Today's Velvet Underground myth takes a deep dive into whether Brian Epstein, Bowie and The Yardbirds has a pre-release 'acetate' of the Velvet Underground and Nico album grantmcphee.substack.com/p/bowie-bria...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth Part 8 September and October 1966 grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth Part 7: July and August 1966 grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

Caledonia Screaming in Christmas Eve's The National. The forgotten 1977 punk story

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth Part 6 - May 1966 pt2 and June 1966 grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

Thanks Penny Black Music for making Caledonia Screaming their Book of the Year runner-up. Congrats to Chris Wade for being top "a more rounded and balanced account of 70’s punk that has ever been produced before, not just for Scotland but throughout Britain" pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Home/Details...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth - Part 5: May 1966 (1 of 2) grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth: Pt.4 - April 1966. The busiest and most high profile month yet - and still a year away from recording their debut album. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth. Part 3 - February and March 1966. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth: Part 2 - January 1966. In which Andy Warhol becomes sponsor and introduces them to high society. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth 2. Pt.1 1963-1965 I went a bit crazy with updating my Velvet Underground Myth. There's about 40 of these Substack things though 63-65 is short, every other one is a single month through the eyes of the local press. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...

The good folk at Jumbo Records, Leeds have 2 copies of Caledonia Screaming left. www.jumborecords.co.uk/book-single....

ust in time to arrive for Christmas. monorailmusic.com/product/cale...

All Tomorrow's Parties 7" reviewed in September 1966. The Velvet Underground even had their own fanclub by this point.

Caledonia Screaming making the front page of the Herald this weekend in preview form, and a two page physical spread in the magazine. Thanks again Russell Leadbetter.

Caledonia Screaming in IT

Caledonia Screaming article in the Herald. #thestranglers #caledoniascreaming

With my 🎅 hat firmly on, I’m giving away a signed book. Simply reply/quote tweet with your favourite song by one – only one – of the subjects of the books pictured: John Martyn, Kate Bush or Simple Minds. A winner will be picked at random. The book you win will correspond to your song choice🎄📚 📦

Some Caledonia Screaming chat with Daffy - and a rare chance to hear some Matt Vinyl and the Decorators

Yah! Caledonia Screaming is one of the Herald's music books of the year. "Punk was alive, well and living in Falkirk, Glenrothes and Ayr". Thanks Teddy Jamieson. Lots of exciting '50th anniversary of punk' things in store for the book next year. Thanks all for your help with it.

3 left in the whole wide world come on come on @glassmodernr.bsky.social @grantmcphee.bsky.social glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/songbook

I can never have too many books about early punk 🎶 @grantmcphee.bsky.social Thanks @monorailmusic.bsky.social

John Cale and Edie Sedgwick in the Sunday Mirror, August 1966 in a surprising article about the Fugs and Velvet Underground. Not as surprising though as a January 1966 review in the Daily Telegraph of the VU's gig at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry!

"Nico is not a talkative girl" Youth Beat's interview with Nico during Chelsea Girls promotion, 1967

Anachronistic proto-punk bands in local newspapers #21 : The MC5 in the Greenock Telegraph, 2nd April 1977. With a competition to win a free copy of Back in the USA.

It's well known that the first and only UK appearance of Iggy and the Stooges (before their reunion) was on the 15th July 1972 at the Kings Cross Cinema... but did Iggy also play a few days later in Tunbridge Wells?

I had a chat with Mark Laff about Subway Sect and the White Riot Tour, Generation X - and of course XGenerationX who are about to do four dates in Scotland. A bit like back in 1977. Hopefully this time there are no last minute bus adventures to West Linton. Go get a ticket!

Wonderful @nicolameighan.bsky.social discusses the DIY aesthetic in the Scottish music with @grantmcphee.bsky.social, Katy Lironi and @creepingbent.bsky.social at Aye Write on Thurs 13th Nov. All 3 have their own books which can be purchased at the event. Tix: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/acti...

