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Take Me Out – Alec Downie’s Top 20 Scottish Cover Versions (20-11)
I was watching a clip of Bowie & Annie Lennox, doing a rehearsal of Under Pressure for the Freddie Mercury Tribute and in the background George Michael, oblivious to the fact he is being filmed, is singing every word with them. Rockstars are just like us, they are fans first and musicians second and the […]
Alec Downie
August 12, 2009
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Malcolm Middleton Interview and European Tour
Falkirk’s Malcolm Middleton, formerly one half of Arab Strap, has as a solo musician become a voice of sparkling unpredictability, unafraid of touching on his own dark side. He will be touring extensively in Europe this autumn with The Pictish Trail (more later this week) and recently spoke with Matthew Young at the Homegame Festival […]
Matthew Young
August 11, 2009
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Interview with Kenny McColl of the Tartan Specials
AC/DC, The Eagles and U2 will play Hampden Park this summer. Now add the Tartan Specials to that list. The Tartan Army troubadours play in Oslo tonight and have been asked to play at half-time during Scotland’s last two home World Cup qualifiers. We caught up with Tartan Specials bass player, Brooklyn resident and occasional […]
Pete Reid
August 11, 2009
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Paolo Nutini shows in US and Canada
Paolo Nutini will be back in North America for the second leg of a tour that has already seen him play to sold out venues in New York, Chicago and Boston this summer. Listen to an interview with Paolo and get full ticket details below.
Shiner
August 10, 2009
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Vic Galloway’s Pick of This Week’s Scottish Gigs Abroad
Edinburgh’s Broken Records will play the Haldern Festival in Germany on Thursday evening and Vic highlights that show out of the many Scottish performances around the World this week. Details below.
Vic Galloway
August 10, 2009
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Twin Atlantic in Germany
Glaswegian band Twin Atlantic were in Austin earlier this year as part of the 2009 Scottish invasion at SXSW before they headed off to LA to record their debut album and get some new tattoos. The band will play two shows in Germany this month ahead of a headlining UK tour. Details below.
Shiner
August 7, 2009
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Catch Fish in Holland, Germany and Italy
Fish, the Codfather of Sole, will be performing a few scaled back shows later this month in Europe which promise to be off the hook. If anemone is interested details of the time and plaice are below.
Shiner
August 6, 2009
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Norway Match Preview and 10 Reasons Why I Hate Norway
Recently I upgraded to the new iPhone 3GS and it’s an amazing piece of technology. How amazing? Well, the other day I was typing the outline to this week’s column; I typed “Faddy fit”, and the iPhone changed it to “Daddy fit”. Too bloody right, I thought – Norway, who’s your daddy? Faddy’s your daddy. […]
Billy Williamson
August 6, 2009
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Distracted by Amazing Grace & Plastic Jocks
A few weeks ago I wrote an article for Dear Scotland on homesickness and used Glen Campbell’s (a Texan with a fine Scottish name) sublime version of Travis’s Sing as the catalyst to my thoughts. I then spent a week rediscovering The Incredible String Band for my last pieces; however I was continually distracted by […]
Alec Downie
August 5, 2009
