May 17, 2012: The 10 albums which will compete to win the SAY Award on June 19 (and a first prize of £20,000) have been announced: Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older; Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel; Happy Particles – Under Sleeping Waves; King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine; Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will; Mungo’s Hi Fi – Forward Ever; Remember Remember – The Quickening; Rustie – Glass Swords; Tommy Smith – Karma; Twin Atlantic – Free (public vote winners). Each of these shortlisted artists are already guaranteed £1,000.
May 16, 2012: The line-up for this year’s King Tut’s Summer Nights has been announced, with a cast of all-Scottish talent gracing the Glasgow venue over a fortnight. July 12: Pronto Mama + Brazil Exists + The Little Kicks + Lost City Soul; July 13: Hector Bizerk + Madhat McGore + Bigg Taj feat Spee SixNine + Becci Wallace & BilL Breaks; July 14: John Wean + The NK Jays + Seed + Minor Delilah; July 15: Xavia + Lost in Audio + Atlas : Empire + Seams; July 16: Daniel Docherty + Craig Fagan + Chloe Latimer + Anna Shields; July 17: Beerjacket + Quickbeam + Mike Nisbet; July 18: Brown Bear and the Bandits + The Sea Kings + Aaron Wright + Lovers Turn To Monsters; July 19: Midnight Lion + Galleries + Aames; July 20: Holy Esque + Queen Jane + The Mirror Trap + The 10:04s; July 21: Jack Butler + Selective Service + Mickey 9′s + Kobi; July 22: The Recovery! + Hunt / Gather + Fat Janitor + No Island; July 23: The Unwinding Hours + Olympic Swimmers + Dead Electric; July 24: Fires Attract + Scarlet Shift + The Darien Venture + Crusades; July 25: Randolph’s Leap + Jonny Jack + Blue Sky Archives + Bronagh Monahan; July 26: Darc + The Mouse That Ate The Cat + Johnny And The Giros + TeKlo.
May 15, 2012: Admiral Fallow’s fantastic new album, Tree Bursts In Snow, is streaming on This Is Fake DIY ahead of its May 21 release date.
Fatherson, Meursault, Bwani Junction, Remember Remember, FOUND, Kitty The Lion, Capitals and Woodenbox will all appear at a new all-day event called Thistly Fest at Belhaven Fruit Farm in Dunbar on July 28.
This Silent Forest were featured on STV’s News at Six yesterday – fast-forward to 13:40 once you get past the annoying adverts – about Jetpace’s Inklink technology, which sees downloads codes put on merchandise (featured on The Pop Cop four months ago).
The LaFontaines are hosting a Big Font Day Out with special guests playing at various locations around Glasgow from 3pm-11pm on May 26.
May 14, 2012: For one day only (today), the public has the chance to vote for their favourite Scottish album in the SAY Award longlist, with the most popular artist guaranteed a place in the 10-strong shortlist, so pick your favourite here.
Fridge Magnets have made it onto this week’s BBC Radio 1 playlist with their track Feeling Grows.
Iain Cook (The Unwinding Hours), Lauren Mayberry (Blue Sky Archives) and Martin Doherty (The Twilight Sad) have formed a new electro-pop band called CHURCHES – check out their first offering Lies.
May 11, 2012: Highland bands Team Kapowski, The Whisky River Band, Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders, Red Kites, Homework and Be Like Pablo have been hand-picked by Netsounds Unsigned and Inverness Gigs to join the RockNess line-up on June 8-10.
The Big Stooshie festival in Fife last weekend featuring James and Glasvegas has racked up major debts (the site owner is quoted in The Courier saying, ”We’re talking telephone numbers”) after a much lower than expected turnout.
May 10, 2012: Amy Macdonald will play five Scottish gigs on June 12 in aid of the STV Appeal. She’ll be at Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree (8.30am), Dundee’s Duke’s Corner (12.30pm), Stirling’s Tolbooth (4pm), Edinburgh’s Caves (8pm) and Glasgow’s SWG3 (11pm).
