The Sunday Herald back issues from August 1999:
Future brighter for mobile phone firm
Aug 01, 1999 ... MOBILE phone company Orange, famous for its surrealist advertisingindicating that "the future is orange", will on Wednesday reportinterim results showing pre-tax losses are down from #49.1 million to#35 million. The company's share price has been rising steadily since April, ...
fabgear
Aug 01, 1999; ... Expensive: Citizens Analogue Aqualand 'AL0004-03W' #395 (right)For the un-fashion conscious indulging in extreme watersports, this could beyour little aqua helper. With 200m water resistance, maximum depthindicator, uni-directional elapse time rotating bezel and depth alarmin 1m ...
You'll have had your hill
Aug 01, 1999; ... A report which looks at the motivations affecting participation inactivities like climbing and Munro-bagging has evoked a mixedresponse from the hill-going public. The document, compiled bypsychologist and climber Robin Campbell for Scottish NaturalHeritage, quotes the Freudian belief ...
Navigating the triple tops
Aug 01, 1999; ... After three days of monsoon rains, the topmost slopes of CarnLiath were still swathed in cloud. Nevertheless, there was a welcomewaiting for me as I parked the car by Loch Moraig, which nestles ingreen pastoral splendour amongst the low hills of Glen Fender aboveBlair Atholl. No ...
thebeatgoeson
Aug 01, 1999; ... On a warm July evening there are few places I would rather be thandrifting on a boat through the heather-clad bays of beautiful LochShiel, a thin glacial finger of sparkling water that slices the landsof Moidart and Sunart. The area is steeped in history and natural beauty. West of ...
Don't get bored - get a board
Aug 01, 1999; ... How did you get into skateboarding? Stuart: I got one for Christmas. I'd seen guys doing it in thestreet and it looked fun. Natasha: I was in Australia when I first got on a board and wentdown a tiny hill. It felt pretty good, and about a month later I gotmy first set ...
Caber party in full swing
Aug 01, 1999; ... IT is the middle of the Highland Games season in Scotland and theGames are booming, not only here but all over the world. There aresome 300 Highland games worldwide and 140 or so in Scotland,representing a threefold increase in the last 30 years. There willbe one near you soon. Sabbath ...
King of Hearts left out of pack after Auld Enemy miss
Aug 01, 1999; ... All Scotland had to do was to beat England at Hampden, or at thevery least draw with the men in white shirts, and they would be ontheir way to the 1950 World Cup finals in Brazil. But even beforethey kicked off the odds had been stacked against them. Daftly, asit turned out, the Scottish ...
Health revolution would offer a ray of hope to the sick man of Britain
Aug 01, 1999; ... Although I am able to easily avoid the vices of smoking, drinkingand gambling, my humble humanity is exposed in my weakness forsunbeds. Twenty minutes of sun-ray abandonment once or twice a weekis definitely my healthy lifestyle Achilles' heel. It may come as asurprise, therefore, when I ...
World Cup a watershed for women
Aug 01, 1999; ... 'W omen's football, the best-kept secret in sport,' said US playerJulie Foudy after the opening match of the Women's World Cup '99 inAmerica. Nobody could even dream of the success the third Women'sWorld Cup would become, with a final in the Rose Bowl packed withmore than 90,000 fans ....
Pakistan fears the gangrenous effect of match-rigging allegations; intheslips
Aug 01, 1999; ... AFTER many months things appear to be happening which willclarify the allegations made against certain Pakistan players thatthey knew of or colluded in attempts to fix matches. Three players stand suspended - Wasim Akram, Salim Malik and IjazAhmed - and more may ...
Skovdahl kidology falls on deaf ears
Aug 01, 1999; ... JOHN Barnes believes new Aberdeen manager Ebbe Skovdahl hasattempted some immediate kidology on Celtic ahead of tonight's leagueopener at Pittodrie. Both managers make their competitive debuts in Scotland tonightand former Brndby coach Skovdahl was last week reported to have ...
A taste of salsa with no soul
Aug 01, 1999; ... Brendan O'Connor has a message for Latino culture vultures - it'sas phoney as ever No doubt you will have read in the quality leftwing press about the Latino explosion (Xplosion de los Latinos).According to the features pages (playas de los features) life wasgoing to be one big hot ...
