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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2012 – The Scottish List and The SXSW Free Party Lists
The South by Southwest madness has already started here in Austin with the Film and Interactive festivals and SXSW Music officially starts on Wednesday. From various sources I have compiled a list of 59 Scottish gigs over the next few days. My head is already spinning.
Pete Reid
March 12, 2012
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – South By Southwest 2012
The 2012 SXSW Music Festival kicks off next week with 12 Scottish bands set to invade Austin. Unfortunately the weather forecast suggests that they may be bringing the Scottish weather with them. Nevertheless I’m sure that the barbeques will still be fired up and the margaritas will still flow. On Monday we’ll publish the full […]
Vic Galloway
March 9, 2012
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Indelible Ink: John Burnside’s ‘The Devil’s Footprints’
John Burnside recently won the T.S. Eliot prize and the Forward prize for his amazing poetry collection ‘Black Cat Bone’. In 1988 his debut book of poetry ‘The Hoop’ won The Scottish Arts Council Book Award. In between he has published eight novels and 13 collections of poetry nearly all of which won awards of […]
Alistair Braidwood
March 5, 2012
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Django Django in Dublin
It’s a busy time for Scottish bands touring internationally right now. SXSW is just around the corner and in the next few weeks The Twilight Sad head to the US, Simple Minds are in Europe and Hudson Mohawke is in Australia. Today, Vic has more on Django Django in Ireland and the full listing below:
Vic Galloway
February 17, 2012
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Scottish Bands at SXSW 2012 – Updated
Earlier today the Scottish Music Industry Association announced via press release that eleven Scottish bands, DJs and producers will showcase as part of this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The updated list adds several new acts to those that were already made public by SXSW last month.
Pete Reid
February 10, 2012
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Indelible Ink: Toni Davidson’s ‘Scar Culture’
Over the months I’ve written about some difficult and disturbing books. Duncan McLean’s ‘Bunker Man’ immediately springs to mind, but perhaps Toni Davidson’s 1999 debut novel ‘Scar Culture’ unsettles more than any other Scottish novel I have read. It’s never as salacious as McLean’s novel often becomes, but like ‘Bunker Man’ it deals with abuse; […]
Alistair Braidwood
February 6, 2012
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8 Scottish Bands Now Announced for South by Southwest 2012
A trawl through the 2012 SXSW music schedule published earlier today reveals that there at least 8 Scottish bands who have been invited to attend this year’s festival in Austin, Texas. We expect more to be announced in the next few weeks.
Pete Reid
January 18, 2012
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Scotland on Tour with Vic Galloway – Sons & Daughters in Melbourne
Having spent Hogmanay with Vic and Primal Scream in Edinburgh, Sons & Daughters have headed for some summer sunshine in Australia and will be in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth this week. Vic has more on them as well as the only complete listing of every Scottish gig outside the UK.
Vic Galloway
January 10, 2012
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Indelible Ink: Rodge Glass’ ‘No Fireworks’
When these columns started in November 2009 I suggested that there was a noticeable change happening in Scottish writing, and attempted to answer why. Here’s a short excerpt to give you a flavour: ‘You can argue the reasons for this new confidence in Scottish writing, when it began, or even if it exists at all, […]
Alistair Braidwood
January 2, 2012
