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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2010: Fangs
Glasgow band Fangs will be heading to SXSW for the first time this year. According to the band, they aim to deliver no-wave dirty disco direct to the dance floor. As well as their Austin gigs listed below, Fangs will also be dirtying dance floors in New York, Vegas and LA:
Shiner
February 20, 2010
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Interview with The Agitator
Like most of the new music featured on Dear Scotland, The Agitator was brought to our attention by Vic Galloway after Vic attended the Trans Musicales Festival in December. The Agitator is quickly gaining a reputation for his compelling live shows and he recently spoke to Dear Scotland about his upcoming tour of France and more:
Pete Reid
February 19, 2010
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2010: Codeine Velvet Club
Codeine Velvet Club is the new project of Jon Lawler from The Fratellis and the classically-trained, multi-instrumentalist, burlesque influenced Lou Hickey. Together with a cracking band that includes one of Scotland’s Greatest Ever Drummers, Ross McFarlane, they liken themselves to “John Barry playing with a rock’n’roll band”.
Shiner
February 18, 2010
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2010: Broken Records
Vic Galloway describes Broken Records as having “a sound that mixes up the emotive, propulsive energy of Arcade Fire, adds the worldy swing of Beirut and combines it with the epic, sincere songwriting of The Waterboys“.
Shiner
February 17, 2010
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Scotland at South by Southwest 2010
Four weeks tomorrow the music world will descend on Austin, Texas for one of the largest and most influential festivals of the year. South by Southwest, also known as SXSW, (or “South By” if you want to be annoying) will feature 16 15 14 Scottish bands in 2010. And Dear Scotland will be there too:
Pete Reid
February 16, 2010
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Interview with Alex Smoke
It seems that every Monday when we publish Vic Galloway’s Scotland on Tour listings, Glasgow’s Alex Smoke inevitably will have a gig somewhere exotic. Recently we caught up with Alex in Tokyo and asked him about his globetrotting, his new album and what his first song would be tonight at the DV1 Club in Lyon.
Pete Reid
February 12, 2010
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Interview with Three Blind Wolves
Glasgow’s Three Blind Wolves have been building a strong following back home and toured late last year with Frightened Rabbit. The band will be in Dublin later this month and we spoke to Ross Clark about playing in Ireland and why he might turn into Rab C. Nesbitt.
Pete Reid
February 5, 2010
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Paolo Nutini in Dubai and on Pink Tour
After a breakthrough year in 2009, Paolo Nutini’s album went back to Number One in the UK last month thanks to a show stealing performance on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. Next up for Paolo is a gig in Dubai and a German tour with Pink. Details and Jools videos below:
Shiner
February 4, 2010
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Twin Atlantic Announce First North American Tour
Twin Atlantic will be taking a major step towards their inevitable domination of America with a 40+ date tour with The Fall of Troy next month that includes SXSW. The band will also be in Europe again in February. Ticket links for each and every show and a preview of their new iphone game below:
Shiner
February 2, 2010
