Ignored or even derided, here's the top 10 Scots singles that deserve another listen
So, here are 10 Scottish singles that deserve to be better known.
Radio Review
Why does London's UK-based media consistently ignore the Scottish dimension?
The joy of live radio. It all started to go wrong 12 minutes into Any Answers on Radio 4 last Saturday. Presenter Anita Anand was chatting to a listener when she noted that her screen had frozen. And then the listener she was talking to also dropped off the line.
'I am gay' - Why the day David Bowie said he was gay changed pop forever
Jon Savage’s new book The Secret Public is subtitled How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979). It takes readers from the birth of rock and roll through the 1960s and the importance of gay managers - Larry Parnes, Robert Stigwood and, of course, Brian Epstein
REVIEW Dear broadcasters, must we have so many mentions of England during a Scotland game?
It’s the hope that kills, etc, etc. After the misery of Munich, the comeback in Cologne. Whether a 1-1 draw will be enough in the end we’ll learn this weekend, but Scotland, as Sportsound commentator Al Lamont said at the end of the 1-1 draw against Switzerland, on Wednesday night, “are still alive”.
SUMMER GIGS Stevie Nicks is 76. Seventy bloody six. But she's here so don't miss her Scots show
Stevie Nicks is 76. Seventy bloody six. If, like me, that makes you feel ancient, take consolation from the fact that on stage she remains a force of nature.
This must be the most controversial building in Scotland this century
“If you build it, they will come.” That line from the 1998 Kevin Costner baseball movie Field of Dreams is the mantra for any architect keen to make his or her mark on the landscape. The Bilbao Effect - the idea that economic regeneration can follow landmark architecture, inspired by Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum which opened in the Basque city in 1997 - has gone from revelation to cliche to bromide in the last quarter of a century.
RADIO REVIEW
'Levelling up? It was a complete joke. And I was an official advisor for it'
Are you bored with this election yet? Here we are in mid-June and July 4 still seems a long, long way away. Is anything going to change between now and then? Are you still undecided about who you will vote for?
From Yoko to Barbie, 10 best exhibitions this summer. Where to go and what to see
Here’s a whistlestop European tour of some of the best art on offer.
'I needed a young actor who is a psycho - and they banned him from Orkney!'
Solly McLeod has been watching Viggo Mortensen in the movies since he was a kid. When he was a young boy growing up on Orkney his grandad, he remembers, would show him the Lord of the Rings films in which Mortensen played Aragorn.
The comedian who called himself the most intelligent, sexy human in all of history
How sexy was Rik Mayall? Sexy as in cool and sexy as in, well, sexy? The man himself had one answer: “the most intelligent, sexy human being in the history of time,” the comedian once said of himself.
