Notes for Expats on Scottish bands touring internationally and features on Scottish music, sport, film and the life written by and for Scots around the world. More →
This week in SEAN, Ewan McGregor is knighted in France, James McAvoy is expecting his first child and the latest on Kevin McKidd as Poseidon in the new Percy Jackson film. Saba has all the details from the past week with the Oscar nominations expected later today:
Rarely can an epigraph have summed up the novel to come better than the Hunter S. Thompson quote that appears before John Niven’s 2008 novel ‘Kill Your Friends’. It reads as follows: ‘The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men [...]
Brit nominee Calvin Harris has just finished a string of festival dates in Australia and on his way home he’ll be stopping off in Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore for a few more gigs. Radio 1′s Vic Galloway has more on Calvin along with the only listing of every Scottish gig around the world this week:
