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AROUND TOWN Hotel du Vin’s One Devonshire Gardens, in Glasgow, has been announced as official partner of this year’s Scottish Fashion Awards 2010 on Sun 20 Jun. The awards will be judged by a panel including Brian Duffy, president of Ralph Lauren Europe, and will honour the very best of Scottish fashion from designers, photographers and models to stylists, make-up artists and writers. Across town, on Buchanan Street, Princes Square’s Summer Style initiative is offering the chance to win an entire room of goodies, as well as consultations, art exhibitions and pampering evenings. For more, visit www.princessquare.co.uk CLUBS Progressive master Sasha, of Renaissance fame, will headline Musika’s re-launch at The Liquid Room in Edinburgh, on Sat 17 Jul.
DANCE Britain’s Got Talent finalists Flawless are to appear at this year’s Fringe. Check out the dance troupe at the Udderbelly throughout August, and see the next issue of The List for full details of the upcoming Fringe launch. FESTIVALS The Big Tent Festival has announced details of this year’s Head Zone, a space for thought at the Fife event that will offer debates, workshops, exhibitions and films in a solar-powered cinema.
MUSIC Happy days for Wickerman Festival-goers following news that Teenage Fanclub will play this year’s shindig on 23–24 Jul. The Fannies are set to appear on Friday night. See www.thewickerman festival.co.uk for the full line-up. Wickerman has also 8 THE LIST 10–24 Jun 2010
The Hoosiers will appear at In: Demand Live at the SECC
become the first festival in Scotland to distribute a free app for the iPhone, iPod and iPad platforms. App users will be able to access breaking news, get the latest line-up announcements, watch videos and more. Across in Glasgow, pop fans are waiting with bated breath for In: Demand Live at the SECC on 31 Jul, with acts including Alexandra Burke, The Hoosiers, Diana Vickers, Alex Gardner, Basshunter and Professor Green. King Tut’s also has cause for celebration as it raises its glass to 20 years of business with 15 nights of music from 15–30 Jul. Look out for The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, Astral Planes, Young Fathers and more. Nearby, it’s Avalanche, readers but not as we know it as the Glasgow branch of the record store rebrands itself LOVEmusic. See www.lovemusicglasgow.com
T H E AT R E Congrats to Abigail Docherty, whose Sea and Land and Sky has won the Tron Theatre’s Open Stage Playwriting Competition. Inspired by real handwritten diaries belonging to nurses of the Scottish Women’s Hospital, it tells the tale of three young women and two soldiers serving on the Russian front during World War I. VISUAL ART And finally, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art look out for Antony Gormley’s much-anticipated 6 Times; a multi-part sculptural project commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland, it will consist of six life-sized figures positioned between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the sea. Four of the figures will be sited in the Water of Leith itself, acting as gauges for the height of the river as it swells and recedes.
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Dispatches from the sofa, with Brian Donaldson
■ Ashley Jensen: what have you done? We could just about forgive you for not even being the best thing in the endlessly irritating Ugly Betty but instead of quitting while you were in telly credit and heading back into the arms of a decent lo-fi British sitcom or some integrity-laden stage work, you’ve opted for the worst possible choice on the table. To dub Accidentally on Purpose (E4, Thu 17 Jun, 10pm) as putrid would be doing it an unnecessary kindness. Of course, it might be an easy
task to attempt a swipe at a ‘brand new’ American sitcom that grapples the lowest common denominator to the ground. But the ringing in your ears of an audience wetting themselves in public while a series of 1D ‘characters’ utter the sour fruits of a first draft script scribbled in a cramped khazi by 26 lean and starving ‘writers’ could lead you to brutal thoughts.
Ricky, don’t lose that number . . .
Here, if you can bear it, is the ‘plot’. A late-thirtysomething movie critic (Jenna Elfman) is hanging out with her solid pal (our Ash) and ditzy sister (there is, as ever, always one of those) when she is seduced by a chef almost half her age. Before you can moan the words ‘Knocked Up’, she is preggers and his buddies are turning her apartment into fratboy central. What is this little lady to do? Naturally, she will roll her eyes, and utter unamusing banalities that make My Family seem almost Chekhovian.