Notes for Expats on Scottish bands touring internationally and features on Scottish music, sport, film and the life written by and for Scots around the world. More →
This weeks listings feature international dates including Belle and Sebastian in Japan and Mogwai in Germany, while Vic has more on the triumphant return of Glasvegas who kick of a European tour in Denmark next weekend. More below:
This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Broken Records and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on Edwyn Collins who is in Austria, Germany and Turkey this week. Next month Edwyn will visit New York, Austin and Japan. More below:
This weeks listings include international dates from Fran Healy, KT Tunstall and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on, arguably, Scotland’s biggest band Mogwai who celebrate the release of their new album today with a gig in Dublin tonight. The album is out in the US tomorrow. Details, as always, below:
This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Isobel Campbell and Lloyd Cole, while Vic has more on Edinburgh’s Broken Records who have a busy week with gigs in four countries. They will then start their first US tour on February 20th.
As Vic has been taking a well earned break after hosting Edinburgh’s Hogmanay party with Biffy Clyro, Dear Scotland has been updating the Scotland on Tour database with almost 300 new international shows from Scottish artists as diverse as Primal Scream, Isobel Campbell, Mogwai, Eddi Reader and Nazareth. Check it out below:
Codeine Velvet Club will be playing in Bucharest tomorrow and head to Japan later this summer for what will likely be their last gig. Still, the band fronted by Scotland’s Most Eligible Lady Lou Hickey and Jon Fratelli went down a storm at SXSW and Lou recently spoke to us about that experience and more:
Vic is back on BBC Radio Scotland tonight with Rudi Zygadlo in session and a few new tunes that he picked up in Austin. For Scotland on Tour this week, Vic likes The Unwinding Hours in Germany and Switzerland as his pick of all the Scottish bands touring outside the UK.
With the chaos of SXSW over for another year, most of the Scottish bands are heading home now but the Codeine Velvet Club were on a 6am flight to Seattle yesterday to start a mini west coast tour with Metric. Vic has more on CVC and all the details of Scotland on Tour this week:
This week is almost certainly the biggest week of the year for Scottish international gigs. 14 Scottish bands are heading to the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas and Vic will be there too. Here is his preview together with a listing of more than 80 Scottish gigs around the world this week:
