What is Eye O’ the Dug, then? It’s a new two-day music event brought to you by King Creosote and myself, The Pictish Trail, from Fence Records.  Our pals at St Andrews Student’s Association are helping out on this one, too.  It’s happening over Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th April, 2012, in a few different [...]

So, I give up on the idea of releasing the album and instead invite the band over to the UK to play a Fence Records’ Hallowe’en show – which we hold in a small church hall, in Anstruther, Fife. It’s a two-day bash, and on the first night Keith turns up wearing a pair of [...]

Part two in our Shivvery saga finds us deep in the heartburn of Texas

The first instalment in a three-part blog – about touring around America, and meeting the greatest band ever.

So. There goes another Home Game. Three days of sheer unadulterated sugary-cider flavoured merriment, followed by a weeklong ice-cream headache of a hangover; catching up with ol’ friends, and making new ones; dancing like an eejit to Fence favourites, and blissfully head bobbing along to new acts; an influx of 650 folk into the town [...]

I’ve been avoiding this bandstand blog. Since the Away Game weekend came to an end i’ve been a bit of a mess. On the Monday we waved a tearful goodbye to the last of the Away Gamers making their way back to Arisaig and Mallaig on the ferries, and then had some dinner to celebrate [...]

Hello now. As the Leuchars-to-Kings-Cross Express crawls it’s way down the unshaven neck of mainland Great Britain, I find myself at a loss.   I’ve checked my Facebook at least twelve times in the past twenty minutes.  I’ve just checked it again.  My “fun”-sized pack of Mini-Cheddars has managed to squander itself to mere crumbs, and [...]

Tickets for our first ever AWAY GAME go on sale on Monday 24th May, at 12noon. And we’re getting very excited about it all. Here’s a quick guide to what the weekend will be like …

See this photo? This is me.  Two weeks ago. Fresh out of surgery, and souped up to the eyeballs on morphine. 60 minutes before this photo was taken I was lying back, completely anesthetised, mouth clamped open, with my swollen angry tonsils being sliced from my throat.  Ugh. Let’s not stay there just now.  Instead, [...]

Hello there.

Below is an edited version of a blog i put together in November 2009. It’s about this 100 Days Project that i’m a part of. You can follow the progress of my 100 Days project on my “daily” blog: www.pictishtrail.blogspot.com