Billy Boyd: Beecake's album launch

Billy Boyd's band announce their album launch

Beecake are delighted to announce the launch of their latest album 'Blue Sky Paradise'. The launch will be held in Glasgow on Sat 22nd December 2012.

Video Release - Beecake have released their 'Please Stay' music video to accompany the release of their 4 Track E.P

Source: Beecake 

Kevin McKidd is donating album proceeds to charity

Kevin McKidd is donating everything he makes from a forthcoming album of traditional Scottish songs to the Save The Children charity.

The actor, who plays chief of surgery Dr Owen Hunt on TV drama Grey’s Anatomy, rented a house with friends, including music producer Nick Lloyd Webber, close to his birthplace in Elgin, Scotland, to record 29 numbers — although he told me just 15 tracks made the final cut on the LP known as the 'Speyside Sessions'.

McKidd has lived in the valley district of Los Angeles with his wife and two children for five years while shooting the hit hospital drama, but he likes to return to his native land as often as he can.

When I saw him in downtown LA on Wednesday, he told me - in between signing autographs for teenage girls - that the songs on the album include Charlie Is My Darling, John Anderson, My Jo and Both Sides Of The Tweed. But what about Mull of Kintyre?

‘We only considered songs over 100 years old,’ McKidd said, laughing as he mildly dissed the song Paul McCartney and Denny Laine wrote in the late Seventies. 'It wasn’t ancient enough!’

The actor has been busy shooting new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, which is about to plunge him into a highly controversial storyline - but you won’t get any spoilers from me.

Read more at Daily Mail

Win John Barrowman Tickets and Meet & Greet

John Barrowman, the ubiquitous star of stage and screen on both sides of the Atlantic, will release a selection of his best loved songs on September 5th, along with 2 brand new tracks, including new single ‘I Owe It All To You’.

The new release from Sony Music features classic tracks that have featured in John’s career and helped chart his path to becoming Britain’s best loved all round entertainer.

John has had an incredible year, with Torchwood becoming a co production between the BBC and Starz Network, making him a prime time star in the US.

He has also managed to present a new series of Tonight’s The Night, tour the UK in his sell out concert and write a children’s book. And he also found time to win the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special!

'Tonight’s The Night: The Very Best of John Barrowman' is John’s fourth release with Sony Music. ‘Another Side’, ‘Music Music Music’ and ‘John Barrowman’ have all been very successful, and this new release adds to his musical canon by highlighting his amazing musical career thus far, as well as adding two more tracks: new composition ‘I Owe It All To You’ a searing ballad produced by Metrophonic, and a cover of the Rod Stewart classic ‘Tonight’s The Night’.

To mark the release of John Barrowman's forthcoming Album, 'Tonight's The Night' on September 5th Female First have a pair of tickets and a meet & greet with John during his forthcoming UK Tour.

To be in with a chance of winning just simply answer the question on the FemaleFirst website. You must be available to travel to Manchester on November 15th. Closing Date: 24 September 2011

Source, and competition details: Female First

John Barrowman's Christmas message

A short video of John Barrowman wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and sharing some news.

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Billy Boyd interview on BBC Alba

On Monday Billy appeared on Cathy MacDonald's Cuide ri Cathy. The interview is up at the BBC Alba site and on youtube. You can check it out below:







Billy also had an exclusive interview with the the TheOneRing.net to promote his upcoming East Coast US tour with his band, Beecake. You can read it here.

Beecake also confirmed via Twitter that their Soul Swimming album and tour T-shirt will be available to buy at the venues during their tour. Tour dates and venues are included in TheOneRing.net interview.

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