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What we’ve been talking about We’re deep into the season when people start reflecting back on the year that is reaching its conclusion. While thanking our stars that it’s not taken as many globally renowned personalities from us as 2016 seemed to take pleasure in doing (though try telling that to fans of Tom Petty, Sean Hughes, Grotbags, Glen Campbell and, um, Hugh Hefner), what were the main highlights of 2017’s cultural endeavours?

Seeing Black Sabbath on their The exhibition of Frank

final ever tour. He’s never Quitely’s work at the

going to be pitch perfect but Ozzy’s voice was the best it’s been in years. They invented Kelvingrove. The first major exhibition by a comic book artist in a Glasgow gallery

a genre and provided a that treated the medium with

masterclass in pure undiluted appropriate respect.

metal perfection.

It’s a toss-up between Sacred Paws winning the SAY Award and 404 Ink’s mighty, mighty rise with Nasty Women.

LCD Soundsystem at

It’s a close call between Blade It’s hard to top Blue: All

Barrowlands. Nothing else even came close. For the crowd as much as anything:

it’s usually the band that leave you with ringing in

your ears but this time it was the people around me going absolutely fucking mental.

Runner 2049 and Hidden Door, but I’d go for Hidden

Door. Having the opportunity to wander round the charming

Leith Theatre, including the backstage areas, was pretty special. I loved the striking visual art, and Anna Meredith covering the Proclaimers was

Rise Our Story by Antony Costa. Like all good books, it ultimately asks more

questions than it answers. In that respect, it’s basically a classic ‘cliffhanger’. That said, I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, because that

sort of suspense is quite

the cherry on top. stressful. And it’s also poorly

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Seeing Boy Blue Entertainment’s incredible Blak Whyte Gray in August was a highlight, not least

because it heralded the long- awaited inclusion of hip hop at the Edinburgh International

Festival.

The return of TLC, Sampha winning the Mercury Prize and basically everything Riz Ahmed did this year.

To misquote The Dark Knight, Twin Peaks: The Return was not the TV series we deserved, but the one we

needed.

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