Kenny's Music Store, formely Sound Control in Dunfermline, is having it's '1st Birthday Bash' on Saturday 20th June 2009.

Help Kenny and his staff celebrate with 10% off everything in store.

From 1.00pm there will be live music from the Crayons and Bruce & Jamie Watson.

Don't miss your chance to catch Bruce and Jamie play some of their brilliant new material.

Kenny's Music, 73 Elgin Street, Dunfermline. Tele:01383 733353

www.kennysmusic.co.uk

A few more reviews and clips online for New Town Killers

By Robbie Collin, 14/06/2009 
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Reviewed By: Anton Bitel
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"Genuinely thrilling urban chase. The tension just keeps ratcheting up"
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"DELICIOUSLY dark and full of action, New Town Killers is a decent Brit flick"
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New Town Killers gets an impressive 4 stars from Total Film

The website has an interview and some clips from the movie as a taster for those who have not seen it yet.

http://www.totalfilm.com/new-town-killers the website was very slow for me but hopefully it may load a lot quicker for others.

Sometimes, for some people, things don't work out as they might have hoped.

Unfortunately, this years gathering will not be a 'bandfest' like previous years, however, the troops will be meeting up in Dunfermline on 3rd/4th July and will be joined by band members Bill Simpson, Tom 'Bomb' Kellichan.

We will also, hopefully, be joined by Mike Baillie and Bruce and Jamie Watson.

I will post more details as and when available. Looking forward to seeing the troops again, a fantastic bunch.

First of all what I would like to say and really must say is .... what a cracking movie!!! without a doubt one of the best movies I have seen.

Not because it had a certain Scottish theme or because it was based in Edinburgh but firstly and foremost because it seemed very real, not your usual Hollywood chase movie but very like running through Dunfermline at night as a lot of people may already know and appreciate.

The characters were brilliant, Dougray (Alistair in the movie), well I dont know what to make of this character but meeting him afterwards I did feel a bit vulnerable and very uneasy, I am sure he is a very nice man but under the circumstances and the character he played in the film it was hard not to flinch when he moved. James (Sean in the movie) was very familiar, probably like a lot of people I know and had me near nervous breakdown as he evaded his pursuers throughout the movie. Alistair (Jamie) added that extra "moral attitude" that for me, kept the movie balanced so as to not really get caught up in the violent theme but to really keep me thinking about the rights and wrongs of the movie and our society in general.

I am in no way a film buff or a review writer but I would now be inclined to say F*ck hollywood movies and take in a very real and personal movie that will move you as much as any movie can, and will be more likely to make you think just that littlle bit more than your average flick.

I will leave the film reviews to the professionals but would like to thank everyone involved in making this movie, I totally and thouroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end and cant wait to take more people to see it and buy the DVD when it comes out, a total classic of a film, well done to everyone.

The aftershow was excellent, already having seen Isa And The filthy Tongues live recently I knew it was going to be good so I was already having a great time but catching FlyKKiller live as well really topped off the night, hopefully I can catch these guys again soon and take in more of their stuff.

Final words, well, New Town Killers is brillaint, the whole thing is brilliant from beginning to end, definitley a must see movie!

It will be showing at the VUE Edinburgh Omni Centre over the coming weeks, but please check with local cinemas for other showings, Richard mentioned that a DVD may be available in the next month or two, so it will be one of only a few prized possesions in my DVD collection when it becomes available.

New Town Killers: 10/10 - a classic and very real movie and the best movie I have seen in a long while.

THE SCOTSMAN
http://living.scotsman.com/interviews/Director-Richard-Jobson-and-actor.5340561.jp 

Director Richard Jobson and actor Dougray Scott on their new dark thriller
Published Date: 06 June 2009
By James Rampton
Director Richard Jobson and actor Dougray Scott have returned to their homeland to make a dark thriller about two very different sides of Edinburgh society. And it's very much a tale for our times
NOT for nothing is Edinburgh the city that gave birth to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: it has always been a place riddled with contradictions. It is the locus of so many apparently incompatible aspects: Trainspotting and the New Town, Rebus and the Royal Mile, Burke and Hare and the International Festival.
 
 That same sense of duality lies at the heart of New Town Killers, a striking new film about the rich and poor who live cheek by jowl in Edinburgh. Written and directed by Richard Jobson, the film focuses on Alistair Raskalnikov – did you spot the reference to Crime And Punishment there? Alistair, played with smouldering intensity by Dougray Scott (who starred last year in an American TV version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), is an amoral, "master of the universe" hedge-fund manager, who works for the ironically named Ethical Finances company.
 
 He gets his kicks by luring desperately impoverished lads into an extreme game of hide and seek. Alistair ropes in an almost equally sadistic cohort, Jamie (Alastair Mackenzie), and then pays a hard-up teenager, Sean (James Anthony Pearson), to evade capture for one long night on the streets of Edinburgh. But the game soon turns deadly serious…
 
 A Celtic film-noir cousin of American Psycho, the movie is a modern-day reworking of the David and Goliath story. Full of moody shots of stygian corners of the city, which exude an ominous Third Man quality, New Town Killers is also a dark and disturbing love letter to Edinburgh.
 
