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Fronted by main man Louis Abbott, Admiral Fallow craft folky indie music with powerful emotional force.

Next week is sure to be a big moment for the Glasgow-based band as they support Frightened Rabbit in two sellout Barrowlands shows.

Here's a taster, captured on the dinky Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing stage at this year's T In The Park.

King Creosote takes some time out from his and turns in this stripped back version of recent Underworld single Always Loved A Film.

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Also, back in March, we caught him teaming up with The Pictish Trail and Adem in our wee camper van at ' annual Ö÷²¥´óÐãgame festival. Here's the trio covering Withered Hand's No Cigarettes.

Electronic music legends Leftfield followed in the footsteps of contemporaries Orbital and came out of retirement to relaunch their live set at the RockNess festival on the banks of Loch Ness in the summer.

This weekend sees them play at the Barrowlands and the Academy in Glasgow and to give you a taster of what to expect, we've dug out the exclusive video footage from RockNess.

Watch Afrika Shox below and head on over to our Rock Ness site for footage of Original and Release The Pressure.

On the eve of his gig at the Ironworks, Newton Faulkner dropped into our Inverness studio to explain his unique playing style to Vic Galloway. The session for The Music Cafe included Badman, Teardrop, Dream Catch Me and an exclusive taster of his cover of Pure Imagination.

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã SSO and have recently returned from a six-concert tour of Austria and Germany. Principal Second Violinist Greg Lawson was there and has written this blog about his experiences...

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made his debut as the Ö÷²¥´óÐã SSO's new Associate Guest Conductor at City Halls last night with an excellent programme that included a world premiere from Scottish composer and G major Piano Concerto. The climax to the concert was a wonderful performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. We filmed the symphony in its entirety and you can watch the results below.

Since an epic performance at the Hydro Connect Festival in 2008, Edinburgh's Broken Records have gone from strength to strength. The band signed to 4AD shortly after that performance and released one of 2009's finest albums in Until The Earth Begins To Part. Today's Friday Find catches them in fine form live on The Vic Galloway Show on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Scotland.

With second album Let Me Come Ö÷²¥´óÐã released just a few weeks ago, the band dropped in to showcase some of their new material and first in line was lead single A Darkness Rises Up.

On 4 November the Ö÷²¥´óÐã SSO's new Associate Guest Conductor makes his debut in the role with a cracking concert featuring music by Brahms and Mozart, and a world premiere by Scottish composer .

We caught up with Andrew earlier in the year for an exclusive interview about the programme for this concert. He gave us an idea of what to expect, along with an insight into what it's like to conduct with the Ö÷²¥´óÐã SSO.

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