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The Arts Desk Radio Show 2Thursday, 03 May 2012
Welcome to our second show, brought to you again from the Red Bull Studio in London where it was recorded by Brendon Harding.This time, Peter and Joe are joined live in the studio by two guests: friend of theartsdesk and musical polymath Mara... Read more... |
Lip Service, Series Two, BBC ThreeSaturday, 21 April 2012
From the moment the first series came eyepoppingly to the boil, the loyal fanbase of Lip Service began clamouring for a second helping. That was back in November 2010. Eighteen months later, their wish has finally been granted, and audiences are... Read more... |
Amanda Shires, Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club, GlasgowThursday, 19 April 2012
In a members-only bowling club, down a side street in a residential part of Glasgow I'd never visited before last night, Texan fiddle-player and songwriter Amanda Shires stood wearing the most magnificent pair of cowboy boots I had ever seen.They... Read more... |
Glasgow Music Programme 2012/13Monday, 26 March 2012The 2012/13 Glasgow music programme has been announced. Highlights include a focus on three legendary Minimalists: Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Arvo Part. Reich and the London Sinfonietta premiere Reich's new work, Radio Rewrite, over a... Read more... |
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 2012-13 SeasonThursday, 22 March 2012The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) has announced its 2012-13 season. Donald Runnicles opens his fourth season as chief conductor with the first act of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, launching the orchestra... Read more... |
Royal Scottish National Orchestra 2012-13 SeasonTuesday, 20 March 2012Peter Oundjian - succeeding Stéphane Denève as Music Director - leads the new artistic team at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the 2012-13 Season. The new Principal Guest Conductor is Thomas Søndergård. The season... Read more... |
Nanci Griffith, Royal Concert Hall, GlasgowSunday, 11 March 2012
“I know what I was angry about when I wrote this,” Nanci Griffith told the crowd as she introduced “Hell No (I’m Not Alright)”, “but you can get your anger out about whatever you want.”It seemed a little odd that Griffith left the big hook (if the... Read more... |
Kathleen Edwards, Oran Mor, GlasgowSunday, 26 February 2012
Accompanying herself with the violin she hung from the mic stand, the Canadian songwriter Kathleen Edwards performed “Goodnight, California” - the last track from her 2008 album Asking For Flowers - in the sensual rasp of the late night gin-drunk.... Read more... |
Rebecca Ferguson, Clyde Auditorium, GlasgowThursday, 23 February 2012
Ever since that first Saturday night when Simon Cowell pulled back the curtain on mainstream pop music's most underhand dealings, there has been a certain type of artiste that a certain type of person struggles to take seriously. What is often... Read more... |
Woody at 100, Celtic Connections, GlasgowThursday, 26 January 2012
It would be easy to begin with a reflection on how little the world has changed in the 100 years since the birth of Woody Guthrie; to draw parallels between the Great Depression and our own troubled economic times. Yet en route to last night's “... Read more... |
CD of the Year: Rustie - Glass SwordsMonday, 19 December 2011
If 2011 was the year when dance music's natural tendency to fragmentation was taken to extremes, this album was the one that bound those fragments together into one demented but scintillating vision. Russell Whyte – Rustie – comes from a very... Read more... |
Young James Herriot, BBC OneMonday, 19 December 2011
You can see why prequels come into being. A dramatic character becomes a national treasure and eventually, once old age or worse removes them from the small screen, they are opportunistically exhumed by means of the backstory. Young Delboy was... Read more... |
