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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Young Fathers in Paris
Edinburgh’s Young Fathers will be taking their unique brand of Hip-Hop to Paris this week and Vic Galloway has chosen that as his Scottish international gig of the week. More below along with details of all the gigs abroad including Biffy Clyro, Simple Minds and Annie Stevenson.
Vic Galloway
June 14, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: We Are The Physics in France
Glasgow’s We Are The Physics will be en Tours this week. Specifically the band will play at the Festival Aucard de Tours in France. Vic Galloway sidesteps the opportunity for more weak French puns but has more on ‘The Physics’ below as well as his weekly listing of every Scottish band playing abroad this week:
Vic Galloway
June 7, 2010
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Interview with Ex Simple Minds
‘Ex Simple Minds’ features original Minds’ drummer Brian McGee and Greatest Ever Bass Player* Derek Forbes alongside Brian’s brother Owen Paul, (yes that Owen Paul). We recently interviewed all 3 legends who spoke candidly about their careers and provided us with easily the greatest ever answers to our “best after-show” question.
Pete Reid
June 4, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Vic Galloway in Sweden!
After a year writing about all the great Scottish acts playing around the world, Vic is off to Gothenburg at the weekend to perform a DJ set at the Ritz and quite rightly it’s the gig of the week. More details below along with info on every other Scottish show abroad this week.
Vic Galloway
May 31, 2010
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Simple Minds Summertime Dates in Europe
Simple Minds have announced 20 more gigs across Europe this summer including a reunion with old pals The Waterboys at the Lots Festival in the Netherlands. You can also catch ‘Lostboy!’ the side project from Scotland’s Greatest Ever Vocalist* at King Tuts in Glasgow on Saturday night. Details below:
Shiner
May 20, 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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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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And Scotland’s Greatest Ever Bassist is…
…Derek Forbes, according to the readers of Dear Scotland. Many thanks to the thousands of new visitors to the site in the past week who voted. Derek joins Stuart Adamson and Paul Thomson in Dear Scotland’s Greatest Ever Supergroup. Some great DF moments below:
Pete Reid
December 9, 2009
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Twin Atlantic Tour Update and Greatest Drummer Pick
Twin Atlantic’s scheduled tour of Europe hit a few snags this week but last night’s show with Fall of Troy in Heidelberg went ahead and tonight’s show in Paris is definitely happening. Craig Neale has also been in touch to give us his suggestion for Scotland’s Greatest Ever Drummer:
Shiner
November 14, 2009
