A Scottish artist has to gain legitimacy elsewhere before being fully appreciated here. I doubt if there is a single Scot in the history of popular music who hasn't found their outlet to the world via an institution from somewhere else.

Scotland has enormous untapped potential in music most of which goes to waste due to a lack of any real support system, commercial or otherwise. If the same thing is true in other fields we could be sitting on a cultural gold-mine. Just a thought.