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Billy is away this week so we are republishing his brilliant analysis of Henry McLeish’s recent report into Scottish football. The report was in development for over a year and was supposed to “send shockwaves through the Scottish game“. But 5 months on, and aside from the SFA getting a Facebook page, has anything changed?
It’s been a pretty tiring few weeks in the world of Peenko (i.e. me), so I think it’s somewhat appropriate that this weeks Scots Way-Hay post is a bit more chilled. Niall Masson, aka iglue, is a singer songwriter from the Isle of Lewis, who I first caught at this years goNorth showcase.
This week in SEAN, an interview with Robert Carlyle about the new season of Stargate Universe, James McAvoy talks about the new X-Men film, and a clip from Ewan McGregor’s new Battle of Britain documentary. And remember, if you want to watch live and on-demand UK TV, try Expat Surfer free for 3 days.
Radio Scotland and Radio 1 legend Vic Galloway has more on the brilliant new Scottish band ‘Hey Enemy’ and why they are the band to see this week in Europe. Vic also has the only listing of every Scottish band on tour outside the UK this week. Check out Scotland on Tour for more shows.
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 St Andrews, Orchardton Tower, Eigg and The Black Isle.
Japanese genius James Scott (who may not actually be Japanese) recently, and with no absolutely no fanfare whatsoever, snuck this little gem out into the midst of the internet behind all our backs. Well shame on him. Because it’s f*****g ace.
In the winter of 1977 the film magazine Cinefantastique dedicated an entire issue to a largely forgotten 1973 movie The Wicker Man, calling it ‘the Citizen Kane of horror movies’. With hindsight, this can be seen as the moment that the fortunes of The Wicker Man began to change and a film that was poorly [...]
There’s a famous scene from the 1976 movie, “Network”, in which a television newscaster loses his marbles and performs an impassioned rant live on broadcast news, which ends with him urging his viewers to stick their heads out the window and yell (see below). The point he was making was to show everyone they were [...]
Glasgow’s The Vaselines are back with a new album on Sub Pop, ‘Sex With an X’, and a major North America tour that includes gigs next month in Washington DC with Teenage Fanclub and in Mexico with Belle and Sebastian. Full tour dates and tickets links are below:
