CONTENTS Agenda
17 - 24 August 2 LETTERS
5 NEWS I What sOn 13 AROUND TOWN 14 BOOKS 15 CLUBS 18 COMEDY
18 THEATRE
19 FILM 20 DVD
20 TV 30 GAY
31 MUSIC 32 RECORDS
39 VISUAL ART : Liie&Style
41 PLAY 42 TRAVEL
cover Story: Radth 43 CLASSIFIED
All rock’n’roll stars like to think of themselves as not obeying the rules. -
lnevitably, they end up towing the party line for the most part. So, when RearView
a band like Radiohead try to monkey around with the staus quo (no, not -
doing a cover version of ‘Deeper and Down’) it should be celebrated. 48 ANSWER MACHINE: With no record deal, no album on the horizon and no promo videos FRANZ FERD'NAND doing heavy rotation on MTV, the fivesome come to Scotland to play
some old songs and try out some new ones. They may not smile much,
but live they are as good as they come. Just like Pink Floyd in their hey
day, we reckon. This may sound tenuous but Doug Johnstone makes a
pretty good case for it in our feature which starts on page 10.
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