Neil Cooper
@NeilCooper1
Writer and Critic - The Noise of Art - http://neilcooper.substack.com. @heraldmagazine. @thelistmagazine @FlemingArtColl. @The_Drouth
Happy New Year from The Noise of Art, and thanks to more than 1000 subscribers. neilcooper.substack.com/p/the-noise-of… As a treat, I’ve unlocked pieces on Bill Drummond & Tam Dean Burn’s HEAR HARD project & Fire Engines’ chrome dawns album. Normal service with Shop Local! resumes next week.
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Morning Star, Alan Muir’s play, the 4th for Theatre 118’s Play of the Week season, performed in a former Glasgow office block heraldscotland.com/life_style/253… 118 Osborne Street, Glasgow until Saturday July 26. ticketsource.co.uk/theatre-118/mo…
New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #101 open.substack.com/pub/neilcooper… Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Bowlers Rest: Paradise Palms: Home Bar: Leith Depot: Queen’s Hall: Leith Arches: Safari Lounge: Embassy: VoxBox: Sighthill Bowling Club: Heriot’s Rugby Club: Jazz Bar: etc…
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Romeo & Juliet, @bardbotanics latest outdoor production of Shakespeare’s teenage tragedy. Botanic Gardens, Glasgow until August 2nd. bardinthebotanics.co.uk/productions/20… heraldscotland.com/life_style/253…
Andy Goldsworthy talks in Scottish Art News about Fifty Years, his major new show which opens this weekend at the @RoyalScotAcad Edinburgh, as well as his work at @jupiterartland seen alongside that of Ian Hamilton Finlay. nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/and… jupiterartland.org/art/work-begat…
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Irvine Welsh’s PORNO, Davie Carswell’s hit stage version of Welsh’s Trainspotting sequel which came home to Leith for a short run this weekend. @LeithTheatre heraldscotland.com/life_style/253…
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The 39 Steps, @pitlochryft ‘s new production of Patrick Barlow’s parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s big screen version of John Buchan’s adventure yarn. In rep until Sept 26 pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/the-3… heraldscotland.com/life_style/253…
New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #100 open.substack.com/pub/neilcooper… Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Bowlers Rest: Paradise Palms: Home Bar: Leith Depot: Voodoo Rooms: Banshee Labyrinth: Whitespace: Fruitmarket: VoxBox: Leith Arches: Leith FAB Cricket Club: Sneaky Pete’s:
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The Last Laugh, Paul Hendy’s play that sees Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse share a dressing room @KingsandRoyal Glasgow until July 19 atgtickets.com/shows/the-last… heraldscotland.com/life_style/253…
Daily Toll, Home Bar, Edinburgh 12.7.25 Textured lo-fi tunage from Sydney-based artisans headlining a triple bill with Pluplusch, and Stall Girls, all care of the PX4M organisation. Daily Toll play the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow tonight, 13.7.25.
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The Tommy Burns Story, Davie Carswell’s theatrical homage to Celtic’s great football hero. Seen at @KingsandRoyal Theatre, Glasgow. heraldscotland.com/life_style/253…
New on The Noise of Art The Pools of Life (& Death) - Rhona Taylor, Immersive, & the Deep Dive Beyond open.substack.com/pub/neilcooper… In which Rhona Taylor’s Commie Pool exhibition becomes a springboard to Bulgarian films, underwater Happenings & how Can & Cat Stevens showed the way
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Madonna/Whore, Julie Calderwood’s new play for the Theatre 118 company, the 2nd in its Play of the Week season. heraldscotland.com/life_style/253… 118 Osborne Street Glasgow until Sat July 12, inc Sat matinee. linktr.ee/playoftheweek
From the @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine annals, care of @McCookerybook Helen McCookerybook, who talks here about her book, The Lost Women of Rock Music. From 2007/8 or thereabouts.
New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #99 substack.com/@neilcooper/no… Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Bowlers Rest: Paradise Palms: Out of the Blue: Coburg House: RIAS Bookshop: Pilrig St Paul’s: Sketchy Beats: Leith Makers: Leith Cricket Club: Voodoo Rooms: Banshee Labyrinth:
Linder talks in @thelistmagazine about Danger Came Smiling, her 50 year retrospective of punk sired photomontage at @edartfest Inverleith House, @RBGECreative until Oct 19; A kind of glamour about me Aug 7, 6pm; @edbookfest Aug 9 4.30pm Full mag - issuu.com/thelistltd/doc…
As two of Ken Currie’s 1980s works - ‘Union Organiser’ (1987) and ‘The Calton Activist’ are acquired by the Fleming Collection, Currie talks in Scottish Art News about the politically driven background behind them. Full issue of SAN #38 here - issuu.com/scottishartnew…
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Fools on a Hill, Chris Patrick’s new play for the new Theatre 118 company performed in an empty office block Theatre 118, 118 Osborne Street, Glasgow until Sat July 5 ticketsource.co.uk/theatre-118/fo… heraldscotland.com/life_style/252…
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The Great Gatsby, a new staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age novel @pitlochryft Festival Theatre until Sep 25 pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/the-g… @derbytheatre Oct 3-25 derbytheatre.co.uk/event/the-grea… heraldscotland.com/life_style/252…
New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #98 open.substack.com/pub/neilcooper… Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Fruitmarket: Dundas Street Gallery: Leith Depot: Voodoo Rooms: Outhouse: Sett Studios: Whitespace: Argyle Cellar Bar: Wee Red Bar: Elvis Shakespeare: Staggs Bar: etc…
My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gordon Barr’s @bardbotanics production that romps through the woods with abandon. Glasgow Botanic Gardens until July 12. bardinthebotanics.co.uk/productions/20… heraldscotland.com/life_style/252…
