News, gossip and opinion
The Front
Jai'Vis Cocker gets decked out
New music fest TripTych unveiled
Leftfield luminaries converge for three-city musical romp.
Words: Mark Robertson
he acts performing at the inaugural
year of TripTych, the latest addition to Scotland’s festival roster, have been announced with a number of legendary names making their debut appearances on these shores.
The List can exclusively reveal the full line-up for the three-day event which runs from 27-29 April. The acts are split between Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, with some acts playing two or three shows over the weekend.
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, who sold out Glasgow’s Barrowland last July, takes a welcome return for a pair of intimate shows, while funk legend Roy Ayres drops in for a rare appearance. Two particular coups are the booking of Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey of Pulp to play one of their infamous DJ sets, while one of the founding fathers of modern dance music and resident at the Loft in New York is Dave Mancuso who makes his Scottish debut.
‘The emphasis of the programme is consistently on quality and accessibility,’ said Neil Mowat of Better Days PR, promoter of the event. ‘This has involved programming a range of exclusive sets by international artists alongside performances from young, up-and-coming
Coming quite soon . . .
Ang Lee will follow-up to his martial arthouse hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, with a prequel reuniting Asian superstars Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat . . . Rumour has it three new Tom Waits albums are imminent: new songs to follow his 1998 Mule Variations to be released by the end of the year; a soundtrack to the songs Waits composed for the stage production of Woyzeck,
which will itself tour Europe in the near
titled The Orphans
Norwegian thriller Insomnia. to be directed by Christopher
4 THE LIST 15—29 Mar 2001
future; and a collection of 8 sides and rarities including s0undtrack material provisionally
Project . . . Al Pacino will star in the remake of
‘Memento' Nolan . . Dig Reality TV? Like Las Vegas? Wanna be filmed there between
talent and local musicians; all in venues close to the heart of the audiences. The range and diversity of the programme really is stunning.’
The main acts in the line-up are as follows: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, David Mancuso, Roy Ayers, Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey (DJ set), Louie Vega, Teenage Fanclub (acoustic set), Jimmy Cliff presents The Harder They Come, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson (four- deck show), Baaba Maal, Kenny Hawkes, Mark B and Blade, Snowboy and the Latin Section, Lupine Howl, ballboy, Messenger Soundsystem, Joseph Malik, Mouse On Mars, Future Pilot AKA, Andy Votel, Stephen Pastel, The Mad Professor, Andrew Weatherall, Radioactive Man, Anti Product, The Needles, Percy X, DJ Sace, Bill Wells Trio, Hakan Libdo (live), DJ 0 and the Jasmine Minks.
In addition to these are a variety of local DJs including Nick Peacock, Twitch and Wilkes and local live bands including The Magnificents, Sputniks Down and Senator. The List will have more extensive coverage on TripTych and major competitions coming up in subsequent issues.
I Ti'n the Park fine-up. Surface Noise. page 48
March and June by Sky One? Contact Lousie at Pacific on 020 7691 0798 . . . Douglas Coupland's Generation X has
been optioned as a film. It's a seminal book. might make a great film, but it seems a bit late in the day to relive all that
Ramsay films Morvern in Oban Alan Warner novel in production
Lynne Ramsay, the award-winning director of Ratcatcher, has announced she will be directing Alan Warner’s book Morvern Callar. The adaptation will star Samantha Morton in the lead role as Morvern. and will feature first time actors Kathleen McDermott and Duncan McHardy. Speaking at a pre-filming press conference, Samantha Morton told The List about her excitement at playing Callar: ‘I am just dying to get Morvern out, her character has been inside me for so long’.
Filming has already started in Oban, but true to the book, the cast will also be filming in Spain. The film will follow Morvern Callar, a 21-year-old supermarket worker, whose life is transformed after she finds her boyfriend dead on her kitchen floor. The film is set to be released next year. Meanwhile, the movie rights to Warner’s third novel The Sopranos have been acquired by Michael Caton-Jones. (Rachel Richardson)
Musselburgh theatre saved Brunton spared for another year
of funding to the theatre it has bankrolled for the last three years. has agreed to funding the theatre for another year. A condition. though. for artistic director DaVirl Mark Thomson is that he also submits a touring plan for the company With a View to increasmg revenue and Arts COunCil StibSidy. It will be a iiiaior challenge for a building-based company to gear up for a tour schedule. The financial Situation Will be reviewed again next year. They're not but of the woods. but we're pleased to see this stay of execution. (Steve Cramer)
The award-winning A Madman Sings To The Moon
As the last_moments ticked away in the histOry of the Brunton Theatre Company. Musselburgh. a compromise deal was reached. East Lothian Council. which sparked a crisis with its threatened withdrawal
hero? . . . Ali G. aka Sacha Baron Cohen, has offered Coronation Street and Ho/hy City soap star Angela Griffin the role of his girlfriend. Julie. in a new series of The Al G Show to be filmed this summer . . . Finally. Francis Ford Coppola Will unveil a new, hOur longer director's cut of his Vietnam war ClaSSIC. Apocalypse Now at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
slacker generation business . . . Mike Myers is negotiating a 825 million fee for Austin Powers 3. The funnyman was originally to play Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movie. but that role has gone to Scream '8 Matthew Lillard. In another superb piece of casting. Sarah Michelle Gellar has been cast as Daphne. But who is going to play the eponymous
Scooby Dooby Doo, where is he?