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The Tracks Of My Year: SWH!’s 10 Best Songs Of 2017…
Mark W. Georgsson, BMX Bandits, Blue Rose Code, Findlay Napier, Stephen McLaren, State Broadcasters, The Miss’s, Annie Booth, Quick,...
Dec 12, 20176 min read


Scots Whay Hae! Presents… Awkward Family Portraits & ‘Shoulder Biting Joe’.
There are few things finer than discovering a new band who play music just as you like it. When it happens you want to share with the...
Nov 22, 20171 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
2017 has produced great music of all shapes, sizes and sounds, but the singer/songwriter has had a particularly fine year. Albums by Mark...
Nov 17, 20175 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
If this summer was defined by great singles from the likes of L-Space, Half-Formed Things, Errant Boy, and Radiophonic Tuckshop, to name...
Oct 15, 20174 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
This has been a summer of unexpected treats and great new music from the well-kent and the brand new. What you are about to listen to...
Sep 8, 20174 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
The new music which made its way our way over the last month is as eclectic and unpredictable as the summer itself. There’s classic pop,...
Aug 13, 20174 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
To recklessly misquote S. P. Morrissey, “Some months are better than others”, but this month is surely one of the best music reviews we...
Jun 29, 20175 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
We are going to start with the welcome return of BMX Bandits with their album Forever. For the last 30 years their music has been, in...
May 21, 20174 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
My, but there’s some classy music being made out there. The world may be falling down around our ears, but it’s got a hell of a...
Apr 20, 20174 min read


New Musical Success Special: The Premiere of The Strange Blue Dreams’ In My Nature…
We have long been fans of The Strange Blue Dreams at SWH!, so new music from them is always greeted with whoops, cheers and hollers....
Mar 29, 20171 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
The early months of a Glasgow year require a lot of moving around the city between festival events. January has Celtic Connections,...
Mar 20, 20175 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
as we did in December, makes it feel like each year is self contained and we start afresh all over again, but in reality the music never...
Feb 8, 20175 min read


Last Night, They Said: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Last Night From Glasgow…
Mark W. Georgsson: The Ballad Of The Nearly Man In our first podcast of 2017, Ali talks to Ian Smith and Murray Easton, two of the...
Jan 18, 20172 min read


That Was The Year That Was: It’s The Best Of 2016 Podcast – Part Two (Music)…
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year From Scots Whay Hae! In this, Part II of our end of year podcast Ali, Chris and Wesley concentrate on...
Dec 24, 20162 min read


The Tracks Of My Year: SWH!’s 10 Best Songs Of 2016…
Looking back, as is everyone’s wont at this time of year, two things in particular are striking about 2016 in music. There was the...
Dec 10, 20167 min read


New Musical Success: A Review Of The Best In New Music…
I’ve never really thought about how the changing seasons affect the music you listen to, but one of the interesting things about...
Nov 29, 20165 min read


New Musical Success: The Best New Music From Autumn…
As the nights draw in and the heating comes on, it’s a good time to begin to take stock of the year and how it is shaping up for music....
Oct 23, 20165 min read


New Musical Success: Summer Special…
Aside from those you’re about to hear there has been memorable music, as previously mentioned, from Ette, Starless, The Royal Male, and...
Sep 28, 20165 min read


New Musical Success: The Best New Music From The Last Month…
Feeling down? Listen to Smokey sing, Johnny play guitar, or Dylan do anything. It never fails me, and it hasn’t this time round. With...
Jul 11, 20164 min read


New Musical Success: The Best New Music From The Last Month…
There is a reassuring balance between light and shade, which might lead the naive to believe that these roundups were not just thrown...
Jun 9, 20165 min read
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