- We Were Promised Jetpacks Interview; Bowery Ballroom Tonight We Were Promised Jetpacks and The Twilight Sad played a sensational show in Brooklyn on Friday night. The morning after, Dear Scotland spoke with WWPJ about the tour and more. See below. The band are back in NYC tonight at the Bowery Ballroom but get there early as the Jetpacks will open the show.
- Scottish Entertainment / Actor News This week in SEAN, Saba brings us an interview with Henry Ian Cusick where he discusses playing Charles Darwin, footage of Billy Boyd and his band Beecake on BBC Alba, the status of Ewan McGregor’s film with Roman Polanski and more.
- Scottish Bands on Tour This Week with Vic Galloway Sons & Daughters supported The Pixies last night in Glasgow and next weekend they will join Glasvegas to headline the Vena Festival in Poland. Below, Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway highlights Sons & Daughters as his pick of all the Scottish international gigs this week.
- 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 Quiraing, Harris, Eigg and Loch Ard.
- Money Can’t Buy Music – ‘The Universe for Beginners’ Reviewed I was fascinated to hear this record, an electronic spoken-word collaboration between Ballboy’s Gordon MacIntyre and Maja Mångård, (who is Swedish, and might just be his wife, but I’m not certain) but I would say that it is really only partially successful. Some of it really is good, and some just doesn’t quite click for […]
- Trashcan Sinatras Interview and Session The Trashcan Sinatras were in the US this summer and on the morning after the last gig of their tour, the band travelled – somewhat dazed – to NYC to record a session. Video below, including an interview where the band reveal how they wooed next door neighbour Carly Simon to sing on their new album.
- Biffy Clyro New Album and European Tour 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.
- Kane, Cadamarteri, and Keynes: The State of the SPL I’m not sure if Scotland’s Premier footballing league more closely resembles the chaotic fractal patterns of a Mandelbrot diagram, with repeating patterns that are similar yet infinitely different; or the oscillators that occur in a computer-generated cellular automaton, constantly flitting between steady states.