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48 85A AVANT GARDE COLLECTIVE
Those genre- bending artists at 85A perfectly blended i lm and performance for their imaginative
celebration of Czech surrealist animator Jan Svankmejer at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. They also created a ‘human sacrii ce performance’ for the Secret Garden Party and an electric vaudevillian stage show at Kelvingrove Museum. (GT)
47 FOUND ART-POP INNOVATORS
FOUND’s big project in 2012 was #Unravel, a robotic ensemble that responded to Twitter feedback,
performed at both Glasgow International and the Fringe. They’re currently part of King Creosote’s latest Bits of Strange tour, experimenting with live album possibilities via audience recordings. (NB)
46 ANDY ARNOLD STAGING A REVOLUTION
The artistic director of the Tron helmed two outstanding productions: a revival of Marie Jones’ comic two-
hander Stones in His Pockets in the summer and a dazzling adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses in October. He also found time to oversee Mayfesto, the annual political theatre strand, whose programme included works looking at the Egyptian revolution and the riots in England. (AR)
45 JENNI FAGAN POET TURNED AUTHOR
The Panopticon received high praise from the likes of Andrew Motion and Samantha Morton with its i rst-person
tale of a teenage girl in care and was nominated for the Anobii First Book Award. Look out for some short stories and a poetry collection next. (BD)
44 GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL
THE GFF THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Among its astounding 239 screenings and events, the 2012 GFF squeezed in a Gene Kelly
retrospective, Indonesian action l ick The Raid and a Jan Svankmajer- inspired cinematic installation from arts 20 THE LIST 13 Dec 2012–24 Jan 2013
KERRY HUDSON MULTI-SHORTLISTED DEBUTANT
As she looked ahead to 2012, Aberdeen-born debut author Kerry Hudson’s aims for her i rst novel could have best been described as humble. ‘I just hoped the novel wouldn’t bomb and that people wouldn’t hate it. I knew enough about the publishing industry to know that you can have the best publisher and a good book and for whatever reason it could just sink. But people have responded beautifully to my novel.’
The book in question is the fantastically titled Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma featuring a new kind of heroine in Janie Ryan, the latest in a long line of ‘Aberdeen i shwives to the marrow’ and whose story of a brash Scottish upbringing was dubbed ‘meets’. Far from bombing and being hated, the book made a deep impact and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award while she is up against literary big-hitters such as Philip Hensher, Patrick Gale and Edmund White for the mid-December-announced Green Carnation Prize: ‘I know everyone says it, but it’s just nice to be nominated when you’re a debut novelist and any extra publicity helps with sales.’
Hudson is at the end of a phone in a café in Hanoi, the location she prefers to take refuge in to get her books i nished off, while she also took a train journey across Siberia this year as part of her research for book number two, entitled Thirst. ‘One of the best things this year was being invited to the Edinburgh Book Festival which I was so grateful for as the book wasn’t even out when I was invited. At one point I was standing between Neil Gaiman and Ian Rankin in the writers’ yurt. That was beyond surreal for me.’ (Brian Donaldson)
collective 85A. Look out for a focus on a focus on gaming events and Brazilian cinema in cinema in 2013. (NB)
43 PAUL BRANNIGAN GAN DRAM FINE ACTOR R
Following his debut as the lead man ead man in whisky heist comedy The Angels’ Angels’ Share (for which director Ken Loach n Loach won the Jury Prize at Cannes), es), Brannigan is next set to appear in pear in the adaptation of Michel Faber’s ber’s Under the Skin opposite Scarlett arlett Johansson. (NB)
42 THE GLAD CAFÉ 42 VIBRANT MUSIC CAFÉ
Glasgow’s southside got a shot in the arm when this café/ cultural hub (inspired by Dalston’s Café OTO) opened. Literary Dals nights, and a multi-coloured spectrum nigh of world, electronic, micro-local and of w experimental music all i nd a home expe here, as do The Glad Academy’s talks here and the Glad Community Choir. (CS) and