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My New Hobby
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The ultimate soundtrack to this issue, as curated by The List team my new hobby
Discover songs by featured artists including: Sigrid, The Snuts, Beabadoobee, Laura Marling, Biig Piig, Laura Jurd, LOTOS, Patti Smith, Medicine Cabinet, Nine Inch Nails, Rebecca Vasmant and many more...
Scan and listen as you read: Playwright-performer Jo Clifford took up urban birdwatching and triggered the idea for a new Fringe work alongside actor/writer/neighbour Maria MacDonell
JC: I’m googling the names of ducks. Never done that before, but it’s the lockdown, and they’re swimming outside my window. And look! There’s a funny black and white one I don’t recognise. It’s an eider. I have to tell Maria. She’s two floors up and along a bit, and we’re writing a play about the Ugly Duckling together. We message each other new lines, backwards and forwards, marvelling at duck sex. It gets very complicated sometimes. And when another upstairs neighbour throws some food out, it’s like World War Three. MM: The seagulls are so vicious. They’re dive-bombing the ducks! But what’s that odd looking bird? JC: After a bit we can sit socially distanced out on my window sill and finish the script together. MM: And that’s the play. Two older women looking out over the Water Of Leith. Anything can happen . . . n The N ot So U gly D uckling: A Play For G rownups, Scottish RETRO Storytelling C entre, Edinburgh, various dates from Thursday 11–Saturday 27 August. PERSPECTIVE
REAL DINOSAURS
Jurassic World: Dominion has plopped into cinemas like a pterodactyl dropping, signalling yet another creaky franchise stampeding towards extinction. The solution? Rewilding. Introduce real dinosaurs into the population and we can transform the next Jurassic instalment into a cinéma vérité hit. RaptorsInRothesay. Pterodactyls InTroon. A T-Rex In Tranent. The possibilities are endless.
SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs goes by many names. Some know him as P Diddy. Others as Didmaster Flash. His mum calls him Diddums, while Batman fans will recognise him as pantomime villain The Diddler. But not even his mother would call him a good musician. Yet Puff The Magic Daddy is at it again, releasing new single ‘Gotta Move On’, a predictably soulless dancefloor-botherer. Please, Piffy Piff Did, please stop.
