Bhangra Among The Bagpipes
An in the Sunday Times Ecosse section today about the Asian music scene in Scotland. This is something that has interested me for some years and prompted me to commission Asian Overground last year and Tigerstyle Presents this summer. It's also a regular part of our weekly Global Gathering programme where we do, indeed, mix bhangra with bagpipes, to borrow a phrase from the Sunday Times article.
Of course, Radio Scotland gets a grudging mention in the article with a bit of a slapped wrist for not doing more to promote this kind of music. No criticism, of course, of the dozens of commercial music stations in Scotland who take no interest in the scene whatsoever.
Oh well, I should really stop reading the Sunday papers. If it wasn't for The Broons and Oor Wullie in the Sunday Post then I'd give them up completely.
Except I like Paul Donovan's Radio Waves column in the Sunday Times Culture section and, well, most of the Scottish sundays too.
Oh all right then...I'll give them one more year to shape up. Otherwise I would have nothing to put in my recycling bin on Monday mornings and the neighbours would start to talk.
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