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 →
Taking their name from a mutual appreciation of the parka coat, Glasgow’s Fur Hood will be leaving the jackets behind and heading out to southern Spain for a gig next month. Fur Hood spoke to us about the show and the last time they visited Spain when they had a bit of a scrap.
Snow Patrol have added more dates to their upcoming European tour to take in Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands as a nice little warm up for their gig at Bellahouston Park on June 12th. Full details below along with some of Gary’s favourite viral videos at the moment:
“Too big to fail” is a term that’s been heard a lot in the last couple of years, mainly in relation to giant financial institutions receiving massive government bailouts because the alternative – allowing these banks to go under – could trigger the collapse of the global financial system. It’s also a term that many [...]
I first came across the Scottish Enlightenment when their name kept cropping up in the “top friends” Myspace page of a lot of the bands that I like, (yes, I prefer Myspace over Facebook, because the majority of folk from school that I have no inclination to speak to don’t loiter on there).
Like Frightened Rabbit, the 1990s were forced to cancel dates in the US due to Volcanic ash last week. Fortunately they have been able to reschedule their New York show for the Bell House in Carroll Gardens this Friday night. If it’s anything like the Yummy Fur gig earlier this year it will be packed:
This week in SEAN, Kevin McKidd wins an award for his Grey’s Anatomy work, Gerry Butler arrives in Belgrade to work on Coriolanus, Martin Compston talks about Alice Creed ahead of its UK release this week and David Tenannt hears some good news about his NBC pilot:
Glasgow’s Errors are in France, the Netherlands and Germany this week and Vic has picked their show in Paris with Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven as the Scottish international gig of the week. Vic has more on Errors below along with the only listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK this week:
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 the Icelandic volcanic ash floating over Scotland has helped to create more stunning images of Spey Bay, Dunure, Whiteadder Water and Edinburgh.
There’s something wonderfully uncomplicated about this gorgeous EP by Burnt Island. It’s not simplistic or basic or anything like that, it just has a confidently slow pace and an effortless manner – they just make it all seem so easy.
