Which is from Scotland, Ned's Atomic Dustbin or Big Country?
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Ned's Atomic Dustbin Ned's Atomic Dustbin are an English rock band formed in Stourbridge in West Midlands in November 1987. The band took their name from an episode of "The Goon Show". The band are unusual for using two bass players in their lineup: Alex Griffin plays melody lines high up on one bass, and Mat Cheslin plays the regular bass lines on the other. This gives the band a tense and highly driven sub-hardcore sound featuring distorted effects-laden guitar and energetic drums.
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Big Country Big Country is a Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1981.
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Look Away (Big Country song) "Look Away" is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country. It was released in April 1986 as the lead single from their third studio album, "The Seer". It gave the group their fourth UK top 10 hit, and proved to be their highest charting single in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 7.
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Great Big Sea Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage. While it has been confirmed that the band has officially been retired, former members Alan Doyle and Séan McCann have continued performing in their own solo careers typically including music from Great Big Sea in their setlists.
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Hogmanay Live Hogmanay Live is BBC Scotland's annual live event programme broadcast from either Edinburgh Castle's Great Hall or BBC Pacific Quay on Hogmanay (New Year's Eve). Regardless of location, the programme rings in the New Year with the firing of Edinburgh Castle's One O'Clock Gun and the subsequent fireworks and celebrations in Edinburgh. The programme features a mixture of Scottish contemporary and folk music, with some past programming also featuring live coverage of parts of the Princes Street concert in Edinburgh, Its current presenter is Jackie Bird, Bird and Phil Cunningham often hosted together each year but since 2008 she has been the host every year. Cunningham does however still appear on the program just not as a host. Carol Kirkwood reported on the 2016 edition of the show live from Edinburgh Castle. The show currently is hosted live from The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, until 2013 Bird was live from Edinburgh Castle or Princes Street but the show's producers decided that it should take place in Scotland's Largest and most popular city.
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Environment of Scotland Scotland occupies the northern part of the United Kingdom. The landscape is diverse; ranging from rugged mountain terrain to fertile arable flat land with many rivers and lochs.
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Charlie Allan (musician) Charlie Allan (born 27 February 1963) is a Scottish actor and musician. He is the Chief Executive of The Clanranald Trust for Scotland, a recognized non-profit organization in Scotland, which would spread and revive primarily Scottish culture and Scottish heritage through entertainment and education. For this purpose, a replica of a medieval Scottish village named Duncarron has been constructed.
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Great Bernera Great Bernera (Scottish Gaelic: "Beàrnaraigh Mòr" , ] ), often known just as Bernera (Scottish Gaelic: "Beàrnaraigh" ) is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With an area of just over 21 km2 , it is the thirty-fourth largest Scottish island.
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Killiecrankie Killiecrankie ( ; Gaelic: "Coille Chreithnich") is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland on the River Garry. It lies at the Pass of Killiecrankie, by the A9 road which has been bypassed since 1986. The village is home to a power station forming part of the Tummel Hydro-Electric Power Scheme. Much of the riverbank is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
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Politics of Scotland Scotland is a country which is part of the United Kingdom (UK). The UK is a regionalised unitary state, and since the late 1990s, a system of devolution has emerged in the UK, under which Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have each been granted some measure of self-government within the UK.
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The Big Issue (Australia) The Big Issue in Australia is a street newspaper which began in 1996. The Australian edition of the paper is a project of the UK-based "The Big Issue". The first magazine was launched in Australia on the steps of Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station on June 16, 1996.
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Brownsbank Brownsbank ("Brounsbank" in Scots) is close to the small settlement of Candymill to the north of Biggar in Scotland.
