:00:02. > :00:12.This programme contains some strong language and contains some scenes
:00:12. > :00:25.
:00:25. > :00:28.which some viewers may find Welcome along once again to The
:00:28. > :00:32.Arts Show, our monthly look at the best of arts and culture in
:00:32. > :00:40.Northern Ireland. We've a packed show for you tonight. Here's what's
:00:40. > :00:42.coming up: Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter is one
:00:42. > :00:45.of the most exciting choreographers on the contemporary dance scene.
:00:45. > :00:48.His acclaimed show Political Mother is coming to Derry-Londonderry as
:00:48. > :00:51.part of the UK City Of Culture. For the first time he will be working
:00:51. > :00:53.with local dancers and musicians. The Arts Show has been following
:00:53. > :00:55.the journey. Derry Artist Maurice Harron is one
:00:55. > :00:58.of our most prolific public sculptors whose work features
:00:58. > :01:01.throughout the country. He's just unveiled his latest sculpture,
:01:01. > :01:04.Finvola Of The Roe, in Dungiven. We investigate how it came together.
:01:04. > :01:07.And music comes from the hottest new star on the British music scene,
:01:07. > :01:10.Jake Bugg. Just 18-years-old and with a number one album and a Brits
:01:10. > :01:14.nomination already under his belt, we caught up with him before his
:01:14. > :01:15.recent gig in Belfast where he gave The Arts Show not one, but two
:01:15. > :01:18.exclusive performances. Derry-born actress Bronagh
:01:18. > :01:21.Gallagher has enjoyed a stellar career since her big break in Alan
:01:21. > :01:24.Parker's film The Commitments in 1987. She's gone on to appear in
:01:24. > :01:26.seminal movies such as Star Wars and Pulp Fiction, sharing the
:01:26. > :01:31.screen with A-listers like John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dustin
:01:31. > :01:33.Hoffman and Glenn Close. She's also appeared in numerous TV dramas
:01:33. > :01:36.where her work has been characterised by harrowing roles in
:01:36. > :01:38.gritty productions such as Holy Cross and Jimmy McGovern's The
:01:38. > :01:41.Street. More recently she's appeared on the West End Stage in
:01:41. > :01:44.the hugely successful War Horse at the National Theatre. She also has
:01:44. > :01:47.a parallel music career and recently released her second album,
:01:47. > :01:51.Bronagh Gallagher. She's been home performing as part of the UK City
:01:51. > :02:00.Of Culture and I caught up with her between gigs for a chat about how
:02:00. > :02:04.it all began. I asked her how it all began.
:02:04. > :02:11.grew up and went to school in the Cregan and St Mary's. There was a
:02:11. > :02:20.wonderful film crew working in the area who made a fantastic film, an
:02:20. > :02:28.award -- an award-winning film, a share buy baby. -- hush and by a
:02:28. > :02:33.baby. They were approached by Michael Winterburn - I Michael
:02:33. > :02:36.Winterbottom who was doing the film. He offered me a part in his film. I
:02:36. > :02:41.said I was going to London but thank God someone talk sense into
:02:41. > :02:47.me and told me to do the film. big break is the Commitments. Is
:02:48. > :02:52.that fair to say? Absolutely. How do actors get opportunities in
:02:52. > :02:56.their life? Those are the lucky breaks that you get. You are in
:02:56. > :03:02.front of Alan Parker, one of the world's biggest directors at the
:03:02. > :03:11.time, how did you nail the accent? When I heard I had a second
:03:11. > :03:17.audition I went up to Dublin and asked for directions somewhere. I
:03:17. > :03:20.kept asking until I heard that particular accent. She is about to
:03:20. > :03:26.drop another one. My dad is in the hospital and I am the anyone
:03:26. > :03:33.bringing in any money. It is tough, I know but it is hard having three
:03:33. > :03:38.back-up singers won only to show up. When I look back I just seem to
:03:38. > :03:43.keep going. I worked a lot. It was relentless. I covered a lot of
:03:43. > :03:48.ground. I did huge theatre tours with Theatre de Complicite. That
:03:48. > :03:52.was some of my most favourite word that I have ever done. I worked
:03:52. > :03:56.with a Japanese director and went all the way around the world with
:03:56. > :04:02.him. They were huge theatre jobs. I was delighted to get home but I had
:04:02. > :04:12.moved to Dublin by that stage. us move to LA. What has become a
:04:12. > :04:13.
