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T in the Park gets ready to rock ’n’ roll
THE BAND LINE-UPS for T in the Park are almost complete nearly three months before the event on Sat lZ/Sun 13 July Recent additions to the bill
include former New Order bassist Peter Hook's new band Monaco, venue-
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wrecking pop punks Symposium, radical rap freewheelers Spearhead and Welsh free-thinkers Gorky’s Zygotic Myncr.
There is also a strong Scottish contingent at this year's festival, With up and coming talent Geneva, Arab Strap, Mogwai, Travrs, Toaster and Hardbody iorning well-established bands like Texas, GUN, The Supernaturals, Uruser Yatsura and AC. Acoustics.
There has been relatively little local opposition to T in the Park as it prepares for its first year at a site in Balado, near Kinross in Perthshrre.
'There have been a lot less ObJGCIIOITS than we imagined,’ said Stuart Clumpas, chief of T in the Park organisers Big Day Out. ’Some people are a bit anxious, imagining that there’s a lot more to it than there rs, but nearly everybody is being positive. We've got a good track record and we've learnt from things gomg awry prevrously.'
Willie Robertson, Scottish Liberal Democrat c0uncr|lor for Perth and Kinross said: ’There are a number of OI)]€CIIOTIS, but everything has a number of ObJCCIIOIIS With the help of Big Day Out and the COunCrl, we hope
Word up on Book Festival
THIS SUIVIMER'S EDINBURGH Book Festival rs to include an impressive cast of international authors set to gather in the expanded, reorganised tented village in Charlotte Sguare Gardens. Edinburgh rs also hosting this year's International Pen Congress and Mario Vargas Llosa, Margaret Atwood and Amos 0/ are among the many literary stars coming to Scotland
Establishing itself for the first time as an annual event, the Book Festival is introducing several new initiatives. The ST Electronic Publishing Tent Will focus on the latest media developments and the book tents Will feature ;:h:>tor_iraplirc exhibitions focusing on the life and work of 'Absent Poets' Pablo Neruda and George Mackay Brown
Book Festival director Jan Fairley rs also keen to enhance the Gardens' reputation as an oasis of calm in the midst of the Festival city. Aromatherapy, Feng Sher and Alexander Technrgue sesSrons Will be on offer ll‘. the new Lifestyles tent sponsored by Neal's Yard Remedies. rRobrn Hodge)
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’T in the Park Will have a major impact on the area over the few days in which the event takes place, however most
people are prepared to give it the benefit of the cfoubt and have a fairly open mind about it ’ See box below for this year’s line-up. (Jonathan Trew)
MAIN STAGE
Saturday 12 July
The Charlatans, Kula Shaker, Dodgy, Reef, James, GUN, Divine Comedy, Apollo 440
Sunday 13 July
Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene, Texas, Bush, Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Bjorn Again, Neneh Cherry, Republrca
EVENING SESSION STAGE in association with King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Saturday 12 July
Monaco, SympOSrum, The Delgados, Gorky’s Zygotic Myncr, Tiger, Subcircus, Stereophonrcs, Grass Show, Mogwar, Arnold
Sunday 13 July
Spearhead, Beth Orton, Urusei Yatsura, Kenickie, AC. Acoustics, Speedy, Bennet, Hardbody, Snug
NME STAGE
Saturday 12 July
Shed Seven, Placebo, Longpigs, Geneva, Sneaker Pimps, Travis, Jimi Tenor, Superstar, Arab Strap
Sunday 13 July
Seahorses, Mansun, Gene, Dreadzone, Supernaturals, Catatonia, Hurricane #1, Toaster, Rachel Stamp
SLAM MUZIK TENT Saturday 12 July
Laurent Garnier, Daft Punk, DJ Sneak, Slam live, Andrew Weatherall, Nightmares On Wax, James Lavelle, Olive, Jon Carter
Sunday 13 July
Carl Cox, Bandulu, DJ Stuart McMillan, Green Velvet, DJ Orde Merkle, Death In Vegas, Global Communications, DJ Deep, Derek Dahlarge
Edinburgh church finds salvation as the new Arches
EDINBURGH'S MANSFIELD PLACE Church, home to Phoebe Traquair’s famous murals and the Fringe Festival’s Cafe Graffitti, is to open as a full-time venue, backed by up to £3 million investment. The city centre listed building recently escaped plans for demolition by its owners Edinburgh Brick Company.
The church will continue to be leased from its owners, but Cafe Graffitti will now operate throughout the year, introducing regular cabaret-style theatre in the basement and launching its own theatre company Telling Tales. Its organisers are confident they will acquire a permanent drinks and entertainments license, allowing more freedom than the series of temporary licenses the venue currently juggles with.
Telling Tales’s debut production Burke And Hare is scheduled to open next month. The company intends presenting work in an informal
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Mansfield Place Church: has escaped demolition to open as a full-time venue
cabaret environment. Its plans include a stage version of Casablanca, for which the venue's basement space will be transformed into Rick’s Bar. Graffitti also hopes to build on its existing club nights, suggesting comparisons with Glasgow’s Arches, whose strength lies in its mixed programme of theatre and clubs.
'lt’s a unique space,’ says Cafe
Race is on for Glasgow 1999
WITH ONLY EIGHTEEN months to go until Glasgow becomes 1999 UK City of Architecture and Design, the pressure is on for the City to live up to its accolade.
As Glasgow 1999 unveiled its Manifesto, there were rumblings of concern over whether the festival Will meet expectations Headed by Deian Sudiic, the year-long event wrll arm to promote public appreCratron of architecture and design through a programme of city-Wide initiatives
They range from housing-based projects to the festival's flagship scheme The Lighthouse Project a proposed {It I {ITIIIIOIT conversion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's fo'riier Hera/d offices into Scotland's Centre For Architecture, Design And The City Decisions on lottery funding applications for The Lighthouse are expected in the next 'l‘i()."illt
Director Edinburgh's The Matthew Architecture Gallery, Clive Albeit says The Lighthouse Project
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will be a cross between cabaret and informal theatre no other company in Scotland is providing.’ Evans is confident about Cafe Graffitti’s future: ’We haven’t the resources to expand straight away so we'll be evolving gradually, until one day there'll be something happening here every night.’ (Neil Cooper) inust sizireed if Glasgow is to gain international reputation for ar: hitecture 'The Lighthouse is pivotal to I999,’ he said 'It must be a success The iinplrratrons go beyond Scotland It must engage the grOWrng interest nationally in architecture and design '
Stirlirc has recently been under fire for his failure to support local talent The appOrntnient of Spanish deSigner and creator of the l992 Barcelona Olympics logo, JaVier Marrscal, as interior designer of The Lighthouse, brought calls for Sudiic’s resignation Scottish media riiagamne The Drum “Susanna Beaumont)