Taking on the world
with Amy Macdonald (...)
Of course, we’re supposed to be talking music – but speaking the day after Scotland’s crucial win over Israel, it’s inevitable that we get onto the subject of football
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Strike The Colours
Work to rule (with Jenny Reeve)
They do say that good things come to those that wait. In which case, the new album from Strike The Colours is as expected
North Atlantic Oscillation
The appliance of science (with Sam Healy)
With a name like North Atlantic Oscillation, Sam Healy’s band seem unlikely to be pushing Ed Sheeran-style acoustic pop into the charts.
Malcolm Middleton’s living the Fife life
Living the Fife life (in Anstruther)
My call takes Malcolm Middleton by surprise – he’s engrossed, selecting Hallowe’en costumes.
The Twilight Sad
Cure tour is a real tonic (with James Graham)
Never meet your heroes, they say. But try telling that to The Twilight Sad‘s James Graham.
Could Admiral Fallow and Field Music work together? You Tell Me…
You Tell Me (with Sarah Hayes)
“Who’s in The Guide section this week?” “You Tell Me.” “No, seriously, who?”
Making movies of life
with Horse Mcdonald (with (bracketed))
Regular readers will know we like to offer celebrity health advice, so when Horse Mcdonald admits to suffering a “hideous cold”, we have to ask how she got through her gig the previous night in Lanark. “I’ve skills from singing all those years so I picked my way through,” she confesses. Playing for more than […]
Karine Polwart
Tabling a political motion (and talking Trump)
Sometimes, the life of a musician on tour is seen as a exotic one.
Bill Wells
Baltic beats (and all that jazz)
Any other Scottish act releasing a new album on a Tallinn-based record label would turn heads.
Ian Donaldson
Looking to the stars - again (with the former H2O singer)
The 1980s, it seems, are back in fashion. Well, if they ever were in fashion. But among the poodle perms and bad trousers was something of a Scottish invasion on the charts.