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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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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Brother Louis Collective
So here we are with week two of ‘Scots Way-Hay’ and still that cheesy title isn’t getting any better. Thankfully though the music remains at a high standard. This weeks victims are ‘Brother Louis Collective’, an indie-pop five, sometimes going on six piece from Glasgow.
Lloyd Meredith
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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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway : Twin Atlantic
Every Monday on Dear Scotland, Radio 1’s Vic Galloway highlights one of the Scottish bands playing outside the UK that week alongside the only listing of all the Scottish gigs abroad. This week, Vic has more on Glasgow’s Twin Atlantic who will be supporting White Lies in Zurich:
Vic Galloway
February 15, 2010
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Django Django – ‘Love’s Dart’ Reviewed
As has been the trend recently, I have been very, very slow to post about these lads, despite having first heard and liked their stuff bloody ages ago. I honestly don’t know why, either, because I liked them from the very first time I heard them. Sometimes these things just happen, I guess.
Matthew Young
February 13, 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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Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – Ardentjohn
So here we are in the first of what I plan to be a weekly feature, cheesily entitled ‘Scots Way-Hay’ (if you think that’s bad you should have seen the one’s I chose not to use). If all goes according to plan I should have a band/artist introducing themselves to you each week.
Lloyd Meredith
February 10, 2010
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Minstrels, Poets and Vagabonds…
I recently received a copy of Minstrels Poets and Vagabonds, the history of rock music in Glasgow from the sixties up to the present day. Written by promoter and DJ Robert Fields the book is a fascinating history of a musical genre that is at best ignored, at worst ridiculed.
Alistair Braidwood
February 10, 2010
