Copin’ In Copenhagen This post comes live, direct and on the hoof from the departure lounge of Terminal 2 in Copenhagen Airport. We’ve been clean(ish) living the past week in Copenhagen, a modern, sleek and styli…

Copin’ In Copenhagen

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Cullen Card “We asked 100 people to name a musical duo from Scotland.” With a TV audience of millions watching and a five or six-figure jackpot prize hanging on your answer, the chances of a clued-…

On the back of the recent Boards Of Canada activity, this old post has been, eh, trending the past few days. @boardsofcanada.bsky.social

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In the music-buying populace of the west of Scotland, that doesn’t really narrow it down.

Ha! Y’win some, y’lose some. American pressings of the VU will be nice to own.

Funnily enough, it was a friend of mine who returned from the States with LRP too. “You’ll like this,” he wagered.

The Green Brigade

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To Hell With Poverty! I came to Gang Of Four via the Wedding Present. I was in thrall to Madness and Adam and the Ants and clearly far too young for this thing called post-punk, but I was however just the right age for …

Jon King @gangoffour.bsky.social interview/payolla @weare1of100.bsky.social

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Brand New Heavies May 1971. Marvin Gaye releases What’s Going On?, a musical tour de force of luscious, orchestral funk, dusted with hard-hitting socio-political lyrics that address the state of America. It&#8…

Sky High Sly

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She’s Got A Brassiere! Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl is the greatest film to come out of Scotland no, the UK  no, the world bar none. Any one random, washed-out coloured still from the film will instantly sti…

What’ll happen with the showers?
Oh, she’ll bring her own soap.

Bella bella.

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Thanks Graeme.

The one gig I wish I’d been at. Sat in my pal’s house instead, listening to his collection of ….classic rock. What an idiot.

Weird, innit. 1985, The Smiths were definitely still a 4-piece.

Legs Eleven Davie Cooper didn’t play for my team, but still, he was just about my favourite player of the eighties. As a teenager, I never missed a Scotland game at Hampden and Cooper – Super Coope…

Memories from a warped memory.

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(Blushing)

Thanks for the share, Ray. 3 points to Leeds are in the mail.

Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted *Warning. Jazz. Turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. From Trump to the Trongate, the world right now seems hellbent on willful annihilation and pointless self-destruction. Instead of firing…

Peace Piece

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#billevans

Bella Bell(e)a “I’m beginning to think,” says a hot ‘n sweaty Stuart Murdoch, mid-way through ‘Side 1′ of If You’re Feeling Sinister, “that velour maybe wasn’…

One, two, three, fore!
Belle And Sebastian, live in Troon.

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Trashcan Sinatras “The Bitter End” Official Music Video YouTube video by Trashcan Sinatras Official

‘Are they stil a thing?!?’
You betcha. Here’s yr first smash hit of ‘26. @trashcansinatras.bsky.social

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I. Am. Somebody. ‘Busboy’…’bellboy’… ‘waterboy’ …’shoeshine boy’…the reason African Americans began using ‘man’ as a full stop in conversation is there for all to see. Fed up of …

Jesse Jackson

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@johnmaherphoto.bsky.social Primary school teacher here, John. Conversation with pupil yesterday:

“Mista Callsta…d’you know the band ‘Buzzcocks’? D’you know ‘Moving Away From The Pulsebeat’?

(Walks away humming drum intro, played in the air with a couple of felt tips).

Unexpected!

Snow Way Ahm Daein That I found myself watching the Olympics the other night there. Men and women dressed head to (camel) toe in the sort of tight-fitting get up that yr average Marvel superhero might reject on grounds of…

Snowboarding in Milan

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Lily Rae Grant I was, for years, a 6 Music devotee in the morning. From the fill of the kettle in the kitchen to the resigned opening of the car door at work, there wasn’t a day between a Monday and a Frida…

Lily Rae Grant
#redlicoricerecords

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Och, I’m blushing here! Glad you’ve found MDW - a beauty, isn’t it?!

The Higher You Fly, The Harder You Fall If Screamadelica was the result of Andrew Weatherall pointing a rudderless Primal Scream (shambling, jangling Byrds copyists? Long-haired, leather-breeked faux rockers?) towards the boundary-free p…

Dove tale.

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Sly Dunbar It’s a long way from Scotland to Jamaica – about four and a half thousand miles at the last Google search – but the two small nations are inextricably linked. Thanks to mercenary …

Scotch Corner

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Damn The ‘Dan There’s a well-worn meme that does the rounds, a life truth centred on the idea that the music you listened to between teens and twenties is the stuff that comes to define you in your later y…

Amuso’d To Death

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Acutely Obtuse In this house at least, it’s very probably I Am Kurious Orange, but This Nation’s Saving Grace is often universally acknowledged as The Fall’s greatest album. It is simultaneously…

‘Lloyd Cole’s brain and face is made out of cowpat.’

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“Fru-stray-did wi-min….”

Out Of Step/Out Of Time I scanned this totally preposterous list on Substack over the festive period, where Thurston Moore lists his 350 Best Records of 2025. Yeah! – there’s no typo in there – that real…

1991 revisited

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реальный хорошо Viddy Well, Devotchkas And Malchicks, Viddy Well. That Bowie fella was a clever droog. In death he created one of his greatest pieces of art. The songs that make up Blackstar contained an outpourin…

I was going to mark the 10th anniversary of a world without David Bowie until I realised I’d written a perfectly great one a few years ago.

For anyone who missed it:

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