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Win a pair of four day tickets to Knockengorroch World Ceilidh Thu 24–27 Sun May 2018. Bringing excellent music to the hills of Galloway, Knockengorroch World Ceilidh is an annual festival that plays host to a diverse line-up of local and international acts, alongside a packed programme of family entertainment, food and drink stalls and much more. Past line-ups are available to see on knockengorroch.org.uk. This year’s astounding line-up includes Transglobal Underground featuring Natacha Atlas, Cut Chemist, Les Amazones d’Afrique, Anda Union, The Resonators, Mungos Hi Fi Sound System and Kobi Onyame. The List are giving readers the chance to win a pair of four day tickets to the festival. To be in with a chance of winning, simply log onto list.co.uk/offers and tell us:
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WIN TICKETS TO FOODIES FESTIVAL
Back by popular demand, Foodies Festival, the UK’s biggest celebration of food and drink, returns to Inverleith Park from Fri 3-Sun 5 Aug with a mouthwatering summer event, which this year includes the launch of a brand new Musicians Against Homelessness music stage and extended opening times. The festival will celebrate live music into the night on the newly launched stage with performances from much-loved headliner Toploader and hugely admired band The Hoosiers. Supported by Musicians Against Homelessness, the live music stage will see talented emerging bands and solo artists perform with tickets raising money for UK-wide homelessness charity Crisis. The List are giving away a pair of VIP tickets to attend Foodies Festival Edinburgh. The VIP experience includes a glass of bubbly on arrival, access to the VIP lounge area, VIP acoustic stage, private bar for refreshments, as well as a goody bag and priority entry to theatre and masterclass sessions. To be in with a chance of winning, simply log onto list.co.uk/offers and tell us:
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Knockengorroch World Festival Thu 24 - Sun 27 May Knockengorroch Farm Castle Douglas DG7 3TJ
Foodies Festival Edinburgh Fri 3 – Sun 5 Aug 2018 Inverleith Park Aboretum Road Edinburgh EH3 5NZ
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WIN TICKETS TO EDINBURGH’S FIRST WIZARD WORLD GATHERING Fantasy fans from around the globe are set to flock to Edinburgh for a one-of-akind party celebrating all things wizard when the 9th Edinburgh International Magic Festival kicks off with a sparkling Wizard World Gathering on the opening weekend. Party in the Great Hall with fantastic beats, delicious eats, magically mixed cocktails, fantasy quizzes and live magic shows. Wizards welcome. Muggles tolerated.
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ndrew Haigh is eight coffees deep into his press day for new film Lean on Pete, but you’d never guess it. He’s relaxed and thoughtful, open and conversational. We talk about his heritage and how his father drove his mother across the border from Lancashire to make sure little Andrew was born in Harrogate so he could play cricket for Yorkshire. But, as Haigh notes, it was all for nowt: ‘I can’t even throw a ball so he was pretty disappointed with that’. Haigh’s third feature film, 45 Years, made waves in 2015 when Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay took home Silver Bears from the Berlin Film Festival, with Rampling going on to collect an Oscar nomination. For its writer-director, the praise from critics was universal. For anyone who’d followed his progression since stepping out of the editing studios where he spent the first decade of his film career, such acclaim was not hugely surprising. Awards and special mentions have flowed since Haigh’s 2009 debut with short film Five Miles Out, while The Weekend (2011) took home audience awards at SXSW and San Francisco LGBT Film Festival, and he scooped the Breakthrough British Filmmaker prize from the London Film Critics’ Circle. Following on from all this success, Haigh’s latest film, Lean on Pete (adapted from the Willy Vlautin novel), again showcases his actor-friendly style, as a lone teenager crosses the US with a stolen horse and the hope of finding his remaining family.
fact that it did well helped enormously in terms of raising money and my profile. That allowed us to do things we couldn’t do before.
How did Lean on Pete come about?
You’re telling a story about a boy and an animal, and there are certain expectations and ideas of what that is. I wanted to avoid that as much as I could. I didn’t want it to be sentimental. A horse is a horse, it’s not a human being, and it doesn’t understand what Charley is going through. This is a story about Charley and how in that moment he needed that horse.
I actually read the book right after The Weekend and got the rights pretty early on. I loved the story and the central character of Charley [played by Charlie Plummer]. I found it heartbreaking and I wanted to reach through the page and protect this kid who had fallen beneath the cracks and was left stranded and alone. I knew it was a slightly higher budget than I could get off the ground after making The Weekend. 45 Years was happening at the same time and the
How different was it working with a much larger cast?
