Singer-songwriter Cam Penner's music features in the forthcoming BBC drama Stonemouth, the first television adaptation of Scottish author Iain Banks's work since his death in 2013.
After being given a copy of Penner's To Build A Fire album, director Charles Martin - whose credits also include Run, Wallander and the US remake of The Returned - contacted the Canadian directly about using his songs.
Penner and his touring partner Jon Wood have been regular visitors to Scotland in recent years and will be touring over here again early in 2016. Stonemouth, which stars Peter Mullan, is to be screened on BBC Scotland on June 8 and 13 and on BBC Two on June 11 and 18. www.campenner.com
Glasgow band The Fratellis have announced details of their fourth album. Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied will be released on the Cooking Vinyl label on August 21, and will be supported by three low-key gigs at The Borderline in London (August 19), O2 Academy 2 in Birmingham (20) and King Tut's in Glasgow (21).
Eyes Wide, Tongue Tied is the band's follow-up to 2013's We Need Medicine, which peaked in the charts at No 26, a disappointment after Top 5 placings for both Costello Music and Here We Stand.
The trio of Jon (guitar/vocals), Barry (bass) and Mince (drums) Fratelli initially planned to produce the album themselves, but ended up working in Los Angeles with Tony Hoffer, who produced their 2006 debut.
Opening track Me And The Devil is available now as a free download on the band's website.
www.thefratellis.com
The Greens & Blues gallery on the High Street of North Berwick is to show 17 oil paintings by American artist John Schueler, who died in 1992. The paintings are works that Schueler made while living in Mallaig in the 1970s and 1980s.
Very much a central figure in the New York school of Abstract Expressionism, Schueler first set up a studio in Scotland in 1957, which he visited sporadically until settling in Mallaig in 1970 for five years.
The show, viewing by appointment only, runs between June 6 and July 19.
info@greensandblues.co.uk
Edinburgh's fortnightly Playtime jazz session turns its focus this Thursday on bassist and composer Charles Mingus, one of the outstanding characters in 20th-century music, whose associations include Duke Ellington and Joni Mitchell.
Saxophonist and clarinettist Martin Kershaw, bassist Mario Caribe and drummer Tom Bancroft join forces in this tribute at the Outhouse in Broughton Street Lane. The music begins at 8pm.
www.playtime-music.com
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