Talking in advance of his charity gig at the Carnegie Hall on 7 June, popular Dunfermline musician George Murray (above) says, ‘To move a mountain you start with the stones’. With tickets for the gig selling well and an album ready for release, George is delighted about just how far his Eastwood project has come. Tragically, George and his friend and fellow musician Stuart Henderson (below) both lost their ...

Here's some photographs from behind the scenes of movies. Doesn't look like R2D2 will be able to eat too many more sandwiches. Check out the Titanic shots below. From Bored Panda and So Bad So Good. The Matrix Django Unchained Titanic Lord of the Rings The Terminator The Gate Ghostbusters The Godfather Back to the Future Inception ...

For the second year in a row, Falkirk has produced a contender for the Scottish Album of the Year. Last year the prize was taken home by Aidan Moffat and Bill Wells. This year, jazz pianist Euan Stevenson and Glaswegian saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski's genre bending jazz album New Focus is on the longlist for the prize alongside stellar names such as Emelie Sande, Calvin Harris, Admiral Fallow and Django Dj ...

BalconyTV films bands from balconies around the world. The Black Cab Sessions films from black cabs. Fittingly for Scotland, Tenement TV is recorded in a tenement flat. In 2011, aged 23, Chae Houston,  started filming bands from his flat in the west end of Glasgow with the help of his flatmates - cameraman Jamie Logie and Paul McJimpsey. At the start, Paul, who has a promotions company, used his contacts to ...

Drambuie and Filmhouse Edinburgh are offering 3 lucky Avocado Sweet readers the chance to win tickets to see Lincoln with Daniel Day-Lewis, who made Oscar history this year as the first man ever to win three best actor awards. Drambuie is supporting a series of film seasons over 2013 to bring 'A Taste of the Extraordinary' to Edinburgh cinema audiences. Drambuie’s support means Filmhouse can screen unique c ...

'I am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever and of finding my own story and my own people all forestalled.'  Jane Austen, 30 April 1811. Its strange to think of Jane Austen doing a disservice to women writers but it seems that the sheer weight of her legacy has been such that some of her female contemporaries - equally of not more successful in their day - have been squashed flat by it and ...

Another name to add to the panoply of women whose role in history has been under-recorded. Lesley Gibb was the older sister of the Gibb brothers who went on to global and enduring fame as the Bee Gees, brilliant singers and songwriters all. Lesley Gibb had two key moments in the Bee Gee story. The first was pulling her toddler brother Robin from a river and saving him from drowning, the second standing in f ...

It is well-known that the famous running-along-the-beach scene in Chariots of Fire was filmed in St Andrews but the University town is not the only part of Fife to have had a starring role. Pittenweem and North Queensferry have both put in appearances and the historic village of Culross often provides a period setting for tv and film - and more suprisingly - for Captain America, the First Avenger. Thanks to ...

At the end of last year the National Library of Scotland ran a competition asking people to Scotify famous lines from the movies. Over 2000 entries were received - one smart alec even Scotified a line from Braveheart. 'Corpse Bridie' is a favourite but maybe that's just a fondness for bridies. Here's a selection but there are more on the Library's facebook page. Famous songs next?   ...

Suggest you devote three minutes of your Friday afternoon to this beautiful lament for a lost brother by Norwegian indie star Jonas Alaska... [video width="600" id="BNfY69w9vFY" type="youtube"] ...