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SONGS ‘JVRITTEN BY noveltst lain Banks are t:) be atred at the Arthes m Glasgow and m the senalrsatrrn ol [Spedarr Street on Rat’er 4 1n January
The best-sellrng (trthnt of The lt’asp Factory and Comp/rote wrote the lyr:(s and some of the tanes when he was an asprrtng mus-t can and author ill the 1970s
Now they ":aye been lt*t(>ltl€7(l as the sOundttat‘k to the radn produrtlon of Espeda/r Street, Banks's novel about a hugely stztressful {jlasrtoxz rotk band of the same era
Banks tlarras the )t‘litll may not have gone ahead, rl the BBC had not agreed to ill(_lUll(.‘ the 'it was a large part of lzjllllltl the tlztng happen m the lust plar‘e they were thmkrng about the soundtrat'k and l sard “all thrs stuff does at‘tually exist", he told The Lrst
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Dave Battltelor sad the been staggered at the drst‘overy ‘Tlte btwk rtseit' tantams some lyr':<s, but when met la:n he arrrved Wrth a lolro (:l 6t songs, stuffed rnto ald Sttrlrng Unnemty landers‘ Some of Banks s tunes h Lt? been rewrrtten and others adar‘ted Hue and Cry gu:tarrst Nr'tel War}, to provrde a soundtratk It’st‘ttaltt of N703, Batchelor explamed '\.r‘.'e've got songs that sound ltke ng Crrmson, Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelm, With trtles like ’A< ross from the moon and day/r" tt ended up l~emg hke an entyt lopaeil'a of 70s rotk, he said DJ Paul (lambatthr was unwolyed In the radio ;,rrodt.:tloe, whrth rs presented as 3‘ It rs a genurne retrospettwe dnrumentary of the band
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'l keep tellrng Nrgtl Clark he's gemg to spend the next ten years tn a tnhute L‘t nd to a group that r‘eser exrstetl,' Batrhelor adds
Banks yall not be present, ll(;'\‘.(?‘.'t‘l and he revealed he may not even lrsten to the radto adaptatrtrn of Espedarr SUM}?
He explamed ‘l drdn't hear the radra yersrnn of The li’asp ,‘iattory and I (ould only watth The Crow Road after several people had told me how good It was
'You out of tentrol someone else adapts your work I tend to avoid tt,‘ he .hitletl Naysmrtht I Foldero/s rs at The Art hes, Sun .3] Der, 8pm onwards, [S Esiterr’a/r Street rs on BBC r'x‘atf'rt) ‘1, heg/nn/ng Thu 8 jar), llr‘rn
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Law change could lead to return of the video ‘nasties’
A GOVERNMENT CLAMP‘DOWN on home ‘.’l(l(?()S and (omputer games (r‘uld lead to a new explnsron m ’yrdeo nastres, a((ordrng to mdus‘try ('hrels who have Iaunt bed a totrnter-oltensrve
A study ('ommrssroned by the Home Olhce rnto the lrnk between ytdeos and yrolent‘e Will be publrshed ll‘. the new year, but the Vrdeo Standards Countrl (VSCl rs warnrhg legal thanges tould have dangerous repert ussrons
'lt'S totally lltllClllOtlS to contemplate further regulahon,’ asserted \JSC secretary general Laurie Hall, who warned that Over-rertulatlon would only ald the blark market, sparkrng a return to the vrdeo extesses of the t980s, when tttles suCh as Drr/ler Kr/ler and /
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THE NEW YEAR (ould brmg an unexpected rash wrndfall for Edrnburgh, wrthout any of the usual confltcts attached to lotal authonty ltnant‘es‘
A anC of $50,000 rs on otter to UK Cttles under a scheme run by Amencan Football’s NFL Th:r’ty UK otres have been parted wrth the US game's 30 teams and the side whose twm eventually mm the Superbowl ~ the Amencan game's (up tmal stoops the Jackpot
The prize, worth about £30,000 wrll go towards a t'ommunrty l)l()l(?(l and Edmburgh has been handed a strong Chance, haymg drawn rergnmg Superbowl Champrons the Green Bay Packers who recently gualrlted for thts year’s play-offs
Scotland's team the St’ottrsh Claymores are hopmg Edtnburgh, Glasgow, Dundee 0' Aberdeen strrke rt lucky and all four are Strll m \ylth a Chance Glasgow has been parred wrth
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