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.

“Where was the gig you went to tonight, Ross?” “Right there.”

The Allan & Allison double act take to the stage one last time to celebrate the inimitable, inspirational Allison Gardner as she retires from her reign as CEO, making @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social and @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social the most inclusive and community-focused place and event around.

@filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social When booking LFF tickets I selected the seats I wanted/needed then saw this. Can we just have the seats we booked? I don’t want to have to get there super early for the right seats at every screening.

Cinemas still putting on screenings of The Room 15 years after it was in the zeitgeist is the lamest shit imaginable.

I went to see Tarkovsky’s Nostalgia at the local indie cinema in Sheffield tonight. The guy who put it on kept checking his phone throughout the showing and even took photos of the screen. We had a chat on Instagram…

If you’d given me a thousand years, I don’t think in my wildest dreams I could have concocted something that sounds less appealing than this.

Fantastic time at the recording of @nicolameighan.bsky.social’s A Kick Up the Arts with Barbara Dickson at @standcomedyclub.bsky.social yesterday. Have been on a Barbara Dickson kick since. If you get a chance to go to the remaining recordings — including with Grant Stott today — absolutely do!

Nia DaCosta speaking honestly but respectfully about her Marvel experience and steadfastly refusing to be drawn too much on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Though she promises her vision is crazy in entirely different ways to that of Danny Boyle’s recent instalment. #EIFF25

Very much enjoying the second annual Edinburgh Thelma Schoonmaker Festival.

Nice try, Plex.

Overjoyed I did get Oasis tickets because three nights of this *FROM INSIDE MY FLAT* 10 minutes from Murrayfield would have been unbearable otherwise.

Believe the hype about Weapons. The layered structure that starts as a slow burn investigative chiller and then blends in elements of John Wyndham, Roald Dahl, the Brothers Grimm and outright comedy, wrapped in modern horror sensibilities, is sublime in a way you rarely see.

Absolutely raging that I just spotted this autocorrected en plein air to en plain air.

Had no faith in the process of getting last-minute production tickets for Oasis at Murrayfield and, even if I did, I was preparing to get cheap restricted view (or even behind stage) seats. But somehow got the face value standing tickets I wanted in the first place a year ago 🙌

You SHALL go to the ball.

Can now cross having seen Brian Cox on stage off my bucket list.

Nice day to be heading west.

AI-written slop slung at me on Facebook with a very funny summary of the circumstances surrounding Oliver Reed’s death in a piece entitled ‘6 Celebrities Who Died During Filming’

Erm www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fun, definitely-not-ominous day out on the Scottish coast

Find yourself a director like Whit Stillman who’ll come out to do a Q&A after a 35mm presentation of one of his films and open by trashing celluloid for poor image and sound, then later move on to criticising over-laughers in the audience. My king.

Nothing beats seeing a song from the sixth instalment of a horror franchise performed live.

As is yearly tradition, picking up @mhairim.bsky.social’s latest becomes one of the highlights of my summer. And in a Manchester-set romance, who could resist a reference to the finest erotic wordsmith the city ever produced?

Still thinking about how All That is the platonic ideal of a perfect song to end a concert with and it feels like it must have been around forever, rather than just 5 years. You were perfect, @sparksofficial.bsky.social

Tonight I saw the face of God.

YASSSS. For a while it looked like it wasn’t going to happen but I’m delighted to say that tomorrow night I’m going to watch a concert by the musicians whose albums I adored in the mid 90s and I can’t quite believe it’s happening.

I’m on Afternoons with @nicolameighan.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland where I’ll be lumbering on just after 3.30pm to roar about dinosaurs, premiers in peril and drama in the sun. Tune in!

Oh hi actual train carriage from Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One now operating as a Thai restaurant in Highland Perthshire.

Staying at a hotel that has this on the wall in the corridor and I promise it’s a really nice place!

A wonderfully surreal, discombobulating experience being back through @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social doors. The same but different. The feeling ascending the stairs to screen one was strangely emotional. More importantly, I can 100% confirm the legroom and rake is spectacularly improved!

Mortifying experience at Pulp last night but taking comfort that I’m not the worst person Jarvis Cocker has ever impersonated

I mean if you’re going to get it wrong, at least be bold about it.

A masterstroke! (The whole score)

Fair to say, that was not where I saw this heading 😬 #28YearsLater

I also stood next to Ronnie Corbett at a urinal at the Pleasance once and it was like this minus Barker.

Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay came into Edinburgh Castle gift shop when I was working there. He stepped in the door, asked if we had holograms, I said no, he said okay, then left.

Feels good! @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social

A god.

Going to a gig and coming home with a box of green tea.

Three failed attempts to get this back off the ground in the last 13 years (and, arguably, anywhere between three and five other failed attempts since 1974) and this is somehow the holy grail and not a poisoned chalice?

I’ll be pirouetting onto Afternoons with @nicolameighan.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland at about 3.30pm to discuss nimble assassins, musical love stories, killer sharks and Vegas excess. Tune in!

HWFG

If you’ve been holding off watching Edinburgh-based filmmaker Matt Palmer’s Fear Street: Prom Queen on Netflix because you value the big screen, communal experience, well you don’t really have any option… Or do you?

I am too old for three concerts in the space of six nights.

The @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social scaffolding is coming down!

Never dared dream I’d ever get to hear my favourite song from my favourite film soundtrack performed live.

Someone had a good time watching James tonight. Looks like it was Tim Booth. (It was also me.)

(I hate deleting and re-doing posts — especially bad jokes — but I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving up a post that said breath instead of breathe because I copied some lyrics in haste)