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...hear that the subject is the growing pains of a boy (William Eadie) in an infested slum during the 1970s Glasgow garbage collectors' strike, you may bolt from the theater, saying, "I gave at the office." Stay, all the way to the magical-tragical ending. Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama. She sees that kids aren't good or bad; they are exactly as weak, dreamy, vicious and stranded as the rest of us. Ratcatcher sears; it is hard to take, hard to shake...
...Greatest Show on Earth has come to Glasgow. As the sun sets in the Scottish sky, some 8,000 concertgoers gather under a huge blue tent tipped with flashing red lights. Suddenly, the lights go down and a roar goes up. The British rock quintet Radiohead has taken the stage. Unsatisfied with traditional venues and their corporate-logo-covered interiors, the band is touring Europe with a portable circus-like tent. Singer Thom Yorke introduces each number with curt, dry wit; the music is forceful and precise, combining punkish attitude, tasteful art-rock grandeur and judicious electronic sampling. Jonny Greenwood...
...sometime after 1 a.m. and, in a closed-off basement bar in the Malmaison Hotel in Glasgow, Radiohead is unwinding. Guitarist Ed O'Brien, 32, has turned in early, but drummer Phil Selway, 33, is at the bar, talking proudly about his baby boy. Bassist Colin Greenwood, 31, sits in a nearby booth, discussing British novelists Martin Amis and Niall Griffiths (Greenwood holds a degree in English from Cambridge; Selway, Yorke and O'Brien are also college graduates); a few steps away, his younger brother Jonny, 28, orders another drink from the bar and asks why his older brother...
...site, www.thebiotechclub.org, also links to an affiliate club at the University of Glasgow...
...three previous records have found their way into year-end critics polls, it's the group's resolve to do things in its own flighty, boho way that has transformed it from a mere band into a cosmology. Growing out of an experiment in a music-business class at Glasgow's Stowe College in 1996, Belle and Sebastian was named after an obscure French children's cartoon. The band turned down major labels and big-money offers to sign with tiny London-based Jeepster (it's distributed in the U.S. by Matador), and all seven members have kept their...