The first Perth Music Festival will take place from 2nd-5th July and will feature the most promising bands from all over Scotland performing throughout the city centre in the venues listed in the timetable. Perth Music Festival is delighted to celebrate Scotland’s rich musical offering, and its future, in the Year of Homecoming. Whatever your [...]

A roundup of the best images from our Flickr pool for May. A bit late, yes I know, but I’ve been busy!

Un año atrás… polizei comming…

DD8 Music, a collective based in Forfar, Scotland, are holding their annual Live in the Den festival on Saturday 15th August.
DD8music are a non exclusive organisation, formed in 2005, dedicated to promoting the involvement in musical activities such as writing, organising and performing, to young people in the area.
More information: http://www.dd8music.com

Dundee Blues Bonanza 15
Fri 26th, Sat 27th and Sun 28th June 2009.
The Dundee Blues Bonanza (DBB) is a free blues music festival held over 3 days, which is unique to the City of Dundee. It takes place in over 30 city centre venues, all within easy walking distance of each other. Pioneered and successfully developed over [...]

The 2009 Dundee Literary Festival, held this June, wil bring together some of the most talked about names from the world of literature, journalism, philosophy and politics. The festival will hold workshops, talks, film, theatre, book signings, music and parties.
Now in its 3rd year the festival promises to once again deliver with more than 30 [...]

Slow Motion is the latest release from Robert Jan Meyer on the gorgeous Munich label Compost Records. Robert Jan Meyer aka Minus 8 the Swiss producer has been making music since the late 80’s. The culmination of years of music exploration came in the early 90’s when he launched his Minus 8 project.

It seems an age since we had the taster track Strange Fruit from M9 to whet our appetites for his imminent album release 144,000, which drops on the 10th November 2008.

A fourth album from Birmingham’s Mike Skinner and it seems the further he goes from the bedroom dynamics which formed his début record, the worse he sounds.

Sam Bourne (Jonathan Freedland) has already been touted as the biggest challenger to Dan Brown’s title as the best thriller fiction writer.

LesMTS has reviewed the recent Doug Stanhope gig at the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh.
A bleary eyed Stanhope, sporting a fledgling mullet, field cap and battered pilot’s jacket, edges his way through the throng at the bar of this tiny, crowded basement venue, politely acknowledging pats on the back and hands thrust out for shaking, and [...]

Everyone knows that Dundee is a hotbed of creative talent, from cultural to information technology. One local business pushing the boundaries is Realtime Worlds. Started by Dave Jones , the creator of Lemmings and the Grand Theft Auto franchise, RTW is developing games for next generation consoles, while employing a fair few Dundonians within its [...]

Jim is a key figure in Scotland’s music scene. Championing local music he was the first to play artists like The View and KT Tunstall. We managed to catch up with him to ask him a few questions about local music, winning the John Peel Award and the future of radio.

A couple of years ago I went to the Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, a conference for Flash developers and other creatives. Anyway, I had the great privilege to meet a gentleman called Andre Michelle who has a love for programming and music.
Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered [...]

If you’re a graphic artist or designer and for some reason find you have the urge to create a masterpiece while in your local coffee shop, you can no do so, through a web browser, with the worlds first online vector drawing tool, Raven. Raven is just one of a variety of graphic related tools [...]

In the centre of the ring, to the right of the referee, I stood with my hand raised. Over the din of the voices in the crowd and the thoughts in my head I heard the MC for the second time, “And a big hand for your runner up, from the Phraya Pichai Muay [...]

Every where one goes and in every city and town across the world there are buildings that have come and gone and which have existed functionally longer than a lifetime. There are even fewer which are less than 50 years old which can be described as a building of world significance and that is exactly [...]

Think about why you want to release a record. Really think about it. I’m talking to you, local bands, young bands, bands just starting out with stars in your eyes and dreams of fame in your hearts.