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While may seem in its infancy to some, the event has actually been running for the best part of a decade in its previous incarnation as T on the Fringe.

For this year's event the organisers pulled out all the stops with guests ranging from Scottish favourites Biffy Clyro and Broken Records to pop act N-Dubz to electro house darlings Boys Noize to the legendary David Byrne. The name, however, on most peoples' lips this year was Faith No More. Mike Patton, Roddy Bottum, Billy Gould and Mike Bordin reformed last year and tongues were set a-wagging with many wondering when they'd return to Scotland.

The waiting finally came to an end on a cold wet August evening when rock fans made their way in their droves to the Corn Exchange.

Opening with the John Barry epic "Midnight Cowboy" and quickly following it up with crowd favourites "From Out of Nowhere" and "Be Aggressive", the band showed that time had definitely not taken the edge off their performance and Patton's phenomenal vocal range has lost none of its power.

Working their way through material spanning their entire career including "Last Cup of Sorrow" and "I Started A Joke" (dedicated to all the sad, lonely men out there) they never dropped a beat and interspersed the set with banter and friendly crowd abuse in equal measures. Towards the end of the set Patton invited an overjoyed girl to join him on stage for a duet, in which she duly took part. Holding the audience together with ease, all arms aloft, Patton's exchange about sweaty Edinburgh armpits led to a swift lick to his armpit by girl, who was swiftly despatched back to the crowd with an, "nice knowing ya lady, now get out of here".

Continuing the Faith No More tradition of working in somewhat unusual tracks into the set - the Eastenders theme tune made an appearance on two occasions - leading into "Easy" and following an epic crowd chant moment during "Midlife Crisis".

The night drew to a close with Patton slipping into crooner mode for "Just a Man" and the house lights came up once again on Faith No More in Scotland.

View our gallery from the event on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Edinburgh Festivals.

Glasvegas came in to Studio One for a session on The Vic Galloway Show on Radio Scotland on Monday night. Lots of amusing banter and general good vibes were exchanged on the eve of their massive Hampden gig supporting U2 no less.

We filmed it - watch their cover version of Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime, plus Daddy's Gone below.

Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime

Daddy's Gone

The is a huge annual event that happens on Glasgow Green. This year for the first time we've got permission to webcast it live to the world. And we'll also have on-demand clips of all the Grade One bands available as soon as we can turn them around after the event.

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Last weekend the sixth annual took place on the Belladrum estate near Inverness, and - bucking the market trend - sold out all its 12,000 tickets for the first time. Headliners included Editors, Ocean Colour Scene and Glen Tilbrook. Our roving reporting Richard Bull loaded up his camera and headed off to check it out.

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The Vic Galloway show experienced its fullest studio ever last night as 19 members of the squeezed into Studio One. What did they sound like? An unholy collage of melodic post-rock crescendoes colliding with a choir of alt-folky harmonies ....or something like that. Suffice to say there was a lot going on. It was certainly an interesting gig for Hywel and Joanna, ´óÏó´«Ã½ sound supervisers for the evening.

Whatever, there was a real sense of fun in the air, as you can see from the photos I took.

Hear them for yourself - the full session is on Vic's minisite.

As an aside, here is Vic amusingly going through the whole line-up in a school roll-call stylee.

Edinburgh based art and music collective FOUND have been hard at work over the past few months creating the monster that is Cybraphon.

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Over the past few months we've been out on the road with our wee campervan. Packed with video cameras, microphones and other such audio equipment, we've been taking it around various Scottish festivals and filming exclusive acoustic sessions for your viewing pleasure.

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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO recently opened it's doors to the members of the public, allowing anyone that was interested to get involved with it's performance of Haydn's "The Creation".

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ singers were around to lend a helping hand and you can watch the behind the scenes video to see how it all went!