The Cinematics are in Belgium tonight, Nurnberg on Wednesday and Berlin on Friday, and Vic highlights those gigs as his pick of this week’s Scottish shows abroad. The band have recently finished recording a new album which will be released on 28th September 2009.

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 some of the best images from last summer of Iona, Loch Lomond, Pollokshaws and Skye.

Earlier this summer Matthew recorded a stunning session with Ziggy and Tommy from Edinburgh band Found. The inventors of the magnificent Cybraphon were on top form and Matthew captured something really special on a beautiful day in Edinburgh.

Now a Sky Sports pundit and a scout for Middlesborough, Scotland legend Gordon McQueen sat down with James Rogers to discuss a controversial career that included playing under Brian Clough at Leeds, leaving Elland Road to join rivals Man Utd and a certain Scotland v England match at Wembley in 1977.

This week on his BBC Radio Scotland show, Vic devoted the entire two hours to his favourite cover versions. This included exclusive session track covers from Scottish bands The View, My Latest Novel, the 1990s and Camera Obscura which might well cause Alec to reconsider his top 20 list.

Such an emotional game. Billy went through the same emotions we all did. And he wrote about it as it happened from a bar somewhere in China. Maybe it’s too soon, but in time you will want to relive this game through Billy’s live updates that follow. Because that feeling that we could and should […]

This week on Dear Scotland, Swatrick Payze brings us two more animated adventures from Mull-guy and Bearsden as they Race Into Town and discuss a recent Dancing Competition.

After a poor first half on Saturday, something motivated the Scottish team to raise their game and play their best football of the campaign so far. Was it the Burley team talk or perhaps the half-time sing-along led by the Tartan Specials? We spoke with Kenny McColl and also look at tonight’s qualification permutations.

Commotionless Lloyd Cole will be playing dates in California, New Zealand, Australia and France this autumn before heading to Glasgow to join King Creosote, The View, The Bluebells, Deacon Blue and more at the final Homecoming event of the year at the SECC. Full details below.