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Indelible Ink: Special Edition ‘Stuart Adamson: In A Big Country’
It’s perhaps difficult to sufficiently express just how popular Big Country were for a few years in the mid-1980s. Albums went straight to number 1, there were regular Top of the Pops appearances, they were lauded in music publications from pop paper Smash Hits to the weekly NME and Melody Maker and were also well-liked and respected by many […]
Alistair Braidwood
February 18, 2011
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The Yellow Cowdenbeath
The Scottish press have reported that the national team are to play in a ‘glamour friendly’ against Brazil at the end of March. Looking for confirmation, I checked the Brazilian press and found no mention of any ‘glamour friendly’, though they did confirm that Brazil were playing Scotland at the end of March. The game […]
Billy Williamson
February 17, 2011
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Inspector Tapehead
I’d always thought the old adage of ‘good things come to those who wait’ was actually a load of old bollocks, in fact I guess I still do. That being said I am chuffed to bits to have finally managed to get Inspector Tapehead to do a wee interview for me. I think it was […]
Lloyd Meredith
February 16, 2011
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2011 – Official Showcases Announced
Four weeks to go and SXSW have released the details of the official showcases for the Scottish bands. As the festival nears, we’ll keep you informed of all the unofficial gigs that the Scottish contingent will play too. Last year 14 bands played over 80 gigs in 4 days. This year there should be well […]
Pete Reid
February 15, 2011
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Mogwai in Dublin and New Album Out Today
This weeks listings include international dates from Fran Healy, KT Tunstall and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on, arguably, Scotland’s biggest band Mogwai who celebrate the release of their new album today with a gig in Dublin tonight. The album is out in the US tomorrow. Details, as always, below:
Vic Galloway
February 14, 2011
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This Week in the Gloaming 2011 #7
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 Isle of Rum, the Trossachs, Govan and the Forth Road Bridge.
Colin Campbell
February 13, 2011
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Sparrow & the Workshop – ‘Black to Red’ video
“Joanna Newsom backed by Black Sabbath.” Apparently Sparrow & the Workshop have some rather smart-arsed friends, because that’s how one of them described some of their recent material, according to the press release I received.
Matthew Young
February 12, 2011
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You Have Been Watching…Whisky Galore!
This is one of the very best. If you’ve never seen Whisky Galore!, and that surely can’t be many of you, then you have a real treat in front of you. Based on the real-life story of the sinking of the S.S. Politician, which went down near the Isle of Eriskay in 1941 along with it’s cargo […]
Alistair Braidwood
February 11, 2011
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Broughty Ferry to Brazil
This past week saw Dundee FC file a financial plan to allow them to escape administration at the end of the season – saving the club from extinction. Good news for Dundee fans, though other Division One teams can justifiably complain that Dundee’s excessive spending has been wiped out at the expense of the club’s […]
Billy Williamson
February 10, 2011