Takeaway biker hurt in gang attack
A MAN has been left with a head injury after being attacked for his takeaway delivery.
The cyclist was set upon by a group of youths in Edinburgh, who pushed him from his bike and pulled his takeaway delivery bag from his back.
The 22-year-old was then assaulted by two teenage boys. He was taken to hospital for treatment.
The attack happened in the Meadows at about 9.30pm as the victim was cycling along Middle Meadow Walk.
Both suspects are white and aged 14 or 15.
Detective Inspector Kevin Harkins said: “This was an unprovoked and senseless attack that has left the victim very shaken.” WHERE in Glasgow can you see the work of five Turner prize winners under one roof? With artwork by members of Teenage Fanclub, Orange Juice and Travis thrown in? And take home a photo by Franz Ferdinand bassist Bob Hardy as a free souvenir?
Clue: it’s not a museum, art gallery or even a record shop. It’s the old waiting room of a southside railway station. Now called Queens Park Railway Club, it’s been lovingly converted into an exhibition space then taken over by Ross Sinclair for a show called Artists who make music, Musicians who make art.
Internationally renowned artists such as Martin Boyce, Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling lent music-themed photographs, sculptures and made-up album covers.
These are beside the original litho plates used to print the cover of Orange Juice’s first single and a pencil drawing of a teal by singer Edwyn Collins. Other musicians, from Teenage Fanclub’s Brendan O’Hare to Travis bass player Dougie Payne, are there too.
Ross has history here. He was the drummer with noisy Glasgow indie boys The Soup Dragons back in the 80s. His artwork from the band’s singles and posters line the walls beside printed T-shirts and other more recent pieces. These days he is a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.
When the Queens Park Railway Club first asked him to put on a show, he had never visited the quaint building on the railway platform.
He recalled: “They asked me to do something a year or so ago. Rather than just show my own work, I thought it would be good to broaden it out. It’s such a crazy nice space.”
With commuters passing along the platform and trains stopping outside the windows, the venue reminded him of the kind of places he and his pals put on exhibitions when they were all at college.
“It definitely has that 20-years-ago vibe, when we would do something in someone’s living room. But now they’ve all won the Turner r Prize. I was speaking to Martin Boyce and he was in Tokyo saying, ‘ Yeah, that’s fine, install