:04:13. > :04:19.cult classic, Pulp Fiction. The air I had arrived the night before from
:04:19. > :04:29.Ireland and I just walk straight on to step. I was agrees kit, Saturday
:04:29. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:36.Night Fever and staying alive. -- Greece. You are in one of the most
:04:36. > :04:46.famous movie scenes. The adrenalin. Going straight into the Uma
:04:46. > :04:50.Thurman.'s heart. The rehearsal for me was to go straight in there and
:04:50. > :04:54.mess it up. He said getting there. What they were doing was so
:04:54. > :04:58.brilliant and I thought that in some one is that offer head and
:04:58. > :05:01.Matt Stone or whatever it is, you just sit there and look at the
:05:02. > :05:11.person. I thought that would be funnier. I thought I would play it
:05:12. > :05:35.
:05:35. > :05:39.straight rather than chaos as well. If you all right, then say
:05:39. > :05:45.something. Something. Two roles are buried and challenging that you
:05:45. > :05:54.have chosen. If we had one word, harrowing comes up a lot in your
:05:54. > :06:04.later stuff. I am thinking of Sinners. You have taken my baby.
:06:04. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:19.never meant... What do you tell them? You promised. I panic.
:06:20. > :06:22.Marriage. I think it was the first time I heard it. People really
:06:22. > :06:26.pointed the finger at the church. Did you know that these children
:06:26. > :06:31.were being sold for a huge money to people who could not have children?
:06:31. > :06:37.These people were left and shipped off to England or whatever. The
:06:37. > :06:43.shame. It was shocking that it went on. Is that why, then, you would
:06:43. > :06:48.choose a role like the mother, the Protestant mother in Holy Cross.
:06:48. > :06:52.Because you believe it is your duty as an actress to tell these stories
:06:52. > :06:59.to a wider audience? If you are given the opportunity and you know
:06:59. > :07:03.that the piece of writing is coming from some once mutual research
:07:03. > :07:05.point of view and you Rick -- you are representing people in the
:07:05. > :07:10.community that actually exist and this is going on than I have no
:07:10. > :07:14.problem with that. As long as I know that what I am doing as a
:07:14. > :07:20.backbone. Just give it a few more nights and we will get the war that
:07:20. > :07:25.we want. This is your home. Home is where you look forward to going to
:07:25. > :07:29.of your work. Home is where you take little things for granted like
:07:29. > :07:38.not being able -- not be afraid to put a Legon for fear of being able
:07:38. > :07:45.to cut through a window. You are bowling along with a hugely
:07:45. > :07:55.successful musical career, singer- songwriter, writing your own stuff.
:07:55. > :08:00.
