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• Have You Heard the One About the Musical Comedian?

  

  It's day three of my takeover of Scottish Fiction and I've decided to spend today and tomorrow taking a look at the line between music and comedy. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• "What is Your Favourite Word...?"

  

  Hello again, Shambles Miller here, your host for the week. Today I want to talk to you about a TV show I'm a big fan of called Inside the Actors Studio. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself

  

  Hello! I'm Shambles Miller, singer-songwriter or singer/songwriter, depending on your personal punctuation preference, and this week I am taking over Scottish... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Album Review - Blood Relatives - Deerheart

  

  It feels like it's taken years for this album to be released, and that's because it has. Four years, to be exact. If you've been a fan of the Glasgow folk... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Scottish Fiction Podcast - 4th December 2013

  

  It's official. It's Christmas time. Not only have I been taking in the lights of Glasgow, I've been sneaking in some Christmas songs to the playlist while you... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Album Review - The Spook School - Dress Up

  

  The idea of making happy 60s pop songs with a proper 70s punk twist sounds like something that just shouldn't work, even on paper. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Single Review - Call To Mind - A Family Sketch

  

  Olive Grove Records continue to release and work with interesting and talented artists. Further proof, as if needed, can be found in their latest single... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• We're Only Here For The Banter - The Mirror Trap

  

  Dundee five piece The Mirror Trap are no shirking violets. Confident, sure of themselves and their sound, and willing to work hard to do things their way. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Single Review - The Leg - Chicken Slippers

  

  After three minutes 4 seconds I have literally no idea what has just happenned but whatever it was I enjoyed it. In the shape of Chicken Slippers, the lead... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Single Review - TeenCanteen - Honey

  

  If you ever stopped to think, 'where have all the good girl groups gone?' then you need wonder no more as TeenCanteen are here with new single Honey to... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Scottish Fiction Podcast - 27 November 2013

  

  There have been so many bearded singer songwriters on the show this year, that it will become enshrined that all our live guests must have facial hair. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Single Review - Honeyblood - Bud

  

  Given the exposure and success they've experienced so far, having supported the likes of Palma Violets and Sleigh Bells, it's almost impossible to believe that... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• EP Review - Rachel Sermanni - The Boatshed Sessions

  

  It’s really difficult not to fall in love with Rachel Sermanni. The songstress from Strathspey is everything that is right with music. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Album Review - Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire - Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire

  

  Roddy Hart is a name known to many of those who keep a close eye on Scottish music. Hart has been ever present in the scene since his 2004 demo Home Tapes and... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• We're Only Here For The Banter - Gone Wishing

  

  The fact that year after year, there continue to be acoustic and lo-fi singer-songwriters writing 'sad' songs that grab my attention must say something about... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• EP Review - Casual Sex - The Bastard Beat EP

  

  Funk’s not dead. It has been resurrected by this Glasgow four piece with a fondness for throbbing bass riffs. Cheekily dubbed under the genre of ‘sleaze’ on... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Julia Doogan - Scottish Fiction Session - Videos

  

  Our Scottish Fiction Session guest on 2nd October 2013, was the talented songstress Julia Doogan. Appearing in the Pulse 98.4 studios sans her backing band The... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Lovers Turn To Monsters - Scottish Fiction Session - Videos

  

  Joining me on Scottish Fiction on 25th September 2013 was Kyle Wood, a.k.a. Lovers Turn To Monsters. Long term friend of the show, Kyle joined us to chat once... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Album Review - Friends In America - What It Is To Be

  

  Friends in America's debut album What It Is To Be is a real treat offering a glimpse of a band with genuine potential. This is very clever song-writing with... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Scottish Fiction Podcast - 13th November 2013

  

  Talk about a broad spectrum! In this week's show there's hip-hop from Kobi Onyame and Young Fathers, punk from Medals and Sink Alaska, indie-folk from Michael... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC