News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE stage is set, the bars are fully stocked, and jackets still hang in the cloakroom. But a quick glance upwards is all it takes to realise that it will be some time before
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
The made-in-Utah cinematic atrocity "Troll 2" is screening tonight in Birmingham, Ala. - a homecoming of sorts for the Alabama dentist who played the dad in the 1990 film. George Hardy, who played Michael Waits, was just out of dental school when he acted in the movie. In this blog post by the Birmingham News' Alex Harvey, Hardy said he knew at the audition that the movie would be a strange
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
THE Sensational Alex Harvey Band have revealed all their quipment is still trapped in the Capital's fire-damaged Liquid Room.
GeoffShackelford.com (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
Marvin Collins on Alex Harvey , long-time Claret Jug engraver Alex Harvey, who passed away at 83. After bowing out at St Andrews in 2005, Alex recalled: "Probably the most difficult name I ever had to tackle was Mark Calcavecchia at Troon. I made sure I checked that out a few times!" Harvey relished the day he engraved Paul Lawrie's name on the trophy at Carnoustie. "It was nice to see his name going...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
** CARLING ACADEMY, GLASGOW
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
NICK CAVE just gets better and better. At 51, and with that Seventies porn-star look going on – handlebar moustache, jet-black hair surrounding balding pate, crucifix dangling
SMITH Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
I always cleaned behind my ears
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
(alex harvey) Someone who cares Someone who dares to love you Someone w
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
[PATRICIA OLSEN, PHD.] (40s) Columbia University Political Science Professor. An attractive woman whose former students are members of the radical group, The Weathermen. GUEST STAR [ALEX HARVEY, PHD.] (45-65) NYPD Psychologist, he is called in to evaluate Sam. A disheveled academic whose office has papers, books and files piled around the room. GUEST STAR [DANNY KRASNER] (22-35) A wheelchair-bound...
The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Today is the 30th Anniversary of Brel's death. And here are some covers of Brel songs Marc Almond Scott Walker And of course the late, great Alex Harvey!
Cool Noise (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
I mentioned the Beat Maras before and praised Getaway Car on their Huarez EP. I wasn’t sure about the other tracks so I just pointed out the fast, loud one. They have brought out their debut album Bat And The Astral Phoenix and it has allowed me to once again hear the track Beauty And [...]
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
By Jennifer Vineyard If wizard rock is a new concept to you, don’t let that dissuade you — it’s new to Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, too. At his New York Times TimesTalk event on Tuesday (August 19), the actor was asked if he were planning to attend a local wizard-rock fest while he’s in New York [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
It is nearly two decades since Glasgow was crowned European City of Culture. The rest of the world may have sneered but Clydeside was about to give other urban centres around the globe a master class in how the arts could help ease the choppy passage into the post industrial age.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
GLASGOW has succeeded in its bid to become an official Unesco City of Music, The Scotsman can reveal.
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Alex Harvey performs the song with malevolent relish to a rock cabaret with strings backing. His voice goes from wheedling to rasp, from ruefulness to rage, in the Glaswegian accent which hangs onto words like “arses”. Brilliant. Scott Walker half declaims and half sings with precise diction. Scott Walker did an album of Brel songs but [...]
