Privileged to get to be part of @nicolameighan.bsky.social’s last edition of Afternoons on BBC Radio Scotland later from around 3.30pm. Ostensibly there to talk about this week’s films but mostly happy just to be basking in her glow. You should all be tuning in to the whole show!

Should have spent more time Mullan their options.

Bold of them to consider the new László Nemes a Scottish classic.

Ok

Top tip for upstart events producers putting on big corporate branded events and charging the public £55 a ticket: If the subject of your event is famous for his probing interviews, hire a proper interviewer to conduct the onstage interview and don’t think one of your (1/3)

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The first big weekend of the summer…

Outstanding night at the Steve Mason book event tonight. Sounds like a fascinating approach to musical memoir and the chat was perfectly steered and guided into fascinating areas by the incomparable @nicolameighan.bsky.social

Would love to see the data on this. By “take road trips” do they just mean ‘drive somewhere’?

Jack White in Paris and Newcastle it is then.

Honestly can’t stop thinking about this gig. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a band make such a virtue of the Hydro before, or ever seen a moment quite as special as this there. x.com/realtimbooth...

Angine de Poitrine Autumn for me! ⚫️🙌⚪️

I’m enjoying this glorious return to sitcom situations retrofitted around a well known phrase. ‘Bills included’ is a phrase often seen in tenancy ads. His name is Bill. He stays with his tenants so he’s included. Lovely stuff.

I see whether or not you are looking forward to SNL UK is the new culture war.

My hot take is that I’m happy with every single award at last night’s #Oscars. Nothing I can get mad about. Sure, there are a couple I’d *like* to have seen but, yeah, they were all good.

5 minutes in and we’ve already had the anti-this. #oscars

He may not have delivered on his long-awaited MySpace pledge of some Jaffa Cakes but it was a pleasure to finally see one of my longterm favourites @edgarwright.bsky.social giving great Glasgow Q&A tonight at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social

When the actual number is a nice round 25, why would you write it up as “nearly 30”?

Incidentally, One Day: The Musical was really wonderful. Brilliantly captured a 90s Brit romcom vibe (right down to a performance channeling Hugh Grant) and powerfully staged in the round. Run, don’t walk (and definitely don’t cycle) to get a ticket.

Not sure I can quite wrap my head round this being @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social. Talk about a revamp for One Day: The Musical. We’re sat on stage I guess!

Lotta Tourette’s experts logging on tonight. Feel awful for John Davidson, a man who has done so much good work, to have his condition and intentions scrutinised like this on the biggest platform he’s ever had and in an age of worldwide social media armchair analysis.

Galashiels shoutout at the #EEBAFTAs klaxon!

The only thing that’s disappointing about Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC is that we came sooo close to getting the remastered version of this footage and didn’t.

Going to see Jodie Comer performing in Prima Facie while Louis CK plays to a sold out crowd in the building right next door is quite the vibe.

Jason Statham’s little lighthouse island in the film Shelter was filmed on Uri Geller’s Lamb island in the Forth, just off North Berwick (he’s thanked in the credits and everything). Yes, the same island where he just granted Trump presidency. www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...

Oh, just @stereogum.com using one of my images to illustrate their story over on Facebook without any credit.

Was at a gig tonight where a good 60% of the crowd looked like this.

I’m Alan Partridge as Best Picture nominees #Oscars2026  A thread:

Only on a second viewing of The Bone Temple did it click that Jack O’Connell’s Scottish accent is basically the exact same one employed by Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy in Trainspotting.

2025 reading done. www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

Rian Johnson absolutely understands.

Happy Hundredth, Dick!

Thing is as Nepo parent, you’re in a bind, you aren’t going to hinder your kids professional progress to make a political point. But surely you just say yes, their background helped.

There’s something hilarious, and a bit sad, about Robbie Williams announcing a handful of smaller low-key gigs in venues with a bit of cred (I mean by ‘smaller’, places like the Barras — hardly the back room of a pub) and then going “that’ll be £140 please”.

Jack White brings out Eminem

Look, I’m not anti-toilet break but: “Screening as one film for the first time ever” “There will be a 10 minute interval between the two films”

As someone who loves Suspiria, Blade, Bacurau, Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves etc etc, why is it when I think of Udo Kier this is the first film that comes to mind? What a career and what presence though. RIP.

Ah’m no fae Yoker, I’ve got nae business being here.

Like the world’s coolest tourist, I went to both these places today.

You can definitely count me in the pro-Alpha camp. Many layers to unravel but I was totally immersed. And luckily came with a fascinating, wide-ranging Q&A with Julia Ducournau and Tahar Rahim, at once both touching and with scintillating nuts and bolts technical insights.

I’d absolutely go to a tour of The Killers just singing Warren Zevon songs. youtu.be/tWrdK1MZEW0?...

Me watching Lily Allen on March 2nd, 2026: “Wait, a *what* palace? I thought I was visiting a dojo.”

Oh, he’s beautiful!

How is this city even real? This is walking through the centre just after 9pm on a Friday night.

Off to a solid start in that respect.

Seemed like it was going to be nearly impossible to get Angelfish tickets — amazingly, their first hometown gig! — but somehow managed.

Good week to be a Hyams guy.

A rock solid day of ticket buying.

Tonight I experienced for the first time in many years the thrill of seeing a finished Stewart Lee show without having seen it in various incomplete incarnations beforehand. Absolutely would recommend – especially with this one. Was even lucky enough to get a bonus Glasgow treat.