Bolly good show
Aug 01, 1999; ... Scotland's Asians have found a confident new cultural voice, saysEDDIE GIBB IF A Friday night hankering for poppadoms and extra-hot limepickle is perhaps not quite the same as fully integrated multi-culturalism, at least it's a start. Now a bunch of Glasgow Asiansare trying to do ...
Experimenting with La Chunky
Aug 01, 1999; ... music La Chunky King Tut's Wah Wah Hut ARRIVING in King Tut's, you are greeted by a bright red, 7ft tallalien who looks, for all the world, as if he's guarding the mixingdesk from attack. His pint-sized brethren, all gnarled teeth andscarecrow trousers, stare out from in front of ...
Sinking in at the deep end
Aug 01, 1999; ... tHEATRE Myths of the Near Future Tramway @ Govan Pool, Glasgow THEerotic potential of the swimming pool isn't a topic for politeconversation. Which is probably what attracted JG Ballard, whoseshort story this new work is based on. Shepherd, the central character, arrives at a ...
Design that you just can't touch
Aug 01, 1999; ... VISUAL ART Ettore Sottsass Glasgow School of Art IF you're not a design aficionado, then Ettore Sottsass may not bea household name. But this Italian has indirectly changed all of ourhouseholds through his exuberant design. Sottsass, now in his 80s,visited Glasgow last week to ...
Funky business
Aug 01, 1999; ... MUSIC The Robert Cray Band Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow WHILE you're reading this paper, Robert Cray is in Lucerne,Switzerland, celebrating his 48th birthday and looking barely a dayolder than when he swept in to reinterpret the blues for a newgeneration, doing much to revitalise ...
More than just a pretty boy then
Aug 01, 1999; ... comedy Parrot - God's Comic The Stand, Edinburgh 'I think I'mfunnier than Tommy Cooper," boasts the beardy bloke in the designersuit. "I mean funnier than he is NOW!" A not so spurious claimgiven that, Tommy isn't telling too many gags these days. Parrot's been away from the ...
Liv and Kicking; ;
Aug 01, 1999; ... Good looks, a successful career and a rock star for a dad -actress Liv Tyler seems to have it all. Yet the former model saysshe still has much to learn but, she tells Geoffrey MacNab, thatdoesn't include gutting fish Most kids trying to break away fromtheir dull family background will ...
Fallon an unstable jockey
Aug 01, 1999; ... HENRY Richard Amherst Cecil and Kieren Francis Fallon were neverthe most comfortable of bedfellows in the first place. That theirrelationship floundered due to events between the sheets was,however, just as surprising as was their initial coupling two and ahalf years ago. For ...
Renilson finds sea legs in Looe
Aug 01, 1999; ... After 18 months away from the fleet, Ian Renilson of Dalgety BaySC showed he had lost none of his touch at the UK Contender Nationalsat Looe in Cornwall last week. Renilson took second overall in a competitive fleet of 50 boats."I was really pleased to get it," he said, "but it was ...
Money could ruin Glorious tradition
Aug 01, 1999; ... After the Emirates World Series Racing hurricane swept throughAscot last week and headed for Leopardstown, for traditionalistsGlorious Goodwood was to provide an antidote to the Formula One-stylejamboree of the previous weekend. Such are the comparisons betweenWSR and the motor racing ...
Sails are up for yachting spectacle
Aug 01, 1999; ... There is something about the Highland welcome, which just makespeople want to come back for more, and more, and more . . . Nowhere is it more evident than at Tennents West Highland Week,which seems to rise above the fickle world of the race calendar andhave visitors to the maritime ...
turfluck
Aug 01, 1999 ... IF there's a "nae luck" award for punters out there, I'dappreciate it if someone could send it to me care of the SundayHerald after a series of near misses which could so easily have putme in clover. 12/1 would have been the reward had Ho Leng not come up against avery dark horse ...
Perfect views and not a monster in sight...
Aug 01, 1999 ... THE offer of monstrous property purchases at good prices has to betaken with a pinch of salt. But then, if you want to live on theshores of Loch Ness, you must (as business types like to say) "take aview". Nessie might be a red herring, but at least you won't be on a wildgoose ...
