May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
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…
Read full post “The Best of 2025 – Part 1: Gig of the Year and Single of the Year” »
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,…
Read full post “Ist Ist (+ Yaang) – Oran Mor – 29/11/2025” »
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…
Read full post “Bits and (in) Pieces (NB: not sandwiches)” »
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” »
Oh, there is so much to dissect with what happened last weekend but there is so little time! After our return home on Monday night both Tuesday and Wednesday I tried to get more reading of the Glesga Twins’ book done. I’m now just over half-way through with not much of a chance to read…
Read full post “Warm Digits – Star and Shadow (Newcastle Weekender) – 11/10/2025” »
I am anxious, rushed, rambling, questioning – my usual scary, fucked up hot mess – but I needed to purge (and perhaps vent?) a little on the book. The first 99 pages anyway. IT’S NOT A REVIEW – it’s just my own feelings and thoughts.
On the plug, plug, plug trail. On BBC Radio 2 breakfast, on with Lorraine, on TalkSport….the list goes on and on. I used BBC Sounds for tuning in to hear them (obviously THEM being Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill) speaking to Sara Cox on Radio 2. This morning the YouTube algorithm served me up this….