Vic has more on The Unwinding Hours this month who are currently blazing a trail through Europe. Tonight they're in Switzerland, tomorrow they will be in Metz and they have just announced a last minute show in London on Friday. Full details of all Scottish gigs abroad on the Scotland on Tour page. The Unwinding [...]
Vic returns with his recommendation for the Scottish international gig of the month and it's a cracker. Next Friday night Admiral Fallow will support Franz Ferdinand at the Winterthurer Musikfestwochen in Switzerland. Other Scottish bands on tour outside the UK right now include Django Django, Mogwai and Rod Stewart. Admiral Fallow at Winterthurer Musikfestwochen by [...]
Vic will be on Radio Scotland each night this week on the 'Get It On' show from 6-8pm UK time. Below he has more on electro-prog-rock-tronica outfit North Atlantic Oscillation who start an 11 date European tour in the Netherlands next weekend. Full details below: North Atlantic Oscillation in Europe by Vic Galloway One of [...]
This weeks listings feature international dates including Belle and Sebastian in Japan and Mogwai in Germany, while Vic has more on the triumphant return of Glasvegas who kick of a European tour in Denmark next weekend. More below: Glasvegas in Denmark by Vic Galloway With the huge weight of expectation lumped upon their shoulders after [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Broken Records and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on Edwyn Collins who is in Austria, Germany and Turkey this week. Next month Edwyn will visit New York, Austin and Japan. More below: Edwyn Collins in Germany, Austria and Turkey by Vic Galloway It's been [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from Fran Healy, KT Tunstall and Biffy Clyro, while Vic has more on, arguably, Scotland's biggest band Mogwai who celebrate the release of their new album today with a gig in Dublin tonight. The album is out in the US tomorrow. Details, as always, below: Mogwai in Ireland by [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from The Phantom Band, Isobel Campbell and Lloyd Cole, while Vic has more on Edinburgh's Broken Records who have a busy week with gigs in four countries. They will then start their first US tour on February 20th. Broken Records in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France. by Vic Galloway [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from Twin Atlantic, Broken Records, Isobel Campbell and The Vaselines while Vic has more on legends Primal Scream and their Screamadelica Anniversary tour down under. Primal Scream in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. by Vic Galloway It's amazing and ever-so-slightly scary (for me anyway!) to know that Primal Scream's classic [...]
This weeks listings include international dates from Twin Atlantic, Primal Scream, The Vaselines and Hudson Mohawke, while Uncle Vic has more on Glasgow's Three Blind Wolves who finish their Dutch tour with gigs in Nijmegen, Groningen, Amsterdam and Zwolle. Three Blind Wolves in Nijmegen, Groningen, Amsterdam and Zwolle. by Vic Galloway Led by the irrepressible [...]
The 2011 Scottish international tour calendar finally gets going this week with Three Blind Wolves in the Netherlands and Primal Scream in New Zealand and Australia. And Vic has more on the Phantom Band who are in Ireland. The Phantom Band in Cork, Dublin and Limerick by Vic Galloway The Phantom Band are absolutely superb, [...]
As Vic has been taking a well earned break after hosting Edinburgh's Hogmanay party with Biffy Clyro, Dear Scotland has been updating the Scotland on Tour database with almost 300 new international shows from Scottish artists as diverse as Primal Scream, Isobel Campbell, Mogwai, Eddi Reader and Nazareth. Check it out below: Scotland on Tour [...]
Where are you on Hogmanay? Got any major plans? I have, and then some... Last year, I hosted the Waverley Stage as part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations -- one of the most respected and well-loved street parties in all the world. This year, I'm back... but on the mainstage! The Ross Bandstand in Princes Street [...]
Biffy Clyro's gig last night with Muse in Perth, Australia looks to have been the last of the hundreds of Scottish international gigs in 2010 so we asked Vic to tell us his gig of the year. He gave us two from the same band: Frightened Rabbit. Vic's Best Gigs of 2010 -- Frightened Rabbit [...]
There are only a few shows left in 2010, but fans of Scottish music on the East Coast of the US are in for a treat this week with Fran Healy in New York and ex Beta Band genius Steve Mason playing some rare acoustic shows in DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston. Vic has more: [...]
Vic is back after putting together his definitive list of the albums of 2010. On that list was Edwyn Collins new record and Vic has more on Edwyn who is on tour this week in Germany. Other artists touring this week include Biffy in Australia, and Fran Healy in the US. Full details below. Edwyn [...]
We have had a few technical issues with the Scotland on Tour database recently but that has now been resolved and a quick glance shows that Teenage Fanclub, Fangs, The Cinematics, Fran Healy and Isobel Campbell all have gigs abroad this week. Full dates and more from Vic on Isobel below: Isobel Campbell in Spain [...]
As Matthew so sweetly wrote the other day, Vic will be passing on his Radio 1 show to Ally McCrae soon, but he will continue to bring us the best in new music each week on Radio Scotland and his pick of Scottish bands on tour here on Dear Scotland. This week -- Trembling Bells. [...]
Vic was in Austin with me this past weekend for the brilliant Fun Fun Fun Festival which is why this article is being published slightly later than usual. Anyway, Vic's on his way back to sunny Scotland now but before he left he picked Teenage Fanclub in Germany as his international gig of the week. [...]
As we mentioned last week, The Phantom Band just played their first ever US shows at the CMJ Festival in New York and they'll now head down to Atlanta to join Frightened Rabbit on tour. Those dates are below and Vic has more on Sparrow and the Workshop in Italy: Sparrow and the Workshop in [...]
This week Glasgow's The Vaselines will be heading up the West Coast of North America with a Friday night show in Seattle likely to be one of the highlights. Also on tour this week in the US are Belle and Sebastian, Isobel Campbell, and Frightened Rabbit who hit Austin on Wednesday. Full listings below: The [...]