Property A-Z
Aug 01, 1999 ... Y is for yuppification: when pleasant country towns with shops andreal communities are discovered by overworked, overpaid cityprofessionals. They buy a house and invite all their friends, whothen also decide they want a country home - and prices and rents gothrough the (thatched) ...
Making a clean sweep of a hairy situation
Aug 01, 1999 ... The fighting is over and an uneasy truce is formed over rubbergloves and feather dusters Peace and tranquility pervade the flat,with my scary flatmates gone to terrorise some other poor soul.After the tensions of the last few weeks, during which thedisturbance escalated into destruction ...
Cunning plans and rat au van
Aug 01, 1999 ... The personnel: A man for all eras, Edmund Blackadder is anaspiring nobleman who crops up in the middle ages, ElizabethanEngland, Regency London and the First World War. His servant,Baldrick, is brainlessly loyal. The place: A Norman castle, a Tudor townhouse, the valet'squarters ...
Riptide ripples outwards to a tranquil rural idyll
Aug 01, 1999 ... The tranquil waters of the Kyles of Bute mask a strongundercurrent of demand for quality homes in the West of Scotland.Agents say that quality homes are fetching top prices, especiallythose within easy reach of Glasgow, as the riptide of demand that issweeping through the best parts of ...
Why my search is safe with the CID
Aug 01, 1999; ... Even on holiday, the serious flat-hunter never rests. Although mybody is relaxing on the beaches of Crete this week, my mind travelsto Glasgow several times an hour. Getting away from it all, you see, does not extend to house-searching. Just as it's normal for stressed-out ...
Widening the loop
Aug 01, 1999; ... Place: Loop Address: 64 Ingram Street, Glasgow Telephone: 0141-5721472 Open: 11am-10.30pm (last orders) LOOP is the latest addition to the Merchant City's growing numberof hip bar-restaurants so, while its designers have obviously workedhard to instill some sense of individuality ...
Chukka tikka
Aug 01, 1999; ... A slice of the Raj remains just off Maryhill Road. ANDREW PURCELLtakes a trip to Killermont Polo Club Place: Killermont Polo ClubAddress: 2002 Maryhill Road, Maryhill, Glasgow Telephone: 0141-9465412 All major credit cards accepted. No smoking in the dinning room, but permitted in ...
For those that don't wish a performance
Aug 01, 1999; ... Place: Bennet's Bar Address: 8 Leven Street, Edinburgh Telephone:0131-229 5143 Opening Hours: Mon-Wed, 11am-11.30pm Thurs-Sat, 11am-12.30am Sun, 12.30pm-11pm It's not easy to fall off the map when yourlocal has one wedged under glass on every table. Bennets is anEdinburgh institution ...
Legs (a pair of)
Aug 01, 1999; ... Men pursue them, models insure them and mere mortals simply cutthem while shaving. Functional and fetishistic, legs aresimultaneously a cause for obsession and chagrin, unjustlydistributed in batches of long and luscious or short and varicose. But there's now more to limbs than ...
Is it wise to splice for life?
Aug 01, 1999; ... I am alarmed by recent reports that passionate relationships areinvariably destined to peter out within 30 months of starting up. Ihave been going out with my boyfriend for two years, which gives us amaximum of six months before we get biologically bored with oneanother. The ...
Pecs and choppin g; Two spectacular shows have set their sights on world domination, starting in Scotland. BARRY DIDCOCK licks his lips in anticipation of Cookin' and Gumboots
Aug 01, 1999; ... THERE'S still a week to go until the Edinburgh Fringe officiallyopens, but the buzz which precedes the launch - a mixture of hearsayand hype seasoned with the odd hard fact - has already found itsfocus in two shows. Cookin' and Gumboots may come from countries thousands of ...
CINEMA
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Blair Witch Project, Cameo, August 21, 12.30am ART-HOUSE horror is a genre which has hardly been exploited, butthis American indie movie, which shook audiences at the Sundance filmfestival to their core, almost certainly qualifies. For one thing,the documentary-within-a-movie ...
COMEDY
Aug 01, 1999; ... The League Against Tedium, The Pleasance, August 4-30 WITH the simple sword of truth and the fake tits of irony, theLeague Against Tedium genetically splices stand-up comedy withNietzchian philosophy and arrives at a live experience not unlikehaving Lenny Bruce walk all over you in ...
