Dear Scotland

As he mentioned in our interview on Friday, The Agitator will be in France this week. Today, Vic Galloway tells us what he thinks about The Agitator alongside the only listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK this week.

The Agitator in France

Derek Meins is The Agitator. He’s made music in the Berwick-Upon-Tweed based band Eastern Lane and under his own name, but now goes under this new monicker.
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Weirdly enough, I first saw him in this guise at the ‘Trans Musicales’ festival in Rennes, Brittany at the tail end of 2009. I thought he was outstanding. He took to the stage with only a drummer for accompaniment, and proceeded to blow the roof off the venue in front of around 700 people! Imagine politically-empowered doo-wop, hip-hop, acappella punk with some drum’n'bass and dubstep rhythms thrown in for good measure.
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Quite a unique character with a very distinct sound combining only vocals and beats. He’s certainly someone to watch out for in 2010 and beyond, and I for one am certainly tipping him. It looks like the French are on to a good thing already!

www.myspace.com/theagitatormusic

Also on tour this week: Twin Atlantic, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Hostage, Three Blind Wolves, Finley Quaye, The Cinematics, Franz Ferdinand, Camera Obscura and The Average White Band. See all dates below.

Vic

Check out Vic on BBC Radio every week:

Monday Night 8.05pm-10pm, BBC Radio Scotland
Vic has Glasgow’s The Unwinding Hours in Session
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Wednesday Night Midnight-2am, BBC Radio 1 in Scotland
Vic has Edinburgh’s Capitol 1212 in Session

More Vic at www.myspace.com/vicgallowayr1

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Scotland on Tour this week

Artist	Date	City	Country
Franz Ferdinand in Australia and South America 2010
Franz Ferdinand	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Brisbane	Australia
Franz Ferdinand	28 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Perth	Australia
Average White Band in USA 2009-2010
Average White Band	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in San Bernadino, CA	United States
We Were Promised Jetpacks in North America 2010
We Were Promised Jetpacks	23 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Phoenix, AZ	United States
We Were Promised Jetpacks	24 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in San Diego, CA	United States
We Were Promised Jetpacks	26 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Los Angeles, CA	United States
We Were Promised Jetpacks	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in San Francisco, CA	United States
Hostage in Europe 2010
Hostage	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Dendermonde	Belgium
Finley Quaye in Ireland 2010
Finley Quaye	26 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Galway	Ireland
Finley Quaye	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Dublin	Ireland
The Cinematics in Europe 2010
Cinematics	24 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Osnabrück	Germany
Cinematics	25 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Würzburg	Germany
Cinematics	26 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Karlsruhe	Germany
Cinematics	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Kaiserslautern	Germany
Cinematics	28 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Dresden	Germany
Camera Obscura in Indonesia, Mexico and USA 2010
Camera Obscura	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Porto	Portugal
The Agitator in France 2010
The Agitator	23 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Paris	France
The Agitator	25 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Angoulême	France
The Agitator	26 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Tulle	France
The Agitator	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Clermont-Ferrand	France
Three Blind Wolves in Ireland 2010
Three Blind Wolves	28 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Dublin	Ireland
Twin Atlantic in Europe 2010
Twin Atlantic	22 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Zurich	Switzerland
	with White Lies Related post.
Twin Atlantic	23 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Berlin	Germany
Twin Atlantic	24 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Cologne	Germany
Twin Atlantic	25 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Hamburg	Germany
Twin Atlantic	26 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Stuttgart	Germany
Alex Smoke Worldwide 2010
Alex Smoke	27 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in St Petersburg	Russian Federation
Phantom Band in Germany 2010
Phantom Band	26 Feb 10	IGNORE THIS FOR NOW in Berlin	Germany

The Agitator

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