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This is going to be a really difficult record for me to review sensibly. This is not for the usual reasons – that I happen to consider the band to be good friends, although I do – but for a more mundane one: I actually know this music and these songs so well that sitting [...]
Here’s an oddity. An adaptation of Muriel Spark’s terrific and troubling novella The Driver’s Seat. It stars the late, great, Elizabeth Taylor as the enigmatic and troubled Lise, Iain Bannen as a man obsessed with macrobiotics and sex, Italian idol Guido Manneri and, in an unexpected cameo role as an unnamed English Lord, it’s only Andy Warhol! This [...]
Two adult Scotsmen from Renfrew, on a pristine lawn, in the sunshine. One on his hands and knees being dry-humped, doggy-style, by the other. Behind them, valiantly ignoring this advert for the perils of alcohol, a choir of virginal schoolchildren. In a bar up the road, an empty litre-and-a-half bottle of Imperial vodka.
I always find that the best way to find about new music is to listen to you peers and in the past couple of months two of my fellow bloggers, Manic Pop Thrills and Song By Toad, have both been raving about this week’s newest addition to the Scots Way-Hay club. My attention pricked, their [...]
Swatrick Payze, unarguably one of Scotland’s greatest ever digital animators, returns with another memorable short film. Please note that this week’s video features scenes of unnecessary violence towards a fish supper.
Later that usual, as a result of some unforeseen issues at Dear Scotland HQ, Vic presents his weekly round-up of Scottish international gigs with a closer look at Rachel Sermanni. I’m also conscious that I may be missing a few gigs so if you see any glaring omissions let me know.
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 Buchanan Street, the Forth Bridge, Longniddry and Kinross.
After shaking the music industry to its very foundations by announcing the release of his debut album on Song, by Toad Records (cough cough), Charlie from King Post Kitsch has decided that waiting around and giving himself a pat on the back is not for him: he has decided to release a free EP called [...]
Scottish comedy is on a real high at the moment after years where barely a smile was raised, at least in terms of TV. The second series for Limmy’s Show!, Burnistoun and the still underrated Gary Tank Commander proved that their initial successes were not flukes and that things are on the up.