:08:00. > :08:08.Eight years ago were released my first album. It had a wonderful
:08:08. > :08:11.reaction. Then I decided about two years ago I would do this again. I
:08:11. > :08:15.wrote 10 more songs and got my dream band together and I made it
:08:15. > :08:19.and just did it. Do I get the feeling now that you're taking
:08:19. > :08:25.acting parts now but the passion is the music? Is that what is
:08:25. > :08:29.happening? I am doing both and I love it. Again it is always issued
:08:29. > :08:33.passion and I have worked a lot in the theatre and a lot of people
:08:33. > :08:38.wouldn't know the work I have done. I had such a great time in War
:08:38. > :08:43.Horse. It was such an incredible experience. We took the show from
:08:43. > :08:47.the National as a massive hit and into the West End. Now has been in
:08:47. > :08:52.the West End for four years. It was an amazing two years but it was
:08:52. > :08:59.hard going. Eight shows a week is hard graft. We are very lucky to do
:08:59. > :09:03.what we do and I constantly remind myself of that. What is really cool
:09:03. > :09:06.to me and his resets his people to keep going, you don't sit in a bar
:09:06. > :09:11.crying into your pint and thinking you could have done up. Just keep
:09:11. > :09:15.going because you're the one they are waiting for. The great Buddhist
:09:16. > :09:21.quo but it is true. I am happy and honoured to do what I do. Yes, keep
:09:21. > :09:27.it going. And you can see the full interview
:09:27. > :09:31.in an Arts Show special on 7th March. Our next artist has been
:09:31. > :09:37.compared to a young Bob Dylan despite coming from Nottingham.
:09:37. > :09:40.Still just 18, Jake Bugg boasts a number one album co-written and
:09:40. > :09:45.produced by Ian Archer. He has toured the States with Noel
:09:45. > :09:49.Gallagher and has been nominated as Best breakthrough artist at the
:09:49. > :09:59.Brit Awards. He took time out from his recent gig in Belfast to
:09:59. > :09:59.
:09:59. > :10:08.perform exclusively for the Arts # Gonna sing you an old country
:10:08. > :10:13.song. # From the heart. # So I can cry at night and call
:10:13. > :10:23.you. # When I'm sad.
:10:23. > :10:24.
:10:24. > :10:32.# And when you have gone. # And run so far.
:10:32. > :10:42.# From me. # You retreat.
:10:42. > :10:47.
:10:47. > :10:52.# Walkin' down that old. # Country lane.
:10:52. > :10:59.# Drops of rain. # Call upon.
:10:59. > :11:07.# The one. # Who calls your name.
:11:07. > :11:16.# Will I see you again? # And please just come.
:11:16. > :11:26.# Run back home. # To me, so I'm not.
:11:26. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:40.# Gonna sing you an old country song.
:11:40. > :11:50.# From the heart. # From the strings of this old.
:11:50. > :11:59.
:11:59. > :12:01.Fantastic stuff. Tens of thousands of us see his artwork every day in
:12:01. > :12:04.towns, cities and roadsides right across Northern Ireland. Derry
:12:04. > :12:07.sculptor Maurice Harron is our most prolific public artist, with firm
:12:07. > :12:11.views about what such sculpture must say, if it's to be fully
:12:11. > :12:14.accepted by people on the street. We caught up with him at his studio
:12:14. > :12:24.in Donegal, making his latest bronze, that's just gone on display
:12:24. > :12:31.
:12:31. > :12:37.It must be in my genes. I could draw before I could talk. Sculpture
:12:37. > :12:44.is one of the ultimate things. It is today's work and tomorrow is
:12:44. > :12:51.that I think about. My real public Korea begins in Londonderry with
:12:51. > :12:55.the well known sculpture off Hands Across The Divide, known as
:12:55. > :13:03.Reconciliation. Up went up in 1991. Since then I have of more than 50
:13:03. > :13:08.public pieces in the UK, Northern Ireland and the USA. Fibre glass
:13:08. > :13:12.casing off. This latest work is for Dungiven, right in the centre of
:13:12. > :13:22.town. I began thinking about this by asking people what do you know
:13:22. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:29.about them give up. People set Finvola. She was a princess that
:13:29. > :13:39.lived years ago. She was a very beautiful lady and she married a
:13:39. > :13:40.
