May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
YOUTUBE CHANNELS Last night as I was thinking about what I was going to say for this second part of my ‘Best of 2025’ I realised that although I don’t watch television and I have only seen ONE new release film in 2025, what I DO watch is YouTube content. It is one of my…
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I think I am going to find this a hard thing to do! So I think I’ll get the easier stuff out the way first. Thinking about all of the arts and culture there are things that I don’t partake in much, if at all. I don’t watch television, so it’s going to be hard…
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I know! It’s Christmas Day…go figure! What else am I going to do today? Take a walk? Eat myself silly (very tempting…don’t even get me started)? Anyway…this might be a short review. Then again, that could be famous last words for when have I ever written a SHORT review? Lol. All the peripherals out the…
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I’m just gonna put this here because, frankly, I still think this version of Jim Kerr was the most beautiful thing EVER. I still appreciate that aesthetic he rocked for like five minutes in 1981/82. There was a period of around 18 months in which he was just DELECTABLE! Amen… And Merry Christmas!
This goes for an hour – so you can watch it in chunks, or choose not to watch it at all. It’s not imperative. I just felt like doing this for a change. I felt like talking…lord knows why. It was attempt number two as the one I filmed yesterday felt crap. Ha ha. This…
I’ve been sitting on this post for days because, well, I’m just trying so hard to concentrate on my studies between the points when I come away from it for a gig and a couple of days off. Then I am straight back to it. When to find the time? Also, what else can I…
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A bit of a double bill of info for this post. The first was the announcement by Ist Ist on their social media over the weekend of some album launch shows over the country during the week of the release of their forthcoming album, Dagger. I had to check and see if any were taking…
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Ah, Hamish – ya wee delight, you! As promised, here is the link to The Quietus piece Hamish wrote about his discovery of and love for Ivor Cutler. Also….I hope this works as, on his socials last night, he shared a wee reading extract from Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 0, which is…