Fabulous new release, finally arrives, from Bhajan Bhoy.
‘Summer In St Mary’s’ is a rich and plangent album of drone music, a Plantagenet (see what I did there!) take on Éliane Radigue, La Monte Young and Áine O’Dwyer composed & recorded on a old church organ in a 15th Century church. Lovely stuff!
Sliding (un)sentimentally into the summer holidays with this pair - ‘A Nazi in Patagonia’ could be an unreleased Peel track. For 6 months in the mid-80s biG⭐️fLAME lit up my life as @alternativestovalium can testify to! Thanks to @precrecs.bsky.social for liberating this fine slab of vinyl!
‘Speedway’, given his recent provocations seemed especially poignant
“All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded”
But for now, my heart is full.
Thanks to fellow, loafing oaf, Margarita for the marvellous pics📸
And tonight, like any other night, he swoons and seduces and I am, as always, overcome. The voice is strong, the quiff less so but this love is real…/2
“… I know ‘cause tonight is just like any other night
That’s why you’re on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms”
Over 40 years since I first gazed shyly on that magnificent, mercurial, wilfully misanthropic Morrissey./1
I was 10 and living in Leeds when Duncan signed, he seemed like he came from the future…🛸
Oh yes, a very righteous chairman of the bored, indeed!🤩
Iggy Pop tonight in Glasgow, last seen in 1991 when he was an old man of 44. Tonight, battle-scarred and ravaged, the top discarded before the first four beats; the lone, leonine leader of the pack, still standing, still raging - Iggy, at the end, exit stage right to ‘Funtime’ - magnificent
‘Pick up the baton and pass it on’.
A righteous, riotous and riveting night @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social A two-hander set in the Memphis motel the night before Martin Luther King’s assassination. Truly fantastical - there must be angels!
I thought this was some weird naturist convention and then I dared myself to look closer👀⚽️
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“Most MCs rap on beat. Saafir didn’t. He swung. ‘He didn’t rattle off Coltrane or Miles Davis,’ Moran pointed out. ‘He went: Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, Hank Mobley. He’s dealing with the outsiders.’”
Sometimes the London Review of Books throws up a real curveball…🤩
I purchased the letter from some “rain-coated lover’ some time near the end of that last century, working in a record shop in Edinburgh - he was selling shoeboxes full of old tickets, badges and this…
Back between those dusty pages it flees!
Just turned 18, (Steve) Morrissey rallies the high-heeled hordes from his Stretford bedroom, you can hear those typewriter keys clacking still.
Any clues as to who the anonymous Peter is?…
“I would rather not go
back to the old house,
There’s too many bad memories
Too many memories”
Slipped between the pages of one of my dusty Smiths tomes, lovelorn for these last thirty years, this fragile missive tumbled to the floor from the North of England’s New York Dolls correspondent…
And for those of us in Scotland…
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A lovely night with The Creepers - we got signed to InTape after this and quickly went about bankrupting them. Highlight was meeting up with The Creepers young roadie extraordinaire Wee Davis and giving him a lift up the road - friends for life @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? See youse all in the Premiership next season - albeit briefly🫣
…probably couldn’t get our visas through on time…🏴
Margarita kept a diary, she may have a wee scribbled note!📝
My fave new thing - Cameron Winter’s album ‘Heavy Metal’ is neither heavy or metal - a lovely little thing that touches blindly on some sweet spot between Bill Callahan, the Purple Mountains and…Rufus Wainwright, go figure! youtu.be/kbP1724y7Ws?...
…The charabanc ride home brightened by a priceless copy of the Leither magazine pressed upon me by its Boswellian editor! Good times…
Band 📸 nicked from The Cords
Stumbling into the Easter holidays, I thought I’d had my fill of excitable teenagers but the always effervescent Cords were a sparky tonic bringing the Pilrig glitterati out on a chilly spring evening…
Ach, Friday night’s alright in Auld Reekie’s own Colony Club, The Onion Cellar, a heady mix of Leith’s low-lifes and its alcoholic, artistic elite…I’m naming no names🫣…
“Listen to everything all the time, & remind yourself when you’re not” I 1st came across the name Pauline Oliveros during Bill Drummond & Tam Dean Burn’s ‘Hear Hard’ schlep round Edinburgh’s howffs! Then today,switching on the radio, what should appear but this joy of a programme-Hear Hard indeed!
Superb evening with that most (un)likely sex symbol Stuart Staples & the sublime Tindersticks. Apparently effortless, but wonderfully pinpoint poised with strings and brass filling out a delicately sinuous sound. Braw to see so many well-kent faces in the queue for the bar
@tindersticks.bsky.social
A homecoming in so many ways, Hamish Hawk in Edinburgh, spanning his world from the sun-kissed cul-de-sacs of Edinburgh’s Fairmilehead to the comedy divine of ‘The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973’ - sublime🤩 @hamishhawk.bsky.social
“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.”
A chilling Merchant of Venice on a chilly Valentine’s night - genuinely shocking courtroom scene, difficult to watch but impossible to look away from!
Omar in Edinburgh earlier in the week, an uncomfortable but ultimately hopeful evening.
