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BOTH SIDES MUST SHIFT IN LIVE-MUSIC VENUE DEBATE
Sound clouds are gathering in the distance, threatening to cast smothering shadows over Edinburgh sandstone. Tenements tremble in anxious expectation of dins to come.
This is because, as you may already know, there is currently movement towards easing sound restrictions at live-music venues in Broughton and beyond (Breaking news, 28.2.16).
Word reached us on Monday of a ‘Banksy’ on Leith Walk.
The person who told us of its appearance is a keen admirer of the Bristol-based graffiti artist, and has travelled widely to study his work in situ.
HIGH-FLYER HEADS FOR BIG APPLE
Just before he departed for New York to meet Bill Gates, Spurtle caught up with S4 pupil Mohshin Syed from Drummond Community High School.
There’s an understated quality to Leigh Chorlton’s latest paintings in the Whitespace outstation on Howe Street.
His canvases are small, his palette predominantly cool and restrained. The pieces' grounds sometimes emerge through sparely applied paint, giving them a sense of work in progress.
As you read this, Issue 249 of the Spurtle is bounding off the presses like so many March hares with Spring in their tails.
This month we kick off with the cost to Council of so-called culture, the virtues or otherwise of thin-ness, Leith Walk, and a lost dog with remarkably long hair.
We continue with police-box developments, the mess and muddle that is Waste, urban funk, mournful liquid calls, wings of desire, fashion, teenagers, and live music.
And that doesn’t describe the half of it.
CITY MOVES TO EASE LIVE-MUSIC RESTRICTIONS
Proposed changes to licensing policy that would ease the sound restrictions on live music venues in Edinburgh are headed for their first hearing in March, reports Lisa Rogers.
City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) is responding to demands made by musicians and venue managers 14 months ago to relax the strict regulations that insist music must be 'inaudible' outside the venue.
Many in the music community think this stipulation has forced small music venues to close across the city.
LEITH STREET – FIRST CHANGE OF MANY?
Planning permission has been granted to change the use of empty premises at 45–7 Leith Street from Class 4 (office) to Classes 1 (Retail), 2 (Financial, Professional and other services), and/or 3 (Food and Drink). It forms part of the building marketed as the Cube.
EDINBURGH'S YOUNG MENFOLK LEAVE LOT TO BE DESIRED
Last week, we considered fashion, fripperies, and young ladies' changing education in late 18th-century Edinburgh (Breaking news, 17.2.16).
This week, we look at a concurrent and deplorable turn for the worse in young gentlemen's behaviour. The extracts below, from The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791–1799, are very slightly out of their original order to preserve narrative clarity.
The new Community Cinema in the middle of Broughton continues this coming Friday with two screeenings aimed at children and families in the afternoon, and adults in the evening.
POLICE SEEK WITNESSES AFTER DRIVER FAILS TO STOP
After a road traffic collision on Thursday 18 February between a cyclist and a white Transit van, Police Scotland are appealing for witnesses.
The incident on Rodney Street happened at around 5.20pm, and left the female cyclist with minor injuries. She was taken to hospital.
The Transit driver did not stop at the scene.