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Welcome to the Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts sector still impacted by the pandemic, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, from a living room in Leith, Gloria Black and Callum Govan – aka synth pop duo Maranta – perform their single My Man

Welcome to the Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts sector still impacted by the pandemic, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Edinburgh-based Nicole Cassandra Smit performs the song Wedding Gown, taken from her debut album, Third In Line

Welcome to the Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts sector still impacted by the pandemic, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Edinburgh-based melodic pop duo The Eves perform an exclusive acoustic version of their latest single, Big Love

Welcome to Scotsman Sessions. With the performing arts world still impacted by the pandemic, we are commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on scotsman.com, with introductions from our critics. Here, Jill O’Sullivan – one third of musical triumvirate Jill Lorean – performs the track Black Dog, taken from their new album This Rock

Submitting... “I enjoyed all of that, of course,” says Sievewright, “but I just felt there was something about me that didn’t quite fit in to that West End world. I wanted to get back into the Scottish scene; and In 2012, I had an audition for Cora Bissett’s Glasgow Girls, the musical about the Glasgow schoolgirls who campaigned for their asylum seeker friends to stay in the UK. Dawn Sievewright and John McLarnan “And as soon as I got into that, I just thought, this is it, this is w...

Submitting... Of the trick to staying visible without being able to get on stage in front of an audience, Bird explains: “We just did our best to be as active as possible on social media, constantly promoting to our fans and encouraging them to get behind us amidst the situation we’re all living through. People power can be a powerful tool which proved to be the case on this occasion. Mason Hill “We handle our own social media pages for the band,” he adds, “but never have we had to be...

By Danielle Gibson-01 April 2021 15:00pm Find out whos a finalist of The Drum Awards for Online Media 2021 The Drum Awards for Online Media reward original, clever and thought-provoking work across the best platforms. This year’s jury brought together global experts with Anna Doble, digital editor of the BBC World Service English, leading the helm as chair of the judging panel. Following the virtual judging day, where our jury deliberated the top media platforms and campaigns...

Submitting... A fan of Tori Amos and Joni Mitchell, Spina studied music at Glasgow University, but the academic element wasn’t for her and she switched to philosophy. She self-released the albums Never Coming Home (2011) and Let Out the Dark (2017), and has played support slots for Sheryl Crow at Glasgow Academy (“purely through the power of harassing the promoter until he gave me the gig”) and Joan Armatrading, who invited Spina to tour after she played one support date. Adriana Spina Lo...

Submitting... For her Scotsman Session, she performs the title track of her newly-released debut EP, which also gathers up her previously released singles, Sweater, Heavy and Island. Bow Anderson “New Wave is about letting go and moving onto bigger and better things,” she says. “It’s about learning to love yourself and knowing your worth. Sometimes you have to learn to let go of people who bring negativity to your life because it’s not worth your happiness suffering. I hope it uplifts...