The Sensational Alex Harvey Band placed five albums in the UK Top 20 in three years and were considered capable of much more. Growing up…
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1 9 8 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Produced by Scottish Television and shot all on film, this mystery adventure for older children linked…
Just two years before his 90’s hit Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s impressive debut feature gave British cinema a lift with its uncharacteristic venture into noir territory. Alex, a…
Sheena Shirley Orr was born in 1959 in Bellshill, Scotland, and began performing while studying speech and drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 5 (UK) Debuting on 8 April 1971, this series of half-hour plays specially commissioned by STV were all…
Bowie-influenced Scottish punk band Johnny & The Self Abusers changed their name to Simple Minds for New Wave fame and glimmered through the early 80’s by adding Krautrock and Eurodisco…
The Skids formed in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1977. The singles Sweet Suburbia and The Saints Are Coming both made commercial inroads before the mighty Into…
Slik formed in the mid-70s from the ashes of a Glasgow (Scotland) heavy metal group called Salvation which contained Jim McGinlay and his brother Kevin.…
1 9 7 8 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes The Scottish Daily Standard newspaper has a journalistic team including investigative reporter Colin Anderson (Patrick Malahide),…
Prior to Stealers Wheel, Gerry Rafferty had played in a Clydesdale folk duo called The Humblebums in the late 60s with superstar-comedian-to-be Billy Connolly. Billy would introduce…
Set in 1953 and based on the hit musical of the same name about a group of Glaswegian women who meet at the municipal washhouse…
Formed around Scottish singer Maggie Bell the band worked initially in clubs and air bases around the UK and Europe before arriving in London in…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Created and written by former Z Cars co-creator Allan Prior, Stookie was extremely gritty for a Sunday…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) 19 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived Scottish pop music show was produced in Studio…
1 9 8 0 – 2 0 0 3 (UK) 1517 x 30 minute episodes This twice-weekly Scottish lunchtime soap opera was set in the fictitious…
A band for which the word ‘quirky’ may have been invented, Teenage Fanclub had always possessed an infuriating knack of confounding expectations. They promised so…
Texas was formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Johnny McElhone, a veteran of the Scottish rock circuit who had been part of two groups, Hipsway and…
The theft of a consignment of stainless steel sinks is planned with the intricacy of a diamond heist by a group of amiably feckless unemployed Glasgow…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 9 (UK) 56 x 60/30 minute episodes This light entertainment series from STV was hosted by “Hoochter…
“Choose Life. Choose A Job. Choose A Starter Home. Choose Dental Insurance, Leisure Wear and Matching Luggage. Choose Your Future. But Why Would Anyone Want…