Lorna Irvine The List Live review: You Tell Me with Odetta Hartman, CCA, Glasgow, Sat 2 Feb,2019 Live review: You Tell Me with Odetta Hartman, CCA, Glasgow, Sat 2 Feb Moving and eccentric double bill of folk and Americana Share: Moving and eccentric double bill of folk and Americana Eccentric American musician Odetta Hartman, tonightContinue reading “From The List Archive: You Tell Me /Odetta Hartman”
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From Across the Arts Archive: Liz Aggiss-The English Channel
Arts:Blog Festival Review: Liz Aggiss–The English Channel ***** Posted by Across the Arts on August 27, 2015, at 11.27pm Lorna Irvine reviews a production with a woman who’s ‘hilarious and badass’. That Liz Aggiss is not a daily part of the school curriculum, along with free dinners, free speech and any kind of hope whatsoever is aContinue reading “From Across the Arts Archive: Liz Aggiss-The English Channel”
Archive Review: John Waters at Glasgay
Arts:Blog The Real Dirt–John Waters Posted by Across the Arts on November 18, 2014, at 12.36pm Lorna Irvine reports from the icon’s performance ‘This Filthy World Vol 2’, recently seen at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. Photos: Greg Gorman For the perfect finale to the Glasgay! festival, there could be only one. Bounding onto the stage inContinue reading “Archive Review: John Waters at Glasgay”
Archive Review : Butterfly
Arts:BlogTheatre Review: Butterfly ****Posted by Across the Arts on January 29, 2015, at 11.01pmLorna Irvine A visually ravishing evocation of pain and loss, Ramesh Meyyappan’s Butterfly is truly special. Ashley Smith as Butterfly, a kite maker, is so fragile, innocent and graceful that it is nothing short of devastating when she is attacked. She isContinue reading “Archive Review : Butterfly”
Archive Review: Grimalkin 555, Buzzcut 2017
thetempohouse April 18, 2017 • Spoilt Victorian Child Grimalkin 555: ‘No Demoniacs!’ Govan Parish Church We are gathered here tonight to bear witness to horror screen misogyny: to torture; mutilation, stabbing, strangulation, asphyxiation, hurtling bodies off buildings.All in glorious monochrome and Technicolor: women in the final death throes, hysterical and helpless, dying, endlessly dying,and all so beautifully.Continue reading “Archive Review: Grimalkin 555, Buzzcut 2017”
Archive Review: Aldous Harding -Designer
Aldous HardingDesigner New Zealand singer-songwriter’s third album is sublime New Zealand-based Hannah Harding – who records as Aldous Harding – kicks down the doors of perception, like her druggy writer namesake. In her case, though, it’s the limitations of folk music that she skews. This, her third album, finds her on haunting and beautiful form. PJ Harvey memberContinue reading “Archive Review: Aldous Harding -Designer”
Archive Theatre Review: BATSHIT
close search menu BATSHIT More than just a provocative title ★★★★ theatre review (edinburgh) | Read in About 2 minutes Batshit Photo by Joel Devereux By Lorna Irvine Published 03 Aug 2024 With a typically taboo-baiting Edinburgh Fringe title, Leah Shelton’s one-woman show, directed by Ursula Martinez, could have been a clichéd romp through performance art tropes. But it’sContinue reading “Archive Theatre Review: BATSHIT”
Archive Film Review: Machine
thetempohouse GFF Review: Machine March 7, 2020 • Spoilt Victorian Child Photo: GFF Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2020. Machine, directed by Justin Krook, posits where we are in an era of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in this insightful, if flawed, documentary. Using a vast array of talking heads such as roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, and fighter pilot, now autonomousContinue reading “Archive Film Review: Machine”
Archive Theatre Review: Girl In The Machine
The List . Love is not the only drug in Stef Smith’s eerie sci-fi two-hander Share: Author: Lorna Irvine Love is not the only drug in Stef Smith’s eerie sci-fi two-hander It’s the near future. On the surface, Polly (Rosalind Sydney) and Owen (Michael Dylan) seem a well-matched couple: attractive, and witty thirty somethings (she’s aContinue reading “Archive Theatre Review: Girl In The Machine”
Archive Review : The Punk Singer
Arts:Blog Cinema Review: The Punk Singer Posted by Across the Arts on March 4, 2014, at 8.20am “Girls to the Front!” Lorna Irvine reviews the celebration of music icon Kathleen Hanna. Once upon a time in the early nineties, long before Britney, Beyonce, Miley and Ri-Ri, Bikini Kill, along with Bratmobile, Huggy Bear, Die Cheerleader, Lois and Sleater Kinney, were part ofContinue reading “Archive Review : The Punk Singer”