2020

Into Scottish Creatives: The Bluebells – Sisters

The Bluebells recently re-released their album Sisters via the Last Night From Glasgow record label. The album has been remastered, recut and features an alternative version of Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool as well as the addition of Aim In Life and Some Sweet Day which were not on the original release. John Welsh caught up with band

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Into Scottish Creatives: Interview with Bruce Findlay – Part Two

In part one of our Into Scottish Creatives interview which you can read HERE Bruce chatted about his early life working a number of jobs, hitch-hiking around Europe through to establishing the biggest independent record shop chain in Scotland, if not the U.K. The back story to the famous “I found it at Bruce’s“, Zoom

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Into Scottish Creatives: Interview with Bruce Findlay – Part One

If you look back on the Scottish music scene and beyond over the past few decades there are few who have made as long a lasting impact and impression as Bruce Findlay. From working in the family record shop to establishing Bruce’s in the late 1960s, which went on to become the largest independent record

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Into Books Review: There’s Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross

Book: There’s Only One Danny Garvey Author: David F Ross Publisher: Orenda Books There’s Only One Danny Garvey by David F. Ross There once was a time, at the death rattle of Thatcherism’s first wave and just before the start of Blair’s Neo-Liberal grift, when football didn’t need to come home. It was always there.

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Into Scottish Creatives: Interview with Barry Fratelli

The Fratellis burst onto the music scene in 2005 like a whirlwind, releasing their debut album less than 18 months after their first show, their blend of rock’n’roll a welcome distraction to the often bland and mundane dirge the noughties was known for. Instantly memorable riffs and catchy tunes proved a winning combination and the band

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