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at high profile exhibitions in Japan and China, contributed to the opening exhibition at Dovecot Studios, and was nominated for Designer of the Year at the Scottish Fashion Awards. (KI)
64 Dolby Anol ECTOPLASTIMIC
ELELCTRONICISTS
Yes, the name is as rude as it sounds and the music isn’t much cleaner. This Glasgow production duo squeezes out near the knuckle, dancefloor bating electro grind that has found them in the company of everyone from Kid 606 to Eric ‘Call on Me’ Prydz. (MR)
63 Ryan James FINE DINER
One of the more assured operators in the Glasgow dining scene, Ryan James, consolidated the revival of Two Fat Ladies at the Buttery as a key local dining spot with a clutch of awards and the opening of the Shandon Belles, a casual bistro located in the basement below the Buttery. (DR)
67 Hannah Donaldson GUTHRIE GIRL
Excellent 23-year-old actor who excelled in the title role of Antigone at the Tron last year and has since taken and been acclaimed for just about every big theatre role for young women going, from Juliet at Dundee Rep to her brilliant Chris Guthrie in Kenny Ireland’s revival tour of Sunset Song. (KI)
66 Slabova.tv WEB EURO TRASH CAN
62 Tommy Shepherd STAND UP CHAMPION
If Borat was the character, then this Scottish-created website is the digital home of his people. Playing on the spills and thrills of under-developed eastern European living on one happy portal, the makers enjoyed success at this year’s BAFTA awards for this ingenious site. (MR)
Promoter Shepherd has helped stem the flow of Scottish talent over the border by creating established homes for Scottish comedy. He took a principled stand against the division of the Fringe and the establishment of the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, and
put on his strongest line-up of talent to date. (MP)
65 Jamie Bruski Tetsill
FASHION FOOTSOLDIER
One of the ‘buzziest’ young designers of the Scottish fashion revolution quietly taking London, Tetsill still maintains strong links to home. He used Scottish textiles by Pringle in his acclaimed Spring/ Summer collection at London Fashion Week, represented UK design
61 Catherine Wheels GOOD COMPANY
Since its formation in 1999, Gill Robertson’s company has produced consistently
innovative and watchable drama for younger audiences. Teaming up with the
National Theatre of Scotland in 2008, Robertson directed
the superb Something Wicked This Way Comes, while Catherine Wheels’ innovative production of Hansel and Gretel is the resident show at London’s Barbican Centre this Christmas. (KA)
60 Steven Moffat DOCTORIN’ THE TARDIS
The Paisley-born veteran writer and producer bagged the best gig in tellyland this year, taking over from Russell T Davies as head writer and executive producer for the fifth series of the revived Dr Who, to be broadcast in 2010. Speaking of his appointment Moffat said it was ‘the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS’. (AR)
Mark Neville’s Fancy Pictures
58 Mark Neville FANCY PICTURE MAKER
Asked to participate in the highly acclaimed annual Visual Arts Residency Programme at Mount Stuart, the neo-gothic palace of the Earl of Bute, Neville turned his attention to the area’s working class. His elegiac, provocative and subversive film Fancy Pictures used 18th century paintings from the palace’s collection as a backdrop for footage of mucky farm animals. (RD)
57 The Daily Mash THE MCONION
Having grown out of the bored, sick minds of two former journos – Paul Stokes and Neil Rafferty – this site, pitched somewhere between Viz and Private Eye, is surreal, silly, filthy and always funny. The first year’s highlights have been published as a book: Halfwit Nation: Frontline Reporting from the War on Stupid. (MR)
56 Alex Reedijk OPERA REVIVALIST
After years of stumbling, Scottish Opera appear to have found their feet, in part thanks to Reedijk’s innovative Five:15 series of operas penned by such figures as Ian Rankin. (DP)
59 A year in the life of . . . Dirk Douglas, co-director of Earthy Organics
‘Before we’d even opened up our retail operation we’d been contacting suppliers of organic, local, fair trade or seasonal products for a year before opening. I’d spent a lot of time going round the farmers’ market, picking up contacts. Things really speeded up in the last couple of weeks before opening in May, when we found ourselves juggling decoration, stock and publicity. One hairy moment came when we had to move the chill cabinets into the first floor. We thought we’d need to take the windows out, but a forklift truck did the job. It was fun too – particularly when eight of us found ourselves hoisting a life-size plastic cow onto the roof. Hooligans pushed her off a few months later. Poor Pat. She’s recuperating in the garden now.
‘One of the biggest rewards has been the response from the local community. We’re still amazed by the amount of fantastic word of mouth we get. We did Taste of Edinburgh in June, which was a great experience too, the phone wouldn’t stop ringing afterwards.
‘We launched a delivery service in November, so the orders have been building up. It’s been tough at times, but we’ve had great support. It still gives us a buzz getting nice comments off customers.’
22 THE LIST 11 Dec 2008–8 Jan 2009