No Headline Present
Aug 01, 1999; ... THEATRE The Speculator, Royal Lyceum Theatre, August 16-21 HOW does David Greig do it? With four plays already under hisbelt this year, and revivals of Caledonia Dreaming and Mainstreamappearing on the Fringe, arguably the most talented Scottishplaywright of his generation turns ...
VISUAL ARTS
Aug 01, 1999; ... Gary Hume, The Dean Gallery, August 11 to October 17 THE painter for the Pulp generation, London-based Gary Hume is theface of the kind of metropolitan scene that will have become familiarto viewers of the Channel Four series This is Modern Art. Hume is a graduate of Goldsmiths ...
BOOKS
Aug 01, 1999; ... Ian Rankin, August 16-17 CHRIS Brookmyre, Quentin Jardine and Val McDermid represent thecream of Scotland's crime writers but none of the three can touch IanRankin in terms of popularity and kudos. So as king of the hill,it's no surprise that Rankin is omni-present at this year's ...
DANCE
Aug 01, 1999; ... Mats Ek Retrospective: Giselle, August 23-25; Cullberg Ballettriple bill, August 27 and 28; Sleeping Beauty, August 31, September1 and 2. All performances at the Playhouse Theatre AS the dance programme on the EIF has grown in recent years, notonly have there been opportunities for ...
MUSIC
Aug 01, 1999; ... Nick Cave, Princes Street Gardens, August 27 Nick Cave foundedMelbourne group The Birthday Party in the early 1980s. When theysplit up in 1983, he assembled an even more revered band in The BadSeeds. In a near 20-year career, that has encompassed literature, musicand acting, Cave ...
Hip hop hooray
Aug 01, 1999; ... After years of indifference and subservience to America, theBritish hip hop scene is finally coming to the fore. Leon McDermottmet the people bringing the music to the masses Until recently,British hip hop has struggled to be taken as seriously as itsAmerican counterpart. The Stateside ...
Classical touch to send Riverdance into the deep, deep blue
Aug 01, 1999; ... Whatever else you might make of Michael McGlynn, you certainlycouldn't call him lacking in conviction. The 35-year-old composer's descriptions of his work with Anuna,the young Irish choir he founded in 1987, are littered with wordssuch as "wonderful", "extraordinary" and " utterly ...
No Headline Present
Aug 01, 1999; ... Earth, Wind & Fire - The Ultimate Collection (Sony) If ever a bandwas misunderstood it was Earth, Wind & Fire, best remembered as thecheesy troupe who teamed up with the Emotions for that discostandard, Boogie Wonderland. But, like the similarly underratedChic, Maurice White's nine-piece ...
No Headline Present
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Lanterns - Luminate Yer Heid (Columbia) Hmm Synth-folk-jazz-pop, anyone? The Lanterns' debut single, HighRise Town, had themmarked down as a kind of Caledonian Dubstar - but there's more tothis Edinburgh trio than anaemic keyboards and warbling about broken-down lifts. And although ...
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Aug 01, 1999; ... Santana - Supernatural (Arista) Nobody would argue that hairy oldbandanna-wearing Carlos Santana was as cute as young pop sensationRicky Martin. But the two share a musical lineage which, givenMartin's recent UK chart success, should foster fresh interest inSantana and his likeable Latin ...
No Headline Present
Aug 01, 1999; ... Scritti Politti - Anomie and Bonhomie (Virgin) Green Gartside, weare told, is a very clever man. He understands complicated stuffsuch as post-structuralism, and can no doubt amaze you with afascinating treatise on pop music and the Marxist dialectic. This,however, doesn't mean his music ...
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Aug 01, 1999; ... Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabete - Kulanjan (Hannibal Records)Electro-blues pioneer Taj Mahal isn't the first American to realisethat the roots of the blues lie in Africa. Far from it. But he'sone of the few bluesmen to have done anything about examining themusical possibilities the ...
True colours
Aug 01, 1999; ... One of the world's top colourists, Callum Innes, is showing inScotland for the first time in three years. MOIRA JEFFREY reports onthe Edinburgh boy made good Talking to Callum Innes in his Edinburghstudio, the eye can't help being drawn to one unusual canvas in thecorner of the room. It ...
