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Acid Trip
After the Liechtenstein-Scotland game last Saturday, two Scottish players were taken into a small room inside the Rheinpark Stadion to produce urine samples for a drug test. UEFA didn’t think the Scottish performance was so good it must have been drug-fuelled; it’s just standard procedure after every international game to test two players from each […]
Billy Williamson
October 13, 2011
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Veronica Falls in the US
This month, Vic Galloway has more on Veronica Falls who are touring now with The Drums. They’ll be in Portland tonight and Vancouver tomorrow. Also on tour this month – Admiral Fallow in Dublin, Jack Bruce in Norway and Aiden Moffat with RM Hubbert in Berlin.
Vic Galloway
October 10, 2011
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The Scottish Disease
I don’t care for rugby, but I visited an egg-chasing friend at the weekend so was obliged to accompany him to his local boozer on Saturday to watch fifteen genetic freaks lumber around under the dreich Auckland skies playing against the Scottish team. After a stout performance where the underdog Scots won an early lead […]
Billy Williamson
October 6, 2011
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Indelible Ink: A.L. Kennedy’s ‘Paradise’
There is a lot of alcohol in Scottish fiction, as there is in Scottish fact. Often this becomes an easy stereotype used to denote not only nationality but also social status. There is a belief that alcohol abuse is one of the boxes to tick in the ‘urban, gritty, working class’ novel, but this doesn’t […]
Alistair Braidwood
October 4, 2011
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On The Offense
Living in China, I’m used to reading stories of police wading into crowds to pull down banners deemed offensive to the authorities, and dragging away the ‘troublemakers’ who unfurl these slogans. Still, the most recent article I read about this was surprising.
Billy Williamson
September 29, 2011
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Scottish Entertainment / Actor News
This month in SEAN, Helygen has more on the Trainspotting sequel, rumours about new projects featuring Ewen McGregor and Alan Cumming, as well as video of Gerry Butler and Kelly Macdonald on the Late Late Show last week.
Helygen
September 26, 2011
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Methil, No More
Scotland, bloody Scotland. Less than three decades ago, home to a great footballing side, one feared, or at least admired, throughout Europe and beyond, for punching well beyond its weight. Now it has fallen on hard times: mediocrity has replaced magic. It’s a shift that didn’t happen overnight. But day by day, week by week, […]
Billy Williamson
September 22, 2011
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Meursault in Germany
This month, Vic Galloway has more on Meursault who are currently on tour in Germany. Other gigs this month include The Jetpacks in France, Veronica Falls in San Francisco, and Primal Scream in Argentina (thanks to another South American reader for pointing that out). Full details below:
Vic Galloway
September 16, 2011
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For The Good Of The Game
The future of Scottish football sits on Celtic’s shoulders. Following a catastrophic set of qualifying results which saw all four Scottish entrants dismissed from continental competition, Celtic were handed a reprieve when UEFA (rightfully, in my opinion) expelled FC Sion from the Europa League tournament. The Parkhead side replaced the team that knocked them out […]
Billy Williamson
September 15, 2011
