Scots Top Ten!

According to the Sunday Times recently - 

Top Ten Films

Local Hero

Gregory’s girl

Whisky Galore

Prime o miss Jean Brodie

Trainspotting

Wicker Man

Braveheart

Shallow Grave

Geordie

Restless Heart

Del Amitri

Top Ten bands 
Proclaimers

Simple minds

Deacon Blue

The Blue Nile

Travis

The Waterboys

Runrig

Belle & Sebastian

Del Amitri

Iain Banks & Alex Salmond

William MclLivanney

Top Ten authors

Robert Louis Stevenson

JK Rowling

Walter Scott

Iain Banks

William MclLivanney

Muriel Sparks

Irvine Welsh

Alasdair Gray

John Buchan

Lewis Grassic Gibbons

Top Ten Artists

Charles Rennie Macintosh

Henry Raeburn

SJ Peploe

JD Fergusson

Joan Eardley

Jack Vitrianno

Eduardo Paolozzi

Alison Watt

Margaret Macdonald

John Lawrie Morrison

Top Ten Scots Songwriters

Robert Burns

Gerry Rafferty

Annie Lennox

Lewis Capaldi

Ricky Ross

Lulu
Fran Healy
Proclaimers

Brexit & the Arts

The Arts thrive on melting pots and diversities, as does science and innovations. In fact that Bohemia energy can be essential for renewals and creativity.

Never mind our science and medicine - the creative industries are the UKs biggest export. They rely on collaborations and inter-connections to other cultures. Creativity has boomed since Europeans came here and some of the best people came here. Art is often encouraged by different voices.

Ken Loach’s funding comes from Europe and there is a lot of funding from France. Good films are not being commissioned here. The award-winning film director Ken Loach –  said in a recent tv interview that his tv docudrama ‘Cathy come Home’(1766) would not get made today. It would be stopped, he said, and it wouldn’t even get passed the script stage. 

He also has criticised the BBC News coverage as “manipulative and deeply political”. He is promoting his Palme d’Or-winning film about a man’s struggle with the UK benefits system, I, Daniel Blake, said there was a need to “democratise” the corporation. “Diversify it so that different regions can make their own dramas. And its notion of news has got to be challenged.”

We are not telling our stories and not being heard, he claimed.

Perhaps the rest of England is also fed up with all the focus and resources heading to London too?

Novelist Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman was such a fun character to shoot in Edinburgh!

Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, and films. Including the comic book series The Sandman. Gaiman's writing has many awards, including Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, Newberry meal and 2010 Carnegie Medal in Literature. He gave a talk at the Einburgh Book Festival 2011. Copyrighted.

Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with 4 Hugos, 2 Nebulas, 1 World Fantasy Award, 4 Bram Stoker Awards, 6 Locus Awards, 2 British SF Awards, 1 British Fantasy Award, 3 Geffens, 1 International Horror Guild Award and 2 Mythopoeic Awards. http://www.neilgaiman.com/