A very special Christmas video, featuring a very Scottish Santa:

This has been a difficult article for me to write. Not because the book that I am about to review isn’t good. It’s very good. It’s the new biography of The Blue Nile and it’s important to me to get it right. This is because The Blue Nile, or at least their music, play an […]

“All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit,” sang Half Man Half Biscuit.  You can’t get that in the Dear Scotland Shop – you can’t get them anywhere, was the subtext of the song title – but you can get other items of retro chic and Scottish football memorabilia.  Take a look.

The older I get, the more I find myself listening to folk music. It’s odd to think that during my teens I grew up on a staple diet of heavy rock and punk. I think my teenage self would be horrified by my current taste in music, then again what do kids at that age […]

A bit of a quiet week in SEAN today with news from David Tennant and Dougray Scott on the ‘United’ set and Gerard Butler’s new L’Oreal advert, but with Ewan and Alan Cumming both scheduled to appear on US telly in the next few days, Saba will have more videos and gossip coming soon:

We have had a few technical issues with the Scotland on Tour database recently but that has now been resolved and a quick glance shows that Teenage Fanclub, Fangs, The Cinematics, Fran Healy and Isobel Campbell all have gigs abroad this week. Full dates and more from Vic on Isobel 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 Edinburgh. Ben Lomond, Wigtown Bay and South Uist.

As much as I can like Frightened Rabbit, I am not sure their legacy was particularly good for Glasgow bands.  The number of pale imitations I have heard in the last couple of years has been rather disheartening, in much the same way that far too many London bands seem to still be trying to […]

It’s been a recent theme that many of the films featured on these pages had only the briefest of visits to cinemas before being shelved. This week’s choice didn’t even make it that far. Apparently the BBFC didn’t even think it worth giving it an age certification. But the most baffling aspect of this neglect is that […]