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Welcome to Drulum. There is no one at home right now, but if you leave your name, an email address and a short message, I’ll get back to you soon.

Ok, not quite. But I’ve only just launched the website and it is therefore somewhat bereft of content while I slowly get out to see people and begin to fill up the different categories. I’ve chosen to put the core categories in place even when there are no articles yet, along with a brief introduction to that category to give you an idea of the sort of content I’m planning.

What’s new?

Well this has of course just launched, so at the time of writing there is very little to see and I’m sorry to say the initial articles are all text based, mostly for speed at present.

However, there’s a review of Scottish Opera’s Hansel & Gretel at the Theatre Royal, a review of CherryGrove in the University of Glasgow concert hall and a review of iCafe on Woodlands Road.

I have carefully selected the first two poetry articles, but only one of the poems has been written so far – Robert Burns’ The Mauchline Lady.

For the other categories which currently have no content, I’ve written a short introduction to give a slightly better idea of what I’m hoping to do. New content will initially be added as and when I have it available, with an intent to move onto a more regular release cycle once I’ve got enough people interested in giving interviews, submitting poetry & music and a few other things I’m planning in the background.

So what is Drulum?

It’s a new online space for me, Calum Morrell, to create the sort of content that interests me while focussing mostly on the Scottish arts, culture, food & drink scenes. You can call it a blog, an online magazine, a waste of time – I’m not too bothered. It’s more important that I get content up that I care about and, with a bit of luck, a few others will enjoy enough to read periodically.

The sort of content I’m planning will initially include:

• Interviews with artists & musicians, both promising new talent as well as established, but perhaps not household names.
• Interviews with others involved in the areas mentioned above, but perhaps people who normally work in the background and rarely get to talk about their work.
• Reviews of anything remotely relevant to the areas mentioned above.
• Poetry. I’ve chosen to keep this as a separate area of the site as I have a special interest in wanting to promote good poetry and try to bring it to new audiences.

I want Drulum to provide more than just text and the occasional photograph, so I’m planning on using a good mix of text, photography, audio and video where it makes sense and where my current skills will allow.