News
The latest music, comedy and arts news from Scotland.
-
Music
Edinburgh's Red Dog Music Wins Big
It's a brutal thing to state, but it could be argued that on the upside the recession really has done us all a favour by cutting the wheat from the chaff as ... Read more »| 15 Oct 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Every now and then a show comes along that rewrites the rules and changes the way television is made. Such was the first series of BBC1’s Criminal Just... Read more »| 12 Oct 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, is it? In the earliest years of this millennium, we were loving every decade (Andrew Collins and Stewart Maconie mo... Read more »| 05 Oct 2009 -
Music
Edinburgh Artist Helps HungerFREE Campaign
23 million East Africans, across seven countries, are facing a state of severe hunger and destitution due to the area's ongoing drought, and little means to ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
No-one does nature documentaries like the BBC. It's a simple equation; David Attenborough's hushed narration + sublime footage = TV gold. The Blue Planet, Th... Read more »| 28 Sep 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
You just can't get the staff these days... or so you'd think by watching the shambles that is Live From Studio Five (Channel Five, daily). In attempting to o... Read more »| 21 Sep 2009
-
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Thank goodness BBC3’s ‘wacky’ new sitcom We Are Klang (BBC3, Monday) finished this week. The team behind the show may have received their s... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
It all went a bit Final Destination this week in EastEnders (BBC1, Thursday) with born again nut-job Lucas accidentally impaling his ex-lover on a rake and l... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
My top find of last week was A1: The Road Musical (More4, Tuesday), a pseudo-documentary directed and composed by Benjamin Till and part of First Cut, the ch... Read more »| 31 Aug 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
Having never studied English history, epic Henry VIII drama The Tudors (Fridays, BBC2, 9pm) never held much appeal, but still very much at the forefront of B... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Music
Burnsong 2009: Get Yer Entries In
Burnsong 2006 provided the catalyst that combined a stellar variety of musicians in one melting pot, united by the common goal to write and rehearse songs th... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Latest News
TV Blog: The best (and worst) of the week's telly
With episode five shown this week, we’re late in the run of kitchen sink drama The Street (BBC1, Mondays, 9pm), but there is still time to get on board... Read more »| 17 Aug 2009 -
Music
Michael Jackson has died
Michael Jackson has died in hospital at age 50, after suffering a suspected heart attack, according to popular entertainment website TMZ. The "king of pop" ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2009 -
Music
Beck, MGMT and Devendra Banhart to rework classic albums
Beck has recruited friends to form the ‘Record Club’, an informal group which will re-record classic LPs in one-day sessions. The singer has anno... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009 -
Festivals
Unique retrospective of Bengali cinema opens in Edinburgh
The St John's Church Hall in Edinburgh has been transformed into a Sunderbans jungle for a three-day Bengali film retrospective of classics by Satyajit Ray, ... Read more »| 19 Jun 2009