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This Week in the Gloaming 2010 #2
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 a snowy Scotland including Achnashellach, Ardvreck Castle, Kirkgunzeon and Glasgow Cathedral.
Colin Campbell
January 10, 2010
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Matthew’s Thoughts on the Coming Year
This is just a brief list of some stuff I’m looking forward to in the Edinburgh music scene over the coming year. I don’t intend to be parochial about this, or too narrow, but I am not as close to the precise ins and outs of what’s happening in the rest of the country so […]
Matthew Young
January 9, 2010
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Interview with Derek Forbes, Scotland’s Greatest Ever Bassist
Our ‘Scotland’s Greatest’ polls stirred a lot of debate on these pages but we thought the Greatest Bassist Derek Forbes should have the final word for now. We asked the former Simple Minds and Propaganda member about his favourite Youtube videos, his new band and who got his vote for Scotland’s Greatest Ever Vocalist.
Pete Reid
January 8, 2010
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We Were Promised Jetpacks European and North American Tour Dates
With one of the best albums of 2009 and a growing following at home, We Were Promised Jetpacks look set to be Scotland’s next breakthrough act. The band have announced a headline tour of Europe and North America which will keep them on the road until March. Full details below.
Shiner
January 7, 2010
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From Harthill to Harajuku – A Journey Through Scottish Football Fashion
Before Sunday’s Old Firm game, I performed the usual ritual. Open up the bottom drawer and rummel around in 25-odd years worth of old Rangers shirts to find the one for the game. This time, I settled on the 1990-92 Admiral version (see it here). Normally a certain shirt brings back memories of certain players […]
Billy Williamson
January 7, 2010
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And Scotland’s Greatest Ever Vocalist is…
…Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, according to the readers of Dear Scotland. Almost three and a half thousand votes were cast and in the end Jim Kerr edged out the sensational Alex Harvey for the title. Jim joins former bandmate Derek Forbes, Stuart Adamson and Franz Ferdinand’s Paul Thomson in Dear Scotland’s Greatest Ever Supergroup:
Pete Reid
January 6, 2010
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The Cinematics Bring Love and Terror to Europe
The Cinematics met in Dingwall and are currently based in Glasgow but it seems like Central Europe is beginning to feel like home for the band. Next month the guys will return there for 19 shows in support of second album ‘Love and Terror’. Ticket details below along with extracts from their 2009 tour diary:
Shiner
January 5, 2010
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This Week in SEAN
This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Ewan McGregor teams up with Jim Carrey, new trailers for ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and ‘The Last Station’, David Tennant on QI and John Hannah stars in the upcoming Spartacus TV drama. Saba has all the latest:
Saba I.
January 5, 2010
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Indelible Ink : Be Near Me
Andrew O’Hagan’s Booker nominated 2006 novel Be Near Me tackles themes which are common in modern Scottish literature, but in a manner which is very much of his own styling. Religion, politics, bigotry, class, nationality and sexuality are explored in the novel but with a more considered eye than many of his contemporaries. There is […]
Alistair Braidwood
January 4, 2010
