Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

The hills are alive with the sound of rock’n’roll.

Annie & The Caldwells, Fantastic Negrito, The Unthanks and the Buena Vista All Stars join the annual world music cèilidh

Wiry monochrome intensity from indie veterans fully focused on the present

Bristol blues punks/chaos merchants punch harder on second album.

In 2001, the suicide of Big Country ’s Stuart Adamson shocked music fans all over the world. How had the man once lauded by DJ John Peel as ‘Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix’ ended up taking his own life? In an exclusive extract from a new book, we look at the inside story of their debut album The Crossing .