Graeme Armstrong: Last News

Street gangs in Scotland are being increasingly influenced by London’s drill music culture, according to a former hoodlum.

A week packed of exciting events is coming to Lanarkshire next week for Book Week Scotland.

Lanarkshire booklovers are wanted to appear on the latest series of a BBC Scotland show presented by a local author.

Award-winning author Graeme Armstrong has joined New College Lanarkshire’s film and TV team for an inspirational discussion.

Scotland is racing headlong into a teen gang crisis amid a Covid-fuelled “perfect storm”, a leading community worker has warned.

Internet glorification of London gangs is feared to be fuelling a terrifying return to knife violence in Scotland.

Graeme Armstrong is set to feature in a new BBC documentary following Scotland's rave scene. The documentary 'Scotland the Rave' will follow the 30-year-old, who is best known for his debut novel The Young Team, on an intensely personal and honest journey through his passion for rave and the lifestyle that comes with it.

Graeme Armstrong 's The Young Team were thrilled to learn that their favourite novel will soon be available on TV. The novel has been picked up by Synchronicity Films, who are the producers behind 2018 drama The Cry, and BAFTA-winning director Adrian McDowall will be on hand to make it happen, according to Variety.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“The Cry” producer Synchronicity Films has optioned the rights to Graeme Armstrong’s acclaimed debut novel “The Young Team,” with BAFTA-winning “The Last Czars” helmer Adrian McDowall on board to direct.Emerging British writer Ben Tagoe (“In The Long Run,” “Stan Lee’s Lucky Man”) is on board as screenwriter, while Armstrong — whose own personal experiences inform his novel — will serve as consultant on the project.Published by Picador Books in 2020, “The Young Team” is set in the housing schemes of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire — Scotland’s former industrial heartland — where teenage boys are sucked into a world of gangs, booze and blades culture.