Trying to push back against the darkness with some good music. I updated my Forward Folk mix with a few new tracks by Antonis Antoniou, Milkweed, @yokopwno.bsky.social, Fleuves, and OMIRI. Links to support these artists directly are in the comments below. open.spotify.com/playlist/5uf...

Follow @edintradfest.bsky.social Starter pack coming soon … Tag them to be included.

I saw the rain dirty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the croissant you saw the whole of Sassoon #NationalCroissantDay

They say it's madness to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results, but all I know how to do is this 🤗 ✍️ linktr.ee/bramegieben

This looming circle of clods* will be rocking Bodega Social's Wonky Burns Supper at New Galloway on Jan 25th ❤️ Check the link below for deetzzzz bodegasocial.co.uk

Thanks 2024! We enjoyed you :) let's do it again next year ❤️

Was listening to music on a portable speaker and thought to myself “why does this sound so compressed and muffled?!” First instinct was to look up the artist/song and be judgmental - then I looked over to see my cat was parked fully on top of the damn speaker 💀💀

Cheers Newcastle! Yous were great ❤️❤️

... Unless you grew up in Dundee, where there was a steady supply of ZX Spectrums that had failed quality control at the local factory and were available for £50 in the Courier classifieds.

This book was borrowed the same year that Return of the Jedi was released. It's been missing longer than Luke Skywalker was hiding on that island in Ireland.

Putting up the Christmas decorations in the staff room.

The National Library of Scotland has a deep secret. #LocalHistory #atchives 📚🗃️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NARC magazine preview our upcoming #Newcastle #gig (6/12 at Cobalt Studios) in their latest mag! Check it out here: narcmagazine.com/narc-212-out...

I was temptit at Pittempton Draiglit at Baldragon Stricken at Strike-Martin And kill’d at Martin’s Stane From Chambers’ POPULAR RHYMES OF SCOTLAND (1826): a legend explaining several Angus placenames as episodes from the slaying of a local dragon #WyrdWednesday folklorescotland.com/martin-and-t...

Hullo, we're Yoko Pwno, the lunatic fringe of Edinburgh trad music, and a solid answer to the question 'Which Scottish folk band has the most misleading name'. We do weird things to Scottish music. You dancin?

NEWCASTLE! Our next gig is in YOU! On December 6th. Tix here: linktr.ee/yokopwno

our deputy ed Peter wants to get our New Scottish Music playlist up to 1000 likes on Spotify before Christmas - we're on 920-odd so this seems do-able ft Sacred Paws, Franz Ferdinand, Auntie Flo + more also this is Peter typing, hellooo 👋

“Scottishness is not some pedigree lineage. This is a mongrel tradition!” William McIlvanney (1936–2015) – author & poet (& provider, at a rally in Edinburgh in 1992, of our profile header, as quoted in Neal Ascherson’s STONE VOICES) – was born #OTD, 25 November A 🎂 🧵 1/7