Glasgow’s Roxy 171 is hosting an instrument swap on Sunday afternoon when there will also be free live music from Little Fire, Laura Carswell and Fraser MacPherson.
May 9, 2012: The line-up for The Insider Festival (named The Insider Olympiad this year) in Aviemore on June 15-17 features a fine array of talent including – Friday: Optimo Espacio, Roddy Woomble, Remember Remember, Miaoux Miaoux, Kettle Of Kites, The Dirty Beggars, Two Wings, Homework, Gav Prentice; Saturday: The Phantom Band, Stanley Odd, Three Blind Wolves, Profisee, The Little Kicks, The State Broadcasters, Sarah Hayes, Dead Man’s Waltz; Sunday: Admiral Fallow, Rachel Sermanni, Meursault, Laki Mera, The Admiral Fallow Lawn Takeover (featuring Siobhan Wilson, Open Swimmer, Blochestra).
The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess will give a reading from his autobiography Telling Stories followed by a Q&A and book signing at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow on June 9. The band will perform their Tellin’ Stories album in its entirety at Aberdeen’s Music Hall on August 24 and Edinburgh’s Picture House on August 25.
May 8, 2012: Rachel Sermanni has a video for her new single Eggshells, as does The Son(s) for If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Again, taken from the Leviathan EP.
Doune The Rabbit Hole have added King Creosote, Kid Canaveral, Hidden Orchestra, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard and Pram to their line-up at Duncarron Fort in Carron Valley on August 24-26.
May 7, 2012: French Wives’ debut album Dream Of The Inbetween is out today. The band are playing a free gig at Glasgow’s Captain’s Rest tonight.
We See Lights’ new single Hopeless At Maths is available for free download. You can see them at Inverness’ Hootananny on May 10 (free), Thurso’s Newmarket Bar on May 11, Dornoch Catherdral on May 12 (free) and Perth’s Letham St Mark’s Church on May 13 (free).
Kassidy’s second album One Man Army entered the UK charts at No.51 and the Scottish charts at No.4.
May 4, 2012: HMV Glasgow Promotions will be putting on a monthly acoustic showcase for local talent starting with Audiodriver + Brown Bear & The Bandits + The Dots + Huevo And The Giant at the Buchanan Street store on June 5.
Biffy Clyro have revealed their next album, due out later this year, will be a double album called The Land At The End Of Our Toes and The Sand At The Core Of Our Bones.
PAWS’ first release for FatCat Records, the Misled Youth EP, is streaming in full on The Skinny ahead of its May 14 release date.
May 3, 2012: Over The Wall frontman Gav Prentice will support We Were Promised Jetpacks on their tour dates at Dundee’s Doghouse on May 23, Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree on May 24, Inverness’ Ironworks on May 25, Dunfermline’s PJ Molloys on May 26, Stirling’s Tolbooth on May 31. Their previously announced gig at Coatbridge’s Soundwave Studios on June 1 has been scrapped after the venue announced they will stop hosting live shows due to “council and financial restraints”.
A new music industry-focused blog called Let’s Submerge has been launched by Scottish band managers Nicky Carder and Marcus McNeill.
May 2, 2012: A couple of interesting articles for you – Sarah-Louise Kelly wrote a blog post/public apology about a stage invasion she was part of at Glasgow’s Maggie Mays last week to protest against what she thought was the promoter’s pay-to-play policy. Also worth a read is this Facebook post from This Silent Forest frontman and Bloc gig booker Graeme Macdonald titled “Musicans Vs all the other helpful people”.
A new outdoor festival called Comlongon Rocks takes place on Saturday at Comlongon Castle in Dumfries, with a line-up of around 50 local acts including Xavia and Finding Albert.
Greenock independent record store Rhythmic is closing down on May 25.
