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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2011 – Latest News
I had the chance to speak with a few people over the past week to get the inside scoop on what Scottish bands will be heading to Austin next month, and it looks like there will be a record 17 bands here for SXSW. The full list is below:
Pete Reid
February 8, 2011
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2011 – Ten More Bands Added
Last week the official SXSW website was updated with hundreds more bands added but with a couple of Scottish names removed. However, as we stand there are a record 19 20 Scottish artists on the 2011 schedule. Full details below.
Pete Reid
January 18, 2011
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2011 – Update
In about 12 weeks one of the biggest music gatherings of the year will happen in my new hometown of Austin, Texas. For anyone who has never experienced it, it’s a bit like the Edinburgh Festival in that it completely envelops the city centre but that instead of comedians, actors, dancers and jugglers there are […]
Pete Reid
January 11, 2011
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They Shoot Music In Scotland – Withered Hand
‘They Shoot Music Don’t They’ is a video blog from Austria that has filmed some of the world’s best new bands on the streets of Vienna. Recently, with some help from Matthew, they visited Scotland to capture some of our finest bands in unusual places. With their permission, we are delighted to share their brilliant […]
Pete Reid
June 12, 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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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
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Withered Hand (and Charity) Win at Christmas
Dan Willson is a clever fucker, really he is. I always think indie Christmas music fails somewhat, primarily because all the pain and unhappiness which I tend to like in music clashes with what tiny of fragment of Christmas spirit may still survive within me.
Matthew Young
December 19, 2009
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Withered Hand – ‘Good News’ Reviewed
A huge number of people I know in Edinburgh engaged in making what I guess you’d loosely call alt-folk seem to be refugees from a metal past. I don’t get it. How in the hell do you go from listening to death metal to wanting to make music that sounds like this?
Matthew Young
September 26, 2009
