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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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Indelible Ink: Special Edition ‘The Year of Open Doors’
‘Novels are full of padding, they’re clearly objectionable’ Paul Reekie ‘Submission’ The above quote is one of my favourites and comes from the 1996 short story collection ‘Children of Albion Rovers’. It is the way I feel about many novels, and neatly sums up why I have such a love for the short story.
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The Football We Deserve
James Curran Baxter was born in 1939 in Hill of Beath, Fife. He played 381 games for Raith Rovers, Rangers, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest, and Scotland, scoring 38 goals, including both in the 1963 win at Wembley – the stadium where, four years later, he played “keepie uppie” against the newly-crowned world champions. Baxter retired from [...]
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – The Seventeenth Century
It was roughly about a month ago that I was up at the goNorth festival, and I came back raving about a couple of bands that are based in Glasgow. Don’t you just love the irony of me travelling hundreds of miles to catch artists that I could quite easily see in my own backyard? [...]
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This Week in SEAN – The Best of the Scots on Craig Ferguson
This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News we look back on some of Craig Ferguson’s best Scottish interviews of the past 12 months featuring Gerard Butler, Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Billy Connolly.
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Codeine Velvet Club in Japan
This week the Codeine Velvet Club are in Japan for what may be there last ever show. BBC Radio’s Vic Galloway has more on them along with a listing of all the Scottish bands on tour this week which includes Belle and Sebastian, Simple Minds and Fran Healy.
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8 Scottish Bands Now Announced for South by Southwest 2012
View more videos:- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Sons & Daughters in Melbourne
- Indelible Ink: Rodge Glass’ ‘No Fireworks’
- The Dear Scotland Christmas Animation
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Edinburgh’s Hogmanay with Primal Scream and Vic Galloway!
- Scottish Bands at SXSW 2012 – Early Announcements and Rumours
- Sat Feb 04 2012 Delfonic, Shlohmo, Salva, Hudson Mohawke
Gretchen, Berlin, Germany - Wed Feb 08 2012 You Me At Six, The Swellers
The Door, Dallas, TX, US - Thu Feb 09 2012 Veronica Falls
Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, US - Thu Feb 09 2012 Ex Simple Minds
Garage Deluxe Rock-club, Munich, Germany - Sat Feb 11 2012 Veronica Falls
Radio Bar, Somerville, MA, US
