Live Music in Scotland, August 2021
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Scottish Music Festivals in 2021: The Skinny
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Why you should visit the UK s greenest, most eccentric island
After voluntarily pulling up the drawbridge for a year, Eigg is now welcoming (responsible) visitors
The Inner Hebrides island of Eigg impresses with its green credentials and community spirit
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Sailing around Ardnamurchan Point, with the melancholy strains of Mendelsohn’s Hebrides overture tugging at your heart, it’s easy to get caught up in the lost world romance of Eigg, a deeply wild archipelago.
Yes, many of the Hebrides now lie dead to man, but right in front of you hope emerges. Defiant, Eigg-shaped hope. This is an island reborn, following a community buyout that became the first in the world to draw all its electricity from green energy. After voluntarily pulling up the drawbridge for an entire year, Eigg is now tentatively welcoming responsible visitors back to share its remarkable, life-affirming charms.
Scottish new music round-up: December 2020
We discover new releases from Lost Map Records, Paradise Palms Records, Belle & Sebastian and more, and take a look at what you might have missed in November Feature by Tallah Brash | 10 Dec 2020
While 2020 has been a massive steaming pile of shit, a lot of good has still come out of the last nine months since life was turned upside down by the coronavirus, and although the arts have been hit particularly badly by the pandemic, musicians across Scotland have, against all odds, continued to harness their creativity, and this month is no different.
As well as the arts being hit hard, so has the hospitality industry, but Edinburgh s