:13:40. > :13:44.Scottish prints and United's Ireland and of -- Scotland and
:13:44. > :13:48.Ulster. The sculpture Hands Across The Divide began as a public
:13:49. > :13:53.competition. At the time I was unemployed and since I lived here I
:13:53. > :13:57.thought I would go and look at the site. To the left you go to the
:13:57. > :14:02.Bogside and to the left -- to the right to go to the fountain. I knew
:14:02. > :14:09.it was the confluence of two cultures. I looked at it and had a
:14:09. > :14:13.vision of two men looking at each other. The plinth of it is actually
:14:13. > :14:18.an abstract sculpture all of itself. Is inspired by the idea that there
:14:18. > :14:22.are two separate is to Izmir and wind around each other in an
:14:22. > :14:28.ancient spiral shape. They make the gesture and the separation of them
:14:28. > :14:33.right up to the end. Right up to not meeting, there is a history in
:14:33. > :14:37.progress, a story in progress. It became a symbol of peace. Martin
:14:37. > :14:42.McGuinness said to me that it predicted the peace process which I
:14:42. > :14:47.thought it was a case of life imitating art in a way. That was
:14:47. > :14:52.the beginning of a hope for peace and 10 years later the opportunity
:14:52. > :15:02.came to make a large-scale work Instagram. The piece was called Let
:15:02. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:22.The Dance Begin but the local You have a fiddler and a drummer.
:15:22. > :15:32.We use a bronze. We could it into a Crucible and melt it about 2,200
:15:32. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:44.degrees. The mould will be heated up. This is the face of Finvola. It
:15:44. > :16:06.
:16:06. > :16:11.It is an enormous privilege to have a piece in a public place. With
:16:11. > :16:17.contemporary works, large-scale works are controversial. They are
:16:17. > :16:23.often designed by architect teams, but the danger with that is that
:16:23. > :16:30.people are not intrigued by a fall. The people like ideas, so if a
:16:30. > :16:35.piece is put up like that large ball in Belfast, it does not have a
:16:35. > :16:43.central core meaning, idea that people relate to. So when they do
:16:43. > :16:52.not relate to it, it -- it irritates them. People have to feel
:16:52. > :16:59.it is our sculpture. I have a lot of works here, there and everywhere
:16:59. > :17:04.and I disengage from a thing. Once it goes up it is as if I never did
:17:04. > :17:09.it. I walk away from it and never think about it, and sometimes
:17:09. > :17:14.accidentally, I think, my God, I did that. But in a way, if I kept
:17:14. > :17:20.on doing it, I could not do any other work.
:17:20. > :17:26.The very first cast of the Finvola sculpture. We only have another 35
:17:26. > :17:31.to go. She is going to be way up above us like that.
:17:31. > :17:36.A work of art should prompt feelings and thoughts as well as
:17:36. > :17:42.being end landmark. An artist is privileged. I am allowed to come
:17:42. > :17:52.out and play every day and so I love to try out new techniques. And
:17:52. > :17:58.
:17:58. > :18:03.be intrigued by things. I am very Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter is one
:18:03. > :18:07.of the most exciting choreographers on the international scene. His
:18:07. > :18:14.large scale creations are often involved rock bands to accompany
:18:14. > :18:21.his visceral choreography. His acclaimed show is coming to Derry-
:18:21. > :18:26.Londonderry next month. It will feature at 20 people on stage
:18:26. > :18:29.including locals. He also commissioned dancers to create five
:18:29. > :18:39.satellite performances around the city. We have been following the
:18:39. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :18:57.My name is Hofesh Shechter. We are in Derry. SERCO -- also called
:18:57. > :19:00.Londonderry. There is an intensity in the air. It is not a simple
:19:00. > :19:06.place, as you can understand from the name of the place. We are
:19:07. > :19:11.looking for people who are fiercely have talent and skill. It is not
:19:11. > :19:15.necessarily about taking the people who can absolutely nail the school.