 Jobson and Scott are sitting side by side in the sort of upscale central London hotel Alistair would frequent. They make for a charismatic double act. For a start, they are an undeniably handsome pair. Scott, 43, possesses the impossibly chiselled good looks of a current movie star – it is no surprise to learn he was nominated as GQ's "Most Alluring Man" of 2001. His allure has only been enhanced by his recent role as Desperate Housewives' friendly neighbourhood hunk. Jobson, meanwhile, possesses the impossibly chiselled good looks of a one-time pop star – readers of a certain vintage will fondly recall him drop-kicking his way through the Skids' Into the Valley on Top of the Pops in 1979. He has also done his fair share of modelling.
 
 Both native Fifers, Jobson, 48, and Scott clearly enjoy a strong rapport – they finish each other's sentences and top each other's punchlines. They are already planning their next collaboration, a film adaptation of Macbeth using green screen and CGI "in the style of Sin City". The director, also responsible for 16 Years of Alcohol, the semi-autobiographical movie about a battle with the bottle, which picked up two gongs at the 2003 British Independent Film Awards, begins by explaining that New Town Killers taps into Edinburgh's long history of dualism.
 
 "I wanted to play on the Gothic tradition of the contradictory city of Jekyll and Hyde," says Jobson. "I was working with an Edinburgh charity called Circle, which helps the children of alcoholics and heroin addicts in the outlying estates of the city. I found that, like everyone, they have their own dreams and ambitions. But the rest of society treats them as invisible – and that angered me greatly.
 
 "I then started to become aware of another, very different form of invisibility, right in the middle of the New Town. Living in these beautiful, six-storey townhouses were these hedge-fund managers. They didn't court publicity – they lived in a bubble that the world never noticed – but they controlled everything. These two types were living side by side. I thought that was a strange paradox which might create a fascinating film."
 
 Edinburgh is the ideal setting for this clash of two worlds, he says. "You can time-travel so easily – in a moment, you can move from the antiquated, genteel home of the Enlightenment, a place rich in culture, to this dark, unsettling, subterranean world."
 
 Jobson penned the role of Alistair specifically for Scott – which may be construed as a double-edged compliment. "I get that brooding quality from Dougray," the director says, flashing a winning smile at his leading actor. "I like the fact that he doesn't overplay it – he just lets the camera do the work. So when we first met, I was shocked to discover how gentle and un-psychopathic Dougray is! But as soon as he read in rehearsals, he nailed the character. We were all chilled. He instantly captured Alistair's ambivalent nature, that compelling mixture of malevolence and charm."
 
 "Am I flattered that he wrote it for me?" the actor asks with a knowing laugh. "Of course! I loved the script. I immediately understood what it was. It's a cracking thriller, but it also contains a very important examination of a substantial underclass which is too often ignored." He adds that his shared background with Jobson gave them an instant shorthand. "Richard and I are both Fifers and we have a lot of common references. We share a very particular vernacular."
 
 The director chimes in: "Dougray and I didn't have to dig very deep to understand who Sean was. We're from villages six miles apart. We come from the same rural mining belt of central Fife that was destroyed by Thatcherism. So many people there are now forced to live on the margins of society."
 
 Jobson wrote the script for New Town Killers two years ago, before last autumn's global financial meltdown. However, Alistair's job as a ruthless hedge-fund manager now seems absolutely appropriate. You won't find many people these days who disagree with the idea of a vicious financier as the thorough-going villain of the piece. "Obviously, the financial crisis has had a terrible impact on many people," acknowledges Scott, who is married to the actress Claire Forlani. "But for our film, it's an incredibly fortuitous coincidence that the markets have collapsed. It couldn't be more apt when the central character is a venal hedge-fund manager who revels in his success and is incredibly dismissive of those he views as beneath him. He has this tremendous sense of entitlement about his life. The way Alistair treats Sean is a great metaphor for the way many hedge-fund managers have recently treated the rest of society. Some of them seem to have no sense of responsibility."
 
 Jobson, who in 2005 made A Woman in Winter, starring yet another son of the East Coast, the Dundonian Brian Cox, takes up the theme: "There is an innate arrogance about some hedge-fund managers. Maybe I'm jealous, but I find something abhorrent about them. I thought they'd be a good target in New Town Killers.
 
 "As they drive about the city in their Maseratis and their Ferraris, they have this sheen of power. The film is to do with the self-obsession of the powerful. You give people power and they will behave like the Medicis, simply doing as they please. As Alistair rids society of what he regards as undesirables, he says, 'Who cares about these people? We're doing society a favour here'. He is totally amoral – he believes there is no cause and effect. But I am a moralist, and I believe there is cause and effect." Scott, a diehard Hibs fan who will soon be starring opposite Cox in BBC1's new adaptation of the classic John Wyndham sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids, closes by waxing lyrical about his native land. "It was great to be working in Scotland again," beams the actor.
 
 "I feel very calm and can breathe very easily there. And Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities in the world. After all, my football team are there! The city's air, atmosphere, rhythm and heartbeat all make me feel good. Every day on New Town Killers I was rubbing my hands with delight about working in Edinburgh.
 
 "It was minus six degrees when we were shooting," he actor adds with a wry smile, "so I was also rubbing my hands just to keep warm!"
 
 • New Town Killers is released next Friday.