May 1, 2012: Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire is to reopen after refurbishment on May 10 and will host has a series of free gigs headlined by Minature Dinosaurs (May 11), Tango In The Attic (May 12), The Marvels (May 18) and Cancel The Astronauts (May 25).
April 30, 2012: Aerials Up have split up with immediate effect, with a post on Facebook reading: “We are devastated to have to announce that we are no longer together. The reality of life and the juggling of time and money has proved too much.”
The Slow Club night, which takes place every Tuesday at Glasgow’s Bloc, will be raising money for Teenage Cancer Trust during their series of free gigs in the coming month - the headliners are Jonathan Sebastian Knight (May 1), The Birthday Suit (May 8), The Seventeenth Century (tbc) (May 15), Little Fire (May 22) and Make Sparks (May 29).
April 27, 2012: The Imagineers have unveiled a promo video for their pre-recorded performances on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show, which will see them on the CBS network for five consecutive nights from May 14-18.
To celebrate Glasgow promoters Milk’s first birthday party at Flat 0/1, they are resurrecting three Scottish bands from the dead – Drive-By Argument, Jocasta Sleeps and Theatre Fall - for a one-off gig on June 6.
April 26, 2012: Buzzcocks, Willy Mason, Rachel Sermanni, Lianne La Havas, Lanterns On The Lake, Niteworks, Red Sky July and Little Mill Of Happiness are the latest additions to the Belladrum Festival bill on August 3-4.
Fatherson have made it onto the BBC Radio 1 playlist with their track Gone Fission, which you can download for free on Bandcamp.
Tommy Reilly is offering fans the chance to pre-order his third album via his PledgeMusic page, on which he claims he was “chewed up and spat out by the big budget, major label, music business”.
Otherpeople have announced their imminent split, explaining that they “can no longer dedicate enough time to being semi decent at playing”.
April 25, 2012: The venue on Aberdeen’s Windmill Brae previously known as Warehouse (and before that Moshulu), which shut two years ago, is opening its doors again as The Garage under new management. The first confirmed gig there is Mark Lanegan Band on August 28.
The List is advertising for a new Editor to succeed Jonny Ensall, who has a new job at Time Out. Deadline to apply is May 25.
April 20, 2012: Over The Wall frontman Gav Prentice is playing Glasgow’s Art School on May 7 (supporting Loney, Dear) ahead of the release of his solo album The Invisible Hand later this year.
Other newly-announced Glasgow gigs include Friends In America + Young Aviators at Bloc on April 25 (free), French Wives at Captain’s Rest on May 7 (free), Withered Hand + Beerjacket + Second Hand Marching Band on May 18, The Ting Tings at Glasgow’s QMU on June 26, and Grandaddy at Glasgow’s ABC1 on August 30.
April 19, 2012: The line-up for this year’s Wickerman Festival in Dumfries & Galloway on July 20-21 has been announced – among the acts playing are Scissor Sisters, Texas, The View, Cast, Kassidy, Bis, Human Don’t Be Angry, Beerjacket, There Will Be Fireworks, United Fruit, Holy Mountain, Julia And The Doogans, The LaFontaines and Martin John Henry. Check out Glasgow PodcArt’s excellent guide to the Solus Tent.
Admiral Fallow have unveiled the video for their new single The Paper Trench which features a treeman (exactly as it sounds) walking around Glasgow and Loch Lomond.
April 18, 2012: Zoey Van Goey have scrapped all scheduled gigs, including Stirling’s Tolbooth on April 21 and Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on June 1, due to “unavoidable personal circumstances”.
The Imagineers will be playing on the Late Late Show on the week of May 14 in an episode presenter Craig Ferguson filmed last month in Scotland.
April 17, 2012: goNORTH have unveiled a 64-strong list of artists who will appear at the music showcase event in Inverness on June 6-7.
King Creosote, The Pictish Trail and Randolph’s Leap are playing Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket on June 18 to launch Refugee Week Scotland.
