- Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Dear Mountaineer After all the fun and games of my ‘Ones To Watch’ posts, normal Scots Way-Hay will now be resumed with indie-folk four piece, Dear Mountaineer. Having recently played at the Chem 19 showcase gig in Glasgow a few weeks back, the band first came to my attention through Halina with whom I run Olive Grove […]
- Scottish Bands at SXSW 2011 – Latest News I had the chance to speak with a few people over the past week to get the inside scoop on what Scottish bands will be heading to Austin next month, and it looks like there will be a record 17 bands here for SXSW. The full list is below:
- Indelible Ink: Ron Butlin’s ‘The Sound of My Voice’ Ron Butlin seems to be one of Scottish writing’s best kept secrets and I don’t quite know why. Scotland is lucky to have the writers we do, and Butlin can show his medals with the best of them. He is perhaps best known as a poet, he is Edinburgh’s Makar after all, but even in […]
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Broken Records in Europe This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Isobel Campbell and Lloyd Cole, while Vic has more on Edinburgh’s Broken Records who have a busy week with gigs in four countries. They will then start their first US tour on February 20th.
- This Week in the Gloaming 2011 #6 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 Loch Ard, Dumbarton Castle, Caithness and Aberdeenshire.
- North American War – ‘Me & My G.I. Joes’ EP Reviewed This is something I think has real promise, without necessarily saying that I personally think it is quite there yet. North American War are working with Glasgow’s excellent Winning Sperm Party, and have released this EP as a free download, as WSP release all their things.
- You Have Been Watching…NEDS Whatever your expectations of Peter Mullan’s latest film NEDS are, prepare to have them confounded. You look at the poster and the tagline ‘Everyone Need To Be Taught a Lesson’ and you’ll likely think; gangs, knives, fantastic amounts of swearing, hopefully some dark humour, and, if your lucky, the possibility of redemption. All of these are […]
- @TEOTD CANT B RSED – TTFN – FLETCH So Stephen Fletcher has decided to join a long list of Scottish non-footballing anti-heroes, from Kris Boyd to… erm… Lee McCulloch? But the once-promising Wolverhampton benchwarmer has applied a novel twist to his retirement from the international scene: doing it by SMS.
- Peenko’s Ones To Watch in 2011 #4 – Finn LeMarinel So by now pretty much all other sites have finished with their tips for the year ahead. Not me, I like to stretch these things out. Milk it for all it’s worth I say. Next week we’ll be returning to normal Scots Way-Hay action which, admittedly, is structured in exactly the same format as these […]
