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Tangerine Dream sesh incoming. #NowPlaying the soundtrack to Michael Mann's Thief. #Vinyl 🎧

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🎯 The big two quarter-finals tonight! This evening's order of play: - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Littler (1) 🆚 🇵🇱 Krzysztof Ratajski - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Luke Humphries (2) 🆚 🇳🇱 Gian van Veen (10) #darts #PDC #WCDarts #DartsWM #TheDarts

Time for some delving, and in this case mining gold. One of my most fave compilations, Glen Campbell ‘Sings the Best of Jimmy Webb 1967-1992’ (2006, CD). Beautiful timeless music

Japan - Assemblage (1981) #vinyl. Cash in best of album from Ariola Hansa label and it charts their output from rock band influenced by early Roxy to art rock/ dance influenced by latter Roxy. Sounds like I’m dissing but there’s lots of good songs on this. Life In Tokyo and Quiet Life are standouts

Can't really see this being a big seller in Scotland.

If anyone is in Leith (Edinburgh) over the next few weeks, you may like to pop in to see Mr L’s new exhibition that opens next week. www.leithschoolofart.ac.uk/whats-on-det...

Holiday On The Buses (1973) dir. Bryan Izzard. Usual cast of the TV show, augmented by Arthur Mullard, Henry McGee and a fine performance by Wilfred Brambell making this a perfect illustration of 1970’s ITV comedy and a snapshot of the dying UK holiday. Produced by Hammer Films.

Fuck that Heather Small is on Hootenany. BED

A New Year tradition for me. I always see the New Year in with Jon Anderson (he's here), Yes and a dram or ten. #NowPlaying Yes 'Close To The Edge' #Vinyl

I know you're all having fun, gang. Please though, please spare a moment to check in on yer da this Hogmanay.x

Yes 'Fragile' balances virtuosity and vulnerability. Squire’s bass snarls and sings, Howe is a master of the six string, Anderson’s voice feels weightless, and the band proves prog can be both intricate and emotionally charged. #NowPlaying #Vinyl 🎧

In November 2025, how I found a historic football trophy and returned it to Musselburgh www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

Most would go for Nigel or Grass (or Dance Band!), but my vote for Colin Moulding's finest song is Bungalow, an ode to British middle-age aspirations and the 'silver shoreline...you wait and see'. Just beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufe7...

Last walk of the year with the furry boy 🐾🤍 Finishing 2025 on a cold one…🥶 📸 Figgate Park, Edinburgh

With Holyrood elections on the horizon, I've updated my ScotPol starter pack to include a broader range of analysts in addition to think-tankers and academics. If you (or a colleague) should be in this starter pack but aren't, please let me know!

On the 30th December 2010 Bobby from Boney M passed away, on the same date and in the same city that Rasputin died. I'm always astounded that more people aren't astonished by this fact.

Men can disappear without a trace...and their secrets with them. 4:50pm THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS (1978) starring #MichaelYork #SimonMacCorkindale #JennyAgutter adventure drama #TPTVsubtitles

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The Cold War in one image - Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse, 27 December 1964. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publ.). #Berlin

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (2005). #qobuz This is an album I return to and always get sucked in. David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman serve up an album of thoughtful, melancholic songs that are perfect for this weather

Charles Edward Stuart was born in Rome on this day 1720. Invaded Scotland and England unsuccessfully to try to gain the throne for his father. The Pretender's Troops Entering Altrincham at Dawn, 1 December 1745, painting by Tom Colley, 1865-1902 (Trafford Local Studies Centre).

Before this country lost its fucking mind, Toblerone would advertise itself as proudly Swiss. FFS.

49 years ago today David Johansen, Lenny Kaye, Dee Dee Ramone, Patti Smith, Jay Dee Daugherty, Tom Verlaine and John Cale at The Palladium, New York City, December 31, 1976. Photo by Bob Gruen #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory #otd

MBE? No thanks, not from this govt says disability campaigner bit.ly/3YRlliW

youtu.be/q8yhnYKrDaM?... NILS LOFGREN 'World Through Your Eyes'

Just opened my T Rex 1970-77 box set, not heard any of these albums since about 1990! Some of them never heard at all. Got back into T Rex via Spotify last year.

Hibs v Aberdeen this evening with some of the Brown kids 🇮🇪

David Gilmour 'The Luck And Strange Concerts' His playing is still lyrical melodic and fluid. It's beautiful that he's able to play live with his daughter. #NowPlaying #MusicSky 📀 🎧

#NowPlaying Automatic For The People - R.E.M.

All-star 70s adaptation starring #RobertPowell in: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (1978) 4:50pm with #JohnMills #KarenDotrice #DavidWarner thriller #TPTVsubtitles

That’s not Michael Jackson top left? Quite a comeback if it is

Cold #イマソラ #Edinburgh #UnionCanal #sky

Let’s not mess about here, this is a soul masterpiece, simple as.

Next up today…still a classic… Echo and the Bunnymen ‘Ocean Rain’

Genesis - Calling All Stations (1997) #vinyl Yes it can sound a bit one-paced at times and too many songs fade out at the end, but it has atmosphere and dynamics aplenty.

Check out these bonus podcasts from @steverichards.bsky.social Explaining the emotional roller coaster for politicians who defect to their opponents

Thornbridge Panela Coffee Porter 5% abv. Staggs, Musselburgh. Whacky glass isn’t needed please. No disguising the coffee aroma and flavour here, with a bitter but pleasant finish to each mouthful. Not a session beer

And! I’ve been looking all over for this and finally found it

#Top31DavidBowie Number 3 Wild Is The Wind I was so late to Bowie I knew Billy Mackenzie's version before Bowie's. Its existence only went to confirm StationToStation's position as my favourite Bowie album. Billy's version 👇🏼 1/2 youtu.be/YsqlXkkEKxI?...

First listening for today… Diana Krall ‘Turn Up The Quiet’

TFW it’s 10am, time for James O’Brien on LBC and…….

wie ich 2025 beende

The Nightfly whizzed by so it would be rude to not play some more Donald Fagen. Cheap Xmas was his four solo albums plus outtakes. Kamakiriad next up and sounding fat n fulsome at 24/96khz.

Funny that, of the linked and quoted pieces, the one penned by Stephen Daisley(!) for the Daily Mail(!!!) is the one worth reading. This, unlike the absurd analysis by Euan McColm, rings true to me 👇 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Couldn’t be bothered to grab some vinyl so chose to stream the guv’nor of all albums Donald Fagen - The Nightfly (1982). A desert island disc from beginning to end. 10/10

Breaking News: “As 2025 draws to a close, Sarwar’s dream of becoming First Minister is over.” Inside the feverdream of Scotland's Unionist Media ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/28/a...