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2010 will be a huge year for Biffy Clyro. This Friday the band will start a headline European tour before joining up with Manchester Orchestra for more American dates. The US leg is scheduled to end in Boise on March 15, two days before the start of SXSW. Coincidence? Ticket details and new videos follow:
Later this week former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie will make a rare appearance at the Tanned Tin Festival in Castellón, Spain. Also appearing at the festival is former Arab Strapper Aidan Moffat with The Best Ofs. Aidan will also play a gig in Paris on Friday night. Full details below:
The Cinematics met in Dingwall and are currently based in Glasgow but it seems like Central Europe is beginning to feel like home for the band. Next month the guys will return there for 19 shows in support of second album ‘Love and Terror’. Ticket details below along with extracts from their 2009 tour diary:
Glasgow’s Attic Lights are enjoying some late night sunshine in Spain this week on a short tour that includes gigs in Mallorca tonight, Valencia tomorrow and Andorra on Saturday. Ticket details are below. Before they left, guitarist Tim Davidson spoke to Dear Scotland about the band’s plans for 2010 and more.
Manda Rin has announced that she will be reuniting with Sci-fi Steven and John Disco for a one-off Bis show at the 2010 Primavera Festival in Barcelona. No word yet on whether Roland R5, the Bis drum machine who failed to make the Greatest Ever Drummer shortlist, will be making an appearance too. Details below:
Camera Obscura are back on the road and they will be at the Fritz Club in Berlin tonight. The band have now finalized their schedule for the next few months which includes dates all over Europe and North America and a very special gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands. Full details and ticket links below.
Biffy Clyro, the hardest working band in showbusiness, are back with a new album and a massive European tour. They will first support Muse in an Arena tour before headlining their own shows through December. Full tour and ticket details are below along with the video for the new single ‘Captains’ . Mon the Biffy.
Franz Ferdinand will finish out another massive year with a UK tour, three shows in Japan and then European dates which will see them visit Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria and Russia where they will play at the RAMP Awards. Ticket details below.
As regular readers will know, Dear Scotland loves Scottish music. But we also love puns (eg “Jesus! It’s Nazareth“). So one might imagine the delight we felt at the epic punnery that recently emanated from Mogwai guitar hero Stuart Braithwaite. As you will see below, with such a fine grasp of wordplay, one can only [...]
