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This Week in SEAN
This week in SEAN, two Scottish films will premiere at the Tribeca film festival, a new John Barrowman interview and Gerard Butler is busy promoting The Bounty Hunter. Videos below include Gerry on the red carpet in NYC, on Good Morning America the next morning without any sleep and on Letterman later that day.
Saba I.
March 23, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: Codeine Velvet Club
With the chaos of SXSW over for another year, most of the Scottish bands are heading home now but the Codeine Velvet Club were on a 6am flight to Seattle yesterday to start a mini west coast tour with Metric. Vic has more on CVC and all the details of Scotland on Tour this week:
Vic Galloway
March 22, 2010
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Video Highlights of Scottish Artists at SXSW Part 1
This week Dear Scotland contributors Vic Galloway and Matthew Young joined me and 13 Scottish bands at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Video highlights from the first two days are below including clips from Colin MacIntyre, Tommy Reilly, Unicorn Kid, Frightened Rabbit, Hudson Mohawke and Codeine Velvet Club.
Pete Reid
March 19, 2010
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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.
Lloyd Meredith
March 17, 2010
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Scottish Entertainment / Actor News
This week in SEAN, David Tennant’s Einstein film gets a premiere date on HBO, Ewan McGregor considers how his life would be as Philip Seymour Hoffman’s boyfriend and Kevin McKidd demonstrates incredible patience when fielding inane questions about Scotland on ‘Chelsea Lately’.
Saba I.
March 16, 2010
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway: SXSW 2010
This week is almost certainly the biggest week of the year for Scottish international gigs. 14 Scottish bands are heading to the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas and Vic will be there too. Here is his preview together with a listing of more than 80 Scottish gigs around the world this week:
Vic Galloway
March 15, 2010
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Interview with Unicorn Kid
Our week of interviews with the Scottish artists attending South by Southwest concludes with a chat with Unicorn Kid. Edinburgh teenager Oli Sabin already toured the US last year with Owl City and he spoke with Dear Scotland yesterday about that experience and his upcoming SXSW gigs.
Pete Reid
March 13, 2010
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Scottish Artists at SXSW 2010: Unicorn Kid
Though the first official day of the South by Southwest Music festival is Wednesday next week, the first Scottish gig will actually be Unicorn Kid’s Tuesday night gig at the UK SXSW Interactive party. For a full listing of all Unicorn Kid’s SXSW gigs see below:
Shiner
March 13, 2010
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Interview with Tommy Reilly
Tommy Reilly is a young Glaswegian singer-songwriter with a big future. After SXSW he’ll play his first ever New York gig before heading out on tour with The Proclaimers in the UK. The other day Tommy spoke to Dear Scotland about why next week might be the best week of his life so far:
Pete Reid
March 12, 2010
