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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Bis in Barcelona
It is a bumper week for Scottish bands on tour internationally this week with 18 bands playing across the world. Highlights include Camera Obscura and A-Lix in South America, Codeine Velvet Club in Romania and the mighty Bis at the Primavera Festival. Vic has more on Bis alongside the full listings below:
Vic Galloway
May 24, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Twilight Sad on the West Coast
The Twilight Sad kicked off their US tour with Mono in LA on Saturday night and this week the Kilsyth band will hit Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Salt Lake City and Denver. The BBC’s Vic Galloway has more on the Twilight Sad as well as our weekly listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK:
Vic Galloway
May 10, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Sparrow and the Workshop in Europe
Following Mathew’s glowing review of their new album ‘Crystals Fall’ on Saturday, Radio 1’s Vic Galloway has Sparrow and the Workshop’s shows in central Europe and Scandinavia as his Scottish international gigs of this week. The band’s video diary from France is below along with details on every Scottish show abroad this week.
Vic Galloway
May 3, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Errors in Paris
Glasgow’s Errors are in France, the Netherlands and Germany this week and Vic has picked their show in Paris with Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven as the Scottish international gig of the week. Vic has more on Errors below along with the only listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK this week:
Vic Galloway
April 26, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Meursault in Europe
Regular followers of Dear Scotland will already know a lot about Meursault through Matthew Young‘s articles. The band are a major part of the Edinburgh music scene and Matthew’s Song by Toad Record Label and their new album is released next month. This week they embark on their first European tour. Vic has the details.
Vic Galloway
April 19, 2010
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Dear Scotland – The Mixtape: Volume 1
Like many expat Scots, I find myself talking about Scotland a lot. And aside from the standard conversations about golf, whisky or Braveheart the subject of Scottish music frequently arises. In the past, when band names alone were not enough to impress certain people, I would end up making them a mixtape or cd.
Pete Reid
April 9, 2010
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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.
Matthew Young
February 13, 2010
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Meursault New Singles and European Tour
Meursault’s new singles are out now and the Edinburgh band have just announced their first European tour. Full dates and ticket details are below. The records are released on Matthew’s own Song by Toad label but he still manages to give us a relatively unbiased review:
Matthew Young
January 23, 2010
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Matthew’s Thoughts on the Coming Year
This is just a brief list of some stuff I’m looking forward to in the Edinburgh music scene over the coming year. I don’t intend to be parochial about this, or too narrow, but I am not as close to the precise ins and outs of what’s happening in the rest of the country so […]
Matthew Young
January 9, 2010