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THE HOT 100
12 BOARDS OF CANADA REAPING REWARDS
It wasn’t just Tomorrow’s Harvest, their i rst studio album in in eight years, which
relaunched the faceless but much- adored Pentlands electronic duo to o attention. Preceding it, a bafl ing but ut ingenious pre-release campaign had ad seen clues to unlocking the promotional website hidden in YouTube clips, on limited edition vinyl nyl records and in adverts. (DP)
11 ARMANDO IANNUCCI FROM DC TO NORWICH
Last year’s Hot 100 champ is still one of the e UK’s wittiest commentators. Iannucci ci
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has continued to work his magic as the creator of HBO comedy Veep (the series has really found its voice with season two and shed its ‘transatlantic The Thick of It’ tag) and as co-writer behind the mighty Alan Partridge movie Alpha Papa. (HN)
10 PETER MULLAN TOP OF HIS GAME
As Matt Mitcham in Jane Campion’s superb drama Top of the Lake, Mullan showed that he’s a
master at communicating a twisted mind, while in Sunshine on Leith he gave depth to the role of Rab, showing off his gravelly singing voice to boot. A i ne year ended with him picking up a Scottish BAFTA for his TV role in The Fear. (GT)
9 RACHEL MACLEAN VIDEO AVANT-GARDEIST
Maclean’s brilliant and timely explorations of national identity won her the Margaret Tait Award at the Glasgow Film Festival, followed by a celebrated Edinburgh Art Festival show and a nomination for the Jarman Award. Maclean is sure to continue to shine in 2014 with her solo show at CCA. (RT)
8 CANONGATE LIFE BEGINS
After 40 years of publishing some of Scotland’s i nest writers, Canongate aren’t getting complacent: to celebrate their birthday com they selected a future list of storytellers they who will shape the next four decades, who as well as publishing a free book (40) as w including art, lists, stories and – most inclu excitingly – a cake. (KL) exci
7 7 JAMES MCAVOY JA CHANELLING DEMONS CHA
Having bolstered the ‘l awed hero’ side of his CV with appearances in X-Men: First Class and Wanted, McAvoy dedicated some Wan time to his inner anti-hero in 2013, i rst time with Hitchcockian mind-bender with Trance, then as the dirtiest of dirty Tran cops in Filth. An X-Men sequel cop beckons in 2014. (NB) beck
6 6 JENNI FAGAN JE GRANTA GREAT GRA
Fagan was the only Scot on Granta’s Faga prestigious Best Young British pres Novelists list with her debut novel, Nov The Panopticon. Ever the talent- The spotter, we published Fagan’s spo l ash i ction in April. 2014 might be l as Fagan’s year too, with a i lm of The Fa Panopticon optioned by Ken Loach Pa and another novel, short story an collection and poetry anthology on co the way. (KL) th6