Alex Fergusson in Stokey Nov 4 'Songbook' 2nd Edition - 9 signed copies left @glassmodernr.bsky.social @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social @grantmcphee.bsky.social @leefact25.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social glassmodern.bandcamp.com/album/songbook

The Olde Sound of Scotland. This was intended to be part of a box set that never happened so I uploaded one of the CDs to Soundcloud. CD 3- Late Psychedelia into Hard Rock and Prog. soundcloud.com/grant_mcphee...

RiP Archie Fisher. A colossal figure in Scottish music. With his partner, Jill Doyle they gave Bert Jansch guitar lessons. His Reynardineis my favourite, with a nice textural nod to the evolving nature of folk music which he was undoubtedly a big part of www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abcq...

Scotland's Untold 1977 Punk Story — Caledonia Screaming Part of Frets’ Action Time Vision at the Aye Write Book Festival, featuring Katy and Douglas. 13th Nov, Mitchell Library, Glasgow Ramones/Blondie/TH by Graham Scott, Glasgow '77 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/acti... @chrisstein.bsky.social

This clip seems to have upset some Joy Division fans over on Instagram.

My guest Scottish filmmaker/author @grantmcphee.bsky.social on his trio of films about the Scottish indie music scene and the @jesusandmarychain riot that happened in 1985. Listen to @revpermovie.bsky.social here: shows.acast.com/revolutionsp...

The C86 cassette comp that was so impactful on the British Independent scene, but also how many of the bands did not want to be associated with it in the end Part of my conversation with Scottish author/filmmaker @grantmcphee.bsky.social on this week’s @revpermovie.bsky.social

My chat with the excellent Christopher Slusarenko at the Revolutions Per Movie podcast.

“A few years ago, the Scottish film industry was a haggis-in-the-sky fantasy in the fevered imaginations of a talented handful. Now apparently over-night, it is a full-grown fact.” Daily Record's 1983 article on Charles Gormley's Living Apart Together.

Caledonia Streaming: A History of Scotland's Moving Image 1967–2027 This book has been brewing for the past two years and already off to a great start - interviews with Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald, Outlander producer David Brown, and cinematographer Mick Coulter #scottishfilm #outlander

Hey @scotspostpunk.bsky.social - did you ever see our article on Scottish indie 45s? @grantmcphee.bsky.social and Douglas MacIntyre select seven vital 7s groovy-times.com/scottish-ind...

The Cords' new single "When You Said Goodbye" is a lush, dreamy tearjerker that's bound to become a last-dance staple. Utterly perfect and totally timeless. What a record. lnk.to/cords-goodbye

I picked up this hefty tome of Scottish films by Mark Furse which has just been released. 427 features. 6 of them are by me with another 4 produced and around 40 I worked on or helped in some capacity. Really worth picking up. Very well researched and a worthy addition to Scotland's film story

Easily the coolest and best dressed actor of the 60s. RIP Terence Stamp

"Stuart went to Germany with a Liverpool skiffle group" Fascinating that Sutcliffe's death made the front pages of the news. And bittersweet that the reporting was the only time it would be for his own achievements rather than a footnote to what was about to change everything.

I've put up a couple of unfinished films on YouTube for a short period. Songs From Northern Britain assembly and Fast Forward that became the basis for Postcards From Scotland and Teenage Superstars. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXws... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DazZ...

Delighted to now be represented as a writer by the Hamilton Agency. A few more books (and films) on the horizon soon too. thehamiltonagency.co.uk

I like your tie for a start. Paul McCartney's unnaturally large makes the front of the Daily Record in December 1965 as the Beatles start the first date of their last UK tour, in Glasgow.

Allen Klein and Ringo, Daily Record 1971

UK, 1967 Verve advert for 1st Velvet Underground album. With the UK/Canadian/New Zealand cover

On this day in 1970 Funhouse by the Stooges was released in the US. It wasn't out here until December but was reviewed in the Nottingham Evening News and Post. Not sure about it being 'All a laugh'. Always amazed at what appears in local papers. Good coverage of Graham Bond too. Poor old Scott W.

18-18 lyrics. Johnny and the Self Abusers after the original name change to Simple Minds, the proposed follow-up single to Saints and Sinners. #simpleminds