Tag: The Edinburgh Reporter
Interview: Cancel the Astronauts
In this audio interview, Kieran McCaffrey and Michael Craig from Edinburgh-based indie pop band Cancel the Astronauts spill the beans on being asked to play T In The Park, people describing them as ‘zany’,...
Edinburgh Bands On TV Tonight
Several local bands will grace our screens tonight in an hour long BBC documentary about the South by Southwest Festival, which took place back in March in Austin, Texas. Called Artworks: Scotland Rocks at SXSW, the programme...
Magic Festival review: Michael Neto – Imagination… yours or mine?
By David Kettle
From the minute Michael Neto walks on stage, you get the feeling anything could happen. He jumps from trick to trick like an over-eager puppy, pouncing on audience members to help with...
Magic Festival review: Lewis Barlow – Experiments in Mystery
By David Kettle
The slick, polished tricks of Edinburgh-based magician Lewis Barlow take you back to TV magic shows of the 1970s, and you’ll probably leave his show feeling intrigued rather than challenged. Jerry Sadowitz...
Stockbridge Duck Race 2011 in Pictures
We went along to the 23rd annual Stockbridge Duck Race to take a few pictures.
It was a beautiful day, and the Water of Leith pathway was full of spectators watching organisers gallantly...
Magic Festival review – Harrison Richards: The Ancient Art of Modern Mind Reading
By David Kettle
This show feels like the antidote to grand, showy, mind-reading spectaculars. Harrison Richards has a gentle, amiable approach so that on occasion he is almost in danger of belittling the feats he...
Edinburgh International Magic Festival review – Card Ninja
By David Kettle
Think of a show of card tricks and you’d probably imagine plucking cards from thin air, guessing cards chosen by volunteers, that kind of thing. Javier Jarquin does a bit of that...
National Library Puts Banned Books in the Spotlight
The National Library of Scotland hopes to provide a revealing insight into some of the most controversial material ever written by displaying a series of banned books this summer.
Infamous titles such as DH Lawrence’s...
EIFF Review – By Day and By Night
By David Kettle
Mexican director Alejandro Molina’s quiet, thoughtful feature feels somewhat like a throwback to classic science fiction – there are elements of Logan’s Run, Brave New World, even Nineteen Eighty-Four. But though its...
EIFF Review – Tomboy
By David Kettle
When a ten-year-old moves, with sister and parents in tow, to a new neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris, making friends with the local kids is top priority. Asked by neighbour Lisa...
EIFF – An Evening With Chemikal Underground
You might be forgiven for thinking that if you go to an event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, there will probably be a passing nod to cinema at some stage in proceedings.
Ahead of...
EIFF Review – Project Nim
By David Kettle
The new film from James Marsh, director of 2008 Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, is a very different beast. Project Nim is the tale of a chimpanzee, snatched from its mother at...
EIFF Review – Between 2 Fires
By David Kettle
Agniezska Lukasiak’s harrowing and angry film follows young mother Marta and her daughter as they escape child prostitution in their home country of Belarus and flee to a refugee camp in the...
Nat Fraser faces retrial
Judges at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh decided yesterday that Nat Fraser would be retried for the alleged murder of his wife Arlene in 1998, after the 2003 conviction was formally quashed by the...
Plans to build on Cairntows Park scrapped
Controversial plans to build on Cairntows Park in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh have been scrapped.
The decision comes ahead of a local meeting on Monday, arranged by protesters opposing the plans.
Property developers New City...
Review – Blood Brothers at Leith Festival
Blood Brothers, Willy Russell’s play about class divide, was first performed in 1982 at Fazakarley Comprehensive in Liverpool. It has since been transformed into a massively successful musical, boasting stars as diverse as Barbara...
EIFF 2011 Review: On The Shore
By Heather C Thomson
Obssession, longing and needing in a subtle South of France setting should provide On the Shore with a strong basis for a satisfying film, and yet it fails to deliver on...
Making A Music Video – Interview with David Galletly
As you may already have read, this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival is to feature ‘a strong core of new film, experimental events, thought-provoking ideas and collaborations.’
One such event is Music Pictures, being run...
Edinburgh Reporter chats – Ewan Petrie
After leaving Banchory Academy in 2008, Ewan Petrie, 20, went to Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh to study Acting and Performance. With a passion for music as well as acting, he has now released 2...
Meadows Festival
The Meadows Festival returns to Edinburgh on Satuday 4th - Sunday 5th June. The event will offer live music, a funfair, entertainment for children, stalls, and even a dog show.
For the first time in its history,...
Chris Brookmyre Book Launch
Scottish author Chris Brookmyre launched his new book at The Caves in Edinburgh on Wednesday night.
Almost a decade and a half has gone by since the publication of his award-winning novel ‘Quite Ugly One...
Bat Boy: The Musical preview
The MGA Academy of Performing Arts on Balgreen Road is home to many talented performers and this week they're taking their abilities to new pastures. Or should we say darker pastures?
The full-time students are producing...
Five things you need to know today
Edinburgh businesses have joined forces in a bid to become more involved in the controversial trams project. According to STV Local, representatives from thousands of organisations across the city met on Thursday to discuss...
RashDash at The Fringe – Not For People Who Don’t Like Loud Noise
In March we reported that independent arts charity IdeasTap had announced the winners of their competition to win £10,000 to help bring a show to this years Fringe Festival. Back then we chatted to...
Digital journalism is in the news
What is clear to us here at The Edinburgh Reporter is that there is a new kind of journalism in the UK. Online sites such as our own, The Lichfield Blog, SE1, King's Cross...
Drambuie have designed The Edinburgh Reporter cocktail for us!
We are very honoured indeed that The Drambuie Liqueur Company Limited have designed for us our very own cocktail - so here it is. We hope you enjoy it, although we urge you to...
We have been noticed!!
The downside of only being an online publication is that although you know how many people are visiting the site you really do not know if they are paying much attention.
But we have been...
