Links

If you're a Scottish band, artist, promoter, venue, writer, publication, DJ etc and you want us to add a Link to your site or the site of a friend/favourite band/club etc else then by all means let us know.

Don't blame us if folk cannae be arsed to keep their links, sites etc up to date.

Scottish Bands:

Links to Scottish Bands/Artist can now be found under their respective names on the Artists pages (a continual work in progress).

Scottish Music Festivals:

Big in Falkirk (Last one: 2-3 May 2009, Falkirk)
Burnsong (Last one: 30 November - 2 December 2007, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh)
Celtic Connections (Last one: 15 January - 1 February 2009)
Connect (Last one: 29 - 31 August 2008, Inveraray, Argyll) BACK IN 2010
Dark City (Last one: 4-6 May 2007, Edinburgh) FUTURE UNCERTAIN
Darvel Homecoming Music Festival (Last one: 1-10 May 2009, Darvel, Ayshire)
Edge Festival (Last one: 7 August - 7 September 2009, Edinburgh)
Edinburgh Mela (Last one: 7-9 August 2009, Edinburgh)
Edinburgh Military Tattoo (Last one: 7-29 August 2009, Edinburgh Castle)
Fifestock (Last one: 17 February - 11 March 2009, Inn at Lathones, St. Andrews)
Glasgow Rhythm and Blues Festival (Last one: 1-3 May 2009, Glasgow)
Homecoming Festival (Last one - Cancelled: 2-3 May 2009, Irvine Bay, Ayrshire)
Homegame Festival (Last one: 17-19 April 2009, Anstruther, Fife)
Hinterland Festival (Last one: 30 April - 1 May 2009, Glasgow)
Indian Summer (Last one: 14-15 July 2007, Glasgow) FUTURE UNCERTAIN
Isle of Skye Festival (Last one: 25-26 May 2007, The Isle of Skye) FUTURE UNCERTAIN/WEBSITE NOT WORKING
Knockengorroch (Next one: 16-20 September 2009, Next World Ceilidh: 27-30 May 2009)
Loch Lomond (Last one: 2-3 August 2008, Loch Lomond) BACK IN 2010
Montrose Music Festival (Last one: 28-31 May 2009, Montrose)
The Outsider (Last one - CANCELLED: 27-28 June 2009, Rothiemurchus)
Oxjam (Various dates, all over the UK)
Retrofest (Last one: 28-30 August 2009, Strathclyde Country Park)
Rockness (Last one: 12-14 June 2009, Loch Ness)
The Royal National Mod (2009, Oban and 2010, Caithness)
T in the Park (Next one: 9-11 July 2010, Balado)
T on the Fringe (Last one: 1-3 August 2007, Edinburgh) REPLACED BY EDGE FESTIVAL
Tartan Heart (Last one: 7-8 August 2009, Belladrum, Inverness)
Tigerfest (Last one: 6-24 May 2009, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen)
Triptych (Last one: 25-27 April 2008, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow)
Wickerman Festival (Next one: 24-25 July 2009, Dundrennan)

Scottish Labels:

17 Seconds Records
Andmoresound
The Balladeers Scotland
BeatDownTheUpSet
Benbecula Records
Chemikal Underground

Creation Records
Creeping Bent
Domino
Drive Carefully Records
Egg Records
Electric Honey Records
Fence Collective/Records
First Aid Records
Four Trak Records
Gargleblast Records
Grand Harmonium Records
Hijacked Records
Human Condition Records
I Fly Spitfires
King Tut's Recordings
LTM Recordings
Marina
Neon Tetra
One Records
Say Dirty Records
Shoeshine
Smalltown America
SOMA Records
Soulstar Promotions
Stolen Wine Records
Stranded Records
Vertical Records
Volcanic Tongue

Other Great Labels/Websites

Ace Records
Baby Tiger

Both Sides Now
Cherry Red Records
Damaged Goods
Edinburgh Gig Archive
Glasband80
Glasgow Podcart
Goalkeepers Are Different
No Music Day
President Records
Revola
RPM
Rykodisc
The Scotsman (Recommends)
Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH)
Slipcue
Smile Records
Snobsite (The Rock Snob's Dictionary)
Sundazed
Twee Net

Record Shops/Venues/Clubs/Studios

Alhambra (Dunfermline)
Alhambra 2 (Dunfermline)
The Arches (Glasgow)
Attic Studios (Dunfermline)
Avalanche Records (Edinburgh/Glasgow)
Baby Tiger
Cabaret Voltaire (Edinburgh)
Coffee Bliss (Lenzie, folk every Wednesday)
Edrocknet
Fat Sam's (Dundee)
FOPP
The Go Go (Edinburgh, 1st Saturday of every month @ Studio 24, Calton Road)

The Greenside Hotel (Leslie, Fife)
Grouchos (Dundee)
The GRV (Edinburgh)
Indievous (Cumbernauld/Glasgow)
Ironworks (Inverness)
Kinema Ballroom (Dunfermline)
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut (Glasgow)
The Lemon Tree Aberdeen)
The Liquid Room (Edinburgh)
Melting Pot (Starka, Brandon Street, Motherwell)
The Mill (Edinburgh and Glasgow) - register online for free tickets
Monorail (Glasgow)
Moshulu (Aberdeen)
Oran-Mor (Glasgow)
The Picture House (Edinburgh)
PJs Live Music (Dunfermline)
Snafu (Aberdeen)
Ten Tracks
13th Note (Glasgow)
The Twisted Wheel (72 Queen Street, Glasgow)
Velocity (Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline)
Weekend Revolution (Dunfermline)
White Riot (Ocean, Kirkcaldy)

Websites/Blogs:

17 Seconds
Airdrie and Coatbridge Music Club
Aye Choons
Band Family Tree
Beard Mag
Big Noise
Bubbyworld
Colours Are Brighter
Daily Record
Drowned in Sound
First Foot
Glasgow Apollo
Jock Rock
Is This Music?
Lager Lovelies
The List
Mishmash Bookshop Blogspot
Music News Scotland
Plain or Pan?
The Pop Cop
Pop Junkie
Pop Musicology
Punk77
Scotland You Rock
Scotland Rocks New York
The Skinny
STV Music
The Rain Fell Down Blog
Think Hard Blog
This Day In Music
This Is Punk Rock
Vinyl Villain Blogspot
Miles Mendoza's Website of the Day
Web User

Writers/DJs/Radio:

Iain Banks
BBC6music
Christopher Brookmyre
Celtic Music Radio
Central FM
Clyde1
Andrew Collins
Demus Productions
Forth One
Forth Two
Vic Galloway (Radio 1)
Jim Gellatly (Radio Magnetic)
Laura Hird
Insight Radio
Kingdom FM
Kirkcaldy VRN
Steve Lamacq
Leith FM
Martin Millar
MFR Moray Firth Radio
Nevis Radio
Northsound1
Old Jock Radio
Original 106 (Aberdeen)
Radio 1
Radio 2
Radio Borders
Radio Lollipop
Radio Scotland
Radio Six International
Radio Tay
Ian Rankin
Red Dot Radio
Real Radio
River FM
Sub City Radio
Irvine Welsh
Kevin Williamson

Other Bands/Artists:

Echo and the Bunnymen
Fountains of Wayne
Boo Hewerdine
I Am Kloot
Ian McNabb
One Thousand Violins
Silver Sun
Sisters of Mercy

Last Updated: 11 October 2009