Brian Beacom

Glasgow

Senior Features Writer at The Herald (Scotland)

Senior Features Writer at The Glasgow Times

Journalist, biographer and tennis player - who's striving to become mediochre.

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Articles

I was a has-been at 23 says Scots singer behind one of 1980s top tunes

5 days ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Midge Ure is playing Kelvingrove Park this summer (Image: Image credit: Nathan Roach) It’s 9.30am and Midge Ure is incredibly upbeat considering he’s just endured an overnight return from Los Angeles. Most rock stars don’t get up until the sun begins to go down, do they? And he informs that his appearance at the Cruel World Festival wasn’t rock-starry glamorous at all. No pool parties and hanging out with celebrities at all.
Never mind the Horlicks, here's the punk rock pensioners Sex Pistols

5 days ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

The Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter on vocal duties (Image: free) Not the Sex Pistols! Surely not? They can’t be returning to the stage. How can the once world’s most notorious band, the ripped-T-shirted, snot-nosed, safety-pinned, self-proclaimed anarchists, those advocates of the unnecessary zip, the dental care deniers... be performing at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow?
Two Doors Down - the Pride and Prejudice of the Scottish suburbs - returns to TV

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Two Doors Down is a Comedy of Manners at its best (Image: free) News has landed that hit TV sitcom Two Doors Down is to be reprised with a Christmas special. But will the doors of audience appreciation slam back in its face? And does it deserve another chance at the ratings grab given it’s been off air for two years, and half of its writing team, Simon Carlyle, is sadly no longer with us? Rebooting classics often ends in disappointment.
'Oh, for the days of Tiger Tim' - Can STV beat the big boys of radio at their own game?

1 week ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

STV’s plans to broadcast to the 35-54-year-old demographic are a clear attempt to grow the brand, and perhaps enjoy a decent revenue boost.
No-one says you have to agree with King Creosote but he's allowed his own opinion

2 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Kenny Anderson is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, who has released over 40 albums (Image: free) Should all gobby musical voices sound like angels? Or should we should remember we live in a free open society and encourage the individual to shout out to the heavens?
Thank goodness Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta - here's why

2 weeks ago | oxfordmail.co.uk | Brian Beacom

Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta this week for her BBC TV show Sort Your Life out. And I have to say that I’m glad. And it’s not simply because the presenter’s natural cheerful giddiness so quickly surrendered to a far from graceful berating of the judges on social media. Before explaining, don’t assume I don’t like Solomon.
So Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta? Thank goodness for that

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash (Image: free) Stacey Solomon didn’t win a Bafta this week for her BBC TV show Sort Your Life out. And I have to say that I’m glad. And it’s not simply because the presenter’s natural cheerful giddiness so quickly surrendered to a far from graceful berating of the judges on social media. Before explaining, don’t assume I don’t like Solomon.
Families Like Ours is a fascinating drama - even better it's on terrestrial telly

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Families Like Ours is fantastic TV (Image: PHOTOGRAPHER:Per Arnesen) Don’t like TV series’ with subtitles? Can’t imagine why you would be interested at all in a dark, Danish dystopian tale? Well, stick your misgivings, your preconceptions that Viking telly can’t be possibly all-powerful – and your Netflix-buttoned remote under the sofa cushion for an hour – and take a long, soft look at Families Like Ours (BBC4, Saturday and iPlayer.) The opening scene is set in the near future.
10 films from Scotchland that could escape Donald Trump's bigly tariffs

4 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Mel Gibson in Braveheart (Image: free) US President Donald Trump has announced he will introduce tariffs on films made outside of Hollywood. However, in a secret memo revealed today he reveals that Scotland may be a special case, given the ‘very, very beautiful movies’ that top our film history. Here's how we imagine his email might look. Local Hero Isn’t this the greatest story ever told? Drill baby drill.
The play that the Vatican once described as “blasphemous”

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Brian Beacom

Today however, Joseph Farrell, the regular translator of Fo’s work into English, smiles as he suggests that back in 1990 Coltrane was perhaps enticed into becoming Buffero for reasons a little more prosaic than Fo’s awesome reputation and the quality of the writing.