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THEATRE

In Govan’s old Harland and Wolff engine room, a 40ft-high ship’s skeleton provided the bones of a spectacular production charting the life of a Clydeside shipbuilding community. Created by a Glasgow

I workforce of welders, burners and

' platers, it commemorated a lifestyle

industrial heritage too easily

consigned to the scrapheap. Director

Bill Bryden promised to match the biggies imported for the Year of

MUSIC

It was the biggest street party Glasgow had ever known. The Big Day swept into town on the crest of a wave of hype, surpassing the expectations of most. Even more than the acts themselves, the atmosphere was what gave the day its kick. Body to body with the rest of Glasgow, the average punter wasn’t worried if Bellshill belle Sheena Easton had forgotten her roots in favour of a Californian accent. HEM’s Michael Stipe played an impromptu set with Billy Bragg to an adoring Clydeside throng, audiences at the People’s Palace swayed to Hugh Masekela, Aswad and Hue and Cry, and Deacon Blue mopped up the blood, sweat and tears at the climax on Glasgow Green.

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had America, exposing us to the

Penn as Audrey. Middle America was no longer a blot on the map, it was a dark corner in the imagination of

and 1990’s Wild At Heart.

I Miles Davis adorned The List‘s cover as he swept into Glasgow... William Mcllvanney’s The Big Man hauled himself otf the page and onto the big screen author Armistead Maupin scored a literary first by killing off an AIDS victim in one of his popular Tales 0! The City books the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall opened its doors and hosted the European Film Awards Glasgow’s club kings Slam made it big with raves in the city’s SECC and Strathclyde Park Frank Sinatra hit Glasgow’s lbrox stadium the city’s Tunnel nightclub was born Sean Hughes won the Perrier and Edinbugh’s Murraytield hosted the Grand Slam as Scotland hammered England.

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Culture, from Pavarotti to the Bolshoi.

It was the most over-hyped television series to dominate the airwaves, pub talk, after dinner chat and post-coital conversation for years. David Lynch’s Twin Peakstook Britain by storm, as it

carefully mannered Kyle MacLachlan as FBI agent Dale Cooper and Sherilyn

Lynch, creator of cinema’s Blue Velvet

v THEATRE Communicado’s collaborative vision of contemporary Scotland Jock Tamson’s Bairns exploded into Glasgow’s Tramway space. Written by the irrepressible Liz Lochhead, this fusion of theatre, music and dance was to be one of Glasgow’s triumphs during its reign as European City of Culture. Director Gerry Mulgrew described it as: ‘a celebration of the Scottish psyche . . . a poetic view of perhaps two minutes at a Burns supper exploded into two hours.’ The production was also notable for employing a significant chunk of Scotland’s acting community, including Stuart Hepburn, Gerda Stevenson and Frank McConnell.

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Glasgow launched itself as European City of Culture with a truly dynamic logo. It could only get much, much better.

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A TELEVISION Fast becoming one of Scotland’s national antiheroes, Bab C. Nesbitt wandered off the set for BBC Scotland’s Naked Video and into a series of his own. Gregor Fisher’s name was soon to become synonymous with the t \. string-vested, foul-mouthed " ' ;. street philosopher. Bab C. was (5%,; fast carving himself a A" ' special place in the nation’s heart but not with a f razor, as mild-mannered ,3

viewers down south were fearing. The

Glaswegian soon proved his bark was worse than his bite. The first series saw him emerging as a bit of a family man, if not arm in arm, then at least nose to nose with wife Mary, played by Elaine C. Smith.

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