Belle named 'best Scottish band'
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Belle & Sebastian are named the 'best Scottish band of all time', beating Brit nominees Franz Ferdinand.
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Band could become magazine's most decorated of the decade after notching up a record seven nominations
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Joins Channel 4 and Sony Ericsson to find UK's best band Orange and Sony Ericsson have gotten together with Channel 4 to launch "mobileACT Unsigned": a competition to find the best unsigned band in the UK.â¦
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Electro-rock band The Bravery are named the most promising new act in the BBC News website's Sound of 2005 poll.
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Robbie Williams, Michael Jackson, Queen, the Rolling Stones and Cliff Richard have been inducted into Britain's first Music Hall of Fame, chosen by the public as the best music acts of the past five decades.
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Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand have won the Mercury Music Prize for their self-titled debut album. The Glasgow band saw of competition from bands including The Streets, Jamelia and The Zutons to claim the award for best album of the year.
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Scottish art-rockers Franz Ferdinand have scooped the prestigious Mercury music prize with their debut album.
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ALL of Scotland's bathing beaches have passed water quality tests for the first time since monitoring began 20 years ago.  The Scottish Environment Protection Agency said the good summer weather and investment in sewage treatment had helped.
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Lifestyle: 7 November 2004, Sunday. An impressive music and dance show dedicated to the Celtic culture was staged in Sofia this weekend.
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Glasgow rockers Franz Ferdinand lead the list of nominees for the NME Awards,  voted for by the public.
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By NO BYLINE  YOUNG Scottish musicians with a social or political message are being invited to compete for big cash prizes.   And the winners will be decided by using the same voting system which will make its debut at local government elections in May.
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By BEN McCONVILLE EDINBURGH, Scotland - She's as much an emblem, and a tourist draw, as tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread. And now Nessie's back.
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The Scottish rock band beat rapper Ty, Amy Winehouse and The Zutons to take the prestigious music award. &quot;This is coming in a year when we&#39;re surrounded by such fantastic bands,&quot; frontman Alex Kapranos said.
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Australian comic Brendon Burns was on Sunday named winner of Britain&#39;s top comedy award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Scottish alternative rock act Franz Ferdinand has won the 2004 Nationwide Mercury Prize with its eponymous debut album. The annual music-industry award, recognizing the UK or Irish album of the year, was presented last night (Sept.
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The British group's 'Stop the Clocks' collection shows off the band's gift for melody.
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The Mercury Music Prize, the record industry's equivalent of the literary world's Booker prize, was won last night by Franz Ferdinand, a four-piece rock band from Glasgow.