COLIN MacIntyre, like many of us, decided to get a dog during lockdown. He’s walking the bouncy Cockapoo while we talk about delving into his musical memory box – and what’s to come for Mull Historical Society (MHS).
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ANYONE who has encountered composer Andrew Wasylyk will tell you that he’s a thoughtful character. Quietly spoken, unfailingly polite and a man who clearly considers what he releases to the world quite deeply.
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I LIKE the fact that no matter where you live in Scotland, you’re not too far from the coast.
NICOLE Ansari-Cox has just returned from a relaxing massage. She’s calm but cheerful and shows none of the anxiety that performers just a week away from opening at the Fringe usually exhibit.
IT might surprise anyone who has driven along Dundee’s Kingsway that it was originally planned as a wide, almost bucolic, tree-lined avenue. The city’s ring road is now one of the busiest routes, doing its job in taking traffic away from the city centre, but it’s also pretty grey and functional – the site of industrial and retail parks.
FOOD at outdoor music festivals usually involves a reluctant purchase of expensive falafel and long lines at the doughnut stand when the late-night “munchies” kick in.
SOME songs paint vivid pictures. Few songwriters have combined the seemingly mundane – the worker on a telephone pole or the man leaving quietly in the early morning – with romance and poignancy as exquisitely as Jimmy Webb.
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