Friday 9-Thursday 15 October | The Belmont Picturehouse | 4pm & 9pm Daily Review by Dallas King This musical mockumentary is obviously going to bring up comparisons with Spinal Tap but probably has a lot more in common with the work of Armando Iannucci and Ricky Gervais’s The Office. Paddy Considine is often referred...
Read more →OK, that’s maybe a bit over the top but there are quite a few gigs on round town tonight which is rather unusual for a Monday… Take your pick from Sky Larkin/Copy Haho, Cats & Cats & Cats, Turin Brakes and The Peatbog Faeries. Full line-ups are in our listings here Enjoy folks…
Read more →Wednesday 7 October | The Lemon Tree | 7.30pm | £12 Branded the ‘King of the surreal one-liners’ by The Times, veteran of BBC Radio 4, warm-up man for ‘Mock the Week’ (he was the last-minute stand in for Frankie Boyle recently) and former Perrier Award-winner Milton Jones brings his new show to The...
Read more →Tuesday 6 October | The Lemon Tree | 7.30pm | £13.50 The BRIT Award-nominated singer-songwriter kicks off her UK tour at The Lemon Tree; with new album ‘The Graduate’ being released the day before the show (the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed ‘Fires’) Nerina Pallot is unashamedly ploughing a poppier furrow with her new stuff...
Read more →In the first of a highly irregular (captain) series of posts pointing you towards Aberdeen-based blogs, we’d like to draw your attention to Championship Celluloid. Written by the The Belmont Picturehouse’s Dallas King, he’s watching all 500 of Empire Magazine’s Greatest Movies of All Time within the space of 365 days. After working in a cinema...
Read more →Newly-renamed and refurbished, The Warehouse (formerly Moshulu) has a pretty impressive line-up of shows coming up between now and the end of the year. Stand outs include Stiff Little Fingers, Funeral For A Friend, Idlewild, Trashcan Sinatras, Elliot Minor, Gallows, Frightened Rabbit and Mr Scruff…a full rundown can be found here
Read more →Last Sunday night’s Slow Club gig has been reviewed over at Drowned In Sound. It pretty much tells it like it was…
Read more →From Friday 2 October | Various Venues Showcasing recent film and video from the Middle East, the Cruel Weather Festival promises to be a fascinating and thought-provoking event…
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