Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.
Yukiya Amano, Public Servant (1947) |
J. M. Barrie, Novelist (1860) |
James M. Barrie, Playwright (1860) |
Gregory Bateson, Scientist (1904) |
Vince Cable, Politician (1943) |
Howard Carter, Scientist (1874) |
Rosario Dawson, Actress (1979) |
Manfred Eigen, Scientist (1927) |
Albert Finney, Actor (1936) |
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1883) |
Nelson Algren, Novelist (1981) |
Dan Devine, Coach (2002) |
Brenda Fassie, Musician (2004) |
Paul Gauguin, Artist (1903) |
Mary Johnston, Novelist (1936) |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (2004) |
Alan King, Comedian (2004) |