Sutherland
Charlie: ''This may be my favourite landscape of anywhere I've ever been. It almost doesn't seem part of the British Isles. You get the feeling of Scandinavia, somewhere like that. I love it for that and the beauty of the landscape, and for what it represents in the history of Scotland.''

Inverness
Craig: ''I'll be honest - I think if we hadn't played in Inverness, long before we got signed, we might well have given up. We did get good receptions in Edinburgh, but Inverness was exceptional, because the people that came along to see us got straight away what we were about.''

Loch Torridon
Craig: ''I remember Charlie and myself went up there three or four times with our parents - as young children and in our early teens. I remember going fishing for mackerel. It's certainly one of the most beautiful places I've been and I love the peace up there. Generally I prefer the city, but
sometimes you want that silence.''

Bannockburn
Craig: ''Two reasons. One: for what it represents for Scottish history -
wherever the battle was actually fought, it's probably built over now. Two,
if you were going to distil what Scotland was, make an amalgam, an average
of Scotland, to me that area of Stirlingshire would be it.''

Glasgow
Craig: ''Being someone from the east of Scotland, Glasgow to me was always
kind of halfway to being a foreign country. But you've gottae love it. The
people are probably the funniest I've ever met in my life. There's also the
football - Hampden Park especially, no' that we have many good times there
wi' Hibs. The only thing - other than the reputation for violence and
bigotry, which is partially deserved - is that I think the Glasgow middle
class are a little more pretentious than the Edinburgh middle class. I just
think they're a bit fey.''

Harthill
Craig: ''I think it's just about the most significant place in Scotland.
It's the border between the east and the west and it physically feels like
it because you drive up to it and no matter which way you go you're
descending, either into the Glasgow area or into the Edinburgh area. Even
people who were born and bred there couldn't say it was the most beautiful
part of Scotland, but that journey along the M8 - it always seems to me like
Harthill's the watershed of the central belt.''

Stockbridge
Craig: ''That's where my dad's family were from. When we were boys a lot of
it was a slum - they cleared quite a few streets right in the middle. I
remember standing with my mum watching the old wrecking balls knocking down
the tenements when I was about six. It was very sad.''
Charlie: ''Now it's beyond upwardly mobile, it really is one of the boom
areas of Scotland. But I still get a good feeling from being there. Of
course you've got to have a few bob to be able to have a house there now.''

Leith
Craig: ''It's where we were born, it's where some of our family's from, it's
where we spent much of the time when we came back to Edinburgh. Its
distinctive character is less than it was, but still I think you wouldn't
mistake the foot of Leith Walk for any other area. There's a great vibrancy
about it. And I think it's one of those places that if you have any
connection with it, you'll probably always gonnae feel a fondness towards
it.''

East Lothian
Charlie: ''It's pretty varied: you've got all the little mining towns like
Tranent, but it's almost like the Surrey of Edinburgh - that whole Gullane
area along the seaside. There's something about the light that I think is
the best in Scotland. You notice when you're driving through it or on a
train. I've never lived there, but I think to view it's one of the most
enjoyable places.''

Anstruther
Charlie: ''I like that whole East Neuk area of Fife. It doesn't feel like
anywhere else in Scotland. I like going there, getting lunch and then going
to the pubs, going for a walk, combining the lot, you know? There's a place
called the Cellar Restaurant which is the best fish restaurant I've ever been to ''
Craig: ''He's looking for a free meal ''
Charlie: ''I wish I was, but I like the whole place.''

Northeast Fife
Charlie: ''It's the area that we grew up in from when we were about 10 to
well, I was about 17 when I left to go to Edinburgh. In retrospect it was a
great place to grow up. I still have one pal who was at primary school and
secondary school with us and he now works at the same school in Cupar. And
we got asked a few weeks ago to sponsor a road sign on 'Muchty common.''

Dundee
Craig: ''I liked it the moment I set foot in it. I know a lot of people from
the west of Scotland have a real downer on the place but I don't know why.
Physically, in the buildings, it hasn't got a great deal going for it, but
there's a real character to the place.''
Charlie: ''People are down to earth - they don't have that bluster that
sometimes affects Glaswegians. They're funny as f***, they know what their
city is and most of them are pretty content with it.''

Dunkeld
Charlie: ''I like the beauty of the place and the situation that it's in.
People always say Perthshire's the Tory part of Scotland, but I like the
entire county. There's something about Dunkeld because it was one of the
capitals in Pictish times and it was a very important place
ecclesiastically.''