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They Shoot Music In Scotland – The Second Hand Marching Band

They Shoot Music In Scotland – The Second Hand Marching Band

‘They Shoot Music Don’t They’ regularly film the world’s best new bands on the streets of their hometown Vienna. Recently they visited Scotland to capture some of our finest musicians in unusual places. This week, The Second Hand Marching Band in Royal Exchange Square.

Posted 07 August 2010 by The Dear
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You Have Been Watching… The Big Man

You Have Been Watching… The Big Man

Since I was a youngster men seemed to be split into two groups, big men and wee men. As everyone is a big man when you’re young this distinction seemed arbitrary, but as you grow up you realise that someone being labelled big man is about more than height or bulk, there was an aura. [...]

Posted 06 August 2010 by Alistair Braidwood
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Size Matters

Size Matters

I often tell people one of the benefits of being a Rangers fan is that you get two occasions every week to be happy: Rangers winning and Celtic losing.  Celtic’s defeat to Sporting Braga in the first round of the Champions League qualifier gave Rangers fans even further satisfaction – not only did Celtic lose [...]

Posted 05 August 2010 by Billy Williamson
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Bronto Skylift

Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Bronto Skylift

And Now for Something Completely Different….. There has been an overly large percentage of indie-folk bands in the past few months. So it’s time to bring in some rock, and not your average run of the mill rock. No this is some of the most ferocious, intense noise to have emerged from this wee nation [...]

Posted 04 August 2010 by The Dear
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This Week in SEAN

This Week in SEAN

This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Angus Macfadyen joins the cast of Hirokin, Robert Carlyle and John Hannah are at Comic Con in San Diego, the first trailer becomes available for Dougray Scott’s ‘There Be Dragons’ and David Tennant is on location at Auchindrain.

Posted 03 August 2010 by Saba I.
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Indelible Ink : The Wasp Factory

Indelible Ink : The Wasp Factory

Sometimes a writer comes along who is difficult to categorise, who doesn’t fit easily into any genre. Iain Banks is one such writer. Of course as Iain M. Banks, his other writing title, he is an out and out sci-fi novelist, but even that isn’t as clear cut as it at first appears.

Posted 02 August 2010 by Alistair Braidwood
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Frightened Rabbit in Australia and Chicago

Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Frightened Rabbit in Australia and Chicago

This will be a week to remember for the Frightened Rabbit. Tonight the Frabbits are in Melbourne and tomorrow the band will play the Factory Theatre in Sydney. Then on Sunday they’ll play Lollapalooza in Chicago with Arcade Fire and Lady Gaga. Vic has more on Frightened Rabbit and all this week’s Scottish gigs abroad.

Posted 02 August 2010 by Vic Galloway
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This Week in the Gloaming 2010 #31

This Week in the Gloaming 2010 #31

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 Fife, Loch Kishorn, Fairlie Sound and Glasgow.

Posted 01 August 2010 by Colin Campbell
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They Shoot Music In Scotland – Luigi Strauss

They Shoot Music In Scotland – Luigi Strauss

‘They Shoot Music Don’t They’ regularly film the world’s best new bands on the streets of their hometown Vienna. Recently they visited Scotland to capture some of our finest musicians in unusual places. This week, Luigi Strauss by the Clyde.

Posted 31 July 2010 by The Dear
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