This is a sad one, Sam Neill gone www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

An undertaker makes the wrong call at a moral crossroads... #PaulMcGann #TaraFitzgerald #MurrayMelvin in THE UNDERTAKER (2023) 10:50pm thriller #TPTVsubtitles

Went to see the incredible Phoebe Traquair murals in Bellevue Church today. Phoebe was knocked back by the RSA in 1900 and 1901, no doubt because of her gender, and it’s always been a boys club - but Dublin born Phoebe eventually became the first ever female honorary member in 1920. Incredible work.

Leith today. #Leith 💚✌️

Dustin Hoffman is at the tennis, but who's the best Dustin ever? #Wimbledon

The Beatles - Abbey Road #NowPlaying

Performative patriotism He’ll wear the shirt but dodge the tax #bbclaurak

GERRY RAFFERTY - 'Another World' album (2000) The 9th studio album, originally released as a download & on CD. Among the musicians incl. Mark Knopfler. The album failed to chart in either the US or UK but would reach No.78 in Germany in 2003. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwYn... #GerryRafferty #Rock #Pop

Yes - Heaven & Earth (2014) #cd Last studio outing for Chris Squire and he has a half songwriting credit on one song. Not many highlights on this but it’s not as bad as many insist. Hat tip to Billy Sherwood who mixed it and salvaged the process. Think the band wanted this out of the way?

Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd #NowPlaying

So the ball could feel the graze of hair to take away Croatia’s goal but not when the ball visibly changes direction

Jalen N’Gonda, Summerhall, Edinburgh 10.07.24

open.spotify.com/track/56q6wr... #BethGibbons #RustinMan

Just a head’s up that tonight on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social they’re showing Ralph Bakshi’s Heavy Traffic, followed by Fritz The Cat next weekend!

Cowgate, Edinburgh. James Connolly memorial of his birth. A son of Edinburgh and Irish hero, injured, tied to a chair and shot to death by firing squad 1916.

Oldie but great 😢

I’m a Harry Kane fan but he’s gone down in my estimation. FFS www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

"I seem to be living rent-free in Kemi Badenoch's head," Bridget Phillipson tells Lewis Goodall. With 93% of UK children in state schools, she says she "owns" the 'spiteful class warrior' dig over Labour's 20% private school fees increase www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/brid...

Whilst in London filming ‘Brazil’ in 1984 and after hearing “Robert De Niro’s Waiting…” — ROBERT De NIRO invited BANANARAMA out for drinks at Kettners in Soho. Oh the 80’s, you are missed.

In the news, w/e July 10 open.substack.com/pub/buildedi...

He’s promised the biggest council house building programme since the post war years, but why? Here’s a run through the reasons how things got so bad, and (some) of the challenges facing Andy Burnham fulfilling his plans. open.substack.com/pub/danhewit...

If a picture is worth a thousand words (of alt text) it's this one. The UK's lack of Brexit preparation was pretty wild. But I also think prep isn't all that decisive when you're the junior partner, asking for things the bigger one isn't minded to give you. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/preparatio...

Brannigan! (1975) Watching this on Prime, absolute hoot

Robbed off Facebook

Loved the Jim Moir exhibition in Bradford today, such a talent 🐧

Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan. I’d only watched this on Bluray but managed to see it at the Filmhouse, Edinburgh today. The big screen really helped convey the narrative better, letting me connect with the movie as never before. Plenty of flaws but still impressive

Last night, I gave 10cc's Original Soundtrack a spin. I believe it's their overall best work (yep, it's the one w/ I'm Not in Love). All the ingredients are here : superb vocal harmonies, melodic, warped sense of humour. Plus, the opener (Une Nuit a Paris) and closer (Film of my Love) are terrific.

NEW Table Whisky cans 43% abv. £6.50/10cl I have a long standing aversion to miniatures - but being tins gives these the advantage - it means they can be casually popped in hand luggage ( maybe ?) or sent in the post ( not legal - but whose to know? )

Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Little bit of sad news this morning BBC News - BBC radio DJ Paul Gambaccini diagnosed with Alzheimer's www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Steve Hackett - Voyage Of The Acolyte. Fabulous first solo album by Hackett.

We’re putting on an extra show at Kings Place, London, on Monday..here’s why..a few tickets left on Kings Place website:

I’m strategically sat outside in the beer garden of the Portobello Tap for two reasons. Grabbing a beer in the sun and watching the chef crank out the meals from his shack. Think he’s on prep duties, haven’t seen a burger yet

Brooke Combe: Tears Won’t Lie (2026) Another Northern Soul banger… youtu.be/9_y2LLQC4GI?... @brookecombe.bsky.social @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @dubcadet.bsky.social @ndb66.bsky.social @stevomusicman.bsky.social @muzicgeezer.bsky.social

XTC - 'Oranges & Lemons' album (1989) The 9th studio album, the 2nd double LP, produced by Paul Fox & released in Feb '89. Includes the singles, 'Mayor of Simpleton', 'King for a Day' & 'The Loving'. The album reached No.44 in the US & No.28 in the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOdk... #XTC #Pop #Rock

I was a big fan of the album 'Cupid & Psyche 85' back in the 80s so it's a nice surprise to see Green Gartside given the cover star, and featured 7" single treatment in this months @electronicsound.bsky.social Wonderful stuff 🙏x

Tenth birthday for this absolute masterpiece

Happy 70th birthday, actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks. 🎂 #Filmsky

Once Upon a Time in America is elevated by Ennio Morricone’s stunning score, haunting, nostalgic & deeply emotional. Every piece perfectly captures the film’s themes of friendship, loss & the passage of time. One of my favourite soundtracks, essential listening. #NowPlaying #Vinyl #Maestro 🎧

An exciting evening coming up at the BBC Proms! Evelyn Glennie & the Fantasia Orchestra will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music as part of a genre-busting programme at 10.15pm on Tuesday, August 11, at the Royal Albert Hall. Details here 👇

Half a century old. Never did have the LP. Must remedy that. Picked up a cd reissue in the mid 90s and this is the cd/dvd edition from 5 years ago.

Berlin premiere of Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Nollendorfplatz, 1927 #berlin

Both the former Scottish Conservative and Scottish Liberal Clubs retained original stained glass and stairway features, e.g. this from Conservative Club. bsky.app/profile/jeel...

Morning chores done, coffee break Japan - Oil On Canvas (1983) #vinyl An almost double live album. Three songs were new studio recordings. Some enhancements were made to the live songs too. Production is top audiophile quality. 7/10

I think the biggest problem with politics is we don't get scandals like we had in the 1990s anymore

Pure catnip, this list. ❤️ www.headphonesty.com/2026/07/best...

I know I've successfully integrated myself into German culture now because halfway through her show Robyn threw a plastic bottle of water into the crowd and my first thought was, "She's lost her 25-cent deposit on that."

Water in Edinburgh has been found to have 10x the amount of E.coli deemed safe . Predictions aren't good enough, we must test the water quality year round.

The heatwave across most of the UK hasn’t appeared north of Hadrian’s Wall. Today however we have sunshine galore in Edinburgh. It’s lovely. Chilling in the garden with some sounds Yes - Mirror To The Sky (2023)

#NowPlaying Live at the BBC - Free (Island, 2006) one fabulous disc of BBC sessions from 68-71 plus a second disc of bad quality BBC In Concert clips. Worth it for disc 1 though #Free #classicrock #bbc