Notes on Scottish bands touring internationally and features on Scottish music, sport, film and the life written by and for Scots around the world. More →
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.
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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