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Next year looks like being the most important in Scotland’s recent history Niki Boyle unearth the highlights of the year ahead, from the biggest and THE BIG HITTERS
COMMONWEALTH GENERATION
UNDER THE SKIN
STILL GAME
DRAKE
GAMES
Subtitled ‘25 years of
Positively assailed by
Last seen on our television Canadian rapper Aubrey
Even if you were the ‘forget your PE kit’ sort when you were at school, there’s little chance you’ll be able to avoid getting swept up by
contemporary art in Scotland’, breathlessly good reviews
this highly ambitious nationwide retrospective is presented as part of the
following its round of the i lm festivals in 2013, Jonathan Glazer’s long-awaited
Glasgow 2014 Cultural follow-up to his 2004 Nicole
screens in their 2007 Hogmanay special, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill’s feisty old geezers Jack and
Commonwealth fever Programme. Everyone who’s
when it hits Glasgow at the anyone will be exhibited
Kidman-starrer Birth sees him adapt Michel Faber’s
Victor look set to create a Scottish cultural earthquake
height of summer. Will it repeat the buzz generated
across the nation throughout the year, including Gordon,
Canongate debut novel from 2000 about an alien who
in 2014 with their debut stage show. At time of
by London’s 2012 Olympics? Well, the 17 sports across
Shrigley, Lambie, Boyce, Borland and many, many
kidnaps hitchhikers in northern Scotland to serve as a
more. From Orkney to delicacy on her home planet.
14 venues (including Edinburgh’s Royal
Commonwealth Pool) are
Dumfries and Stornoway to Kirkcaldy, will you take to the
all but sold out already. road to see them all?
■ Various venues, Glasgow, Wed 23 Jul to Sun 3 Aug.
■ Various venues around Scotland, Mar to Nov.
42 THE LIST 12 Dec 2013–23 Jan 2014
Scarlett Johansson stars, although can she eclipse Ben Kingsley’s mesmerising turn in Glazer’s debut, Sexy Beast? ■ Released on Fri 14 Mar.
writing they’re well on the way to selling out all 21 of the shows that have been announced for the autumn at Glasgow’s Hydro Arena
(capacity: 12,000). ■ Hydro Arena, Glasgow, Fri 19 Sep to Thu 9 Oct.
Drake Graham has seen all three of his albums since 2010 storm to number one
across North America and sell a combined i ve million copies and counting in the USA alone
– which means this date in his ‘Would You Like a Tour?’ tour in support of 2013’s
record Nothing Was the Same will see a genuine global
phenomenon land in Glasgow.
Support comes from The Weeknd, who’s going places
of his own. ■ Hydro Arena, Glasgow,
Sat 15 Mar.