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This Week in the Gloaming 2010 #19
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 Turnberry Lighthouse, Ardnamurchan Point, Sheriffmuir and Bow Fiddle Rock.
Colin Campbell
May 9, 2010
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The Scottish Enlightenment – ‘Pascal’ EP Reviewed
This is not only a bloody good EP, it is also the resurrection of an extremely promising band I feared might be slowly drifting into obscurity, as well as my introduction to a really exciting-looking new Glaswegian record label: Armellodie Records.
Matthew Young
May 8, 2010
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Interview with Mike Scott of The Waterboys
Edinburgh’s Mike Scott remains one of the true legends of Scottish music and his new Waterboys show “An Appointment with Mr Yeats” has been a massive success. Mike Scott spoke to Dear Scotland this week about the new show, his favourite Waterboys videos and what he really thinks when he hears certain U2 songs.
Pete Reid
May 7, 2010
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Three Blind Wolves in The Netherlands
Glasgow’s Three Blind Wolves have announced a mini tour of The Netherlands to promote their forthcoming mini album ‘Sound of the Storm’. There is nothing mini about their sound however and singer-songwriter Ross Clark will be proving that to audiences in Utrecht and Amsterdam later this month. Details below:
Shiner
May 6, 2010
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When the seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea
This week an interesting football match broke out in Scotland! The final Old Firm game of the season was expected to be a strange affair and surely it was – strangely full of decent attacking football and strings of passes from both teams. Maybe the lack of meaning in the game allowed football to emerge […]
Billy Williamson
May 6, 2010
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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Super Adventure Club
And now for something completely different. For those of a nervous disposition, this might be the time to look away, as you are about to enter the weird and wonderful world of the Super Adventure Club. Yes they’re on the same label as last weeks Scot Way-Hay’ers The Scottish Enlightenment, but the similarities end there.
Lloyd Meredith
May 5, 2010
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Trembling Bells in Brazil
May is looking like a good month for fans of Scottish music in Brazil. Camera Obscura will be there on the 27th and 28th and Glasgow’s Trembling Bells have just announced a couple of gigs in Ribeirão Preto and Sao Paolo. Details as always on the Scotland on Tour page. More on Trembling Bells below:
Shiner
May 4, 2010
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Scottish Entertainment / Actor News
This week in SEAN, a look at James McAvoy in Robert Redford’s new Civil War film, new photos of Gerry Butler on the set of Coriolanus, Ewan McGregor has a couple of shandies at the White House Correspondents Dinner and Kevin McKidd makes People Magazine’s Most Beautiful list, despite being a ginger:
Saba I.
May 4, 2010
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Indelible Ink : The Cutting Room
At last year’s Edinburgh Book Festival James Kelman complained that genre fiction was being packaged and promoted to the detriment of ‘literary’ fiction, such as, by coincidence, his own. His argument was that we don’t properly celebrate and engage with the country’s ‘difficult’ literature preferring the comfort of genre. He is reported to have claimed […]
Alistair Braidwood
May 3, 2010