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CLUBS Orbital have been announced as headliners of the Slam Tent at T in the Park. They will close the dance arena on Sunday night, airing, The List hopes, material from new album Wonky, their first in eight years. Other acts announced for the Slam Tent’s 16th year at T include Paul Kalkbrenner, Gary Beck and Hans Bouffmyhre, who are all on the bill for Sunday. Saturday’s line-up features DJ Yoda (below, right), Major Lazer and Skream featuring Sgt Pokes. For the first time the Slam Tent will also be open on Friday night with Sven Väth and Slam playing from 5pm till midnight.
festival on Friday 20 July. Texas, The View and Human Don’t Be Angry are among the other acts performing. See thewickermanfestival.co.uk. SHOP Congratulations to the 12 Scottish exhibitors selected by an international panel to take part in Scotland Re:Designed, an industry led initiative aimed at championing Scotland’s fashion and textile sector to buyers and media in New York during Scotland Week 2012. Exhibitors include Bodywear designers Bebaroque, cashmere queen Belinda Robertson, interior designers Timorous Beasties and milliner William Chambers.
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FILM Budding filmmakers are being invited to contribute to Scotland’s first mass participation documentary project, Northern Lights, a part-film, part- art project that is the brainchild of award-winning Scottish filmmaker Nick Higgins. The director is asking Scots to film themselves, their lives, their hopes and dreams. Higgins said of his project: ‘We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get involved. Our aim is to create a truly original representation of Scotland, taking in the extraordinary to the everyday.’ Throughout the project prizes totalling £10,000 will be awarded and workshops will be put on all over the country. Contributions must be uploaded to the Northern Lights website by Thu 21 Jun, and you must be over 14 to submit. everything
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M U S I C Wickerman is going glam, with its announcement that Scissor Sisters will headline the
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THEATRE The 2012/13 season at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum will include an adventurous new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Vanishing Point’s Matthew Lenton; a revival of The Guid Sisters, the Scots translation of Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles- soeurs; a new production of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey and a festive Cinderella by the inimitable Johnny McKnight. Also on the bill is JB Priestley’s Time and the Conways and world premieres of plays by Donna Franceschild and David Haig. VISUAL ART Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) has announced a new curatorial fellowship in collaboration with Curating.info. The Curating.info Fellowship is a paid opportunity to conduct research and produce an exhibition at the CCA. The Fellowship, funded by both bodies, has this year been awarded to Emma Brasó.
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■ Those crazy Scandics are at it again with yet another astonishingly addictive TV drama. After the success of The Killing and Borgen, The Bridge (BBC Four, Sat, 9pm) keeps up the momentum albeit with a show that is a far more raw affair. There’s almost no one here who is good-looking enough for those other shows and The Bridge coughs up a great deal more blood, guts and disembowelling. All of which is clearly to its benefit.
Oddball Swedish cop Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) and recently vasectomised Danish investigator and troubled family man Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) are on the joint hunt for a psycho-at-large called the Truth Terrorist. Having initially stitched together the corpses of a Swedish politician and Danish prostitute, TT has instigated the systematic culling of Malmö’s homeless (shades of Jimmy McNulty’s final season campaign in The Wire there), and is now demanding a stiff ransom while streaming online the slow death of a former merchant seaman.
It may take two or three episodes to get into the rhythm of this more sullen Scandinavian affair, but its gripping central plotline allied to seemingly unconnected threads which ultimately attach themselves to the core horror should have you begging for more. And no investigator ever goes into a dingy warehouse/dank basement/stale abattoir without some kind of back-up on hand. Take note Sarah Lund.
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