:19:15. > :19:20.It is also about seeing who can learn and progress from the process
:19:20. > :19:25.they are going to have with us. Political Mother deals with the
:19:25. > :19:32.power and following a certain urge for people to either rule will be
:19:32. > :19:37.ruled. -- or the ruled. I felt a connection to the city because of
:19:37. > :19:44.the similarities in the place I come from. The conflict, the
:19:44. > :19:48.tension, out of that feeling came the feeling that bringing Political
:19:48. > :19:56.Mother to here would be interesting. This is the first time we have
:19:56. > :20:00.involved people from the community in pitiless tickle mother. -- in
:20:00. > :20:07.Political Mother. Until now it was just the company and the Company of
:20:07. > :20:12.musicians. We are working on one specific part of Political Mother
:20:12. > :20:20.and he split it up into five or six different pieces. We have daily and
:20:20. > :20:26.weekly workshops. The community dance performances will take place
:20:26. > :20:32.in places throughout the town. There might be five or six
:20:32. > :20:38.different performances happening at the same time around the city. I do
:20:38. > :20:44.not think there has ever been an internationally renowned
:20:44. > :20:50.choreographer in Derry. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
:20:50. > :20:53.we are starting our journey today so hopefully we can create a good
:20:53. > :20:59.fight in the rehearsal and on the stage, because it is going to be
:20:59. > :21:04.fun. I am looking for a very specific sound from strings players,
:21:04. > :21:14.a very gusty, sort of breathy sound, something that comes from the
:21:14. > :21:18.desert. Good morning, everybody. The percussionists are struggling
:21:18. > :21:24.with Auch what structures, because it is unique for dance. There are a
:21:24. > :21:28.lot of structures that deal with memory issues and rhythms that I
:21:28. > :21:35.think are unusual for them. I think everybody is challenged one way or
:21:35. > :21:39.another. Normally I struggle to get out of my bed in the morning but
:21:39. > :21:44.for this I am out of bed straight away and really excited. Before I
:21:44. > :21:49.came here it was all about technicality and if you were not
:21:49. > :21:53.playing something completely clean lake it was not that good, but our
:21:53. > :21:59.teacher for the guitarist has taught me more to make a guitar not
:21:59. > :22:03.sound like a guitar. Bring it out of the box. You have to get all the
:22:03. > :22:10.scales down but at the end of it music is about having fun and I
:22:10. > :22:17.think you have to enjoy it and feel it. Do you think it is big enough?
:22:17. > :22:24.Maybe! Do you like it? Very much. It is great. A football pitch. We
:22:24. > :22:28.have so many musicians. They will be like a mountain on stage. We are
:22:28. > :22:36.building platforms as high as possible. It is going to be
:22:36. > :22:41.rock'n'roll, like a say. It has given me a lot more motivation to
:22:41. > :22:46.play and continued his music. It is a very inspiring experience.
:22:46. > :22:50.sense of hope and possibility is that that out there, that is the
:22:50. > :23:00.single most important thing a person needs in order to do stuff.
:23:00. > :23:02.
:23:02. > :23:06.It is the fuel for action. That should be quite a spectacle.
:23:06. > :23:15.Political mother runs at the Venue at Ebrington on the eighth and
:23:15. > :23:18.ninth March. Tips on what not to miss in the music world next. We
:23:18. > :23:23.are starting with the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival.
:23:23. > :23:26.This celebration of the cult drug connections between the sister
:23:26. > :23:32.cities of Belfast and National started yesterday and runs until
:23:32. > :23:36.Sunday at a range of venues across Belfast. There are American acts
:23:36. > :23:41.like Nanci Griffith and home-grown heroes like Brian Kennedy and
:23:41. > :23:48.Gareth Dunlop. Do not let the words Nashville scare you, either. It is
:23:48. > :23:52.a musical celebration for everybody. Superstar DJ Fatboy Slim, Norman
:23:52. > :24:00.Cook, will be donning a fancy shirt and raising his hands in the air
:24:00. > :24:03.like he just don't care at Lush in Port Rush on March 2nd. He used to
:24:03. > :24:11.play based in the house martins, which is when I first came across
:24:11. > :24:20.him. Support behind the decks comes from Tom Starr and Col Hamilton.
