Take an Australian, a Frenchman, a Scot and a couple of Mancunians and what have you got? No, not the start of some crappy joke, they are in fact a cracking wee Edinburgh based band that got me just a little bit excited a couple of months ago.

This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Craig Ferguson has some surprising news, Brian Cox joins the new Planet of the Apes film, a sporran-full of Scottish actors are cast in HBO’s new drama series and Henry Ian Cusick is on the streets of NYC in Law and Order:

Every Monday, the legend that is Vic Galloway brings us the only listing of every Scottish band playing abroad this week along with one of his highlights. This week Vic has more on Glasgow’s Errors, (featuring Scotland’s 2nd Greatest Ever Drummer*) who are in Amsterdam tonight.

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 Knockando, Skye, Broughty Ferry and Dunnottar Castle.

‘They Shoot Music Don’t They’ regularly film the world’s best new bands on the streets of their hometown Vienna. Recently they visited Scotland to capture some of our finest musicians in unusual places. This week, Beerjacket in a phone box and a barber shop on Sauchiehall Street.

This week’s film is the wonderfully titled Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself. Set in present day Glasgow this 2002 movie is a real European affair, co-produced as it is by Scotland, France, Denmark and Sweden. This international feel stretches to a wonderfully eclectic cast which includes the always brilliant Shirley Henderson, Mads Mikkelsen (seen recently […]

My tournament began in the conference room of a fund management company on George Street in Edinburgh: I had travelled through from Glasgow for the day to visit a friend who had invited me to watch South Africa-Mexico on an extremely large flat screen TV in his office.  A month later, I staggered out of […]

I first saw ‘Cancel the Astronauts’ last year in Edinburgh. Worryingly, the venue looked like a shabby school sports hall and there were cupcakes at the bar. Then when the band bounded on stage my only thoughts were: ‘The singer is wearing trackie bottoms? Well, this is going to be bollocks’. How wrong I was.

This week in SEAN, Alan Cumming talks about being nominated for an Emmy, Henry Ian Cusick is set to return to US telly, photos of Gerry Butler on the Machine Gun Preacher set and footage of David Tennant filming in the Isle of Man and the Hebrides. Saba has more: