16 DEC-6 JAN YOU’VE GOT 15 DAYS TO LIVE! How can you weigh up the importance of different sorts of cultural activities? It’s a question that, in compiling this year’s Hot 100, we felt was more pertinent than ever. At a time when limited arts funding has put pressure on Scottish talentThe Listis continuing to back the efforts of local figures, with small but dedicated audiences for their output, as strongly as the big guns making a splash on the international stage. This Hot 100 list suggests that grassroots Scottish artists and scenes still merit support in tough times, for the benefit of keeping our locally-grown, cultural scenes so healthy.
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HOGMANAY What’s that? A massive celebration? Takes place all over the world? Happens annually, you say? Never heard of it. 12
ANGELOS EPITHEMIOU If you like burgers, thick glasses and Greek-meets-Cockney comedy with a darkly surreal edge, he’s your man. 43
Hot 100 The definitive rundown of those movers, shakers and perpetrators who have been terraforming Scotland’s arts and culture landscape over the past year. All the bases are covered, from gig promoters to authors, DJs to bloggers and Turner prize-winning artists to Oscar-winning actors: we’ve got ‘em all from page 14.
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Around Town Christmas Shops Ragged University No Christmas Here
Books Anne Holt Steven Martin Jay-Z
Clubs Deadmau5 Xmas/Boxing Day clubbing A Guy Called Gerald Comedy Jo Enright Review of the Year
Film Burlesque On Tour Tron: Legacy 127 Hours DVDs Kids Fresh Faced
LGBT Death Disco XXXmas Music Belle and Sebastian She’s Hit Villagers Records Jazz & Folk Classical
Theatre Aladdin Flo White The Three Musketeers Beauty and the Beast The Secret Garden
Visual Art Christine Borland Interference with Twigs Mutual Childish Things
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