{"id":2190989,"date":"2025-12-08T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2190989"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:13:21","slug":"scottish-music-icon-is-latest-addition-to-beacon-book-festival-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/scottish-music-icon-is-latest-addition-to-beacon-book-festival-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish music icon is latest addition to Beacon Book Festival line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A SCOTTISH musical icon has been announced as the latest addition to the line-up for the upcoming Beacon Book Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Justin Currie, lead singer of Scottish band Del Amitri, will discuss his bestselling memoir, &#8216;The Tremolo Diaries&#8217; on February 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk\/local-news\/greenock-news\/?ref=au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Greenock;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Greenock<\/a>-born journalist and broadcaster Paul English will chair the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tickets, now on sale for \u00a35 plus fees, can be purchased for the event at 5pm on the Beacon Arts Centre <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconartscentre.co.uk\/events\/justin-currie?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The festival&#8217;s line-up already includes Scottish crime writers Denise Mina and Chris Brookmyre, local sci-fi author Ken MacLeod, Hebridean Baker Coinneach MacLeod, broadcaster Peter MacQueen and more, with further names set to be added between now and February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SCOTTISH musical icon has been announced as the latest addition to the line-up for the upcoming Beacon Book Festival. Justin Currie, lead singer of Scottish band Del Amitri, will discuss his bestselling memoir, &#8216;The Tremolo Diaries&#8217; on February 20, 2026. Greenock-born journalist and broadcaster Paul English will chair the event. Tickets, now on sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2190990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[422914,422913,422916,422915,422912,362604,422917],"class_list":["post-2190989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-beacon-arts-centre","tag-beacon-book","tag-del-amitri","tag-denise-mina","tag-justin-currie","tag-paul-english","tag-scottish-musical-icon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scottish-music-icon-is-latest-addition-to-Beacon-Book-Festival.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190991,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190989\/revisions\/2190991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2190990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}