Why don't we blow our own Horn?
Aug 01, 1999 ... ANDREW Patrizio has written a book called Contemporary Sculpturein Scotland. Only there are artists in it who might not be sculptorsat all. Oh, and some of them don't live in Scotland any more. The picture on the cover? Well, that's the white cliffs ofDover. And the ...
The reel thing
Aug 01, 1999; ... Many people are surprised when I tell them I prefer fishing fortrout to fishing for salmon. Some are incredulous when I tell them Ihave cast over visible salmon to reach trout; yet I have done it acouple of times on a chalkstream I sometimes fish as a guest. Why do I prefer it? The ...
Eyes wide open
Aug 01, 1999; ... WHEN people weren't talking about John F Kennedy Jr last week theywere talking about Eyes Wide Shut. The general consensus was that itrepresented one more flop - critically, if not commercially - in aseason of over-hyped blockbusters, starting with Star Wars, andcontinuing on through ...
a quick prophet
Aug 01, 1999; ... FOUND this on the internet. "Munedancer - July 23rd 1999 - 17.12:what do you think? so called harmageddon be upon us. the bibleforetells the sun being darkened and the stars falling from the sky.do you think it is connected in any way to the coming eclipse Aug 1199?" At the same ...
Once in a lifetime
Aug 01, 1999; ... Bats swoop around, birds get confused, gawping drivers crash andall manner of strange things happen at the point of solar eclipsetotality. Rob Edwards describes exactly what will happen ON MAY 28584BC, in the midst of a bloody battle between the massed armies ofthe Lydians and the Medes ...
sunblock
Aug 01, 1999; ... He was asked to go to Chile and make a documentary about the totaleclipse. But Phil Kay ended up chewing coca leaves, jigging aroundand going to the toilet with Darth Vader I AM standing, almost on mytip toes, as if raising myself up a bit will bring me closer and helpme see the eclipse ...
Cold comfort
Aug 01, 1999; ... August may be muggy, but you can stay cool in the kitchen. Chillout with a range of exotic salads, advises Peter Gordon AUGUST, the weather's hot and hopefully balmy. Time for salads,and not just the iceberg lettuce and grated carrot type. I like tothrow whatever's left in the ...
cook the books
Aug 01, 1999; ... EVERYBODY'S favourite foodie, the Martini-dry Jeffrey Steingartenof American Vogue, is out in paperback. The Man Who Ate Everythingcould now be subtitled The Man Who Won Just About Everything asSteingarten's stunning, stinging collection must now need its ownsilverware cabinet in the ...
Can't be arsed
Aug 01, 1999; ... TWENTY minutes is a long time when you could eat a scabby horseand chase away the disappointed little girl who was looking forwardto pony-trekking. (Hunger always makes me mix my metaphors.) In thetime it took me to heat this I had assembled my added extras - hard-boiled egg, natural ...
Scottish lobster
Aug 01, 1999; ... THE WORLD'S your lobster ... the renowned Scottish lobster to beexact. This armour-plated king of the sea bed has a robustreputation and succulent flavour, which is second to none. Mentionlobsters, however, and a degree of squeamishness is never far away.The self- evident truth is they ...
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Aug 01, 1999 ... Company: Justerini & Brooks, 45 George Street, Edinburgh Wine:Macon Uchizy Domaine Talmard Type: White Burgundy Region: SouthernBurgundy Colour: Pale yellow, touches of green, very clear and brightSmell: Rich and ripe with notes of nuts, butter and peaches Taste:Smooth, ripe, full and ...
here's one I drank earlier: Pimms
Aug 01, 1999; ... WHEN James Pimm started an oyster bar in the city of London around150 years ago, and dreamt up a refreshing yet alcoholic fruitconcoction which became known as Pimms No 1 Cup, he could hardly nothave known that he would inspire future generations tobraysenselessly, sit on damp grass in ...
Animal magic
Aug 01, 1999; ... Create your own kingdom with the latest lines in animal prints andaccessories. Hide adds lustrous texture to a room, providing a mixthat's urban-jungle, bringing technology and nature together. Butdon't take the call of the wild to extremes. Think raw style andblend items carefully, ...