May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Today I finally completed reading Our Secrets are the Same. Still those final chapters brought forth ire and consternation within me. But I think I am finally getting better at shedding it as quickly as it comes. It does me no good to hold onto it, letting it fester and gnaw away at me. I…
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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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…
Read full post “Hamish Hawk (+ Goodnight Louisa & Cloth) – Barrowland Ballroom – 11/12/2025” »
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…
A rare dry night for Glasgow at this time of year. Fantastic. Nothing suits me more. I very easily get put off by attending gigs when the weather is shite. It had been pretty shite for the 48 hours leading up to it. Through Thursday night and into Friday it had been blowing a hoolie,…
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So, where do I start? TARA FB (AT LEAST FOR NOW ANYWAY) After the Cloth gig review, there were a couple of posts on the Simple Minds Facebook page that riled me. One was to do with “writing your own story” as implied by the text laid out accredited to Kerr. I think the title…
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As the weather gets more dreich and the nights get longer, I naturally begin to feel less inclined to venture out of the house, especially at night for gigs – as much as I love going to them. As it was, some weeks earlier I had decided to abandon going to one gig that I…
Read full post “Cloth (+ Zoe Graham) – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow – 08/11//2025” »
Because you gotta plug, plug, plug that product. Also, he seems to like guesting on this podcast. He champs at the bit to get on. Two (scary, feathery) birds, one stone (and all that). Anyway, I’ve been far too busy with uni studies (and more inclined to listen to podcasts on David Bowie – more…
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