May is looking like a good month for fans of Scottish music in Brazil. Camera Obscura will be there on the 27th and 28th and Glasgow’s Trembling Bells have just announced a couple of gigs in Ribeirão Preto and Sao Paolo. Details as always on the Scotland on Tour page. More on Trembling Bells below:

This week in SEAN, a look at James McAvoy in Robert Redford’s new Civil War film, new photos of Gerry Butler on the set of Coriolanus, Ewan McGregor has a couple of shandies at the White House Correspondents Dinner and Kevin McKidd makes People Magazine’s Most Beautiful list, despite being a ginger:

At last year’s Edinburgh Book Festival James Kelman complained that genre fiction was being packaged and promoted to the detriment of ‘literary’ fiction, such as, by coincidence, his own. His argument was that we don’t properly celebrate and engage with the country’s ‘difficult’ literature preferring the comfort of genre. He is reported to have claimed […]

Following Mathew’s glowing review of their new album ‘Crystals Fall’ on Saturday, Radio 1’s Vic Galloway has Sparrow and the Workshop’s shows in central Europe and Scandinavia as his Scottish international gigs of this week. The band’s video diary from France is below along with details on every Scottish show abroad this week.

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 Loch Leven, The Forth Bridges, Girdle Ness Lighthouse and Calton Hill.

Crystals Fall?  How about Bear Wolf Crystal Fucks Fall, just to make it properly Pitchforky?  Crystals bloody Fall my arse. Anyhow, I am not all that keen on the name, but that’s about all I can find wrong with this album, despite the fact that it does a lot of things I don’t like.

Taking their name from a mutual appreciation of the parka coat, Glasgow’s Fur Hood will be leaving the jackets behind and heading out to southern Spain for a gig next month. Fur Hood spoke to us about the show and the last time they visited Spain when they had a bit of a scrap.

Snow Patrol have added more dates to their upcoming European tour to take in Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands as a nice little warm up for their gig at Bellahouston Park on June 12th. Full details below along with some of Gary’s favourite viral videos at the moment:

“Too big to fail” is a term that’s been heard a lot in the last couple of years, mainly in relation to giant financial institutions receiving massive government bailouts because the alternative – allowing these banks to go under – could trigger the collapse of the global financial system. It’s also a term that many […]