MARCUS J WILSON reports on three Highlands and Islands shows at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival – Dogstar Theatre’s The Tailor of Inverness, The Sorren Maclean Band, and Mull Theatre’s production of Right […]

The language of the sea
PETER URPETH reports on the latest developments in the ongoing Sail Loft Project in Stornoway
FOR MANY, the boat-making traditions of the Scottish Islands and coastal communities […]

Stories, paper, stone…
PETER URPETH gives an update on Stornoway’s Sail Loft Project
The walls have been stripped. What wasn’t saved is now lost. The wallpapers are soaking in a bath in Moira Macaulay’s studio […]

ANDY WHITE is a poet and powerbook-toting troubadour.  He grew up in Belfast, surrounded by Irish beauty and terrorist violence.  His 13th international release, Garageband, is released this month to coincide […]

MARCUS WILSON spoke to singer/songwriter VASHTI BUNYAN about the importance of her journey to the Highlands and Islands four decades ago

In July 1968, Vashti Bunyan had set off by horse and cart for the Isle […]

Destroyers from Seattle
PETER URPETH gets the lowdown on a Gaelic punk band from Seattle ahead of their short tour of Scotland.
SEATTLE based Gaelic punk band Mill a h-Uile Rud, meaning ‘destroy everything’ in a […]

Sign of the times…
Lewis band SIGN RED have been grabbing the headlines for their enduring popularity with the listeners of Radio 1’s Vic and Gill show, and are heading into a third week at the top of that show’s […]

Banishing the Sunless Summer Blues
PETER URPETH looks forward to another mass outbreak of Celtic music in the big tent at Lews Castle as the HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL gets underway.
IT IS WITHOUT doubt the most […]

Sea Passages – Stornoway’s Sail Loft Art Project
In the first of a series of pieces, PETER URPETH follows the work of IAN STEPHEN and his collaboraters in a project aimed at capturing the soul of a building and […]

Nub of the Art
MARCUS WILSON investigates the weird and wonderful world of ‘Nub’.
INHABITANTS of Easter Ross are witnessing a strange phenomenon, as the cream of Highland-based artists gathers to plot the […]

PETER URPETH conjures up the unique atmosphere of one of the leading folk and traditional music occasions of the year, the HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL on Lewis.
THERE IS MORE to the Heb Celtic Festival than the […]

Bridging the Gàidhlig-Gaelige gap
PETER URPETH talks to Skye-based poet RODY GORMAN about the publication of an important new anthology of Gaelic poetry, his own work, and the state of Gàidhlig and Gaelige […]

Early Stornoway paintings reveal ‘A kind of Glenrothes for the 18th century’
PETER URPETH reports on the unveiling in Stornoway of a new acquisition by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
THE TWO earliest […]

PETER URPETH takes a look at the plans for an ambitious new Arts Centre in the Western Isles.
Work on the new Arts Centre in Stornoway will finally get underway in July, and as these drawings from architects […]