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Skol, Skol, Skol, Skol…
This Sunday sees the sixth meeting of the Old Firm this season, and the first that will directly result in silverware – the League Cup. This tournament came into being in 1947. I’m not entirely sure why – presumably to throw a few more games into the calendar and thus bring a few more pounds […]
Billy Williamson
March 17, 2011
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: The Scottish Invasion of SXSW 2011
The biggest week of the year for Scottish music outside the UK starts here. Right now, there are 15 Scottish bands on their way to Austin, including Withered Hand*. The final list of all the Scottish gigs is below with a full preview from Uncle Vic.
Vic Galloway
March 14, 2011
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You Have Been Watching…Gregory’s Two Girls
This is a real oddity. Bill Forsyth is my favourite Scottish film-maker, a man who can do little wrong, and that little is Gregory’s 2 Girls. It’s not terrible, no matter what you may have heard, but even I can’t claim that it’s very good. It’s all over the place, as if Forsyth started to make […]
Alistair Braidwood
March 11, 2011
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El Radge Hadji and El Rey Pele
I’ve watched Rangers games in many strange places. I listened to the 1994 New Year’s Old Firm in a flat in Dakar on a short wave radio; I watched Paul Le Guen’s first game in 2006 in a hotel in Bombay; and in January this year I sat in a ski lodge in Japan while […]
Billy Williamson
March 10, 2011
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2011 – The Scottish List and The SXSW Free Party List
One week to go and the [un]official SXSW free party list is out. Reading this list will give you a headache, such is the amount of bands, free booze and bbq listed. But that’s good practice if you plan to attend, because that’s how your head will feel all week.
Pete Reid
March 8, 2011
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Kid Canaveral, Rachel Sermanni and Withered Hand in New York
As they travel the road towards SXSW and Austin’s new music extravaganza, some Scottish bands are taking the initiative to book some shows before and after the event. This makes sense in a load of ways. They’re in the USA already, the travel costs have been paid and they might even help earn some cash […]
Vic Galloway
March 7, 2011
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Indelible Ink: Duncan McLean’s ‘Bunker Man’
There is a quote on the cover of my paperback of Duncan McLean’s ‘Bunker Man’ from Cosmopolitan Magazine that claims ‘Duncan McLean is Scotland’s answer to Roddy Doyle’. If a fan of Doyle were to pick up ‘Bunker Man’ on this recommendation they would be in for a shock, particularly if their knowledge of Doyle […]
Alistair Braidwood
March 7, 2011
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You Have Been Watching (Glasgow Film Festival Special)…You Instead
Movies and music can make for uncomfortable bedfellows when that relationship moves beyond soundtrack duties. For every This is Spinal Tap, Hedwig and the Angry Inch or La Bamba (hugely underrated) there’s a Hearts of Fire, a Breaking Glass, a Rock Star and a Fear of a Black Hat. David Mackenzie’s You Instead, which premièred at the Glasgow […]
Alistair Braidwood
March 4, 2011
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What’s the Hampden? (Part 1 of a very very occasional series)
Billy is still on his travels this week, although he probably found somewhere to watch Rangers get gubbed by Celtic for the second time in as many weeks. To cheer him up here is a ‘classic’ article where Billy looks at some memorable games in Scottish football history that all ended 4-1.
Billy Williamson
March 3, 2011
