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Brian Beacom JOHN Byrne has Zoomed into the room, and the first impression is the artist/writer certainly hasn’t surrendered to the sartorial ordinariness of a man born at the beginning of the Blitz. His traditional two-tone jacket, the louche silk scarf on neck still suggests a retired rock star, or a mid-20th century dandy. Byrne, thank goodness, still loves to dress to the tens. What’s missing, however, is the almost omnipresent roll-up which dangled from his lips like a limp, recently hanged man. And the Frank Zappa combed-back dark hair is now a soft silver shading, as is his goatee. Yet, still Byrne looks commanding. Defiant. Like a subject in search of an artist, a task he has often taken upon himself.
Alan Antony By Scott Wright FAILING shopping centres should be seen as the “one big opportunity” to revitalise struggling town centres around Scotland. That is the view of Alan Anthony, managing director of Threesixty Architecture and Scottish chairman of place-making consultant Revo, who is spearheading an ambitious masterplan to regenerate Paisley town centre. The 10-year Paisley Vision project aims to transform a struggling retail centre into a mixed-use destination, with a new cinema and digital skills academy at Paisley Cross on the High Street at its heart. Mr Anthony, who developed national guidance on high street generation for the Scottish Government, said finding a new use for a soon-to-be-vacant retail unit has been key to the project.