:24:20. > :24:25.The first release from, O'Brien as the Villagers of won the unassuming
:24:26. > :24:31.-- won en Mercury Prize in 2010. His latest album is even better. It
:24:31. > :24:38.has to be one of the best albums this year so far. Villagers play
:24:38. > :24:43.the Empire Music Hall in Belfast on 16th March. Gretchen Peters has
:24:43. > :24:51.penned songs for the likes of Neil Diamond and Martina McBride but it
:24:51. > :24:53.is her own work that gets me really excited. She is great live. She
:24:53. > :24:59.plays the Market Place Theatre in Armagh on the 20th of this month
:24:59. > :25:03.and then moves on to the real music club on the 1st March before
:25:03. > :25:08.finishing in Rose Farley cultural centre in Limavady on the second.
:25:08. > :25:12.Support from Ben Glover. The last few months have been fantastic for
:25:12. > :25:19.local hero Foy Vance. He released a brilliant new EP towards the end of
:25:19. > :25:23.last year and has just come from a tour. He has had to cancel a few
:25:24. > :25:29.Northern Irish dates due to business but there have been
:25:29. > :25:33.rescheduled. He will be in the Mandela Hall in Belfast on 5th
:25:33. > :25:38.March and in the Play house in Portrush on the 6th. Clannad will
:25:38. > :25:46.be joining forces with the Ulster Orchestra for a night celebrating
:25:46. > :25:50.the group's musical legacy. Much more than a folk collective. It is
:25:50. > :25:57.a free BBC event and tickets have already been allocated but you can
:25:57. > :26:02.tune in live on the night on March 17th from 8pm on BBC Radio Ulster.
:26:03. > :26:09.Thank you. That is almost it for tonight. Back next Thursday for the
:26:09. > :26:19.first in a series of Art Show specials. We will be talking to
:26:19. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:29.You can keep up-to-date each week night at 6:00pm on BB0 -- BBC Radio
:26:29. > :26:39.Ulster. I will be on Twitter between 8:00pm and 12:00pm. --
:26:39. > :26:49.between 12:00pm and 8pm. And next is Jake Bugg. This is Lightning
:26:49. > :26:51.# Morning, it's another pure grey morning.
:26:51. > :26:55.# Don't know what the day is holding.
:26:55. > :26:59.# When I get uptight. # And I walk right into the path of
:26:59. > :27:02.a lightning bolt. # Sirens of an ambulance comes
:27:02. > :27:06.howling. # Right through the centre of town
:27:06. > :27:12.and no one blinks an eye. # And I look up to the sky in the
:27:12. > :27:14.path of a lighting bolt. # Met her as the angels parted for
:27:14. > :27:18.her. # But she only brought me torture.
:27:18. > :27:23.# But that's what happens when it's you who's standing in the path of a
:27:24. > :27:28.lightning bolt. # Everyone I see just wants to walk
:27:28. > :27:31.with gritted teeth. # But I just stand by and I wait my
:27:31. > :27:35.time. # They say you gotta tow the line,
:27:36. > :27:45.they want the water not the wine. # But when I see the signs I jump
:27:46. > :27:49.
:27:49. > :27:52.# Chances, people tell you not to take chances.
:27:52. > :27:55.# When they tell you there aren't any answers.
:27:56. > :28:00.# And I was starting to agree. # But I awoke suddenly in the path
:28:00. > :28:03.of a lightning bolt. # Fortune, people talking all about
:28:03. > :28:05.fortune. # Do you make it or does it just
:28:05. > :28:10.call you? # In the blinking of an eye.
:28:10. > :28:20.# Just another passerby in the path of a lightning bolt.
:28:20. > :28:22.
:28:22. > :28:25.# It was silent, I was lying back # Everyone I see just wants to walk
:28:25. > :28:27.with gritted teeth. # But I just stand by and I wait my
:28:27. > :28:31.time. # They say you gotta tow the line,
:28:31. > :28:38.they want the water not the wine. # But when I see the signs I jump
:28:38. > :28:41.on that lightning bolt. # It was silent, I was lying back