- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Copy Haho Stonehaven’s Copy Haho are heading out on their first European tour this week in support of Los Campesinos!. Radio 1’s Vic Galloway tells us more about Copy Haho alongside his listing of every Scottish band playing outside the UK this week.
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway : We Were Promised Jetpacks Edinburgh’s We Were Promised Jetpacks are currently on their first headline North American tour. The 26 date adventure will wind its way through America and Canada before rolling up at the SXSW festival where they will certainly be one of this year’s buzz bands. Vic Galloway has more:
- Who is Scotland’s Greatest Ever Female Vocalist? So we come to the last of our ‘greatest’ questions: Who is Scotland’s Greatest Ever Vocalist? Now if you’ve ever been to a football match or witnessed the pubs empty on a Friday night in Scotland, you’ll know that the Scots love to sing. And we’ve produced some of the best in the business.
- Vic Galloway’s Pick of This Week’s Scottish Gigs Around the World This week Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway highlights Edinburgh’s We Were Promised Jetpacks in Germany and Belgium as his Scottish gigs of the week. After their European shows, the Jetpacks will head to North America for a mini Scottish invasion with the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit.
- This Week’s International Scottish Gigs with Vic Galloway Vic highlights mysterious electro-pop artist Dollskabeat at the Disco 3000 Festival in Croatia as his pick of the Scottish acts playing abroad this week. More about Dollskabeat and the only listing of every Scottish international show this week below.
- This Week’s Scottish Gigs Around the World with Vic Galloway Vic had them in session last week on his Radio Scotland show ahead of their Hampden gig with U2 and today Vic highlights Glasvegas as the Scottish band to see this week. Glasvegas will be back in North America soon with the Kings of Leon before heading to LA to work on their 2nd record.
- Eddi Reader Gigs in Ireland and Japan Eddi Reader is in Dublin later this week with Luka Bloom and will play in Tokyo and Osaka next month. Eddi has also been a supporter of the campaign to keep the Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock and recently talked about how the whisky might have saved her life during a prior trip to Japan.
- Vic Galloway’s Pick of This Week’s International Scottish Gigs Vic opts for Hostage in Helsinki this week as his choice of the 19 Scottish bands and artists touring abroad this week. Edinburgh DJ Alan Hostage has been in demand all over Europe this summer and has just announced more shows in Singapore and Australia for later this year. Full details and ticket information below.
- Take Me Out – Alec Downie’s Top 20 Scottish Cover Versions (20-11) I was watching a clip of Bowie & Annie Lennox, doing a rehearsal of Under Pressure for the Freddie Mercury Tribute and in the background George Michael, oblivious to the fact he is being filmed, is singing every word with them. Rockstars are just like us, they are fans first and musicians second and the […]