Belarusian Scot Lucy Ross aka Dollskabeat has been lazily compared to current buzz acts Little Boots and La Roux, but her stylish electronica  looks more to the future than the past. Based in Edinburgh, Dollskabeat will be playing in Croatia later this summer.

Selkirk’s Frightened Rabbit will be hopping over the Atlantic this summer to play a free show in front of tens of thousands of fans at NYC’s Siren Festival. The next day, the Rabbits will find themselves in Chicago, playing before another massive crowd at the annual Pitchfork Festival. They’ll also be playing a few east […]

20 years ago this week, Scotland reached the final of the Under 16 World Cup, before losing to Saudi Arabia on penalties. A crowd of 50,000 watched Craig Brown’s team come within a few whiskers of being World champions – the whiskers on the Saudi players’ upper lips that is.

For the week of June 29 – July 5, 2009. Camera Obscura in Ohio and Pennsylvania After a massively successful jaunt to the USA and 6 shows at the world-renowned ‘South by South West’ showcase in Austin Texas, Camera Obscura’s star is very much in ascendance.

Andy Murray. It could have been me. I’m man enough to admit it’s been tough watching the inexorable rise from loose-limbed, awkward teen looking like a puppy pawing at a persistent fly to the hardened, ridiculously talented yet still wonderfully acerbic world No.3 he’s become.

PROLOGUE There’s a part in Anthony Burgess’s novel “A Clockwork Orange” where the anti-hero, Alex, is subjected to “The Ludovico Technique”.  This is intended to cure him of his violent tendencies, and the implementation involves him being forced to watch violent acts on a cinema screen while under the influence of a drug which induces […]

2008 marked the 40th Anniversary since the original four members of legendary rockers Nazareth got together back in Fife in 1968. The band have never really stopped touring and continue to play to devoted fans around the world. This summer the band will be in Canada before heading back to Eastern Europe.

  “When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have” – Edgar Watson Howe Following our tragic national tradition that sees our brightest minds scattered like wilting heather around the globe, I recently put myself into self imposed exile in Didim Turkey and spent 21 months […]

Scotland’s favourite Cockney Rod Stewart is heading back out on the road again in Ireland and Germany before heading over to North America this summer. Despite recent rumours of a Faces reunion including Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, Rod will be sailing solo this time.