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coming-of-age drama Decky Does a Bronco at the Edinburgh Fringe and staging an acclaimed new version of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening at the Traverse. (AR)
58 PARK CIRCUS Remastering re-releaser This Glasgow based film distributor continues to lead the way (among other things) in digital restoration and putting great old films back where they belong. This year they’ve delighted film fans with reissues of Five Easy Pieces, From Here to Eternity, Chaplin comedies, a whole load of early Frank Capra films and much more. Selling old rope has never been so appealing. (PD)
57 KATRINA BROWN Glasgow International festival director See panel, right.
56 THE PHANTOM BAND We wants . . . we gets Radio 1 sessions, the ringing endorsement of Vic Galloway and a raft of top reviews for their second album, The Wants made 2010 a career-defining year for the Glasgow sextet. Calling them a Caledonian blend of NEU!, Late of the Pier and The Beta Band does only a small amount of descriptive justice to their uniquely brilliant sound. (JE)
HOT 100 2010
55 HOLLY FULTON 54 DANIEL SLOSS
ECA grad fashionista Prizes, prestigious stockists and seeing Sarah Jessica Parker wear one of her dresses in Sex and the City 2 . . . it has been a tumultuous year for Holly Fulton. The Edinburgh College of Art graduate’s art deco-inspired breastplate necklaces and graphic print frocks have marked her card as a talent that will endure. (AB) Twenty-year-old gagsmith The Fife comic consolidated on his breakthrough of 2009 with another full Edinburgh Fringe run with My Generation, performing at Latitude and delivering a BBC3 pilot episode of The Adventures of Daniel which featured Ed Byrne in a dream sequence as a bullying schoolboy. (BD)
Clockwise from bottom left: Jimmie Durham; Jim Lambie; Katrina Brown; David Shrigley; David Noonan.
IN THE FRAME In her first year as director of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (GI), Katrina Brown’s strong programming helped consolidate GI as one of the UK’s most vibrant, diverse and forward-thinking visual art events. Local stars like Jim Lambie, David Shrigley and Douglas Gordon were all represented alongside an international cast including Gerard Byrne, Christoph Büchel, Fiona Tan and Jimmie Durham, many with their first ever Scottish or UK showings.
How was 2010’s GI for you? Just amazing. We had a 27 per cent increase in visitors on 2008, which is incredible considering we opened on the day the Icelandic volcano exploded and Glasgow Airport was closed for eight of the festival’s eighteen days. What do you put the increase down to? I think the reputation of any event like this builds incrementally over time, but also our programme and those of the participating organisations was really ambitious. I absolutely loved the David Maljkovic exhibition we held and the temporary Dadaist arts café Le Drapeau Noir was great too, but I could spend all day picking favourites. Was Susan Philipsz’ Turner Prize win for her Lowlands installation at GI a particular source of satisfaction? The festival was only two weeks of the year, but Susan’s success feels like it’s kept going ever since. Her win is another reminder of the extraordinary constituency of artists who are capable of working on the world stage we have here in Glasgow. (David Pollock)
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