James Allan: Last News

A frantic search has been launched for a missing man who vanished from his Scots home two days ago.

A pair of identical twins separated at birth and put up for adoption reunited 39 years later - only to discover they had led incredibly similar lives. Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, also known as 'the Jim twins', were born in 1940 and given the same name by their respective adoptive parents - James, or Jim for short.

Scots music stars Glasvegas and Slam have joined forces for a special collaboration.

Glasvegas paid an emotional tribute to BBC Radio legend Janice Long following news of her shock death.

James Allan became Scotland’s Brian Wilson as he took seven years to record Glasvegas ’s fourth album Godspeed, which is out now. Like the Beach Boys legend, James agonised over different sounds,  sometimes taking days and weeks to get one right and walking about with a bag of microphones just in case.

Glasvegas have announced details of their new album ‘Godspeed’ and shared a new single in ‘Shake The Cage (für Theo)’.The record will be the Scottish band’s fourth and follows 2013’s ‘Later… When The TV Turns To Static’.‘Godspeed’ will be released on April 2 and, according to a press release, the stories in its songs take place “all on the same night, just as the sun’s going down”. The album was recorded, engineered and produced by frontman James Allan, who said the tracks were all written “in only a couple of months back in 2014”.‘Shake The Cage (für Theo)’ is featured in Irvine Welsh and Danny Boyle’s new Alan McGee biopic Creation Stories, soundtracking the film’s end credits.

Glasvegas have written a bespoke score for Lorraine Kelly's brand new documentary about Dunblane.James Allan and his Glasgow band were approached by the daytime chat queen herself to write the music for the ITV film which will mark the 25th anniversary of the Dunblane Primary School tragedyThe show which is produced by Alaska and written by Lorraine will look at the biggest mass shooting in Britain’s history which caused the government to change gunlaws in the country almost immediately after the tragedy.James who said it was an honour to be approached for the musical role said: "As a young boy I’ve always grown up curious about music on TV whether it was on film or adverts.

Glasvegas have announced that they are working on new music for the first time in seven years. Last night, the Glasgow band released a statement saying they were excited to make a comeback and apologised that it took so long.In the statement, frontman James Allan said: "It’s been 7 years since we released new music so, yeah, I guess an explanation why is overdue,” Allan began his post.“I made the decision to record, engineer and produce our latest album free of any outside assistance, which for the bands momentum maybe didn’t seem like the safest path or on paper the most logical idea.

Glasvegas have announced that they’re working on new music, their first in seven years.The Glaswegian band haven’t released any new music since 2013’s ‘Later…When The TV Turns To Static’, but that’s about to change according to frontman James Allan.Taking to Instagram tonight (August 10) to explain why it’s taken so long for Glasvegas to return to making music, Allan has revealed that it has a lot to do with wanting to create a new album “free of any outside assistance.”“It’s been 7 years since we released new music so, yeah, I guess an explanation why is overdue,” Allan began his post.“I made the decision to record, engineer and produce our latest album free of any outside assistance, which for the bands momentum maybe didn’t seem like the