Notes on Scottish bands touring internationally and features on Scottish music, sport, film and the life written by and for Scots around the world. More →
Vic highlights mysterious electro-pop artist Dollskabeat at the Disco 3000 Festival in Croatia as his pick of the Scottish acts playing abroad this week. More about Dollskabeat and the only listing of every Scottish international show this week below.
Each Sunday we present some of the best new photos of Scotland in the gloaming, the magical time before sunrise or after sunset. This week featuring images of South Uist, Skye, McLeods Stone and Loch Lomond.
I think it’s fair to say that 2009 has been Dan Willson’s year, in a musical sense. He’s gone from being one of Edinburgh’s most respected songwriters to the leader of a band on the verge of genuinely widespread and richly deserved recognition.
I’m walking towards the Atelier in Luxembourg. It is Monday August 17th. Primal Scream are in town and about to play a gig here. It is apparently their first visit to the country. Their latest studio album is entitled Beautiful Future ; their 9th album on the trot. An eighty foot bus with only the [...]
The full story can never be made public, but I had to leave New York in a hurry; angry people were looking for me. I left my apartment with just a few minutes’ warning carrying nothing except my passport, the Williamson cats, and Mrs Williamson (she didn’t want to go).
This week on Dear Scotland, Scottish animator Swatrick Payze brings us the story about the time when his close friend Davey had a bit of a fast car race. Warning – there is some serious cheating involved in this short film.
There can’t be a music fan in Scotland who has not had a few swallies in town before rambling up Argyle Street and nodding a cap to Glasgow Cross, entering the Gallowgate and then experienced that magical rush when turning that wee bend in the street that allows you to see the neon Barrowland sign [...]
Scotland’s Snow Patrol will be touring all over the US and Canada over the next few months on their own headline tour and with U2. Full details and ticket information below. Already this summer the band have stepped up to replace Oasis as headliners at the V Festival and they played a storming set at [...]
Saba I. brings us news from Gerard Butler’s new movies, Ewan McGregor in Toronto, Angus Macfadyen in LA, Henry Ian Cusick as Charles Darwin and more, in her new regular feature “This week in Scottish Entertainment /Actor News”.
