• Interview with Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai The world premiere of Mogwai’s new film ‘Burning’, recorded live in Brooklyn earlier this year, will take place next week in Copenhagen with Stuart Braithwaite playing a DJ set after the screening. Yesterday, Stuart, one of Scotland’s greatest ever guitarists, answered a few of our questions and let us know who would get his vote. Pete Reid
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    November 6, 2009
  • Vote for Scotland’s Greatest Ever Guitarist Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts last week. It was incredibly difficult for us to narrow the field down to five, but in the end the Dear Scotland contributors settled on Adamson, Braithwaite, Jansch, Robertson and Young. This poll will close in exactly one week. So vote now. Pete Reid
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    November 4, 2009
  • Who is Scotland’s Greatest Ever Guitarist? Inspired by Alec’s column last week, we think it is time to decide once and for all who is Scotland’s greatest ever guitarist. This week we invite more of your suggestions and next week we’ll nominate 5 for a public vote. Today Glaswegian singer-songwriter Roddy Hart tells us why he’s endorsing John Martyn. Pete Reid
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    October 28, 2009
  • Tell Mogwai, I Do Like Pundays As regular readers will know, Dear Scotland loves  Scottish music. But we also love puns (eg “Jesus! It’s Nazareth“).  So one might imagine the delight we felt at the epic punnery that recently emanated from Mogwai guitar hero Stuart Braithwaite. As you will see below, with such a fine grasp of wordplay, one can only […] Shiner
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    August 21, 2009