Scottish record label rescues singer snubbed by Richard Curtis' Love Actually
Maybe everything might have been different if Erin Moran’s song Love Actually had actually appeared in the film Love Actually.
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Born in Germany, raised in Northern Ireland, resident in Scotland more or less since 1982. Fond of tea, Tottenham Hotspur and Touch of Evil. I’ve written one book (Whose Side Are You On?, Yellow Jersey, 2011), and interviewed Tracey Emin twice. Hopefully no one holds either against me.
Born in Germany, raised in Northern Ireland, resident in Scotland more or less since 1982. Fond of tea, Tottenham Hotspur and Touch of Evil. I’ve written one book (Whose Side Are You On?, Yellow Jersey, 2011), and interviewed Tracey Emin twice. Hopefully no one holds either against me.
Maybe everything might have been different if Erin Moran’s song Love Actually had actually appeared in the film Love Actually.
The House of Love, The Primitives and The Jesus and Mary Chain are all playing soon in Scotland
It’s not often that radio makes the news, but at 8.30am on Tuesday morning the Radio 2 newsreader Tina Daheley opened her bulletin with a hot-off-the-air headline that Zoe Ball was stepping down from the Breakfast Show
The director of the Edinburgh International Festival reflects on her two years at the helm, on the 'heartbreak' being felt by some in the arts sector and the forthcoming 2025 programme.
There is an argument to be made that comic books started in Scotland. “Possibly the earliest comic paper was The Glasgow Looking Glass,” notes David Roach in his mammoth survey of British comic books, Masters of British Comic Art (Rebellion, 2020). A tabloid-sized newspaper that mixed up illustrations, humorous text and comic strips, The Glasgow Looking Glass published some 19 issues in 1825 and 1826.
Our Price, the record chain, was the subject of this week’s business show Toast on Radio 4.
An old and toxic love: so why was it so alluring?
For the past 20 years Peter Kelly has been doing, well, just about everything. He’s been working as a teacher (at the same school in Hamilton for 21 years in fact), he’s been a musician and for most of the last two decades he’s been a dad too.
This is the weekend for remembering. A time for the country to stop and recall those who sacrificed their lives in the fields of France, in the deserts of Africa and the hills of the Falklands.
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