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the beans on the beans on Gladiators, Gladiators, GaG me of Game of ThT rones and Thrones and his girlfriend his girlfriend
First record you ever bought PJ and Duncan’s Psyche. A cliché I know, but they had a very big impact on the Newcastle hip-hop scene. scene. p
Last extravagant purchase you Last extravaga made made A pool table for my house. My A pool table for girlfriend is furi girlfriend is furious.
First film you saw that really First film you s
moved you m Dumb and Dumber. D W When they sell a pa parakeet to a blind kid kid. I was gutted for him him. Last person you Last fantasized about fantas GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GET OU
First crush First crus Jet from Gladiators. Jet from Gla
Last book you read Last book yo One of the Jack Reacher ones, but I One of the Jack listen to them on listen to them on audiobook. First great piece of advice you First great piec were given were given Don’t wipe your arse with Don’t wipe your sandpaper (from sandpaper (from my dad when I was about six). was about six).
Last time you were starstruck Last time you w I was in a hotel swimming pool and I was in a hotel the girl who play the girl who plays Margaery Tyrell from Game of T from Game of Thrones was there. Me and my girlf Me and my girlfriend were like excited little kid excited little kids.
First song at your (potential) wedding Already picked it, keeping it a secret.
Last song at your funeral Countdown theme tune as my coffin disappears. First time you realised you were famous Hasn’t happened yet!
Last time someone criticised your work Probably some prick on Twitter.
First object you’d save from your burning home My hard drive . . . in fact no, let it burn!
Last funny thing you saw online A complaint letter to an airline that Rich Wisken wrote. It’s amazing [read it at bit.ly/wiskinr].
First three words your friends would use to describe you Thinks he’s funny (my friends are dicks). Last time you made a proper impulse buy and immediately regretted it I bought a four-finger KitKat yesterday and I just couldn’t finish it.
First thing you think of when you wake up in the morning Where am I?!
NEXT ISSUE WED 19 MAR
VISUAL ART SPECIAL Scotland’s going a bit visual art crazy in the coming months. As well as the Glasgow International and Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Festival, there’s also the Scotland-wide Generation project, incorporating over 60 galleries and 100 Scottish artists. Oh, and we’ll be having a peak at the programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival too. Last thing you think of before you go to sleep Did I finish that Q&A for The List? ■ Chris Ramsey: The Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning Television is at The Stand, Edinburgh, Wed 19 Mar and The Garage, Glasgow, Thu 20 Mar.
Misadventures M IN WONDERLAND ALL THE YOUNG NUDES This month we sent Alice along to a life drawing class. Here’s how she got on
charming guy and an adorable isn’t-everything- But what’s it like staring at a naked person
worth-giving-a-go kind of girl, both of them in for two hours? You forget until you remember.
their 20s. There was a couple of unwelcoming, Having no desire to draw feet and been told not
middle-aged women and a helpful, friendly man to concentrate on details on the head, I ended up
next to me. He showed me how to stick my paper with page upon page of tits and vaginas. I have
up, which might sound simple unless you’ve had both these things so I’m not shocked by their
‘don’t use all that tape’ drummed into you ever presence and I know there’s beauty in all human
since childhood. This is similar to being 22 before form, but by the end I did feel like I was creating
I realised that I could actually order more than one wallpaper for a serial killer’s spare bedroom.
Where was it? The Edinburgh Drawing School drink in a restaurant.
Did I see artistic potential in myself? Of course
is in a basement. I used to live in a basement l at What happens? It’s more of a technique-
I did, until everyone else turned their easels
nearby – it constantly smelled of either smoke
learning class than free expression. The teacher around. I thought because of the instructions
or mustard and I could touch opposite walls at talks about how to shade and how to get your
on shading and lines, all the pieces would be
the same time. This place was a total dream in
composition right. I’m not a big fan of being told similar but it was wonderful seeing everyone’s
comparison: a large room at the front with an
what to do but that’s because I’m like an arsey interpretations of the same model. This sounds
eclectic collection of pieces, more rooms with
teenager in many, many respects. However, this incredibly gushy considering how much I was
studios and cloakrooms and a kitchen for teas is actually a drawing class and not just a ‘do
sulking that my one attempt at a face looked like
and coffees. what you like in your garage’ class. You work on
Who was in the class? A naked model, a different picture every ten minutes, changing
obviously. But taking the class were an overly positions, then i nish off with a i nal, longer piece.
Sweep from Sooty & Co. ■ Life Drawing for All Levels takes place at The Edinburgh Drawing School every Friday.
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