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The Tribeca Film Festival is making movies available online to people across the U.S. as part of its 2021 edition.

With Endless Arcade, the beloved Scottish band enters a brand new era Patrick King | April 30, 2021 - 12:00 pm Share this article: When SPIN caught up with Teenage Fanclub songwriter Norman Blake in February to discuss the band’s new album Endless Arcade, the world was in a much more uncertain place than it is today. Prospects on when and how live music would be coming back were still marked with doubt. But Blake, as ...

Dan Treacy: Im sick to death of guitars, Im through with them. I played last week and thought, whats this round my neck?Charlotte Zoller It has been said that Dan Treacy (b. 1960) is the TV Personalities in the same way that Mark E Smith is The Fall. Certainly he has been the sole consistent member since they appeared in 1978 with the single "14th Floor" and subsequent cult hit "Part Time Punks". It has been said that Dan Treacy (b. 1960) is the TV Personalities in the same way that Mar...

Richard Purden LIKE many during lockdown Norman Blake ventured into his attic. He discovered artefacts include a poster for Teenage Fanclub’s first show in New York at the legendary but now defunct CBGBs. “It was an important date because that was the first time we played in America,” reflects Blake on the show in the summer of 1990 attended by Sonic Youth and Don Fleming who would co-produce the Fanclub’s American breakthrough album Bandwagonesque which celebrates its 30th annive...

in pictures A brand new photo book documenting Gerry Cinnamons rise to stardom is set to be released. Pics: Brian Anderson A BRAND new photo book marking Castlemilk superstar Gerry Cinnamons rise to fame is set to be released later this year. A Moment In Time: A Photographic Story on the Rise of Gerry Cinnamon has been complied by veteran photographer Brian Anderson, who was gifted time with the Shes A Belter hitmaker over a period of a year and a half as his ascent to stardom began. Bria...

No high octane adventure could have prepared Starsky & Hutch star David Soul for his latest assignment. His documentary, Cuban Soul, records the discovery of Ernest Hemingways long lost 1955 convertible Chrysler New Yorker, found in a garage in Cuba eight years ago, and its subsequent restoration. Yet what sounds a gentle project has exacted a massive cost and threatened him with financial ruin and even imprisonment. Making Cuban Soul has been my personal battle and has wreaked havoc with my he...

  Rather than the customary red carpet schmooze fest on Leicester Square, Creation Stories premiered at the virtual Glasgow Film Festival. “The best thing about the pandemic is that we didn’t have a film premiere,” says its subject, former Creation Records boss Alan McGee. “It would’ve been the bane of my life. The producer of the movie going, Have you spoken to the Gallagher brothers? Did you talk to Bobby Gillespie? Have you spoken to Kevin Shields? Did you speak to ...

“You never quite put your finger on it and nobody ever well. “Why do I like it? I guess for us it was... I can’t think of many Glasgow or Scottish artists who performing in the Barrowlands isn’t the place you aspire to. “It is almost like I don’t know if anybody ever aspires to play in the SECC, Hydro or Hampden. As aspirations they seem just too far-fetched when you are kicking about wherever it is that you have grown up in and you are dreaming about…God wouldn’t it be gr...

Oasis biopic could be in the works. The Sun reports that Liam and Noel Gallagher have helped form a new production company, aimed at working on cinematic ventures. The firm Kosmic Kyte was registered via Companies Hous, with Alec McKinlay - from Ignition Management - listed alongside the warring siblings as a director. So, what could it mean? Liam Gallagher seems to be dropping hints about a potential biopic: There gonna put in the movies there gonna make a big star out of me c’mon you know L...

Fergal Kinney , March 15th, 2021 10:24 By 1995 Stereolab should have been at the peak of their powers, so why didnt it feel that way to Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier? Fergal Kinney examines the series of events that saw the band escape the dead end theyd ended up in culminating in the release of one of their most celebrated albums Viewed from the outside, by 1996 Stereolab must have seemed like a unit that could only ascend. Half a decade into the project, affectionately termed “the groop” b...