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Jarvis Cocker (left) and Tinie Tempah and Jessie J (above) will play at this year’s T in the Park.
Ol’ Four Eyes comes to town T in the Park announce more details of their line-up (including the mighty Pulp). While elsewhere, RockNess announce Glasvegas and more
Words: Anna Millar
T he great and good of the music world are set to arrive in Scotland this summer with both T in the Park and RockNess dishing up hot names for their June and July shindigs. At TitP in Balado, the reunited Pulp join Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and Foo Fighters on the bill, alongside Plan B, Jessie J and Tinie Tempah fresh from their Brit Awards successes. Also announced are Pendulum, White Lies, My Chemical Romance, Beady Eye, Deadmau5, Weezer, Brandon Flowers, Friendly Fires, Blink 182 and Blondie, with many more huge names to come. Tickets for the 2011 event sold out in less than an hour.
Further north, RockNess is generating its own excitement following the announcement that Groove Armada will join headliners Kasabian, The Chemical Brothers and Paolo Nutini on the bill, with audio-visual DJ fest, Groove Armada Presents
Red Light. Elsewhere at the lochside festival, Irish trio Two Door Cinema Club will be bringing their danceable indie sounds, Mark Ronson will be doing a turn on the decks and DJ Shadow will showcase some boundary-pushing hip hop. Saturday headliners The Chemical Brothers will enjoy supporting guitar riffs from The Cribs and Frightened Rabbit, and Paolo Nutini will be joined on Sunday by the mighty Glasvegas, with Welsh gentleman raconteur Howard Marks once again bringing his charm to proceedings over the course of the weekend. Congratulations also to RockNess for pipping both Latitude and Bestival to the post to be crowned Best Small Festival at the NME Awards. T in the Park, Balado, 8–10 Jul, www.tinthepark.com; RockNess, 10–12 Jun, Dores, near Inverness, www.rockness.co.uk
5 Things. . . BLINDING PERFORMANCES Derek Jacobi’s lined up to play King Lear. Who’s set the bar?
1 Paul Scofield RSC members
acclaimed his Lear as not only the best ever performance of that
role, but also the best Shakespearean performance of all time.
2 Michael Hordern Played
Lear several times for Sir Jonathan Miller, both on stage and for
the BBC’s televised Shakespeare plays in the early 1980s.
3 Tatsuya Nakadai Played in Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation Ran, based not only on the
Shakespeare play but on Japanese feudal lord Mori Motonari.
4 Burgess Meredith
Meredith took on the role of Don Learo in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1987 Lear adaptation, which also featured Molly Ringwald.
5 Jüri Järvet The Estonian not
only played the lead role in Korol Lir, but also received a
screenwriting credit alongside Boris Pasternak. WWW.LIST.CO.UK Visit us daily for arts & entertainment news
NewsExtra BEAUTIFUL BURNOUT SET TO KNOCKOUT BIG APPLE ■ Congratulations to Frantic Assembly and the NTS, whose Fringe success Beautful Burnout will tread the floors at New York’s St Ann’s Warehouse until Sun 27 Mar. The play, about aspiring young boxers, by Bryony Lavery (author of Kursk), proved to be a heavy- hitter in more ways than one at last year’s festival, showcasing the brutal yet disciplined and inspirational nature of boxing. The show’s co-director Steven Hoggett said of its US premiere: ‘We really feel that it fully represents the bold, uncompromising theatre that we aspire to create.’ (AM)
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