- Catch Fish in Holland, Germany and Italy Fish, the Codfather of Sole, will be performing a few scaled back shows later this month in Europe which promise to be off the hook. If anemone is interested details of the time and plaice are below.
- Norway Match Preview and 10 Reasons Why I Hate Norway Recently I upgraded to the new iPhone 3GS and it’s an amazing piece of technology. How amazing? Well, the other day I was typing the outline to this week’s column; I typed “Faddy fit”, and the iPhone changed it to “Daddy fit”. Too bloody right, I thought – Norway, who’s your daddy? Faddy’s your daddy. […]
- Distracted by Amazing Grace & Plastic Jocks A few weeks ago I wrote an article for Dear Scotland on homesickness and used Glen Campbell’s (a Texan with a fine Scottish name) sublime version of Travis’s Sing as the catalyst to my thoughts. I then spent a week rediscovering The Incredible String Band for my last pieces; however I was continually distracted by […]
- Piece and Pound Coins Dear Scotland presents another tale from the depths of the surreal noggin of Scottish animator Swatrick Payze. This week : Piece and Pound Coins
- Franz Ferdinand back in North America, Japan and Europe Aside from perhaps Glasvegas, Franz Ferdinand may take the prize for the most international gigs this year. The band have already been through North America and Japan once in 2009 and they will return to the US next week supporting Green Day and playing festivals before returning to Japan and then Europe again.
- Sweet Dreams : The Scottish Claymores Conquer the World “For a millennia the Tattoo and the Bagpipe has called Scotland’s heroes to defend her land, and her honour. Now a new challenge presents itself as a Germanic horde invades the Scottish midlands. The Frankfurt Galaxy and the Scottish Claymores clash in World Bowl 96 as a season’s worth of emotion and sweat will rise […]
- Vic Galloway’s Pick of This Week’s Scottish Gigs Around the World 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.
- This Week in the Gloaming Each Sunday we present some of the best new photos of Scotland in the gloaming, the magical time before sunrise or after sunset. This week featuring images of North Berwick, Tobha Mor, and Gourock.
- Robin Guthrie Performing in Italy Robin Guthrie, co-founder of Cocteau Twins, will be performing his stunningly beautiful cinematic music in Italy later this month together with his new animated film Galerie. Robin’s new album Carousel will also be out soon. Details below.