GUIDE TO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ARTS FESTIVAL

Thursday 19—Thursday 26 August 1999

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Festival Features Festival round . the clock 4 Festival Top 20 28 gam_1pm The shows you can’t afford to miss. 28 899/” Arid/n . 29 The Gogmagogs 17 & 29 Festival Freeloaders 33 1pm_3pm Over £1000 of free tickets for the hottest 33 The Meeting shows in town. 34 Lyrebird . 37 3pm—6pm 18 Tlm 37 KAOS Theatre The actor turned director talks tough about 37 E/ectra incest in The War Zone. 38 Ben Moor 43 6 m—8 m 20 George P. Pelecanos 43 NEW“? America’s fastest-rising crime writer turns 43 appetite Washington DC upside down. 45 TheLOWPrDOrN/rs . . 48 The Nation's Favourite 22 Tindersticks 49 8pm—10pm Their new album’s called S/‘mp/e P/easures 49 Phill Jupitus . . . so have the Tindersticks lightened up 49 “’7’” at last? 51 Paul Zenon

. 57 10pm-Late 24 Craig Charles 57 Frantic Assembly

The Red Dwarf star swaps outer space for 57 Blue Grassy Knoll

the stand-u sta e. 62 01""‘eded. p g 63 Film Festival

120 Tony Curran 63 Mike Mills on Air

From This Life to TV stardom all in a Sp/i't 65 The 3’9” WW’ PTO/0C"

o 66 Al/About/VI Mother Second for the Glaswe ian actor. . y . g 69 Festival MUSIC

69 The Lanterns

69 John Cale

70 Sir Charles Mackerris

73 Festivals Clubs

73 The Honeycomb

74 Edinburgh club listings 78 Book Festival

78 Vikram Seth

78 Annie Nightingale

79 Peter Ackroyd

82 Festival Art

82 Edinburgh College of Art 83 John Stezaker

8/1 Edinburgh gallery listings

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28 Festival Reviews Our expert team know when to cheer, when to boo:

- Mark E. Smith, The Lanterns;

0 Abbey Theatre, Phill Jupitus;

0 Mike Mills, Blair Witch Project;

0 Vikram Seth, Peter Ackroyd;

0 and many more . . .

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