April 16, 2012: Glasgow’s Oran Mor will host around 20 acts on June 24 for the West End Festival’s closing party. The line-up so far includes We Were Promised Jetpacks, Remember Remember, Monoganon (Auditorium); Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells, Withered Hand, RM Hubbert (Venue); Wounded Knee, Theapplesofenergy (Bar). The full West End Festival programme will be revealed on April 25.
April 13, 2012: A live music event called Downhill Downtown will run alongside the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Fort William on June 8-9. Acts appearing at the Nevis Centre include Stanley Odd (Friday), King Creosote, The Phantom Band, Admiral Fallow, Bwani Junction, Homework and The Little Kicks (Saturday). Weekend tickets here.
April 12, 2012: Pre-sale tickets are on sale for Bloc Party at Glasgow’s Garage on June 19 using the password ytrapcolb2012 on this site.
Dan Mangan is playing Glasgow’s Stereo on April 19.
April 11, 2012: Erland Cooper, the Orcadian frontman of Erland & The Carnival, has formed a new group called The Magnetic North. Their debut album Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North – out on May 7 via Full Time Hobby – was apparently inspired by a dream Erland had in which Betty Corrigall (an 18th century Orcadian woman who killed herself in tragic circumstances) told him to make a record about his homeland. He and bandmates Simon Tong and Hannah Peel duly obliged, writing and recording in the Cooper family home in Stromness and other locations in Orkney. The band play Kirkwall’s St Magnus Catherdal on June 28 as part of the St Magnus Festival. You can watch videos for Bay of Skaill and Rackwick.
April 10, 2012: The LaFontaines have made a really cool video with some free running and bike tricks for new single Light Up The Background, which comes out on May 28. The band play Glasgow’s QMU on May 19 (supporting The Dykeenies), Dunfermline’s Jam Jar on May 24, Edinburgh’s Electric Circus on May 25, Aberdeen’s Tunnels on May 27, Thurso’s Newmarket Bar on May 28, Wick’s Blackstairs Lounge on May 29, Inverness’ Ironworks on May 30, Dundee’s Doghouse on May 31, Dumfries’ The Venue on June 1 and Kilmarnock’s Dirty Weekender on June 2.
April 9, 2012: Edinburgh label Gerry Loves Records have put together an informative blog post about vinyl and tape production.
April 7, 2012: A new half-day mini-festival called Outskirts will take place at Platform in Easterhouse on April 28 featuring a mixture of music, performance and visual art. The event includes a set from Aidan Moffat, a live collaboration between Future Pilot AKA, Paul Thomson and Richard Youngs, a short acoustic performance by Vashti Bunyan as well as a screening of her documentary From Here To Before, and a reading from Alasdair Gray.
April 6, 2012: Solas Festival are looking for artists to play their stage for unsigned artists, FRESH, on June 24. Apply here.
April 5, 2012: Take A Worm For A Walk Week play their last ever gig tonight at Glasgow’s Stereo.
April 4, 2012: I Build Collapsible Mountains’ new album Songs From That Never Scene is available to buy on Bandcamp. He plays Aberdeen’s Project Slogan on April 7, Edinburgh’s Pleasance Theatre on April 11 and Dundee’s Doghouse on April 29.
A free-to-download compilation called Home Alone showcases a dozen acts from the north-east of Scotland including Be Like Pablo, The Little Kicks, Marionettes and JJ Bull.
April 3, 2012: Admiral Fallow will headline the Friday night of the Solas Festival, which takes place in Wiston, South Lanarkshire, on June 22-24. Also on the bill are Washington Irving and Stanley Odd.
PCL Presents have a job vacancy for a full-time live music promoter, based in Glasgow.
April 2, 2012: A new monthly acoustic night called Peas ‘n’ Loaf is launching on April 8 at Glasgow’s Old Hairdressers with sets from Mike Nisbet, Kathryn Sawers and an unannounced headliner, while Pictish Trail, French Wives and Siobhan Wilson are on the May 13 bill.
