The Proclaimers News

It's not Gordon who has today's big scoop - I suspect he'll already be down Morrisons with Danny Dyer and Guy Ritchie, arguing over if it should be two bottles of Baileys or one each of Baileys and Tia Maira.

A FREE concert to welcome back troops returning from Afghanistan is set to be held at an Edinburgh barracks next year.

IN part one of our review of the cultural decade, our pop critic Fiona Shepherd explains how post-devolution Scotland saw bands finding the confidence to sing in their own voices, and make their own luck &#149 Franz Ferdinand FOR a wee country, Scotland has always punched above its weight musically.

The B-52s bombed out, The Proclaimers were silenced and the Pink Flamingos were plucked.

Thousands of concert-goers are disappointed at the cancellation of the B52s concert in Martinborough.

LETTER FROM AMERICA: The Proclaimers aka as Craig and Charlie Reid perform on stage in 2002.

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MOST people enjoy a special treat on their birthday. But BRITNEY SPEARS celebrated her 28th doing what she does every week - shopping.

SCOUTS and Guides taking to the stage for the 50th Gang Show have been given some last-minute words of encouragement from the Queen.

FANS who wave the Saltire at gigs are "embarrassing", according to Proclaimers Charlie and Craig Reid.

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The Scottish duo The Proclaimers first visited Mountain Stage in March 1994, around the time its infectious song "I'm Gonna Be " had become one of the biggest hits in the world.

Irish and Scottish lads of Celtic Thunder take the Fox Theatre stage in their second full-fledged U.S. tour.

UNLESS you want to see The Proclaimers at Llandudno's Venue Cymru then this week's decent gigs are all around Cardiff.

IT'S the stomping staple of weddings and student union nights the country over that finally gave one of the hardest working duos in pop their first number one hit.

In their best-known hit they promise to walk 500 miles - but luckily for The Proclaimers the journey would be 120 miles shorter were they to take in a World Cup match in Bristol.

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CRAIG and Charlie Reid are a couple of old romantics at heart. The Scottish twin brothers - better known as The Proclaimers - have always had a soft side, but the pair who wrote anthems like I'm Gonna Be and Letter From America have stepped into ever more emotional territory with their latest album, Notes and Rhymes, and the single Love Can Move ...

THANKFULLY the burr of Charlie Reid's thick Scottish accent wasn't so dense that I couldn't make out what he was saying.

Even though he's been around for a number of years and already has three full-length albums under his belt, singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher didn't find it odd to be nominated in the best new artist category at this year's Juno awards.