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The FOUND boys pick up The List’s top award
FOUND win The List Award
Arts collective take the inaugural List Award, while Cargo Publishing collect Best Newcomer
T he List Award has its first ever winner. FOUND are an Edinburgh-based band and arts collective. They have previously won a Scottish BAFTA for inventing their ‘autonomous emotional robot band’ Cybraphon. In 2011 they released their third album factorycraft, pressed one of their singles as a chocolate record at a Fife bakery, and collaborated on a paper aeroplane throwing game for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations.
The award recognises the band’s contribution to Scotland’s grassroots cultural scenes over the past year, and was presented at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at The List’s Hot 100 party on Thu
15 Dec. Simon Kirby (pictured, right) collected on behalf of the band. Also present to collect their award were the editors and publisher of Cargo (left), a Glasgow imprint who this year launched their digital publishing arm and put out books by authors including Ewan Morrison. Mark Buckland (publisher), and Gill Tasker and Rodge Glass (editors) took home the prize. Congratulations to both FOUND and Cargo, whose work within the arts the judges felt was unique, well- intentioned, and of an extremely high quality.
See page 7 for more photos from the night.
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■ Scotland’s finest beer punk connoisseurs have announced plans to run their own music festival, Brew at the Bog, just outside Inverness, in May this year. Promising new beers and new music, the one-day event, at Bogbain Farm has Kitty the Lion, Three Blind Wolves, Endor and Washington Irving already confirmed for the line-up, plus a special guest from the States, yet to be revealed. Billed as an adult event, festivities kick off at noon on 5 May ‘until the music stops.’ See brewatthebog.com
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