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Fopp founder plays down discord at entertainment retail chain
1 Mar 2005 - KRISTY DORSEY, Deputy Business Editor - Herald [ news ]
FOPP founder Gordon Montgomery refused to
confirm last night whether he had ousted four fellow
directors of the Glasgow-headquartered music and
entertainment retail chain.Low, Glasgow University Union
28 Feb 2005 - KEITH BRUCE - Herald [ review ]
THE revelation of Friday's gig was Christopher
McGuire, one half of support duo Kid Dakota and
later the crucial quarter of the most revelatory sonic
moments of the evening when they were joined by
Low's Alan Sparhawk and Zak Sally.Doves, Carling Academy, Glasgow
28 Feb 2005 - BETH PEARSON - Herald [ review ]
ONE of the most memorable moments of last year's T
in the Park was Doves' performance coinciding with a
colourful hot air balloon passing overhead.RSNO, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
28 Feb 2005 - CONRAD WILSON - Herald [ review ]
The Czechs, it has often been said, are the most
musical of musicians, and here were two of them to
prove it in Dvorak's Cello Concerto, that most
heartfelt of Czech compositions.Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
28 Feb 2005 - ROWENA SMITH - Herald [ review ]
What passion cannot Music raise and quell? asks
Dryden in his Song to St Cecilia, to which Handel
responds in his setting of the text by realising the full
musical potential of the poetry.A regular joker
28 Feb 2005 - KEN SMITH and DAVID BELCHER - Herald [ comment ]
STAFF at concert promoters Regular Music were
shocked when mild-mannered director Mark Mackie
began bellowing into his Edinburgh office phone.Blowing hot
28 Feb 2005 - Billboard by Keith Bruce - Herald [ news ]
TRUMPETER Bede Williams, currently at the Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow,
has been named winner of The Philip Jones Memorial
Prize 2005.Rooster, Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow
28 Feb 2005 - AIDEEN McLAUGHLIN - Herald [ review ]
Yip, it's the year of the Rooster.
Semele, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
28 Feb 2005 - Raymond Monelle - Independent [ review ]
The best ideas are those that make you wonder: why did nobody think of it before? Handel's Semele is half-opera, half-oratorio.
BBC SSO, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
28 Feb 2005 - CONRAD WILSON - Herald [ review ]
The programme – with Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
in one half and Brahms's Second Symphony in the
other – was an amalgam of a pair of concerts given
last month by the RSNO.
