The transcript shows Catriona Balfe made the comment about about a “particular place” in the town, rather than Shotts as a whole.
All Right Reserved. Designed and Developed by Martyn Jones.
In London for one night only ahead of his Ibiza residency, this sell-out show represented far more than just a performance.
The Girls Aloud singer said in an Instagram post that becoming a mother was “heaven on earth”.
The video game presents a young Bond before he has earned his “00” spy status.
“Yet this seems like an unnecessary pause for everyone involved,” he wrote. “Given how difficult it is for any piece of culture, let alone books, to get more than fleeting attention, it seems baffling that publishers first offer up the least accessible version.”
The star says a surge in new productions is driving growing interest in musical theatre across Scotland.
In the reunion episode, which followed straight after the final airing on BBC One, Kush talked about seeing a counsellor to “help process my emotions and it’s really, really helped”, adding: “The one thing the race did teach is that it’s ok to ask for help.”
Sunderland’s Herrington Country Park buzzes with festival energy for the last Big Weekend day.
MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND & MERIDIAN BROTHERS
Ruido Tovar (Ansonia)
Five seconds of the first song here will tell you if you’ll love this or not. Do you like cumbia? Do you like lo-fi cumbia with keyboards that sound like they’ve been dropped in a fishtank then left out to dry? Do you like sunshine? Ruido Tovar brings the guitar of prime Meridian Brother Eblis Álvarez to the instrument junkshop of Mexican Institute dude Camilo Lara, and while there is clearly much dicking around, there is also tons of wonky, danceable fun.
Choice cut is the insanely wriggly single El Campeon, where an almost indiepop keyboard shimmer rubs up against itchy guitar taps and muppet-like backing vocals. Beck turns up on two songs, bababa-ing on the Loser-referencing Cumbia Beckiana and providing wide-eyed vocal sleaze on party strutter Ritmo Babilonia. Concorde sitting next to Danzen 8Bits kind of sums it up: Ruido Tovar is flashy, trashy, cheap and dusty, creaky knees on the dancefloor.
HAMMOCK
The Second Coming Was A Moonrise (Hammock Music)
Though resonant with the shoegaze sounds of Slowdive and LSD And The Search For God’s respective self-titled albums, and boasting features from the Flaming Lips, The Second Coming Was A Moonrise stands completely in its own realm. The first album to be released on their own label, it marks Nashville two-piece Hammock’s greatest venture to date.
Pretentiously titled? By no means – the album is sufficiently large and monumental to justify it. Hammock go beyond creating mere soundscapes, offering what feels like a real landscape to lose yourself within. Distorted droning dissolves into echoes and silences, inviting the listener on a meditative, trance-like journey.
The Second Coming… doesn’t demand your attention but takes a hold of it as you subconsciously slip into the recesses of its reverbed chords. It’s explorative, intimate, and expansive all at once, with the closer All The Pain You Can’t Explain climactically and cinematically encapsulating all the emotional intensity that the album at large subtly sustains.
words MENNA WILSON