THE HOT 100
TEAM GB
17 HUDSON MOHAWKE OUR FRIEND ELECTRO
The Barrowlands Project closed the Cultural Olympiad and coni rmed Clark as one of Scotland’s i nest dancemakers. (KA)
12 KAREN GILLAN DOCTOR WHO?
Making Glasgow proud, Kanye West stage-invaded Ross Birchard’s TNGHT set (his duo with Lunice) in Brooklyn
There’s no denying that 2012 was the Year of British Sport (2013 looks set to be the Year of the Lie-Down before it all kicks off again for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow). And yes, yes, the Olympic squad might technically be called Team GB, with the whole of the British Isles sharing in the glory, but this is the Hot 100 of Scottish cultural figures, and, as such, we’re here to sing the praises of those who lay their hats north of the border. Sir Chris Hoy and surely-soon-to-be-Sir Andy Murray were the biggest stars of Scotland’s reign (see right, and page 29 respectively), but there were plenty of other Scots riding, jumping, rowing and swimming their way into the history books. (CR)
KATHERINE GRAINGER
Rowing (Women’s Double Sculls) ● (plus Olympic Record)
NEIL FACHIE Paralympic Cycling ● ● Gold & Silver
TIM BAILLIE & DAVID FLORENCE Canoe Slalom
● ● Gold & Silver (respectively)
SCOTT BRASH Team
showjumping ● Gold
CRAIG MACLEAN Paralympic Cycling (Pilot Individual B Sprint)
● Gold
DAVID SMITH Paralympic Rowing (Mixed Adaptive
Coxed Fours) ● Gold
AILEEN MCGLYNN Paralympic
Tandem Cycling ● ● Silver and Bronze
LIBBY CLEGG Paralympic
Athletics (100m T12) ● Silver
KAREN DARKE Paralympic Cycling (Individual H1-2 Time Trial)
● Silver
MICHAEL JAMIESON Swimming (200m breaststroke)
● Silver
LUKE PATIENCE Sailing ● Silver
LAURA BARLETT & EMILY
MAGUIRE Hockey ● Bronze
JAMES CLEGG Paralympic Swimming (100m Butterfly)
● Bronze
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to join in. Other HudMo highlights include production work for Kanye, Big Sean and Egyptian Hip Hop, plus the i rst TNGHT release on LuckyMe, and his new label home, Warp, where he’s also released solo work. (CS)
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16 CRY PARROT BROAD AND BRAVE MUSIC
PROMOTER
No longer a mere companion, Gillan struck out on her own this year, playing Jean Shrimpton in We’ll Take Manhattan (i ttingly having just been crowned Scotland’s Fashion Icon at the Scottish Fashion Awards), and appearing in Charlie Brooker’s A Touch of Cloth. (NB)
Cry Parrot’s year featured all-day experimental festivals of local noiseniks (Music Language and
Cry Parrot Vs Green Door), Chicago cosmic-house (Hieroglyphic Being), monstrously loud sold-out gigs (Swans, a co-promo with Braw Gigs) not forgetting the entrancing Steven Biceps, a bodybuilder who l exed alongside the mighty Hype Williams. (CS)
15 CHRIS FUJIWARA EIFF’S NEW MAN
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This time last year the future of the Edinburgh International Film Festival didn’t look so rosy. What a
difference a year makes. New artistic director Chris Fujiwara delivered a bold, international programme of i lms for his inaugural year suggesting there’s plenty to look forward to in 2013 and beyond. (GT)
14 CHRIS HOY OFF THE CHAIN
Scotland’s Greatest Olympian became Britain’s Greatest Olympian this year, adding another two gold medals to his
trophy chest at the London games, and setting a new world record for good measure. Next up: the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow’s newly-completed Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. (NB)
13 MICHAEL CLARK CHOREOGRAPHIC INNOVATOR
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Glasgow’s Barrowlands was once the home of dancing, and in September, Clark reawakened that
memory. Featuring his superb dancers and members of the local community,
11 MARK MILLAR BLOCKBUSTER COMICS
POWERHOUSE
He launched two new comics Super Crooks and Secret et Service while the world of Kick- Ass expanded
with Hit Girl. He returned as special ambassador for the Glasgow Film Festival while Twentieth Century Fox announced he’ll be their ‘creative consultant’ on all future superhero projects. (HN)
10 JOHN TIFFANY TOAST OF BROADWAY
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The National Theatre atre of Scotland’s associate director r continued to reveal eal his theatrical Midas as touch, winning a
Tony award for the Broadway musical, al, Once. Closer to home, Tiffany co- directed Enquirer, which probed the current perilous state of the British print rint media, and also directed his friend and nd regular collaborator Alan Cumming in n an inspired one-man Macbeth. (AR)
9 DAVID BYRNE TALKING HEAD KEEPS
MAKING SENSE
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Triggering rumours rs he might just have e found an eighth day in the week, the ever-busy, Dumbarton-born
polymath published his illuminating tome How Music Works and delivered d a talk about it at the GFT. He also designed bike racks for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and released a bright, brass-band inl ected pop album, um, Love This Giant, with St Vincent. (CS) S)
8 SUMMERHALL WATCH THIS SPACE
Summerhall shifted up a gear with a busy schedule of gigs, events, markets ets and exhibitions, not to mention a
thrilling August theatre line-up. Highlights included Song of the Goat’s sublime Songs of Lear and poet
Ryan Van Winkle’s Red Like Our Room Used to Feel. Programme director Rupert Thomson and his team even found space to host the Edinburgh International Fashion Festival and the Scottish Independent Music Fair. (AR)
7 ALAN CUMMING MULTIPLE PERSONALITY
OK, so we all know about Alan Cumming the writer, purveyor of perfumed products and Hollywood celebrity. But it was Alan Cumming the actor who really won our hearts in 2012. The Aberfeldy-born thesp scored a huge success as campaign manager Eli Gold in the acclaimed US drama The Good Wife for which he has received Emmy nominations. The star also continued to demonstrate star also continued to demonstrate a commitment to his home nation, a commitment to his home nation, returning in June to present the Critics returning in June to present the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, and Awards for Theatre in Scotland, and achieving a huge personal success achieving a huge personal success in the National Theatre of Scotland’s in the National Theatre of Scotland’s radical production of Macbeth. (AR) radical production of Macbeth. (. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((AR))
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