Dear Scotland

On Friday July 11, 1924, Eric Liddell won the 400m Olympic Gold medal in Paris, immortalising him as one of Scotland’s greatest heroes. Sir Arthur Marshall, a reserve for the British Olympic team, writes about his personal memories of Liddell, the famous race and how they celebrated together with two American sisters.

As the frontwoman for Bis, Manda Rin was the inspirational leader of the Teen-C revolution. Together with Sci-Fi Steven and John Disco, Bis toured the world selling over 100,000 albums in Japan alone. Manda released her first solo album last year and yesterday spoke to Dear Scotland ahead of a return to Japan next week.

20 years ago this week, Scotland reached the final of the Under 16 World Cup, before losing to Saudi Arabia on penalties. A crowd of 50,000 watched Craig Brown’s team come within a few whiskers of being World champions – the whiskers on the Saudi players’ upper lips that is.

Scotland’s last World Cup Finals game was 11 years ago this week. Going into the game against Morocco, we knew that a win coupled with a Brazil win over Norway would see us through to the next round. But the Norwegians beat Brazil and so fortunately we avoided another heartbreaking exit by simply getting gubbed [...]

Camera Obscura, Mogwai, Hudson Mohawke, Calvin Harris, Paolo Nutini, Franz Ferdinand, Simple Minds, and Runrig.

Brazil in Seville; June 18, 9pm local time; 90 degrees (at least); Impossible is nothing for Narey and Scotland are on top of the world.

Glasvegas, Shitdisco, Camera Obscura, Hudson Mohawke, Rustie, Snow Patrol, Alex Smoke, Paolo Nutini, Franz Ferdinand, Simple Minds and The Average White Band.