41 FRANKIE BOYLE SHOCK COMIC
You could have been forgiven for thinking Boyle may have taken his eye off the ball this year given that he fought (and won) a libel case with the Daily Mirror but he simply went about his business being darkly funny on stage with his i nal ever tour (oh, yeah?) The Last Days of Sodom. (BD)
40 KERRY HUDSON (SEE PANEL, LEFT)
39 NVA RUNNING UP THAT HILL
The internationally renowned public art organisation surpassed itself with an ambitious collaboration with the Edinburgh International Festival. Speed of Light brought Arthur’s Seat to life in a breathtaking visual display that included choreographed runners in specially designed light suits and participants carrying illuminated, singing staffs. (AR)
38 ANNA FREEMANTLE EN VOGUE
This model- turned-event organiser added a new i xture to Edinburgh’s calendar, with the i rst Edinburgh International Fashion Festival. The line-up featured catwalk shows from Pam Hogg, Aimee McWilliams and bebaroque, plus perfumier masterclasses, and talks on ‘Dressing the Self’ and ‘The Fragility of Ideas’. The year ends with a Christmas market from Noir!, Freemantle’s club-music-events hybrid. (CS)
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Argyll primary pupil Martha Payne became the unlikely champion of an outcry against poor
quality school meals, galvanising campaigners and celebrity chefs to demand more appealing food in our institutions and raising £120,000 for hunger charity Mary’s Meals. (DR)
36 THE GARDENER’S COTTAGE
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Edinburgh’s most intriguing new restaurant opening in 2012, Ed Murray and Dean Mailley have
invigorated the capital’s food scene with their commitment to good value set meals, ultra-local sourcing and convivial, communal dining in an unexpected setting. (DR)
35 ROB DRUMMOND A SHOT AT STARDOM
A prominent member of the new generation of exciting Scottish theatre-makers, Drummond’s Bullet
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34 KONX-OM-PAX (SEE PANEL, BELOW)
KONX-OM-PAX AMBIENT SYNTH-LORD/ MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
‘I’d say I listen to music 75% of the time. When I’m awake that is.’ It comes as zero surprise to learn that Tom Scholefield, aka Konx-Om-Pax, is fairly obsessed with his music. ‘Something like ‘Donkey Rhubarb’ by Aphex Twin sounds amazing first thing in the morning.
Or when it’s grim weather outside, like today, some old jungle, or cheesy happy hardcore is good. Techno, house, or dance is what I’m usually listening to.’
Scholefield’s kaleidoscopic work covers music from pretty much every angle going – there’s the sleeve artwork he created for Oneohtrix Point Never, tour T-shirts and posters for Mogwai, 3D sound/ music installations for Optimo, live visuals for Laurel Halo, videos he’s directed for Hudson Mohawke and animated for Jamie Lidell . . . safe to say, the boy is no slouch. And when he’s not in the studio designing dripping, glowing, morphing acid-trips to look at, he’s producing his own aural equivalents.
His glistening, eerie music spans the soft ambient soundscapes of Eno, the chiming, retro-
futuristic synths of his friend Daniel Lopatin, the polychrome beat odyssies of HudMo and the unnerving drama of Mogwai. If you’re wondering where to hear it, you’ll find last year’s Light and Extension on his label, Display Copy (yep, he runs his own label, too). This year’s superbly textured and chilled Regional Surrealism was his first on Planet Mu. For a taster, try Scholefield’s own favourite, the Boards of Canada-esque last track, ‘Let’s Go Swimming’, where he slowed down the vocal on a Hans Christian Andersen storytelling tape he’s had since he was a toddler. ‘That’s my favourite – for nostalgic reasons. I slowed it down and it ended up this kind of spaced-out jam.’ Look out for an EP in 2013 from the ever-talented Konx, plus experiments in analogue film and
coloured liquids, to use as projections at live shows next year.
‘I guess I like to keep myself interested,’ he understates. ‘I don’t have any dream plans for next year really, just to do more stuff, and better. My music direction doesn’t so much change, it just meanders. But I feel like now’s the time to step up, and do bigger things.’ (Claire Sawers)
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