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AROUND TOWN Three of Scotland’s historical sites have been selected for inclusion on a shortlist that could grant them world heritage status. The Forth Rail Bridge (pictured below) in Edinburgh, Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof in Shetland and the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland are all potential recipients for Unesco recognition.
Elsewhere, it’s all fabulously fashion forward following news that Vintage Guru and its live music stage will be making a very welcome return to the West End the Festival beginning June. See vintageguru.co.uk for more. in Glasgow at
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In other Weeg-related news, Glasgow City Council’s planning committee has given the go-ahead for the first phase of the GSA’s Garnethill Campus development. Nearby(ish), things are moving at the Riverside Museum – the city’s new £74m attraction – with organisers saying it will be ready to open to the public by the end of June. Back in the ’Burgh, there are changes afoot at this year’s Edinburgh College of Art Fashion Show (Wed 4–Fri 6 May), as the event prepares to shake things up by offering up not one, not two, but three separate programmes. Attendees can choose from three distinct fashion, performance costume and a mixed show. Better still, the final collections of work will be showcased in a more intimate salon style, allowing audiences the opportunity to check out the models up close and personal. We’re excited, and you should be too. Watch these very pages for more or check out eca.ac.uk/fashionshow. MUSIC A date for the diary! This September the strands:
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ARTS AND CULTURE NEWS COVERED IN TWO MINUTES City Halls and Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow will be showcasing Spaces Wide Open, a weekend of sound installations, musical performances and family fun, at the end of September (Fri 23–Sat 24). Highlights include Scottish artist Jim Buchanan’s water and light installation Labyrinth and a closing set from techno DJ Alex Smoke. Glasgow has also been announced as host of the MOBO Awards in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Check out these pages for
nominees later in the year. THEATRE Blondes really do have more fun . . . well they do in West End smash Legally Blonde: The Musical anyway, which hits Glasgow for its Scottish premiere on Tue 23 Aug. Elsewhere, Traverse theatre director Dominic Hill has been appointed head honcho at the Citizens Theatre. We’ll give you more on the future of the Trav as we have it. Also in Glasgow, look out for the launch of the Tron Theatre’s Changing House programme for the summer season: first up is Falling Flying, penned by award-winning writer Stef Smith, which opens Wed 6 Apr. Look out next issue too for full details of List favourite the Imaginate Children’s Festival (9–15 May), which launched this month. See imaginate.org.uk. VISUAL ART We’re excited to see the arts organisation, Framed Edinburgh, will launch on 6 May, with its first exhibition, Letters from Iberia, until 26 May. Framed is keen to bring a mix of up- and-coming artists together with a series of collaborative projects, as well as talks and music events. Edinburgh’s newest gallery space will be located next to the former site of the Doggerfisher Gallery on Gayfield Square. capital’s
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■ Channel 4’s Comedy Showcase project had a can’t-win look about it. Launched in 2007 and resurrected in 2009, this collection of pilot episodes either sunk into oblivion or commissioned for a full series. Had none of them made it beyond the audition stage, the format would be rightly deemed an abject failure. Should too many be handed a six-episode contract, then it would have seemed a lesson in self-justification. Plus One was awarded a deserved lifeline, while The Kevin Bishop Show, PhoneShop and Free Agents were inexplicably given the thumbs-up. Next for the full-season
treatment is Campus (Channel 4, Tue 5 Apr, 10pm). Not for nothing has it been dubbed ‘Green Wing set in a red-brick university’, considering it’s the brainchild of that show’s creator, Victoria Pile. The tone is set from the off with Vice-Chancellor Jonty de Wolfe (Andy Nyman) brutally offending a wheelchair-using student. Later he will dissolve into Jamaican patois and indulge in groundbreakingly racist chatter with a trio of Asian undergrads. We’ve seen Nyman play a beast
before (as the self-obsessed reality-TV producer in Charlie Brooker’s zombie comic-horror Dead Set) but his prompting of one student towards suicide to help solve a funding crisis inadvertently caused by the uni’s chief accountant (Will ‘Jackson’s Way’ Adamsdale) is about as subtle as it gets. Another five episodes of this might be too much for anyone to stomach, but opting for more wilful surrealism over the gratuitously offensive could be one way to go.
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