Dear Scotland

Each month we present some of the best new photos of Scotland in the gloaming, the magical time before sunrise or after sunset. This month featuring images of Glasgow, Moray, Islay, Shetland and more.

In the pub last Sunday, an English friend told the tale of his teenage journey to the Edinburgh Festival, hitchhiking up from the Midlands to sleep rough in Princes Street Gardens. He was woken from his newspaper-wrapped slumber not by a rapist, a mugger, or the Lothian police, but by a friendly Scotsman handing him [...]

This month in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Helygen has all the news from the world’s best Scottish actors, including casting updates from Irvine Welsh’s ‘Filth’, trailers for Gerry Butler’s new films and the latest movements of Tennant, Scott, McKidd and more:

Back in the early 1990’s, the European Cup stopped being a football tournament and became the Champions League. The raison d’etre of the rebranded competition: creation of an ever-expanding trough of filthy lucre to feed the pigs running European football’s biggest clubs. To their credit, UEFA do a shamelessly good job of quantifying exactly how [...]

(LONDON, 11 Oct 2014) — Under-pressure Team GB manager Roberto Martinez declared himself “satisfied” with his team’s performance despite their 2-1 home defeat to Denmark yesterday in the first competitive match for the amalgamated British team. “We have only had a couple of friendlies to mould a team since the four national associations were combined [...]

Vic Galloway hosts our regular listing of all the upcoming Scottish international gigs. This month, Vic has the latest on Frightened Rabbit who are currently touring America with Death Cab for Cutie. Other gigs this month include Alex Smoke in New Zealand, Texas in France and Primal Scream in Taiwan. Full details below.

There are times when a piece of art comes along and nothing is ever the same again. Such arrivals fulfill three functions; they come to represent their time, they change what will follow, and, often brutally, they kill what had preceded them. Or at least appear to at the time. Think of the impact Joyce’s [...]