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This weeks listings include international dates from Twin Atlantic, Broken Records, Isobel Campbell and The Vaselines while Vic has more on legends Primal Scream and their Screamadelica Anniversary tour down under.
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 the Tayport, Sutherland, Dumbarton Castle and the M8.
Scotland’s Andy Murray will face Novak Djokovic later tonight/tomorrow morning in the Australian Open Final. The match will be streaming live on the BBC website to viewers in the UK only from 215am (US ET). But even if you are abroad, you can watch it there by using Expat Surfer to connect for free.
I never really knew much about Edinburgh band Deserters Deserve Death, never mind seriously getting into their music. They appear to have vanished now, and in their place appear Edinburgh School for the Deaf. Going to their MySpace or Facebook fan pages there seems to be little reason given for the change of name, whether [...]
This is exactly the kind of writing that should find its way on to TV screens more often. The Book Group was a Channel 4 comedy that aired for two series in 2002 and 2003. Channel 4 used to be the happy home for new and exciting British comedy, before their twin obsessions of Big Brother and body [...]
It’s a sad sign of the times when the main drama of the January transfer season is an alleged tug-of-war between the Old Firm to sign a Championship winger. No offence to Kris Commons – he’s decent enough, though he wouldn’t be in my first Scotland XI – but this seems like a case of [...]
It might seem a bit of an odd choice for me to be choosing Thirty Pounds of Bone, aka multi-instrumentalist, Johny Lamb, as one of my tips for 2011. For one, his latest album, ‘Method’ came out last year, plus he doesn’t sound particularly Scottish, but ever since Al from Armellodie sent his album over [...]
I’ve had a few bands contact me over the past few weeks asking for some tips on where to play at SXSW and what to bring etc, so I thought I’d write a brief guide on here, but everything you really need to know is in this article written by Geoff Martyn:
This weeks listings include international dates from Twin Atlantic, Primal Scream, The Vaselines and Hudson Mohawke, while Uncle Vic has more on Glasgow’s Three Blind Wolves who finish their Dutch tour with gigs in Nijmegen, Groningen, Amsterdam and Zwolle.
