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Creative Scotland - in partnership with SxSW, MIDEM and UKTI and the Cultural Enterprise Office - are hosting a free information session for artists, bands, managers, agents, record labels interested in showcasing at SXSW or MIDEM.

The picturesque setting of Doune Castle in Stirlingshire is host to another festival, Doune the Rabbit Hole, on Friday 30th and Saturday 31st July.
Acts featured include Meursault, The Junipers , Withered Hand, Rozi Plain, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Wounded Knee, Hidden Masters, Lipsync for A Lullaby, Les BOF!, Modus, Sara & The Snakes, [...]

The Go! Team have been announced as the final piece of the Wickerman puzzle. The festival, which takes place at Dudrennan on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th July, also welcomes I Blame Coco as the final acts for the main Summerisle Main Stage.

Billy Bragg pays tribute to Joe Strummer with a live set at Glasgow Film Theatre on Friday July 23rd.

The title says it all really - running from noon on AUGUST 28th (not July as stated earlier!), along the shoreline on Portobello Beach, the plan is for, er, a whole lot of buskers to, er, busk. For no other reason than the organisers, doing the whole thing via a Facebook group, “like a good [...]

Following our previous story about Scots blogger The Popcop being kicked off his Google-hosted service for questionable reasons (to say the least), the good news is that he’s managed to rescue most of his collection of postings, and has got himself a new host & server, along with a shiny new URL. www.thepopcop.co.uk

Fears that 80s Australian act Men At Work, including Kilwinning-born singer-songwriter Colin Hay, could be bankrupted following a royalty dispute, have been alleviated.

Edinburgh’s Liquid Room is set to re-open, just in time for the Edinburgh festival period.

Elvis Shakespeare, the Leith indie record and book store, which will be five years old this Saturday, and are celebrating with an afternoon of live music:
1.30PM - My Electric Love Affair
2.15PM - Blueflint
3.00PM - Sharon King
3.45PM - Sara & Snakes
4.30PM - The Fnords
5.15PM - The Nukes
6.00PM - Paul Paterson with Mark Hunter
More at www.elvisshakespeare.com

Glasgow’s Classic Grand venue, perhaps rather optimistically, “aims to subvert all the cheesy connotations connected with tribute nights”.
To this end they are running the ‘Echo Tribute Series’, paying homage to The Cure in July and Joy Division in August, and planning a Kate Bush event later in the year.
The Cureheads will open the series [...]