle Williams … takes a look at the subtle side of fine dining in Glasgow Noone likes a show off. The fastest route to securing eternal public hatred is surely to take the most un-British of steps, and point your merits out for all the world to hear. Take the over-inflated egos of the likes ...
3rd December 2008
Ben Freeman considers the perils of overt sexual imagery in the fashion industry The fashion industry is unarguably one of the most sexually charged arenas in the world (trumped only by the steel miners, of course), but does the use of nudity and sexual images cheapen fashion advertising? It is difficult to open a magazine ...
3rd December 2008
David Kirkpatrick Denial is a river in Egypt and I’m in it up to my neck. For weeks now I’ve been ignoring adverts for Iceland mini platters and turning a blind eye to the seasonal funfair in George Square. However, walking into town a billboard for Coca Cola caught my eye and officially started my ...
3rd December 2008
Gerry McKeever … sits down with British DJ Mr. Scruff to discuss a love of tea, six-hour sets and the state of modern music Andy Carthy (aka Mr Scruff) is generally recognised as one of the foremost exponents of ‘quirk’ in modern music. Since the release of his first single in the mid-nineties, he has ...
3rd December 2008
Unashamed fan Crystal Chesters flags down Jason McGerr from Death Cab in Edinburgh for a chat Death Cab for Cutie were originally a preppy indie band from Seattle, whose melodic, poetic songs about being clever and confused attracted a large base of wussy fans. One of them was The O.C’s Seth Cohen, and once Seth ...
3rd December 2008
Harry Akehurst Still young when they left the burrow in 2004, German dance duo Digitalism emerged straight into a field of serious heavyweights. Formed in Hamburg, they share a country with Boys Noize and border with current genre giants Daft Punk and Justice in France, and Soulwax/2 Many DJs in Belgium. If the geography could ...
3rd December 2008
Tom Bonnick Inevitably, The Fireman’s new album, Electric Arguments, will never really be viewed as anything other than the latest vehicle with which Sir Paul McCartney has been desperately attempting to resurrect his floundering career, and/or some semblance of artistic credibility. As such, it has certain expectations to live up to — namely, that it ...
3rd December 2008
George Binning European clubbers are breaking out their obsidian disco balls in preparation for Black Diamond, the first LP from Portuguese break-beat trio, Buraka Som Sistema. The band claim to be championing a painstakingly underground sound known as ‘Kuduro’. Kuduro, Portuguese for ‘hard ass’, is a really low-tech strain of Techno that was born in ...
3rd December 2008
Gerry McKeever The almighty mess the music industry is in is nothing if not well publicised. Enormous growth in new alternative methods of acquiring music over the internet have punched a big hole right in the middle of the business. There is quite simply just not enough demand for the tangible product anymore, with the ...
