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17 GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL WEST WORLD Directors Allison Gardner and Allan Hunter continue to forge GFF into one of the nation’s most important i lm festivals. Hitting its tenth year in 2015, the festival welcomed a total of 54 premieres, as well as guests such as Alan Rickman, Ólafur Arnalds and David Robert Mitchell, a Dazed and Confused roller disco, and Cat Video Festival. (DP)
16 NEU! REEKIE! FRESH TALENT Scotland’s premier night of rebellious words and music extended its reach in 2015. Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson took the ‘Anywhere But the Cities’ tour around Scotland and on to Japan, while two #UntitledLive shows at Edinburgh’s Central Hall were their biggest events yet. (DP)
15 DAVID GREIG DRAMATURG MOVE
His epic adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark for the Citizens Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival was one of a number of Scottish theatre highlights this year. And the news that he’ll be taking over as artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2016 is cause for high excitement. (DP)
14 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN PEACE CHANCERS The Glasgow band new started the year with new album Girls in Peacetime me h Want to Dance, which rd picked up a SAY award nomination, before playing an incredible home show at the massive SSE Hydro accompanied by the Scottish Festival Orchestra and amazing ng visuals. (RoM)
13 BLOODY SCOTLAND VOLUMES PUMPING G This year’s festival of crime writing was as star-studded as they come, with Martina Cole, Linwood Barclay, y, Ian Rankin, Arne Dahl, , Val McDermid, Lindsey ey Davis and Ann Cleeves es all on the bill. 2015’s edition was also the most successful to date, with almost 6000 tickets sold over r three days. (RM)
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