Neil Cooper
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Writer and Critic - The Noise of Art - https://t.co/exx718N6Yg. @heraldmagazine. @thelistmagazine @FlemingArtColl. @The_Drouth
Edinburgh
Joined May 2011
Happy New Year from The Noise of Art, and thanks to more than 1000 subscribers. https://t.co/U9Bh2cLQ4y 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.
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Robert Plant’s Saving Grace with Suzi Dian & a wonderful band at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. https://t.co/39FMJVlkWL @theusherhall Edinburgh tonight (Dec 18).
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Abacus Global Management Announces Transfer of Listing of its [Class A] Common Stock to the New York Stock Exchange with New Ticker Symbol $ABX | Press Release Abacus Global Management, Inc. (@Nasdaq: $ABL), a leader in the alternative asset management space, today announced its
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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #122
https://t.co/idmxm3jwJW Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Leith Depot: Studies in Photography: The House of Smalls: Upright Gallery: Edinburgh Castle: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: Scottish National Portrait Gallery:
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of It’s a Wonderful Life… Mostly, Morag Fullarton’s ingenious pocket sized staging of the ultimate festive feelgood film @OranMorGlasgow until Dec 28 (not 17, 24 or 25). https://t.co/kAeVd1qf7a
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Theatre, It’s a Wonderful Life… Mostly, Oran Mor, Glasgow
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Creeping Bent - The End of Definition (Edinburgh) Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh College of Art - 13.12.25 . The Nectarine No.9 / Gareth Sager / The Sexual Objects / Mackenzies / Port Sulphur
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Oh, what a night. Creeping Bent - The End of Definition - Edinburgh
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of MAMMA MIA! the now 20-something musical in which ABBA’s greatest hits meet prime time British drama. @edinplayhouse Edinburgh Playhouse until January 4. https://t.co/Bgnod0O35B
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Theatre: Mamma Mia! The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Neil Cooper, Four stars: After 26 years, the sheer joy of this nostalgiafest shows no sign of dimming
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Creeping Bent (12.12.1994-12.12.2025) discontinues live operations in Glasgow tonight at Mono. Here’s a kool article by Neil Cooper from his wonderful The Noise of Art site on Substack. Image: A Leap Into The Void/BENT001 Tramway, Glasgow, 12.12.1994. https://t.co/hR9mu8xeZ5
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New on The Noise of Art… Creeping Bent - The End of Definition https://t.co/D0mehTma7w As @creepingbentorg terminates 30 years of activity with 2 gigs & Douglas MacIntyre’s memoir, Creeping Bent: A Leap into the Void, a bonus look at my intro. Or just buy the book.
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Jack and the Beanstalk, Jonathan O’Neill and Isaac Savage’s new ‘moooosical’ take on the classic story starring a cow named Caroline. @DundeeRep until December 30. https://t.co/DLmzaEUCda
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This rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk is underpinned by a plethora of power ballads and showtunes that give panto by way of a cheesy Fringe…
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New on the Noise of Art… Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… https://t.co/loqJMPQzZK Leith Depot: SANKI: Studies in Photography: The House of Smalls: Upright Gallery: Edinburgh Castle: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: Scottish National Portrait Gallery:Leith Launderette… etc…
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My @heraldmagazine @heraldscotland review of Dancing Shoes, Stephen Christopher & Graeme Smith’s play about one man’s liberation as a private dancer @traversetheatre Edinburgh until December 20. https://t.co/R47NF9txpc
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Dancing Shoes taps into a need for meaning as a feelgood hit that suggests everyone might benefit from stepping out and dancing to the beat of their…
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New on The Noise of Art… An Audience with Pam Hogg https://t.co/hVHQpqhMBB In honour of fashion designer Pam Hogg, who died in November 2025, a piece from 2018 in which Hogg talks about designing costumes for a brand new production of Cyrano de Bergerac.
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of What’s the Craic, God? Rebecca Donovan’s solo play about an Irish teenager’s rites of passage. Seen at Theatre 118, Glasgow.
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Theatre, What’s the Craic, God?, Theatre 118, Glasgow. Sweet seventeen and a self styled ‘half a virgin’, Aoife McDonagh can’t wait get away…
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Beauty and the Beast, Lewis Hetherington’s new version of the classic folk tale for the @citizenstheatre Glasgow’s first Christmas show of its new era. https://t.co/7I7PLJwca8 Until Dec 31. https://t.co/cQfXe7ywzy
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Many businesses consider these to be “cost centers” – but AI is allowing a new view to be taken
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A fine Sunday evening of song at a packed Settlement Projects Edinburgh care of the indefatigable @px4m operation with French/Argentinian singer Fiesta En El Vacío, aka Luna Maria Cedrón, plus Glasgow’s Simone Antigone. Sorry to miss Raiments. Next time.
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My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of Piano Smashers, Rupert Page and Rob Thompson’s play about unwanted legacies, which played at the all too appropriate @PianodromeLive venue in Edinburgh this weekend.
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Theatre: Piano Smashers Pianodrome, St. Oswald’s Centre, Edinburgh, Neil Cooper, Four stars: This is a moving meditation on legacy, loss and…
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New on The Noise of Art Tom Stoppard - Travesties https://t.co/1MLH6bQMDl From the archive, Tom Stoppard talks in 2018 about his play, Travesties, which looks at literary, artistic & political revolution by putting James Joyce, Tristan Tzara & V.I. Lenin in the same city…
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New on The Noise of Art… Shop Local! #120
https://t.co/gAhmqxr9Cj Edinburgh’s weekend starts here… Leith Depot: Unlimited Corporation: Leith School of Art: SANKI: Studies in Photography: The House of Smalls: Edinburgh Castle: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop: etc…
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"Federal cuts upended clinical trials. A new study reveals the toll." Perhaps it's the best time go "all-natural".
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@pitlochryft has a lot going on just now, but let’s not forget that on stage until Dec 21 is PFT’s revival of one of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s finest musicals. As good a reason as any to unlock my essay from last year on the first film I ever saw. https://t.co/O6bYcUNXXZ
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Following the death last week of actor Jack Shepherd, who performed in many works by Trevor Griffith, I’ve unlocked my tribute to Griffiths from 2024 after Griffiths’s own death https://t.co/kVn1CBm1QF It also features an archive interview from 2007
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