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A Rugby Park Reckoning
I never bet on my team. It’s a rule I’ve followed since I was in high school, when I wagered with a Dons-supporting friend that Rangers would beat Aberdeen. Rangers lost, and I am convinced to this day we would have beaten them if I hadn’t made that bet. So allow me to sit on […]
Billy Williamson
May 12, 2011
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Swatpaz Animation: The Living Room Telly
This week on Dear Scotland, Mullguy and Bearsden discuss the best place to put the living room telly in another adventure from Weegie animator Swatrick Payze. And what is that brillso programme they’re watching?
Swatrick Payze
May 11, 2011
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PAWS – Reviewed
There were so many shite puns I nearly used for this title (PAWSome!, PAWS; the BAWS! and other abominations) but I showed some unusual restraint in the end, which will surprise some. It certainly surprised me. This lot surprised me too, I have to confess.
Matthew Young
May 7, 2011
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You Have Been Watching…(TV Special)…Down Among The Big Boys
Peter McDougall is a bit of a forgotten man these days, but, for a few years in the 1970s, he pretty much was modern Scottish drama. His TV plays Just Your Luck, The Elephant’s Graveyard, Just a Boy’s Game and especially the controversial Just Another Saturday, which included real footage of an Orange Walk and […]
Alistair Braidwood
May 6, 2011
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A Miss in Time
The Old Firm Decider the other week had few highlights, but the one truly memorable moment was something you don’t see very often: a top-drawer penalty save. Samaras struck a decent enough shot, but McGregor guessed well, got down to his left, and stopped the Celtic fans behind him from erupting in delight at a […]
Billy Williamson
May 5, 2011
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Swatpaz Animation: Fast Car Race
This week Scottish animator Swatrick Payze brings us another adventure featuring Davey, as he competes in the world’s fastest car race against some right dodgy characters.
Swatrick Payze
May 3, 2011
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Indelible Ink: Ali Smith’s ‘The Accidental’
Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start). Every story has a beginning, middle and an end. Ali Smith’s 2004 novel ‘The Accidental’ takes this truth and plays with it in a manner that is inventive, witty and incredibly assured. Smith had been winning awards and a growing readership since her […]
Alistair Braidwood
May 2, 2011
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FOUND – ‘Factorycraft’ Reviewed
This is going to be a really difficult record for me to review sensibly. This is not for the usual reasons – that I happen to consider the band to be good friends, although I do – but for a more mundane one: I actually know this music and these songs so well that sitting […]
Matthew Young
April 30, 2011
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You Have Been Watching…The Driver’s Seat
Here’s an oddity. An adaptation of Muriel Spark’s terrific and troubling novella The Driver’s Seat. It stars the late, great, Elizabeth Taylor as the enigmatic and troubled Lise, Iain Bannen as a man obsessed with macrobiotics and sex, Italian idol Guido Manneri and, in an unexpected cameo role as an unnamed English Lord, it’s only Andy Warhol! This […]
Alistair Braidwood
April 29, 2011
