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■ A Glasgow-based production company has teamed up with scriptwriter Andrea Gibb to create a biopic of Scottish novelist Janice Galloway. The BBC commissioned the project in December and the first drafts of the screenplay are being written with a view to starting production in late 2012. Scottish company La Belle Allee, headed by producer Karen Smyth (Tinseltown, One Life Stand) will co-produce.
The first book in Galloway’s
memoirs This Is Not About Me describes her impoverished childhood in Saltcoats, Ayrshire and won the SMIT Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2009. The second book, All Made Up, details Galloway’s time at school and Glasgow University. BAFTA award-winning film and
television writer Andrea Gibb (Afterlife, Dear Frankie) has previously adapted Rose Tremain’s award-winning novel The Road Home for BBC 1. Production company La Belle Allee also have form, having co- produced Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn’s previous feature film, Valhalla Rising, which was shot wholly in Scotland. The film made it to the official selection at Venice, Toronto, Rotterdam and London International Film Festivals in 2009. (Jen Bowden)
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THE TWILIGHT SAD
NO ONE CAN EVER KNOW ALBUM OUT NOW
10 THE LIST 2 Feb–1 Mar 2012
Hail! Hail! Loch’n’roll Scot rockers Biffy Clyro top the RockNess festival bill Words: Anna Millar
T he RockNess line-up is here, and what a line- up it is. Scottish rock titans Biffy Clyro, nu- folk heroes Mumford & Sons and dance kingpins Justice and Deadmau5 will be heading to Dores on the banks of Loch Ness, on Fri 8-Sun 10 Jun. The long weekend will also feature performances from Ed Sheeran, Metronomy, Noah and the Whale, Wretch 32, Death in Vegas, Azealia Banks, Beardyman, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, Etienne de Crecy, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Busy P, Gesaffelstein, Riton and The Cuban Brothers, with many more still to be announced (phew).
Homegrown Highland electronica artists Polymath,
Count Clockwork and the Filth DJs will be flying the flag for local talent. Proving itself as a festival unafraid to spread its musical wings, the line-up re-establishes RockNess – winner of NME’s Best Small Festival 2011 award – as a perfect mix of rock and dance genres. Biffy Clyro are one of the biggest rock band in the world, while Justice and Deadmau5 have become major figures in global electronica (see page 82 for more on Justice). Further down the bill, acts such as Death in Vegas, Ed Banger boss Busy P (and signing Riton) and French artiste Gesaffelstein bear out the theme.
See rockness.co.uk for tickets and more.
WHAT WE SAID: ‘This second album from The Twilight Sad is a surprising and substantial progression. It’s what you might call, we suspect, a definite grower – and perhaps a worthy Mercury contender nearer the time?’ THE LIST WHAT THEY SAID: ‘Whereas Editors seem to ape the tortured soul of Joy Division; here it’s the real deal. These [songs] are more than ostentatious angst; they’re doors onto shadowy, eerie scenes.’ BBC
‘Unfortunately, whilst the musicianship may be of the highest order, at times the song-writing is verging on stale, failing to truly convince the listener of its own merits.’ CRACKINTHEROAD.COM ‘It is clear that this is not some exercise in haphazard experimentalism with some strange new sounds but a focused, considered and coherent collection. There is not an inch of fat present on a record that is brimming with taut, white-hot electronic rock.’ MUSICOMH.COM