HOT 100 2010
THE BOYS WATCH THE GIRLS . . . Glasgow photographers Jonathan Pryce and Daniel Stern launched their blog, Les Garçons de Glasgow, in October 2009, but in the year or so since, have put on their first exhibition, photographed Paris Fashion Week, unveiled own-brand clothing, and styled Comme des Garçons’ window display for W2. All that, and they still find time to snap Glasgow’s most beautifully dishevelled, done-up, understated and stylish amateur clothes-horses on the streets. (CS)
41 MOGWAI/ROCK ACTION Post-rock giants and label founders Whilst fans hold their breath for January’s tour dates, Mogwai avoided idle thumbs this year by releasing live album Special Moves, recording 2011’s new album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, signing to Sub Pop in America and releasing tour documentary, Burning. Not bad going. (LM) 40 RICHARD WRIGHT Turner Prize-winning artist As if to prove that his triumph at the Turner Prize awards ceremony was no fluke, the painter returned to the city of his training with a highly acclaimed exhibition of new work at Glasgow’s Modern Institute. Meanwhile, at the other end of the M8, he unveiled his largest and most complex permanent work to date, in the west stairwell of the Dean Gallery. (AR)
39 MARK COUSINS Foundation-founder and First Movie-maker Cousins’ Iraq-set feature documentary The First Movie was undoubtedly one of the best films released this year. His work in film education and awareness also continued with the 81/2 Foundation (eightandahalf.org) and he recently accepted an invitation to act as advisor to the EIFF in these difficult financial times. (PD)
38 PCL No rest for gig-promoting captains 24 THE LIST 16 Dec 2010 – 6 Jan 2011
Paul Cardow’s unit continued their sterling work in Scotland’s musical capitals. Jumping 35 places in 2010’s Hot 100, PCL booked rarities like Quasi and the sublime Michael Rother-led Hallogallo, plus touring big guns, and prime local acts in Sneaky Pete’s and Captain’s Rest. (LM) 37 KIM COLEMAN & JENNY HOGARTH Artsy installation duo
Educated at ECA, this collaborative duo (Coleman is now based in London, Hogarth in Edinburgh) exhibited the offsite installation Staged through the Collective Gallery at Edinburgh’s City Observatory in
August. It was one of the Edinburgh Art Festival’s most visited shows, and added to the pile of positive notices the pair are collecting nationally. (DP) 36 OPTIMO Still loving your ears Their weekly Sunday night at the Sub Club came to an end earlier this year, but JD Twitch and JG Wilkes have kept the name alive as curators of exceptional events (including SWG3’s Electric Frog Street Carnival) as well as globetrotting DJs. Their Fabric 52 mix was one of the year’s finest. (DP)
35 LES GARÇONS DE GLASGOW Glasgow’s style gurus See panel, left.
34 THE ARCHES Underground, overground . . . The Arches’ major new achievement this year has been the offsite Conflux performance project, helmed by former artist in residence Al Seed, but it’s been a pretty strong year all round, with charismatic director Jackie ‘Hurricane’ Wylie involved in almost anything exciting happening in Glasgow. (KI)
33 GRANT MORRISON Cosmic comic book legend Not content with adding a shot of insanity to the fictional DC Universe, particularly with his continued run on Batman, Morrison’s also been the subject of a feature-length documentary Talking With Gods and perhaps more bizarrely stars as the villain in My Chemical Romance’s new video for ‘Na Na Na’. (HN) 32 MARTIN CREED Stair-climbing dance-stepper The Glaswegian who won the Turner Prize for exhibiting a light switching on and off in an empty room exploded back onto the scene at this year’s Edinburgh Festival with the exhibition Down Over Up at the Fruitmarket, and a mix of dance and scatology entitled Ballet Work No.1020 at the Traverse. (DP)
31 DOUGLAS MAXWELL Hyperactive playwright Playwright Maxwell branched out in several new directions in 2010, producing his first musical (The Bookie) and an updated version of Wedekind’s Spring Awakening set in Calvinist Scotland. Grid Iron’s revival of his first success Decky Does a Bronco was a Fringe hit while his bleakly funny monologue Promises Promises, about a disaffected schoolteacher, was arguably his most powerful work to date. (AR) 30 CANONGATE PUBLISHING Edinburgh publisher prospers Just another great year for Canongate with Nick Cave showing up at the Irregular multimedia night co- hosted with the Edinburgh International Film Festival while notable publications came from Alasdair Gray, Yann Martel, David Shrigley and Philip Pullman. (BD)