01 December 2023
Newsdesk
The List Hot 100 is back for 2023 and topping the annual barometer for talent in Scottish arts and culture is Mercury Prize and three-time SAY Award-winning trio Young Fathers. The group is currently supporting Depeche Mode on the North American leg of their world tour.
Commenting on the accolade, Young Fathers’ Kayus Bankole said:
“Compared with being down south where it feels like the epicentre for creativity, I feel like once you have something special that comes out of Scotland it feels really, really special. It feels more worthwhile because you don't have the machine behind you over here, like you may have elsewhere. Your own steam is still enough to carry your art.”
The sditor at The List magazine Brian Donaldson added: “It’s been another special year for culture within Scotland and by those Scots who are plying their creative trade outside the country these days. Last year’s high-flyers could very easily have replicated their positions at the top again, but we felt that the likes of Ncuti Gatwa and Nicola Benedetti would be fine with stepping aside and letting a new bunch of stars take their spots. There’s nothing predictable or safe about our Top 10 and we believe it encapsulates what makes Scottish culture so unique and exciting. Where else would you have established players in their field such as Fern Brady and Paolo Nutini rubbing shoulders with rising stars like Martin MacInnes and Sekai Machache?”
Indeed, last year’s winner Ncuti Gatwa, has enjoyed another prolific year, starring in 2023’s biggest-grossing movie to date, Barbie, and Sex Education’s final season. The Rwandan-Scottish actor will also be hitting the small screen as the 15th Doctor Who next month.
The Hot 100 2023 Top 10 (see full list below):
Young Fathers – Mercury-nominated and SAY Award-winning trio
Fern Brady – Comedian and bestselling author
Marjolein Robertson – Five-star Shetland stand-up
Martin MacInnes – Booker-longlisted Invernesian novelist
Adura Onashile – Stage and screen actor turned debut film director
Jenny Niven – New director of Edinburgh International Book Festival
Sekai Machache – Talbot Rice artist-in-residence with immersive films at Mount Stuart
Paolo Nutini – Winner of Modern Scottish Classic album at SAY Awards
Kieran Hodgson – Two Doors Down star and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee
Khaleda Noon & Sara Elbashir – Leading charity for Black and People of Colour (BPoC), Intercultural Youth Scotland helps foster talent in the local music and arts scene.
Having returned in 2022 after a three-year hiatus, The List Hot 100 celebrates the most influential names in Scottish arts and culture of the past year. Those eligible are Scots who are creative in any part of the world and non-Scots who contribute to the cultural landscape in Scotland.
Curated by The List’s writers and editorial staff, previous famous Scots to have featured in the Hot 100 throughout the decades include Franz Ferdinand, Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming.Brian Cox, Susie McCabe, Mark Cousins, Janey Godley and Rab Florence are all names to have repeatedly graced the list, reappearing in the 2023 Hot 100.
The rest of the Hot 100 2023:
11 Liam Withnail & Christopher Macarthur-Boyd
12 Siobhan Mackenzie
13 Brìghde Chaimbeul
14 Solène Weinachter
15 Paul Laverty
16 Rachel Maclean
17 Janey Godley
18 Duncan Dornan
19 Eilidh Loan
20 Sadiq Ali & David Banks
21 Johnny McKnight
22 Liam Shortall
23 Hannah Lavery
24 Gary McNair
25 Imogen Evans
26 Tony Curran
27 Hazel Johnson
28 Tomas Gormley & Sam Yorke
29 Fred Deakin
30 Tinashe Warikandwa
31 Simone Seales
32 Joseph Malik
33 Mark Cousins
34 Ian Stirling & Paddy Fletcher
35 Neil Forsyth
36 Marge Hendrick
37 Susie McCabe
38 Rab Florence
39 May Sumbwanyambe
40 K Patrick
41 Helen Nisbet
42 Bee Asha
43 Audrey Gillan
44 Hanna Tuulikki
45 Frankie Elyse
46 Danielle Jam
47 Andrew Marshall
48 Gail Porter
49 Rachel Walker & Aaron Jones
50 Becky Sikasa
51 Simon Murphy
52 Chef The Rapper
53 Jude Coward Nicoll
54 Katie Goh & Katie Hawthorne
55 Hope Dickson Leach
56 Jamie Byng
57 Lewis Capaldi
58 Sam Gough
59 Maggie O'Farrell
60 Lorne MacFadyen
61 Andrew Fleming-Brown
62 Amy Laurenson
63 Chris Carse Wilson
64 Nicole Cooper
65 Sarah Smith
66 Hifi Sean
67 Joesef
68 Lynsey May
69 Queen Of Harps
70 Stuart Ralston
71 Laura Aldridge/James Rigler/Nick Evans
72 LJ Findlay-Walsh
73 Izuka Hoyle
74 Peter Ross
75 Simon Erlanger
76 Jasleen Kaur
77 Susan Riddell
78 Douglas MacIntyre
79 Lesley Hart
80 Padruig Morrison
81 Anne Lyden
82 Brian Cox
83 Kyle Falconer & Laura Wilde
84 Josie KO
85 Sharon Rooney
86 Amy Matthews
87 James Yorkston
88 Lois Chimimba
89 Lucy Ireland & Jim Manganello
90 Conor McCarron
91 Michael Pellegrotti
92 Dr Marian Bruce
93 Ainsley Hamill
94 Lawrie Brewster
95 Stuart McPherson
96 Terra Kin
97 Keith Ingram
98 James Ferguson & Alethea Palmer
99 Daniel Portman
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