Deacon Blue

Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2011 - Beauly, Inverness, 5-6 Aug

Newcomers prove themselves at summer festival highlight

30 Aug 2011

Selling out in record time once again, this year's Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival put up a good fight against the weekend's floods to deliver arguably its best instalment to date. Mule-packed with a dizzying array of arts performances, from the…

Homecoming Live

4 Dec 2009

The cynic might have viewed this musical finale to the Scottish Government’s grand attempt to reel back a few ex-pat Kiwis and Canucks in terms of all the iconic and available Scots bands who weren’t playing. Where were Franz Ferdinand, Glasvegas…

Homecoming Final Fling - ditch cynical, think musical

19 Nov 2009

You know the big speech by Renton in Trainspotting where he goes on about how it’s ‘shite being Scottish’? Well, he was only half right. His defeatist rant is a quintessential example of that under-a-dreich-cloud Scottish pessimism, rubbishing…

McIntosh Ross

29 Oct 2009

The piano hook on UK hip hop urchin Chipmunk’s new single, ‘Oopsy Daisy’, is curious. By ‘curious’ we mean ‘hugely akin to “Wages Day”’ by Deacon Blue’. And by ‘Deacon Blue’, we mean ‘superb’. History has been unjust to Scotland’s abiding social-pop…

Runrig's Loch Lomond voted Scotland's greatest song

11 Dec 2008

Runrig’s Loch Lomond has pocketed the title Scotland’s Greatest Song in a poll run by charity ScotsCare. The band secured 40% of the vote narrowly beating Big Country who scored 37% of the vote. Surprisingly, Dougie McLean’s stirring Caledonia…

New gigs announced, 24 April - Frankmusic, James, Teenage Fanclub and more

24 Apr 2008

Keeping you up to date with all the best new Scottish gigs announced in the last 24 hours: More shows have been announced for the 02 Wireless Weekender's Glasgow leg. Joining Sam Sparro as support for his Oran Mor gig on 9 May are Frankmusic and Jack…