Some Sunday morning culture:

Now that's what I call literature:

Went out on RSD. Didn't buy any records, but I did get this in a charity shop. Oh yes I did. I really did.

CARTOON: Malcolm Offord may be a pathetic, poisonous, odious little man, but that's exactly the sort of person Anas Sarwar can do business with. gregmoodie.com/winning-labo...

Here's @grantmcphee.bsky.social earlier with @olafwide.bsky.social waxing lyrical about 70s Scottish punk in ecclesiastical surroundings.

Haha. Aye, this waxed up 60-something certainly struggles to hear the differences nowadays. #cannaehearthecracklesanymore #nightmaresonwax

Real radges read the Reckless:

Irvine Joyce presents...

This week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Melania, Hawkwind, Endgame For A Laugh, Betjeman on Smack, George and Zippy In The City, Throbbing Thistle and Trainspotting/Ulysses stramashed. mailchi.mp/0cadc91feeb5... Subscribe if you like, I don't care.

Song of the day in the Daily Reckless. #songoftheday

Inspired by a post by @quantick.bsky.social - the literary stramash-up nobody was waiting for. @irvinewelsh.bsky.social

Currently reading Bob Mortimer's book Avocado Hotel and it occurs to me that if Lawrence (out of Denim/Felt) didn't exist, Bob would just have invented him as a character anyway. And on the topic of both of them... youtu.be/DQ0It3uOrkA?...

This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/04/16/m...

@soozuk.bsky.social The man.

To be in the Guiness Book of Records for 'Book with the longest index' (currently nearly 3000 song titles for The Reckless History of the 21st Century).

'Rainmaster' meets 'The V One' from Chapel Door Run for #fallfriday

"Masoch and Sade Turned into ane Havoc ha’e made O’ my a’e brain." The latest filth from Throbbing Thistle:

"The sweat wis lashing oafay Stephen Dedaluis; he wis trembling. Ah wis jist sitting thair, focusing oan the telly, tryin no tae notice stately, plump Buck Mulliganame, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”

A bit of S&M from Hugh MacDiarmid:

Song of the day in the Daily Reckless. #songoftheday

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Geoffrey Weller.

Weller, Weller, Weller...

Oh dear.

Song of the day in the Daily Reckless. #songoftheday

John Swinney Song 2

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That Viz advert made flesh. With added Edward Fox by Smack:

Me and J-Me were talking about Momus and he sent me this lecture he did about colour which mentions The Nutty Professor, Mary Tyler Moore, Creation Records, how hemlines may be influenced by economics, Duchamp and loads of other stuff. And he looks fabulous! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJ2...

Reckless Brothers on stage at the Torphichen Speakeasy last Saturday. Me in shiny blue shirt. Showbiz!

Sand in the sandwiches, wasps in the tea, Sun on our bathing dresses heavy with the wet, Squelch of the bladder-wrack waiting for the sea, Fleas around the tamarisk, an early cigarette.

You can catch me talking about Scottish 1976 and 77 punk and Caledonia Screaming on Alistair's excellent ScotsWhayHae podcast. Give Alistair a follow too if you haven't already as he's the man! www.scotswhayhae.com/post/alterna...

Betjeman Golly Wow.

Song of the day in the Daily Reckless. #songoftheday

Silly Kwentin

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"Peace to our arses!"

Share a preacher, nun or priest.

I did post it and I thought it was me as a Doctor and had to do Red Cross.

Trump is an anti Catholic orange bastard, he’ll be trying to march in Drumcree come the 12th.

between the transphobia and the weird anti-cycling chip on their shoulder, Scottish Labour's manifesto reads like it is singularly geared towards your uncle who blames Nicola Sturgeon for everything from queues at the supermarket to his genital warts

A Beckett joke for Beckett's birthday. #samuelbeckett

Song Of The Day in the Daily Reckless. #songoftheday

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Hungary's Reckless Eurovision entry:

Happy Birth day Sam the man.

Hawkwind and Pink Fairies in latest outrageous BBC slur. They did not, I repeat, did not nick Paul McCartney's bass. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you saw that McCartney hunt for the lost bass doc you'll understand the gross misjutice done to Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies.

Highly recommend. Get ti Torphichen if ye can.

The glamorous setting for last night's Reckless Brothers gig in the enchanted kingdom of Torphichen.