Category: Featured

Wicker Warm Up

Wicker Warm Up To Bring A Flavour Of The Festival To Glasgow Rising Scottish stars Neon Waltz to headline the event     Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2014 / www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk The Wickerman Festival in association with Sunday Herald newspaper will be bringing one of Scotland’s hottest summer parties to Glasgow this June as […]

ED FRINGE 2014

GET UNBORED WITH THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE: 2014 PROGRAMME LAUNCHED       The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back for 2014 with a programme that is bursting at the seams with exhilarating, inspiring and unforgettable festival shows and offering a truly unboring experience.   2014 will see 49,497 performances of 3,193 shows in 299 venues across Scotland’s capital city. The […]

EIFF CAPTURES TEEN SPIRIT

EIFF CAPTURES TEEN SPIRIT

EIFF CAPTURES TEEN SPIRIT     Edinburgh, Wednesday 7 May – Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is pleased to announce its new Teen Spirit section and Youth Hub as part of its ongoing commitment to engaging young audiences and encouraging new filmmaking talent. The Teen Spirit films at this year’s Festival are aimed at the 15-26 year old audience and have been selected […]

STEREOSCOPIC FILMS PREMIERE

EIFF CELEBRATES MCLAREN CENTENARY WITH WORLD PREMIERE OF STEREOSCOPIC FILMS ALONGSIDE INDUSTRY EVENTS   Edinburgh, 30 April 2014 – Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is delighted to announce the world premiere of four digitally restored animation stereoscopic films, as part of the ongoing centenary celebrations for Scottish filmmaker Norman McLaren. First screened at EIFF and the […]

‘WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS’ PREMIERE

EDINBURGH GOES OUT WITH A BANG WITH INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE OF ‘WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS’   PLUS FOCUS ON GERMANY DETAILS   Edinburgh – 29 April 2014 – Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is delighted to announce Simon Helberg’s romantic comedy WE’LL NEVER HAVE PARIS, co-directed by Jocelyn Towne, as the Closing Night film at the 68th edition of the Edinburgh […]

Scooter Tent line up

The Beat & Lee Thompson’s Ska Orchestra to take centre stage   Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2014 / www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk   The Wickerman Festival has today, Wednesday 30th April, announced that seminal 2-Tone band The Beat and classic ska act Lee Thompson’s Ska Orchestra will be headlining its famous Scooter Tent this year.   […]

Band of Skulls

Band of Skulls

ADDITIONS TO BELLADRUM FESTIVAL LINE-UP   Gritty indie trio Band of Skulls have been recruited to headline the Hothouse Stage (second stage) at the sold-out Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival (8th & 9th August, Beauly, Inverness-shire) . Meanwhile querky pop trio, I Am Kloot, will headline the Black Isle Brewery Grassroots Stage on the Friday night. Neither band has played […]

Year of Homecoming

Wickerman to Celebrate Year of Homecoming with New Festival Features   Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2014 / www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk   Wickerman, one of Scotland’s hottest annual music festivals, will be launching two new features this summer to celebrate its partnership with Homecoming Scotland 2014 – a Lowland Links tent and the festival’s first kilted […]

Wickerman Rap Battle

Wickerman announces Solus line-up and First Rap Battle  Young Fathers and Hector Bizerk to headline bill of Scottish talent   Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2014 / www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk   The Wickerman Festival prides itself on showcasing emerging Scottish talent, and this year is no exception as a wealth of sizzling acts join its red-hot […]

Del Amitri heads Wickerman

Wickerman Announces Del Amitri as Saturday Night Headliner  Del Amitri and Alabama 3 joins sizzling Summerisle line-up   Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2014 / www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk   Wickerman, one of Scotland’s best-loved independent music festivals, has revealed that the Saturday night headliner for this summer’s event will be seminal Scottish pop-rock band Del Amitri. […]