The award-winning actor and director enjoyed an industrious year, directing Tony Roper’s enduring hit The Steamie as well as the acclaimed Dirty Paradise for the Tron and Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh’s Panic Patterns for Glasgay! She also found time to tackle the demanding role of Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt at the Tron. (AR)
96 PATRICK GRANT Menswear megastar The designer originally from Edinburgh capitalised on his efforts rejuvinating the Saville Row tailors Norton & Sons by scooping the prize for Menswear Designer of the
HOT 100 2010 100 FOREST CAFÉ
Endangered species The Forest celebrated a decade of anarchy as an arts café and held the biggest, best Forest Fringe ever in 2010, but ends the year under threat of closure. The List are right behind their cunning campaign to buy their building using only a JustGiving page, though. Save the Forest! (KI)
99 KING CREOSOTE Innovator, entertainer, Crail-dweller The Fence Records founder continued his folk-rock reign with an album essentially intended for piracy (you weren’t allowed in to hear the performance-only album unless you’d brought recording equipment for sharing it); plus a run of UK gigs, including a belter on Eigg and The List’s 25th birthday party. (CS)
98 MAX RICHTER Off the scale composer Following 2010 album Infra – the fruits of his collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor and visual artist Julian Opie for the Royal Ballet – the Fat Cat-signed, Edinburgh-based composer’s upcoming calendar includes scoring David McKenzie’s Ewan McGregor-starring film Perfect Sense. (HB)
97 ALISON PEEBLES Prolific director/performer
BLOG STANDARDS Lloyd Meredith’s Peenko blog has set the high water mark for the Scottish blogosphere, and helped shape a productive and communal web force to support Scotland’s local music scenes. In 2010 he co-founded Olive Grove Records, ran the Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites Awards (BAMS), and won the Scotblogs Award for Best Music Blog.
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thepopcop.co.uk Coordinates the Music Alliance Pact, a global project promoting local music from blogging countries the world over. Was also saved from deletion this year by an internet campaign supported by artists including The National. songbytoad.com Run by Edinburgh’s Matthew Young. A blog and a passionate indie label championing Inspector Tapehead, The Savings and Loan, Trips & Falls and Meursault among others. dearscotland.com A site designed to celebrate all things Scottish around the world, and run by Scots who have moved abroad. Regular contributors include BBC Radio’s Vic Galloway. kowalskiy.blogspot.com Hub for grassroots, up-and-coming Scottish bands with regular reviews and idiosyncratic Q&A-style ‘K&A’ interviews. ayetunes.org.uk This year helped run the ‘Aye Tunes vs Peenko’ series of gigs. The blog is now going it alone with an ‘Aye Tunes presents’ gig planned for the near future. (Hamish Gibson)
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Year at the British Fashion Awards. His revived E Tautz brand (once a favourite of Winston Churchill) now exemplifies contemporary, gentlemanly cool. (JE)
95 KATH MAINLAND Keeping the Fringe fires burning The boss of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is no doubt busying herself with 2011-related matters, but she may be able to bask in some impressive 2010 stats: 40,254 performances of 2453 shows in 259 venues meant another box-office busting August. (BD)
94 COOKIE
More than just a café Domenico del Priore and Melanie McCallum’s café-deli- kitchen-gallery-community hub on Glasgow’s Southside has been shaking up the local eating scene all year with good food, unusual events, a few provocative stunts and huge amounts of energy. (DR)
93 NUMBERS
Accounting for taste Not content with still being one of Glasgow’s finest clubs (guests this year included James Blake and Actress), Numbers have taken their parties to some of Europe’s biggest cities and established their own label in 2010, punting artists like Roska, Untold, Jessie Ware and Mr Mageeka. (DP)
92 CHEMIKAL UNDERGROUND Taste-making label This year saw CU sign quirk-pop outfit, FOUND, release an audiobook version of Scot-lit anthology The Year of Open Doors and cement the Phantom Band’s success with album two, The Wants. (CS)
91 SUSAN BOYLE Virgin transatlantic
The Briton who’s got talent this year hit number one in the US and UK album charts simultaneously with her second effort The Gift. Like her or not, SuBo’s mega- stardom can’t be ignored, even by The Pope. (JE)
90 EWAN MCGREGOR Bankable actor Post-Star Wars, McGregor’s climb back to creative respectability continued in earnest this year with a couple of very fine performances. He was excellent as the troubled ghostwriter in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost and he really went beyond the call of duty as the jailbait love interest in I Love You Phillip Morris. (PD)