Aerials Up have released their new single The Old And The Innocent, taken from their forthcoming debut album Breach which is due out in September.
March 31, 2012: Roddy Hart has been given his own show on BBC Radio Scotland every Thursday from 22:30-00:30. The first one will be on April 5.
March 30, 2012: Pin Up Nights’ eight-year run ends at The Flying Duck in Glasgow tonight with their Game Over night featuring sets from The Twilight Sad, Malcolm Middleton, Emma Pollock, Miaoux Miaoux and Sonny Marvello. Alas, their petition to get Jarvis Cocker to DJ proved unsuccessful but the man himself did send a message in which he promised to dedicate a song “to Pin-Ups and all the kind people who backed the ‘Get Cocker’ campaign” at Pulp’s gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday night.
GUST (Glasgow University Student Television) have made an excellent documentary called The Best Sing-Alongs Always Come In Glasgow with interviews and exclusive performances from Fatherson, Washington Irving, Michael Cassidy and Julia & The Doogans.
March 29, 2012: There Will Be Fireworks trumpet player Karen Fishwick stars in this new Irn-Bru advert.
March 28, 2012: Here are a few new tunes for you to hear: Song Of Return’s Trapped Inside The Night (streaming for 24 hours only), new recordings from Letters, some tracks from Chasing Owls’ forthcoming Quell EP, a free download of Jon Fratelli’s Crazy Lovers Song and Lightships’ cover of Moondogs’ Do Your Thing.
March 27, 2012: The Seventeenth Century, Friends In America, Kettle Of Kites, The Cosmic Dead, Robin Adams, Los Tentakils, Beldina O and Dead Boy Robotics are all playing at The Lighthouse in Glasgow on March 31 for the Spaced In The City launch show, which also features visual art, live art, visual installation, performance art, fashion and an invitation to members of the public to bring their own instrument.
Wizard Festival in Aberdeenshire is taking a year off and will be back in 2013.
T in the Park have added The Jezabels, We Are Augustines, Django Django, The Subways, Shed Seven, McFly, Cher Lloyd, Cover Drive, Lawson and Childish Gambino to their line-up.
March 26, 2012: Make Sparks’ brilliant new video for Rewind can be viewed exclusively on Rock Sound – it has some fantastic choreography. The band’s video-making talents were featured on The Pop Cop last November.
Emma Pollock, Jill O’Sullivan and comedian Sanjeev Kohli are among several collaborators to a new project called The Grand Gestures founded by former Spare Snare frontman Jan Burnett. The group will release an album on May 28 (tasters here) ahead of their live debut at Glasgow’s King Tut’s on June 1.
Gig promoters Cry Parrot will mark their 5th birthday with sets from Auntie Flo, Blue Sabbath Black Fiji & Gum Takes Tooth, Sacred Paws, Dam Mantle, Silk Cut and The Rosy Crucifixion at Glasgow’s Glue Factory on April 27.
March 25, 2012: Overlook Records will celebrate their first birthday with a mini-festival at Glasgow’s Captain’s Rest on June 2 featuring sets from Trapped In Kansas, The Darien Venture, Salò, So Many Animal Calls, Bellow Below, Vasa and Crusades.
The Xcerts will play Glasgow’s Garage on May 16 (supported by Fatherson), Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree on May 17, Thurso’s Newmarket Bar on May 18 and Dumfries’ The Venue on May 19.
March 23, 2012: There are two Communion nights in Scotland next week – Blue Sky Archives + Siobhan Wilson + Michael Cassidy + Sweetheart Revue + The Streetlight Conspiracy at Glasgow’s Captain’s Rest on March 27 and The Dirty Beggars + Sunshine Social + Ajimal + Emily Scott at Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s on March 28. Other newly-announced gigs include Meursault at Glasgow’s King Tut’s on April 21 and Lucy Rose at Glasgow’s Oran Mor on June 10.