It is strange. Obviously I’m with Charlie every day, so that’s the central relationship. But you’ve got Steve Zahn in for four days, Chloë Sevigny was probably only six or seven days, then someone else comes in. In some way it helps the film, because the film is about Charley on this journey and people drifting in and out of his life. There’s a naïve optimism about Charley: you might think yourself more world-wise but you sure wish you could share his outlook . . .
Charley is driven by hope, even though some terrible things have happened to him. He’s not ready to believe there isn’t an answer, that he will find the person he is looking for, that he’ll live a normal life. He does trust people, and Charlie Plummer does a very good job of this. Sometimes he feels like a child and other times he feels like an adult: at that age of 15 you’re teetering between the two. You’re capturing an actor during that change too; it’s fascinating that you can capture that change in someone.
Praise and prizes have been heaped upon filmmaker Andrew Haigh since his 2009 directorial debut. As his next movie prepares for release, he tells Scott Henderson about bigger budgets, horses vs humans, and avoiding sentimentalism
We haven’t even mentioned the horse, but this isn’t really his story is it?
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Code Orange | MUSIC PHOTO: KIMI HANAUER
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SESSIONS Young US hardcore metal act Code Orange are blazing a trail through the seriously heavy music scene. Henry Northmore hangs onto his hat
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ode Orange have been building an unstoppable momentum. The Pennsylvania band’s third album, Forever, is a bonecrunching pile-up of hardcore punk, metallic guitars and harsh electronics that judders to a close after 35 brutal minutes of shock therapy. An unrelenting mix of audio aggression and sonic complexity, only ‘Bleeding in the Blur’ offers a comparative oasis of calm with its clean vocals and grungy riffs. People are talking about Code Orange with the same awe and excitement that reverberated when Slipknot, Dillinger Escape Plan or Gallows broke onto the scene. Forever earned them a Grammy nomination and Rolling Stone proclaimed it the Best Metal Album of 2017. ‘It was what we wanted,’ explains drummer and lead vocalist Jami Morgan down a scratchy phone-line from his home town of Pittsburgh. ‘But at the same time, I don’t want our band to hinge on other people’s praise for our internal happiness or feeling of success.’ What’s most impressive is their refusal to compromise in any shape or form. ‘We never will,’ Morgan insists. ‘Anything we ever put to record will be 100% exactly what we want to do and will have nothing to do with how many fans we’ll make. We just want to keep making the music we want to hear and I can swear to that.’ The band originally formed as Code Orange Kids at high school with Morgan and childhood friends Joe Goldman (bass) and Reba Meyers (vocals / guitar), while multi-instrumentalist Dominic Landolina is a new addition, bolstering their sound with synths, guitar and backing vocals. Their initial output was rooted in punk but has expanded to embrace industrial, metal and electronica. ‘We’re just a hardcore band who does whatever the fuck we want
to do and paint a picture that can only be described as ours. For a lot of bands, their main goal is to try to be like somebody else; we are influenced by many things but our main goal is to be the first us.’ They released their first album, on indie hardcore label Deathwish Inc (run by Jacob Bannon of Converge), when the average age in the band was just 18. ‘I’m glad we started so young,’ says Morgan. ‘We’ve just been touring since the get-go and know the grind of this better than anybody. We’ve done 40 or 50 US tours, and a bunch of tours in the UK and Europe when nobody knew who we were. We fought for every inch, practice our ass off and work hard. We’re really grateful for where we are now but we want to take it a lot further.’ Their live shows are renowned for their power and fury, a sometimes literal mix of blood, sweat and tears. Such total commitment has resulted in Code Orange opening for Terror, System of a Down, Deftones and Killswitch Engage, while they return now for their biggest UK dates, alongside thrash metallers Trivium as part of a devastating touring package. ‘One of the greatest things about headlining a tour is picking the bands to round out the bill,’ add Trivium. ‘Code Orange, Power Trip and Venom Prison are not only the leading edge of the next wave of great metal acts, they are also three of our personal favourites.’ Like a ravenous shark prowling the ocean depths, Code Orange are always moving forward. ‘We’re always working and haven’t taken a week off ever, so there will be new stuff sooner rather than later. We’re going to take it to the next level, and we hope everyone is ready for it.’ Code Orange play with Trivium, Power Trip and Venom Prison, O2 Academy, Glasgow, Thu 19 Apr. 1 Apr–31 May 2018 THE LIST 83
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