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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2010: Codeine Velvet Club
Codeine Velvet Club is the new project of Jon Lawler from The Fratellis and the classically-trained, multi-instrumentalist, burlesque influenced Lou Hickey. Together with a cracking band that includes one of Scotland’s Greatest Ever Drummers, Ross McFarlane, they liken themselves to “John Barry playing with a rock’n’roll band”.
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Some Things I Learned This Week, and Some Things I Knew Already
(1) We’re going to Poland/Ukraine
Big Lee McCulloch has made himself available for selection for Scotland again! That’s qualification sorted then.
(2) The SFA are incompetent
You’d think someone, somewhere, would have thought to check up on Andrew Driver’s actual eligibility before having a bloody press conference about it.
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2010: Broken Records
Vic Galloway describes Broken Records as having “a sound that mixes up the emotive, propulsive energy of Arcade Fire, adds the worldy swing of Beirut and combines it with the epic, sincere songwriting of The Waterboys“.
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Brother Louis Collective
So here we are with week two of ‘Scots Way-Hay’ and still that cheesy title isn’t getting any better. Thankfully though the music remains at a high standard. This weeks victims are ‘Brother Louis Collective’, an indie-pop five, sometimes going on six piece from Glasgow.
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Scotland at South by Southwest 2010
Four weeks tomorrow the music world will descend on Austin, Texas for one of the largest and most influential festivals of the year. South by Southwest, also known as SXSW, (or “South By” if you want to be annoying) will feature 16 15 14 Scottish bands in 2010. And Dear Scotland will be there too:
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This Week in SEAN
This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Craig Ferguson starts Tweeting, Ewan McGregor announces some US chat show appearances, Jamie Sives’ Triage makes it’s way onto the Festival circuit and Kevin McKidd reveals why his kids made him get involved with the Percy Jackson film.
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway : Twin Atlantic
Every Monday on Dear Scotland, Radio 1’s Vic Galloway highlights one of the Scottish bands playing outside the UK that week alongside the only listing of all the Scottish gigs abroad. This week, Vic has more on Glasgow’s Twin Atlantic who will be supporting White Lies in Zurich:
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This Week in the Gloaming 2010 #7
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 romantic images of the Arbroath Barrier, Eilean Donan Castle, Scurdie Ness and Ayr Harbour.
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Django Django – ‘Love’s Dart’ Reviewed
As has been the trend recently, I have been very, very slow to post about these lads, despite having first heard and liked their stuff bloody ages ago. I honestly don’t know why, either, because I liked them from the very first time I heard them. Sometimes these things just happen, I guess.
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