'A sense of place and meaning': Karine Polwart on the magic of Scottish pop

The folk singer’s Edinburgh festival show reinterprets classic and cult Caledonian gems close to her heart, like Big Country’s melancholic anthems and Cocteau Twins’ filthy futurismOf all the 80s pop artists that Scotland spawned – from Simple Minds and Orange Juice, to Annie Lennox and the Proclaimers – Dunfermline’s Big Country are closest to my heart. They transformed Thatcherite brutality into melancholic anthems. On guitars that sounded like bagpipe...

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