March 22, 2012: Mitchell Museum have confirmed their first gig since officially coming back from a 199-day “extended leave”. They will support Fixers at Glasgow’s King Tut’s on May 21. Go here to listen to their excellent comeback song Glasshouse. Behold The Old Bear, the band formed by Mitchell Museum drummer Raindeer, play Glasgow’s Stereo tomorrow in the first of a series of taster gigs featuring acts appearing at this summer’s Doune The Rabbit Hole festival.
March 21, 2012: Record Store Day on April 21 will see a host of exclusive releases including Admiral Fallow’s debut album Boots Met My Face on vinyl, Belle & Sebastian’s cover of Crash by The Primitives on 7″, Twin Atlantic’s Make A Beast Of Myself on 7″ and Edwyn Collins’ Tape Box on six 7″s. Confirmed instore gigs include Glasgow’s Love Music – Admiral Fallow and Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers; Glasgow’s Rubadub – Joy Orbison; Edinburgh’s Coda Music – Kris Drever, Bella Hardy, Rura and Rab Noakes; Edinburgh’s Avalanche Records – Withered Hand and Gordon McIntyre (Ballboy).
We Were Promised Jetpacks will play Peebles Burgh Hall on June 2 as part of bike festival TweedLove. You can watch a complete half-hour set they played at SXSW last week on Rolling Stone.
March 20, 2012: Former Dananananaykroyd members John Baillie Junior, David Roy, Ryan McGinness and Paul Bannon have formed a new band called Alarm Bells – they will make their live debut at Glasgow’s Nice ‘n’ Sleazy on April 19.
Where We Lay Our Heads are promoting their very nice debut single Bury You (free download/video) with gigs at Glasgow’s Captain’s Rest on March 21, Inverness’ Hootananny on March 22, Thurso’s Newmarket Bar on March 23, Skye’s Saucy Mary’s on March 24, Edinburgh’s Wee Red Bar on March 25 and Gourock’s Cafe Continental on March 29, with support from Letters (promoting new single The Halfway House) on all but the last of those dates.
March 19, 2012: Burnsong are accepting entries for The Gathering, their annual songwriting competition for artists based in Scotland. Winners will secure a place at the UK Songwriting Festival at Shennanton House in Galloway from August 12-17 where they will receive intensive tuition before taking part in a live showcase at Bladnoch Distillery. To enter, artists aged 18+ should upload no more than two tracks inspired by the work of Robert Burns to Burnsong’s Soundcloud by May 12.
On a similar note, The Billy Kelly Songwriting Award launches tomorrow at the open-mic night at Oran Mor in Glasgow, where application forms will be available. The winning artist, chosen in November after at least two heats, will get a package worth £5,000. The 2010 winners, Sunshine Social, will launch their debut EP at Oran Mor on Thursday.
March 16, 2012: Will Hanson’s song Home is being used on the trailer for the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road.
LightGuides will play their first gig of the year at the MILK night at Glasgow’s Flat 0/1 on March 21. We Are Augustines are playing Glasgow’s Captain’s Rest ABC2 on May 10.
March 15, 2012: We Were Promised Jetpacks are to headline the inaugural Dirty Weekender festival in Kilmarnock on June 1-3, whose line-up over two venues (Bakers and Dirty Martinis) will feature 40+ Scottish acts including Mike Nisbet, Rod Jones, Carnivores, Shambles Miller, Julie And The Doogans, This Silent Forest and A Fight You Can’t Win.
The launch party for new label Comets & Cartwheels will take place on board the Tall Ship docked at Glasgow Harbour on April 13, with sets from Quickbeam, Endor and Washington Irving.
March 14, 2012: The Big Beach Ball, a new all-day event with a dance-oriented line-up, will take place at Aberdeen’s Beach Ballroom on May 6.
March 13, 2012: Arbroath’s Coast Nightclub will host a two-day event called Rock The Broath on April 28-29 featuring a load of bands including Flood Of Red, Kitty The Lion, The Mouse That Ate The Cat, Wecamefromwolves, Hip Parade and Hopeless Heroic.
