CD just dropped thru the letterbox; liking the vibe, their aesthetic always inspires/activates me, makes me want to make stuff...

🟢 Your Scottish Greens parliamentary team for session 7 of the Scottish Parliament. With a historic 15 Green MSPs, we are focusing on cutting household bills and tackling the climate emergency

come back & watch this later

A statue of Liberty overlooking Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow from the top of W.M. Whyte's 1885 French Renaissance style tenement. This makes it marginally older than it's US equivalent, which was only dedicated in the following year. Cont./ #glasgow #sculpture #tenement #architecture

BUBBLES will be in concert on Fri3rd July at Edinburgh College of Art. Davy Henderson & Malcolm Ross have been performing since the post-punk era with Fire Engines & Josef K respectively. QUAD90 open, with NUNK on DJ duties (he is what he plays). Tickets: wegottickets.com/f/20584

I rest my work on her, she just purrs

Thinking about Simple Minds - ta @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social - its easy to forget them somehow; I was a teenager when they were already huge & lame, Jim in a beret at Live Aid etc What a back catalogue youtu.be/NbgMGrc8Wro?...

We mark half a century of Rough Trade by sitting down to listen to 10 essential tracks from the label as an insight into their ethos, love of community, and being hugged by Mark E Smith Geoff Travis & Jeannette Lee on the Strange World of Rough Trade Records buff.ly/cRjrzR8

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

This is so brilliant: a Tetris-like animation by Walter Murch (linked via QR code in his book Suddenly Something Clicked) showing how scenes from The Conversation were rearranged during editing. vimeo.com/710004860

Shared for lunchtime reading.

Deep in Yul Brynner wiki...

Dubmission episode 1,412 🎬 Featuring new 🎵 from… ⚪️ Horatio Luna ⚪️ Loma Suyo ⚪️ Session Victim ⚪️ Serious A ⚪️ James Kumo ⚪️ Cavallini & Nada ⚪️ Kai Alce ⚪️ The Twilite Tone ⚪️ Ex Ponto ➕ my interview 🎙️ w/ @jordangcz.bsky.social Listen 🎧 mixcloud.com/dubmission/dub… Playlist in comments 💬

These reviews, written in textbook Smash Hits 1988 'style', really gave me a flashback to when I was both listening to 'You Made Me Realise' but also devouring this glorious mag every 2 weeks

"There’s a canon of African-American artists from the counterculture era who were equally risk-taking, willing to dabble in noise and the adventurous …" A Black Psychedelia Primer: denniscooperblog.com/steve-ericks...

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroen ID19 bleue

Over the last 5 mins she moved incrementally until she was between me and my work laptop, all the time purring very loudly

One of my favourite students, a kinda rough individual who was an excavator operator until recently & who struggles to even speak to his lecturer without f- and c-bombs littering their speech... but come the end of term project submission, oh no (made me spit out my breakfast tea earlier😀)

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I’d a great visit to @womenslibrary.bsky.social during the week for a tour round their archives and a look at the knitting pattern collections

Excellent show from Mark Lamarr The Life & Works Of Lee "Scratch" Perry BBC Radio 2 - 15 September 2004 @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social @singingconductor.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZmP...

Meeting up with my kid later, he got us tickets for @mike-eagle.bsky.social tonite in Glasgow 🧨🧨🧨

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I wrote for the FT on lost music venues, the subject of a new exhibition at the V&A: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Boards Of Canada got me looking at the old photos again...

TBR June 12

Just gonna play this 200 times tonight.. onra.bandcamp.com/track/the-an...

Me n kids (18 n 23 yrs) watched The Long Walk & it's been a while since I've witnessed such outright disdain, no hatred for a film I will admit to being baffled myself - why was this made? - until I googled & found out the original story is a pretty perfect Vietnam war era allegory... but why now?

An independent Scotland could build an economy that works for everyone, instead of continuing to concentrate wealth and power with a handful of elites.

Work over, back to good stuff...

TEE (Trans Europ Express) posters of the 1960s

Twin Peaks: Cooper in bed with his dictaphone.

The new Boards of Canada album? 🤯👌😍. Swag from last night's listening party in Edinburgh

When album PR goes wrong (right?)... www.brooklynvegan.com/boards-of-ca...

Knives, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/4008

Just got my new @aiaiaiaudio.bsky.social TMA-2 Studio headphones & I’m seriously impressed. Amazing sound, comfortable & fully modular so all parts can be replaced/upgraded👌 Huge thanks to AIAIAI for welcoming me into their Artists programme too. Proud to support such a forward-thinking company! 🎧🙏

Brutalist architecture in London r/brutalism

Its funny going back listening to Boards Of Canada early-ish stuff (my collection only goes back to 'Peel Sessions'); I always kinda think of them as serious synth guys, but its much more playful &electro/hiphop than that... 1st time I heard ROYGBIV I thought 'trip hop' More 'Headz' than 'Threads'

As it's #WorldOtterDay, you're getting this again ...

And per @quartzcity.bsky.social we have the Bandcamp page for this new archive release up:

Fucks sake, accidently clicked a Temu link in Google... send help.

Tried again with this, still not for me... Enjoying the CAN/Irmin Shmidt Mojo cover CD tho

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I mean, it’s a perennial statement, but fuck Tony Blair

1986: smash hits 21 may 3 june 1986, page 12 Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-21-may-3-june-1986#page/n11

I reviewed the new Boards Of Canada LP for @mojomagazine.bsky.social and embraced the profound dystopian unease therein. www.mojo4music.com/articles/new...

Great stuff 👇

Excellent thread 👇

1975, Chelsea Hotel, NYC, Patti📸Albert Schöpflin