Vicipedia is back this week and his pick of the Scottish international gigs this week is an easy one. Biffy Clyro saddle up with Motörhead and the Foo Fighters for an arena tour that takes in the Adams Center in Missoula, Montana on Thursday night. Vic has the full listing of all upcoming gigs below:

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 images of Eigg, Greenock, Scapa Flow and Loch Leven.

My my, this has been a long time coming, this particular review.  I put a song from this album on a podcast months ago, and have somehow never quite managed to write a review so umm… apologies for keeping you all waiting. Whilst this is was presented to me as an album, I get a […]

Last Sunday and Monday night saw a cracking period drama on BBC1. No change there then, but the period was the early 1980s in Glasgow. The Field of Blood may have done nothing to disuade people of the idea that Glasgow is No Mean City, but when the writing, direction and acting is of this […]

We’re in the middle of trophy season, so welcome to the inaugaural, and possibly only, GIRUY awards.  There are three categories of award: GIRUY, for an irritant or idiot; GIRFUY, for a person harming our game; and GIRFUY, YCY, for someone putting our game in mortal danger (the C doesn’t stand for “Clown”).

When I first started the Peenko blog, I never set out to predominantly focus on Scottish music, it was just something that I found myself getting drawn more and more into as I kept finding a wealth of great music in my own backyard. Butcher Boy were a prime example of a band that made […]

This week Vic has more on Orkney’s Erland and his Carnival who will be playing in Barcelona and Madrid this weekend. Other Scottish gigs abroad this week include Hud-Mo in Berlin, Glasvegas in Sweden and Mogwai with Errors in the US of A. Full details below:

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 images of Skye, Portencross, Ardrossan and Sollas.

I haven’t been all that excited by new Scottish bands for a while, so it’s quite nice to see some more interesting ones emerging again.