Lightships, the new project of Teenage Fanclub’s Gerard Love, will make their live debut at Glasgow’s CCA on May 4.
March 12, 2012: Dot JR has unleashed his first new material since signing to Polydor, a seven-track mixtape called ‘Til I Get My Way, which you can download for free from here.
A new Scottish label called Turnkey Music is holding a free launch night at Glasgow’s Roxy 171 on March 23 featuring Forest Fires, Bear Arms and Seams. Before that, there’s a pre-launch gig at Glasgow’s Nice ‘n’ Sleazy on March 15 with Young Aviators, Copper Lungs, Marvel Heights and Roman Road all on the bill.
Song Of Return are playing Aberdeen’s Tunnels on March 29, Edinburgh’s Wee Red Bar on March 30 and Glasgow’s ABC2 on March 31 (support on all dates from Indian Red Lopez) ahead of their upcoming trip to New York for winning The Big Apple Award.
March 10, 2012: We Were Promised Jetpacks will play Dundee’s Doghouse on May 23, Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree on May 24, Inverness’ Ironworks on May 25, Dunfermline’s PJ Molloys on May 26, Stirling’s Tolbooth on May 31 and Coatbridge’s Soundwave Studios on
June 1.
March 9, 2012: Belladrum have announced 20 acts for the festival in Beauly, Inverness-shire on August 3-4 including Travis (Friday headliners), The Wombats (Saturday headliners), Frightened Rabbit, We Are Scientists, Slow Club, Bastille, Fink, Nina Nesbitt, Fatherson, Stanley Odd, James Mackenzie And The Aquascene and Iain McLaughlin & The Outsiders.
Song, by Toad Records are giving away an 18-track label sampler on Bandcamp featuring the likes of Meursault, Jesus H. Foxx and Rob St. John.
March 8, 2012: The Scottish Music Industry Association are advertising for a part-time temporary events manager (£1,000 per month for three months) and a part-time temporary communications manager (£500 per month for four months). Deadline to apply for either job is March 14.
March 7, 2012: Aerials Up, Discopolis, Kobi Onyame, PartWindPartWolf and A Plastic Rose are playing Glasgow’s QMU on March 17. Entry is open to students as well as non-students, who can buy tickets here.
Admiral Fallow are looking for extras wearing “smart wedding reception-style clothes” for a video shoot in Glasgow on Sunday from 8am-5pm. Email nicky@playparkmusic.co.uk for more details if interested in taking part.
March 6, 2012: T Break are accepting submissions from unsigned acts hoping to play this summer’s T in the Park festival on July 6-8. The deadline to apply for one of 16 slots is April 2.
March 5, 2012: Fatherson have unveiled a new video for their forthcoming single First Born – the last 45 seconds are uncannily similar to the video for Your Heart’s On Fire by Make Sparks, and First Born even contains the lyrics “my heart’s on fire”. Make Sparks’ new Part Of The Masquerade EP is out now.
March 2, 2012: The full list of winners at last night’s 2012 Scottish Alternative Music Awards were: Best Live Act – We Were Promised Jetpacks; Best Rock/Alternative – Fatherson; Best Electronic – Fridge Magnets; Best Newcomer – Bwani Junction; Best Metal – Ten Tonne Dozer; Best Hip Hop – Madhat McGore; Best Acoustic – Brown Bear & The Bandits.
RockNess have added about 20 new names to their line-up on June 8-10 including Admiral Fallow, The View, Friendly Fires, The Drums, The Rapture, Mylo, Kassidy, Lucy Rose, Bastille, Mystery Jets and Knife Party – tickets on sale here.
March 1, 2012: Early-bird tickets costing a third of the normal price are on sale for annual music conference Wide Days, which takes place at Edinburgh’s Teviot Row House on April 11-12. You can read The Pop Cop review of last year’s excellent event here.