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FOUND win BAFTA, gig in Hamburg
After a highly successful trip to New York, Edinburgh’s FOUND will play the ByteFM Ball in Hamburg later this month. On Sunday night FOUND won a Scottish BAFTA for their Cybraphon project and we spoke to Ziggy yesterday about what he was thinking as he stood on stage next to Lorraine Kelly.
Shiner
November 10, 2009
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway : Dolby Anol
This week BBC Radio’s Vic Galloway tells us why Dolby Anol in Berne is his pick of all the Scottish artists playing outside the UK this week. Twin Atlantic, The Twilight Sad, Paolo Nutini and Biffy Clyro all have gigs in Central Europe too. Full details of all this week’s international shows below:
Vic Galloway
November 9, 2009
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Interview with Twin Atlantic
Twin Atlantic were definitely one of the buzz bands at the CMJ Festival last month and tomorrow night the Glasgow band will kick off a European tour with The Fall of Troy in Germany. Tour details follow an interview that drummer Craig Neale gave us ahead of the band’s first ever New York gigs.
Pete Reid
November 7, 2009
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Interview with Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai
The world premiere of Mogwai’s new film ‘Burning’, recorded live in Brooklyn earlier this year, will take place next week in Copenhagen with Stuart Braithwaite playing a DJ set after the screening. Yesterday, Stuart, one of Scotland’s greatest ever guitarists, answered a few of our questions and let us know who would get his vote.
Pete Reid
November 6, 2009
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The Twilight Sad in Europe Now
The Twilight Sad continue to blaze their way across the world in support of their latest album ‘Forget the Night Ahead’. Having survived the FatCat Scotland US tour, the band are currently in Europe before finishing the year with two intimate shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Full details below.
Shiner
November 5, 2009
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Vote for Scotland’s Greatest Ever Guitarist
Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts last week. It was incredibly difficult for us to narrow the field down to five, but in the end the Dear Scotland contributors settled on Adamson, Braithwaite, Jansch, Robertson and Young. This poll will close in exactly one week. So vote now.
Pete Reid
November 4, 2009
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Malcolm Middleton gigs in Prague and Athens
The nights are fair drawing in and Malcolm Middleton is excited again about music. He’ll play solo in Prague and Athens next week ahead of a “Long, Dark Night” acoustic tour of the UK. Malcolm has also been back in the studio with Aidan Moffat working on an Arab Strap boxset and more:
Shiner
November 3, 2009
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway : Primal Scream
Primal Scream will play the Planeta Terra Festival in Sao Paolo next weekend and Vic chooses that as his Scottish gig of the week. Full details on all the Scottish international gigs this week are below, along with Vic’s interesting thoughts on the Scotland’s Greatest Ever Guitarist issue. Vote this Wednesday.
Vic Galloway
November 2, 2009
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The [Future] King of Scotland – ‘The Complicated Honest Truth’ Reviewed
This record has sort of dropped into my lap out of nowhere, and I’ve spent a long time listening to it before writing this review. It has a somewhat sprawling feel, despite being only three-quarters of an hour long, but that’s because it’s composed of twenty-one snippets of ideas, sprinkled through with digressions and interludes, […]
Matthew Young
October 31, 2009
