- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Belle and Sebastian in Mexico Having played one of the shows of the year last week in Brooklyn with Teenage Fanclub, Belle and Sebastian head to LA and then onto Mexico where they will play three gigs with The Vaselines. Radio 1’s Vic Galloway has more on that and a listing of all the other Scottish gigs abroad this week.
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Hey Enemy in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Belgium Radio Scotland and Radio 1 legend Vic Galloway has more on the brilliant new Scottish band ‘Hey Enemy’ and why they are the band to see this week in Europe. Vic also has the only listing of every Scottish band on tour outside the UK this week. Check out Scotland on Tour for more shows.
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Sparrow and the Workshop in Ireland Vic is back from his jollies and will return to Radio Scotland tonight with Kid Canaveral live. Bands on tour this week include Hey Enemy, Teenage Fanclub and The Cinematics but Vic has more on Glasgow’s Sparrow and the Workshop who will join Biffy Clyro, The View, and Broken Records in Ireland for Arthur’s Day.
- Peenko’s Scots Way-Hay! – The Boy Who Trapped The Sun It’s not often that I post about artists on major labels, however, in The Boy Who Trapped The Sun’s case I am more than happy to make an exception. It was the session that he recorded for Vic Galloway last year that first brought him to my attention.
- By the Time I Get To Greenock “When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have” – Edgar Watson Howe. Having been coaxed out of ‘self imposed exile’ by Dear Scotland, this was the first of many brilliant articles by Alec Downie on the joys of Scottish music . Happy Birthday Alec.
- Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway : Rustie Glasgow’s Rustie has been described as “the sound of the underground before the underground has even had a chance to get out of bed”. Vic Galloway highlights Rustie’s sets at Vega in Copenhagen on Friday and at Rocket in Milan on Saturday as the pick of all the Scottish gigs outside the UK this week:
- By the Time I Get To Greenock “When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have” – Edgar Watson Howe Following our tragic national tradition that sees our brightest minds scattered like wilting heather around the globe, I recently put myself into self imposed exile in Didim Turkey and spent 21 months […]
