Deep Time was developed by 59 Productions with academics from Edinburgh University and will also look at the work of renowned Edinburgh scientist James Hutton (1726-1797), often referred to as the father of geology. Leo Warner, creative director of 59 Productions, said, "Deep Time gives us an opportunity to build on the success of The Harmonium Project and to create a spectacular event that is more deeply connected to the story of the city." Festival director Fergus Linehan said organisers wanted to "offer the people of Edinburgh and beyond a spectacular start to the summer festival season".
Cultural Affairs - Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund have revealed plans for a new £15m fund to embed culture into communities across the country. Part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's recent white paper, the Great Place Scheme is designed to encourage partnerships between cultural, community and civic organisations. The scheme "will pilot new ways of working between these organisations to ensure that investment in culture has knock-on effects to jobs, the economy, education and the health and well-being of communities".
Organisations in 12 pilot areas will be able to apply for grants of between £500,000 and £1.5m, with plans to invest in projects ranging from city-wide schemes to smaller scale plans in rural areas.
Muppet Mayhem - San Francisco's Outside Lands festival saw the first ever festival appearance of Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem from The Muppet Show Steeling the limelight from Radiohead, Foals, LCD Soundsystem and The Last Shadow Puppets, Dr Teeth, Animal, Janice, Floyd Pepper, Zoot and Lips played covers of Mowgli's' San Francisco, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros' track >Home and losed with a rendition of The Beatles' classic With A Little Help From My Friends with the Oakland Tabernacle Choir. The good doctor and his band are being widely tipped to headline Glastonbury next year.
Resurrection Rock - An inconvenience - like being dead - doesn't mean an artist can't play a music festival. Following the likes of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, the late rock singer Ronnie James Dio is the latest singer to undergo the hologram treatment to close the Wacken metal festival in Germany. Dio, who died of cancer in 2010, appeared to perform alongside his former bandmates at the weekend.
"I cried the first time I saw it," the singer's widow, Wendy Dio, told Rolling Stone. "It was quite, quite scary. Our crew, when they first saw it at rehearsal, they were in tears. It's absolutely amazing."
Not Listening - BBC Radio 1's audience has dropped to its lowest level for more than a decade after the station lost a million listeners over the past year. About 9.5m adults a week tuned in between April and June compared with 10.4 million during the same period in 2015, audience trackers Rajar said. Radio 1 said the figures were "only part of the picture" and that its digital platforms had grown.
(Jim Evans)
