CONTENTS 3 SEP–5 NOV 2015 | LIST.CO.UK
Autumn’s here – and that means back to school for all you students. If you’re new to these parts, welcome! Turn to page 95 for our 2015 Student Guide,
your essential guide to uni life in Edinburgh and Glasgow, complete with our
top picks for bars, cafes, music venues, cinemas, theatres and more across both cities.
For all you non-students, there’s plenty to keep you entertained so the post-summer blues don’t set in. For film-lovers, Michael Fassbender excels as Macbeth (page 16),
and we’re also impressed by Craig Roberts’ debut feature Just Jim (page 14).
We’ve also got interviews with local-band-done-good Chvrches (page 24), whose new album Every Open Eye is out soon, and US comedian Doug Stanhope (page 26),
who’s over on these shores for his latest UK tour.
FRONT
The Realist News
FEATURES
Just Jim Chvrches
Doug Stanhope
Turner Prize
Lyceum at 50 Scottish Ballet
FOOD & DRINK
Henderson’s Craft beer
AROUND TOWN
Stirling Fringe Highlights
BOOKS
Dundee Literary Festival
Louise O’Neill Highlights
And as Glasgow gets set to host the Turner Prize, we take a closer look at this year’s COMEDY
nominees (page 28).
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AUTUMN SPECIAL As the ‘summer’ prepares to exeunt stage left, some of the year’s most exciting cultural events will help keep us happy and warm. We interview Scottish snythpop stars Chvrches about that difficult second album, chat to Craig ‘Submarine’ Roberts as he makes his directorial debut, listen in awe as US comic Doug Stanhope plans a pub crawl of the world’s airports and take a peek as the Lyceum’s 50th anniversary launches with Waiting for Godot. 95
HALLOWE’EN The season of the witch (plus the vampire and apple-dooker) is here with chills aplenty for tiny terrors and adult scaredy cats via concerts, tours and films that go bump in the night. STUDENT GUIDE As doors open for another year of scholarly endeavours, don’t forget that student life is also meant to be fun. We sketch out the best venues, films, bands, bars and shops.
at the Royal Lyceum Theatre S Win tickets to Waiting for Godot R E F F O
Win tickets to The Choir
at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
T A E R G
Win tickets to The Lighthouse Late
Win tickets to Museum Late: Victorian Sensation
Win tickets to Edinburgh Art Fair
Win a 15 bottle case of craft beer from Moskito in Glasgow
Win tickets to Hogmanay 2016
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Win VIP tickets to Scotland’s only ice bar
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Frisky & Mannish
Doc Brown Highlights
FILM Take One Action!
Macbeth Legend
Highlights
KIDS
In the Night Garden Live
Highlights
MUSIC
sound lab Foals
The Lighthouse Late Highlights
Classical Highlights
THEATRE
Dragon Waiting for Godot
Royal New Zealand Ballet Highlights
VISUAL ART
Hayley Tompkins Nicolas Deshayes
Highlights
TV
Doctor Who This is England ‘90
FIRST & LAST Weird Al Jankovic
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