Parliamentary Rd. at Dundas Street Bus Station, #Glasgow 1976. The Church in the background is The Congregational (Evangelical Union) Church (b. 1855) now demolished.

Polypores: Wrigglers - Album Review louderthanwar.com/497518-2/ @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @wayneafcarey.bsky.social @nigelcarruk.bsky.social @crackedankles.bsky.social @polypores.bsky.social

I’ve posted ‘Walk With Jesus’ by Otis G Johnson before - an incredible track - but this comes from the same collection, (Good God! Apocryphal Hymns’) The production on those guitars is mad - and the falsettos are just ridiculous. ‘God’s Love - The Spiritual Harmonizers youtu.be/sTaLUU-bdaE?...

Remembering Pete Shelley on his birthday. Here are Buzzcocks performing Love You More at Manchester's Free Trade Hall in 1978

The Fall live at the Hacienda in 84 performing Garden #fallfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gN...

Looks like a trailer for the next Adam Curtis doc.

Right now (Right now) Right now (Right now) Right now it's time to Kick out the jams, motherfuckers

This week's Friday pub is the Nile on West Nile St. The Nelson Mandela Place entrance is shown here circa 2002. 📷 SCRAN #Glasgow

#OTD 50 years ago. The Reggae 7" singles chart as published in Black Echoes. Junior Byles (& Rupert Reid) leap into the No.1 spot, while big climbers into the Top 10 are Johnny Clarke and Brent Dowe... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

On this day in 1969, #DesmondDekkerAndTheAces were at Number One in the UK singles chart with Israelites. youtu.be/r5JHGi0awgc?si…

This place all morning youtu.be/RiuBGX9XmUI?...

I know lithographers who use consistent typefaces, and they're all cowards.

Happy 77th birthday to keyboard king Ansel Collins. As well as his hits with Dave Barker, Ansel was a regular in the JA studio bands of the 70s & 80s. Here's his wonderful organ version of Dennis Brown's Westbound Train... youtu.be/hxeXPRzlAfI?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

Due to my extensive research in this field, which would be a lot more work than a PhD (incidentally the same as yours, buying, playing & enjoying so many records over so many years).. I have to (almost reluctantly) concur with the general opinion that The Beatles are the greatest pop band ever

Lovely, tonight, on #TheRepairShop to see the Glasgow Tigers Speedway team flag from the 1940s restored. Sadly, their old White City Home, on Paisley Road West, was swept away for the M8, and is now home to Helen Street cop shop.

Of-its-time #165 ‘My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut’ - Donna Lynn (1964)

What Lord Offord said about Labour’s attempt to make a deal with Reform isn’t even a new story. But let's look instead at the extraordinary institutional bias in the Scottish media that makes this sort of framing even possible bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/15/s...

This psychiatric unit had the right idea, seems like it's closed down though ...

#rickenbacker #vintageguitar #vintagerickenbacker #flame

Coming May 2026: The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray & the Arts Ed. Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi, Kirsten Stirling Interrogating Alasdair Gray’s literary & visual artistic practice & exploring relationships between these forms edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Gregory Isaacs self-produced a number of his biggest singles in the 1970s, just like this sufferer's anthem which features Sly & Robbie playing the distinctive rhythm. This 7" also appeared on Gregory's Lonely Lover LP... youtu.be/c8OoYBCn1ik?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

The bit on UNAMERICAN BROADCASTING where I regularly play a bit of reggae - only on strangerradio.mixlr.com WINSTON MCANUFF | DUB SYNDICATE | JOE GIBBS & THE PROFESSIONALS | MAD PROFESSOR & GAUDI @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @ndb66.bsky.social @dubcadet.bsky.social @muzicgeezer.bsky.social

I forget how much I love WB Yeats A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety William Butler Yeats

Early, EARLY announcement; no details available as yet, but the four albums the David S. Ware Quartet made for DIW in the late '90s - Flight Of I, Third Ear Recitation, Earthquation, and Godspelized - will be reissued by Aum Fidelity in the hopefully near future!

Fabulous Truly Smith I want to go back there again ⭐️ #nowplaying

2000AD. I was there for Prog #1 and I'm still here. Fantastic Four very, very close behind. Still the two comics I never miss an issue of.

"Take Good Care Of My Baby" Goffin-King The Legendary Demos This 1961 demo highlights King at the piano, outlining the arrangement for the song later made famous by Bobby Vee. #songwriters

#CarPorn - Vanden Plas Princess 1967. Kelvin Court, #Glasgow in the background. Oh, and Lulu. (Vanden Plas Official)

I think I can promise that this will never be my epitaph.

The classic Trumptonshire vinyl trilogy – Chigley, Camberwick Green and Trumpton, courtesy of Brian Cant & Freddie Phillips.

Dreaming and Scheming in Post-War Scotland: The allure of Brutal Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/13/d...

Afternoon Listening: The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - In Chicago Cannonball Adderley - Know What I Mean? Albert Ayler - Love Cry

🧵1/3 Mini reggae / boxing thread on Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. First up, here's Big Youth reporting on the Sunshine Showdown in Jan '73 between undefeated champion Frazier and challenger Foreman... youtu.be/RpTVynKZtXs?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #vinylsky #musicsky #boxing

The McCartney lost bass documentary on BBC2 just reminded me of this so I showed it to the kids. Serafinowicz's Beatle impressions remain unsurpassed. The BeatleBox now inescapably reminds me of the Beatles In Mono boxset, which came out a couple of years after this. youtu.be/jcVS9ssNYVQ?...

Yesterday’s Word Count = 622 MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE (1973) w. Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer Had two spin offs and an American conversion as THREE’S COMPANY youtu.be/tQRgBYsmAMQ?...

I was kind of hoping this was going to happen

An amazing image of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust tenements at the corner of High St and Duke Street, from Burrell's Lane, in March 1973, with one wee lassie skipping and, no doubt, singing to herself. Picture: www.streapadair.com

Crown St, #Glasgow. William Dixon founded an ironworks with five blast furnaces in 1839. These lit up the night sky on the south side of the River Clyde, and earned the nickname "Dixon's Blazes". Dulcie Gray at the King's dates this pic to 1958. (Herald)

I've got 9 gigs lined up for a tour in April-May 2027 too. Plenty more to be added too.

My recipe for a splendid holiday afternoon: 1. buy an old bookshelf for pennies 2. clear out a space for it 3. Open some boxes of old books 4. stack them while smiling Hurrah!

Cultural Roots were a vocal harmony group who recorded two albums for Donovan Germain in the early 80s. Mr Boss Man was the opening track on their excellent 2nd LP, Drift Away From Evil. It remains a sound system favourite... youtu.be/hjIaKgjYl_M?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

If you ever wondered who enjoys free jazz.... it's me. I'm sorry. I don't know how to explain it. I just like it.

youtu.be/aRN3udPsMRo?... Foundational.

#FallFriday Two covers by The Fall - "Why Are People Grudgeful?" and "Lost in Music" filmed at the Astoria in 1993 youtu.be/5nm7tg62ZWE

The former Strathbungo Public School in Glasgow (now Saint Bride's Primary School). Designed by Gordon and Baird, and constructed in 1894, it's a wonderfully imposing building. #glasgow #glasgowschool #strathbungo #architecture #architecturephotography

Lee “Scratch” Perry was born in Hanover Parish, Jamaica on this day in 1936

A message about your new Hornby Train Set, brought to you by Bernard Cribbins on flexi disc. "Please play this record before playing with your new train set". I love that stuff like this is out there. I usually stumble across it by accident but I love it when I do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zq0...