Features

Review: White Christmas, Edinburgh Playhouse ****

Posted on by Amy Anderson
Review: White Christmas, Edinburgh Playhouse ****

Latest reports say the UK might be in store for a white Christmas – but whatever the odds, snow is falling at the Edinburgh Playhouse this December as Irving Berlin’s sparkling Hollywood musical, White Christmas, rolls in town. Based on the 1954 Bing Crosby movie, White Christmas tells the story of army veterans Bob Wallace (Matthew Jeans) and Phil Davis (Dan Burton) as they join forces with singing sisters Betty and Judy Haynes (played by…

Read More

High 5, with Will And The People

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
High 5, with Will And The People

Brighton four-piece Will And The People visit The Mash House in Edinburgh on Sunday (December 6). Consisting of frontman Will Rendle, his brother Jamie Rendle on bass, keyboard player Jim Ralphs and drummer Charlie Harman, the band released new album Past The Point Of No Return in late November. The album was self produced and recorded at The Libertines’ The Albion Rooms over the course of a week. Likened to The Police and The Specials,…

Read More

AAA’s Hottest Record of the Week: Bombay Bicycle Club, Is It Real

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
AAA’s Hottest Record of the Week: Bombay Bicycle Club, Is It Real

British indie rock favourites Bombay Bicycle Club have released the final teaser track from their soon-to-be-released new album Everything Else Has Gone Wrong – and it’s AAA’s Hottest Record of the Week. You can listen to the band’s newbie, Is It Real, below. Bombay Bicycle Club’s fifth studio album is due to be released this Friday (January 17) and has been proceeded with the singles I Can Hardly Speak, Racing Stripes, and Eat, Sleep, Wake…

Read More

Interview / Tony Black: ‘Before I knew it, Gus was back, voicing and his opinions on everything’

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
Interview / Tony Black: ‘Before I knew it, Gus was back, voicing and his opinions on everything’

It’s been ten years since the last outing of crime writer Tony Black’s inimitable cop Gus Dury – but the “punk rocker of the Scottish crime scene” is back. AAA caught up with Tony to find out what fans can expect from new novel, Wrecked. The Gus Dury creation first made waves back in 2009 in the author’s debut title, Paying for It, where the hard-drinking Edinburgh cop landed himself in hot water for headbutting…

Read More

Interview: Ed Cares, Childcare

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
Interview: Ed Cares, Childcare

London quartet Childcare bring the Sabi Tour to Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh on Saturday, 30 November – and AAA caught up with Ed Cares from the band for a chat ahead of the gig. As part of the group’s Get Well Soon wellness campaign, attendees can expect a mixture of “mindful eating, yogic breathing and mass meditation” alongside the band’s usual brand of leftfield softcore-psych. The Sabi Tour will also offer participants lavender scratch’n’sniff vinyl,…

Read More

AAA’s Hottest Record of the Week: Chvrches, Death Stranding

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
AAA’s Hottest Record of the Week: Chvrches, Death Stranding

Scottish synth-pop trio Chvrches have shared new track Death Stranding — and it’s our Hottest Record Of The Week. The Lauren Mayberry-fronted group debuted the track on The Late Late Show With James Corden. The song is for Hideo Kojima’s new game, also titled Death Stranding, and Chvrches band member Iain Cook has revealed to the BBC that the famed video game designer said it “made him cry”. Fellow band member Martin Doherty added: “He…

Read More

My Edinburgh: Jordan Harvey, King Calaway

Posted on by Amy Anderson
My Edinburgh: Jordan Harvey, King Calaway

Jordan Harvey has gone far since his schooldays in South Queensferry – all the way to Nashville in fact. Now a key member of country supergroup King Calaway, Jordan first came to the attention on the BBC One talent show, Let It Shine. As a band, King Calaway have performed on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, Neighbours and the Late Late Show With James Corden – not to mention performing on the main stage at Gibraltar…

Read More

AAA’s Hottest Record Of The Week: The Filthy Tongues – Mummy Can’t Drive

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
AAA’s Hottest Record Of The Week: The Filthy Tongues – Mummy Can’t Drive

The Filthy Tongues, who topped AAA’s Scottish Albums of the Year poll in 2016, are back with brand single Mummy Can’t Drive – and it’s our Hottest Record of the Week. You can listen to it right here. Veterans of the Edinburgh indie scene, The Filthy Tongues have occupied a unique place at the heart of Scottish alternative rock in various manifestations since the mid-80s. Martin Metcalfe, Fin Wilson and Derek Kelly were the core-members…

Read More

Fringe Q&A: Jena Friedman

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
Fringe Q&A: Jena Friedman

As America slips into fascism, Jena celebrates free speech while she still has it, in this unapologetic political hour of comedy. Miscarriage of Justice is the US comic’s long-awaited return to the Fringe after her critically-acclaimed 2015 hit American C*nt. Having appeared on multiple top US shows including Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jena brings her unique insight and acerbic wit back to Edinburgh at a time when politics in America and…

Read More

Fringe Q&A: Kenny Emson, Rust

Posted on by Gary Flockhart
Fringe Q&A: Kenny Emson, Rust

‘Rule number eleven: we don’t talk about them. They don’t exist here’. Nadia and Daniel have a secret. In fact they have quite a few. They’ve just signed on the line for a studio flat. Under a pseudonym, naturally – Mr and Mrs White. After years of school pick-ups, TV takeaways, and the drudgery of married life, this is their chance to wipe the slate clean. But as much as they try and redefine the…

Read More
1 2 3 … 24