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 →
Edinburgh’s Broken Records will play the Haldern Festival in Germany on Thursday evening and Vic highlights that show out of the many Scottish performances around the World this week. Details below.
Vic picks Mogwai in Japan as the highlight of all the international Scottish gigs this week. Mogwai will be in Washington DC tonight before heading to the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo and Osaka with The Vaselines and Teenage Fanclub. Vic sits in for Marc Riley all this week on BBC 6 Music. Details below.
Vic picks Dananananaykroyd as the highlight of the many Scottish gigs around the world this week. The ‘Naykroyds are visiting Australia right now for the first time and will be in Sydney on Wednesday and Melbourne on Thursday night. According to Vic they may well be the best live band on the planet right now.
Vic highlights Frightened Rabbit as the pick of the Scottish gigs around the world this week. The Rabbit are in North America right now and they will return in September with labelmates The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks. The Jetpacks are live in session with Vic on Monday night on BBC Radio Scotland.
Fresh from presenting BBC Scotland’s live coverage of T in the Park, Vic highlights Rustie in Amsterdam and Mungo’s Hi Fi in Mexico as the pick of this week’s Scottish gigs around the world for the week of July 13 – July 19, 2009
