| |  | | Austria: On the road, short of sleep. L - R: Stephen Westwater (bass), Louise Quinn (guitar and vocals), Alistair Cooke (drums and computer) |
| |  | | Live radio session, Radio B92, Belgrade |
| |  | | Guitarist, Charlie Milne in his kilt at An Evening of Scottish-ness |
| |  | | Nikola, festival organiser in Prijepolje |
| |  | | Louise, Robert and Alistair, Prijepolje |
| |  | | Meeting Nikola, Prijepolje |
| |  | | Slobodan Konjovic, for 35 years the music editor in chief of Radio B92, Belgrade - he's known as the 'Serbian John Peel' |
| |  | | Skyscraper, 'Beogradjanka' (Belgrade girl) - Studio B is on the 23rd floor |
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Famous in Serbia
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Earlier this year Quinn, a Glaswegian Band received the unexpected news that they'd reached number 8 - in the Serbian Hit parade.
Their single The World Is Upside Down had been downloaded off the net by Serbia's best-known music editor. He played it frequently on his Belgrade music station and it became a hit - in Serbia, anyway.
Quinn, who are more used to playing Glasgow's smaller venues were invited to tour Serbia. The fees were small but the hospitality would be massive - and they'd get to be pop stars. Irresistable.
Alistair Cooke, whose wife Louise is the band's lead singer, emailed to ask if we'd be interested in an audio diary of the trip. We said yes, so they loaded up a van and off they went...
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