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Scottish Entertainment / Actor News
This week in SEAN, Alan Cumming talks about being nominated for an Emmy, Henry Ian Cusick is set to return to US telly, photos of Gerry Butler on the Machine Gun Preacher set and footage of David Tennant filming in the Isle of Man and the Hebrides. Saba has more:
Saba I.
July 13, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Twin Atlantic in Norway
Vic will be putting his feet up this morning after presenting 3 days of television coverage of T in the Park this weekend. But next weekend he’s off to the Slottsfjell Festival in Norway with Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub and Twin Atlantic. More on Twin Atlantic below with all the Scotland on Tour details.
Vic Galloway
July 12, 2010
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This Week in the Gloaming 2010 #28
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 Loch Leven, Turnberry, South Uist and the Red Road Flats.
Colin Campbell
July 11, 2010
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They Shoot Music In Scotland – The Fence Collective
‘They Shoot Music Don’t They’ regularly film the world’s best new bands on the streets of their hometown Vienna. Recently they visited Scotland to capture some of our finest musicians in unusual places. This week, King Creosote, the Pictish Trail and James Yorkston in an Anstruther pub:
Pete Reid
July 10, 2010
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You Have Been Watching… Strictly Sinatra
For some people, Scottish cinema consists of Trainspotting, Braveheart, Local Hero, Whisky Galore, whatever happens to be a particular favourite and little else. From early Powell and Pressburger and Ealing, through the madness of Brigadoon, the badness of the 1970s and the Forsyth dominated 1980s, to the renaissance of the last 20 years, this new […]
Alistair Braidwood
July 9, 2010
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The World Cup Pop Music Pun List
As regular readers will know, Dear Scotland has published some terrible puns in the past. We’ve had articles about Mogwai punsmith Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish football autobiography puns and the story about the return of Dunfermline’s greatest 70s rockers “Jesus! It’s Nazareth“. But this is a Joachim Löw.
Shiner
July 8, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Dupec
It’s time for some ROCK! Dupec are an Edinburgh three piece rock outfit that I first came across after the We Were Promised Jetpacks name checked them in several interviews. Being the curious/nosey bugger that I am, I did a little digging and soon found myself hooked by their loud catchy tunes.
Lloyd Meredith
July 7, 2010
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This Week in SEAN
A bit of a quiet 7 days in Scottish Entertainment and Actor News this week. There are photos of Kevin McKidd attending the Roma Fiction Fest and Ewan McGregor at the LA Film Festival. Saba also has videos of Alan Cumming’s latest obsessions and the first five minutes of ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’:
Saba I.
July 6, 2010
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Indelible Ink : Boyracers
There are many ways to start a novel, but surely one of the most arresting of recent times can be found in Alan Bissett’s ‘Boyracers’, which opens: ‘like rebel angels, bright, restless, sensually attuned to the flux and flow of mortal Falkirk, Belinda our chariot, our spirit guide, the wind rushing up and past her […]
Alistair Braidwood
July 5, 2010