The ever-helpful Cultural Enterprise Office and The Scottish Arts Council are putting on two events – one each in Glasgow and Edinburgh – for bands thinking of showcasing at SXSW next March. Even if you’re only pondering the idea right now, we’d urge you to get down to one of them. Bands (including Scott from Sons & Daughters in Glasgow and Tommy & Ziggy from FOUND in Edinburgh) will regale you with tales of Texan fun, while managers, SXSW staff and other notables will give you invaluable advice on the tedious business of getting there, visas (worth it to learn this on its own), and all the other organisational stuff that, as a band, you are uniformly shite at.