Culture Scotland

No Fuzzy Friday today because, er, nobody’s sent anything in , and because we were up all night laughing our asses off at Nigel Farage. So instead of Top Tips for the Weekend here’s a pointer to the fantastic SAY Awards.

THE globally famous star will perform five solo gigs in her home country in July, kicking things off in Inverness. She hopes if things go well she might do a world tour.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are planning a major dig to uncover one of the lost Kingdoms of the ancient Picts, the tribe of legendary warriors whose empire stretched from Fife to the Moray Firth before they mysteriously vanished from history.

As Now That’s What I Call Music celebrates its 30th birthday, Andrew Eaton-Lewis explores the enduring appeal of the strange pick and mix that has been the soundtrack to 100 million lives

City of Culture campaign backed by Abertay principal professor Nigel Seaton.

Walking west on Argyle Street, I once enjoyed a fleeting, one-sided exchange with a man slumped against a bin. Crossing the road at the Park Bar, I stepped onto the pavement at the other side and, as I passed him, the man shouted: ‘Hey you, ya cunt, Ah cin smell the fuckin spunk on yer troosers.’ I stopped, laughing a bit, but also in the back of my mind hoping this wild-bearded, elaborately drunk, old man wouldn’t find a sudden reservoir of co-ordination and leap up to stab me. And then it was over. I carried on to the part-time job I had while at university, and the man returned to his silence, a squalid sidewalk ornament for folk to swerve around.

Love it or loathe it karaoke is big, but what if you don't have the guts - or the voice - to get up on the mic in front of a crowd? Could a sing-along club-night hold the answer?

The Birthday Suit have decided to release their very own covers album incorporating bands they have admired throughout their career.

THE BBC has been accused of shunning its Scottish staff after it emerged key production jobs at this year's Edinburgh festival will be based in London.

http://vimeo.com/65535198#at=26 Raw Data by Jake Fried 2013. Hand-drawn animation with ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

There is a festival of some sort taking place in Scotland pretty much every week of the year, but the schedule really starts to look packed from May onwards.

WHEN Stewart Henderson, chair of the Scottish Music Industry Association, initially punted the idea of an award to celebrate Scottish albums, he felt a Hippocratic responsibility to the scene he has been a part of for the past two decades.