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Lucy McKenzie – Pleasure’s Inaccuracies

Sudbury Town Tube Station in London is set to be the striking venue for a large scale public art commission of permanent and temporary works by Glasgow-born artist Lucy McKenzie. Pleasure’s Inaccuracies is the latest venture by Art on the Underground, set up to bring work by contemporary artists to the heart of tube stations, public spaces which are constantly in motion. From April 2 nd 2020, commuters will be able to witness two permanent hand- painted ceiling murals by McKenzie featuring maps of the local area. An architectural model of the station will also be on permanent display, while two large billboards will be installed on each platform, with silk screen posters shown within the station until April 2021. T he cavernous central hall and waiting rooms of Sudbury Town station’s listed Piccadilly line building were designed by Charles Holden in 1931, and now resembles a relic from a lost London. Originally built after the original station was demolished in preparation for

Whatever Happened to The Jaggy Nettles?

Scottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow Four stars Ever been stung by a Jaggy Nettle? No? Then it’s probably time for part time punks of all ages to put on their leather jackets, spike up their hair and moonstomp their way down to see Martin Travers’ sharp as a safety pin new play for the Citizens Theatre’s newly formed WAC Ensemble. The WAC stands for We Are Citizens, and over the seventy minutes or so of Guy Hollands’ raucous production, the one-chord wonders who make up Scotland’s greatest contenders prove themselves more than worthy of such a proclamation. Its 1978, and like everyone their age, The Jaggy Nettles are making a racket. There’s Robin ‘Bonnie Ann’ Clyde on guitar, Mark ‘Kunti’ Conti on bass, Timothy ‘Timpani’ Abercrombie The Third on drums, plus Tammy ‘Baby’ Walker and manager Lori Logan on assorted shouting. Oh, and there’s wannabe superstar Kathleen ‘P.K.’ Kelly on lead vocals. The band’s fanzine freebie flexi-disc might have just been played by John Peel, but acri

Michael Begg – Black Glass Ensemble

Michael Begg went back to his punk roots when he started recruiting for Black Glass Ensemble, the East Lothian based composer’s fusion of data-sourced electronic experimentalism and contemporary classical music, which makes its live debut at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh tonight. “There seemed to be two different ways of doing it,” says Begg. “You either hire players and they play your scores, or you put the band together by drawing up a poster and putting it in a shop window saying drummer wanted, no mullets, no mods, must be into the Velvet Underground, Debussy and Arvo Part.” Such an approach dates back to when Begg almost played the Queen’s Hall as a school-boy, when his teenage punk band, The Dialected, were put forward by Currie High School to play a battle of the bands competition at the city’s southside venue. Given that one of The Dialected’s songs was called Bomb on Westminster, one suspects it would have made for quite a night. Sadly, it wasn’t to be. “I was the