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Ulster Ulster ( ; Irish: "Ulaidh" ] or "Cúige Uladh" ] , Ulster Scots: "Ulstèr" or "Ulster") is a province in the north of the island of Ireland. It is made up of nine counties, six of which are in Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom) and three of which are in the Republic of Ireland. It is the second largest and second most populous of Ireland's four provinces, with Belfast being its biggest city. Unlike the other provinces, Ulster has a high percentage of Protestants. Those of Catholic background make up about 51% of its population while those of Ulster Protestant background make up about 43%. English is the main language and Ulster English the main dialect. A minority also speak Irish, and there is a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking region) in the west of Ulster. Lough Neagh, in the east, is the largest lake in the British Isles, while Lough Erne in the west is one of its largest lake networks. The main mountain ranges are the Mournes, Sperrins, Croaghgorms and Derryveagh Mountains.
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Restless Nation Restless Nation was a BBC Scotland television series, first shown in 1991, prior to the UK general election in 1992, and updated in 1996, prior to the 1997 general election. It spawned a book by Alan Clements, Kenny Farquharson and Kirsty Wark, in collaboration with "Scotland on Sunday", published in 1996.
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Lockerbie Lockerbie (Scottish Gaelic: "Locarbaidh" ) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, southwestern Scotland. It lies approximately 75 mi from Glasgow, and 20 mi from the English border. It had a population of 4,009 at the 2001 census. The town came to international attention on 21 December 1988 when the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed there following a terrorist bomb attack aboard the flight.
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Grampian Mountains The "'Grampian Mountains" ("Am Monadh" in Gaelic) are one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, occupying a considerable portion of the Scottish Highlands in northeast Scotland. The range extends southwest to northeast between the Highland Boundary Fault and the Great Glen, occupying almost half of the land area of Scotland and including the Cairngorms and the Lochaber hills. The range includes many of the highest mountains in the British Isles, including Ben Nevis and Ben Macdui the two highest.
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Scottish National Party The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic: "Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba" , Scots: "Scots Naitional Pairtie" ) is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence. It is the third-largest political party by membership in the United Kingdom, as well as by overall representation in the House of Commons, behind the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, and is the largest political party in Scotland, where it has the most seats in the Scottish Parliament and most of the Scottish seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has served as First Minister of Scotland since 20 November 2014.
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A Pub with No Beer "A Pub With No Beer" is the title of a humorous country song made famous by country singers Slim Dusty (in Australia and the United States) and Bobbejaan Schoepen (in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria).
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I Want Your Love (Atomic Kitten song) "I Want Your Love" is a song by Atomic Kitten, released as the third single from their debut album "Right Now". The single peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, and also reached number 48 in Ireland. The song heavily samples the theme to the 1958 film "The Big Country". Almost exactly a decade earlier, the same sample had been used on the song "The Only Rhyme That Bites" by MC Tunes vs 808 State, which also peaked at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart. Initial copies of "I Want Your Love" contained a sample of the KLF's 1991 hit single "Justified and Ancient"; later copies had the sample removed. The video & radio versions contained vocals from Kerry Katona; these vocals were replaced on the album version by Jenny Frost. The song was produced, arranged, recorded and mixed by Damien Mendis at Metropolis Studios, London. "I Want Your Love" is also featured on the "Greatest Hits" album.
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The Dustbinmen The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield and Tim Wylton. The show was a spin-off from a one-off 90-minute television film "There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah" (1968) written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted. This led to the sitcom which ran for three series between 1969 and 1970. Rosenthal wrote all of the episodes of the first two series.
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Callum Adamson Cal Adamson is a British businessman, who was previously a guitarist and songwriter for the London-based band, ahab. Adamson is also the son of the famous Stuart Adamson, who was the lead singer for Big Country and The Skids.
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New Scotland, Mpumalanga New Scotland is a farming region in the former Republic of Transvaal bordering Swaziland, which was settled about 1866 and promoted by Alexander McCorkindaleWikitree profile for emigrants from Scotland and the Natal Colony. After the death of McCorkindale in 1872 who was the fledgling community's inspirer, the grand plans of an industrial and commercial centre faltered and many of the Scots moved elsewhere to the Diamond rush in Kimberley and the gold rush of the Witwaterand. The area is commonly misty reminding the early visitors of Scotland.