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62 ARIKA ARDENT EXPERIMENTALISTS
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Arts producers and curators Barry Essen and Bryony McIntyre replaced the festival format of their previous
events (Kill Your Timid Notion, Instal) with three extended weekends exploring the very limits of i lm, music and performance. The result received mixed reactions but it certainly generated discussion. (GT)
61 EL SISTEMA BIG NOISE MERCHANTS
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El Sistema’s aim of introducing Scotland’s children to classical music came to fruition in June with the Big Concert, a BBC-televised event in which the junior musicians were joined by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. (NB)
60 VOLCANIC TONGUE NEW CURIOSITY SHOP
Rarities, oddities and ‘sub-cultural ephemera’ are the stock-in-trade of this record shop and label, recently
relocated to the Hidden Lane in Finnieston. A haven to all that’s avant- weird, underground and underpraised, VT celebrated Cassette Store Day in May, and have plans for a Christmas party with hand-drawn zines, live music and of course, music shopping. (CS)
59 AIDAN MOFFAT AND BILL WELLS
AWARD-WINNING DUO
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It may have come out in 2011, but the duo’s Everything’s Getting Older release was injected with fresh life by becoming the i rst ever Scottish Album of the Year, and they took their beautifully sonic message on tour to places as diverse as Dundee and Dunfermline. (BD)
58 SCREEN BANDITA BREATHING NEW LIFE
INTO OLD FILM
Those self- confessed ‘cinema outlaws’ have had a top year, i nding increasingly inventive ways of bringing to life old i lm. The past 12 months included an event exploring rituals with William Bennett and another with a specially commissioned
69 RACHEL SERMANNI INDIE-FOLK ICON
Now that the rush of Mumfordian approval has died down, Carrbridge singer-songwriter Sermanni has proven herself to be an affecting indie-folk performer of considerable talent. Her debut album Under Mountains appeared this year, amidst a busy touring schedule. (DP)
68 AUNTIE FLO THINK GLOBALLY,
CLUB LOCALLY
Already Scotland’s pioneering representative of Afrofuturism and world electronica through his Highlife
night in Glasgow, Brian d’Souza’s production alias yielded a similarly- styled album this year in Future Rhythm Machine and also a thrilling two-man live show with percussionist Esa Williams. (DP)
67 DAVID SHRIGLEY TOP DRAWER
The popular artist enjoyed another productive year, with solo exhibitions at London’s Hayward and Manchester’s Cornerstone Gallery. His drawings 16 THE LIST 13 Dec 2012–24 Jan 2013
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appeared in Edinburgh’s City Art Centre’s group show A Parliament of Lines and he even found time to publish
a new book, the pithily entitled How Are You Feeling? At the Centre of the Inside of the Human Brain’s Mind. (AR)
66 LIMMY INTERNET STAR SHINES
Taking to Twitter like he was simply born to produce under 140 characters at regular intervals, the boy Limond logged off just long enough to bring out his third series of darkly comic sketches and non McIntyre-esque life observations. (BD)
65 PETER CAPALDI BLUES MAN
Swearing like a trooper with Tourette’s and threatening old ladies? Just another year in the life of Peter Capaldi as he helped bring down the cursing curtain on Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It and took time out to
appear in The Hour after playing the shifty Professor Marcus in Graham Linehan’s stage adaptation of The Ladykillers. (BD)
64 SUSAN PHILIPSZ SOUNDING OFF
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The 2010 Turner Prize winner created one of the most intriguing events at this year’s Edinburgh Art
Festival, Timeline, a haunting three- note female harmony emanating from different points of the city and seguing into the sound of the One O’Clock Gun being i red. (AR)
63 CHEMIKAL UNDERGROUND
CELEBRATING RECORD LABEL
Corks were popped at Chemikal’s Glasgow HQ when two of their artists (Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells) bagged the i rst Scottish Album of the Year award while there were also releases from Human Don’t Be Angry, RM Hubbert, The Son(s) and Miaoux Miaoux, rel ecting the label’s quality broad roster. (CS)