Hoors – Traverse

I suppose, we have all been waiting to see what Gregory Burke would do to follow Black Watch, but Black Watch is a once in a couple of decades iconic event which can’t and should not be followed by anything perhaps.    In that case, Hoors might be seen as the play after the successful Gagarin [...]

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Let the Right One In – Film

On the face of it, Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish film about two 12 year olds shouldn’t work, but it really does.    It is fairly disturbing.
Set in a snowy suberb of Stockholm, it tells the story of  the fragile boy Oskar, brilliantly played by Kåre Hedebrant who becomes friendly with his new neighbour Eli, who appears as [...]

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Julian Arguelles with John Abercrombie – Perth

Perth Theatre has a series of ‘in the bar’ entertainment on Monday nights, called simply ‘The Monday Night Thing’.
Well, last Monday, the ‘thing’ was a rather special performance from UK Saxphonist Julian Arguelles playing with the legendary John Abercrombie trio.     Arguelles was a member of the 1980s iconic jazz collective Loose Tubes and now writes [...]

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