Late to post this. I went to London a few weeks ago to visit the David Bowie Centre @ V&A Esst Storehouse & the Tracey Emin exhibition @tatemodern.bsky.social Its a piece about grief masquerading as a travel feature. "It's hip to be alive!" www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Ah no. His Newcastle side were such a swaggering joy, even if they did come up short.

All a bit 1994, this final #WorldCup

It will be cutaways to Alan Carr, Bradley Walsh, Martin Lewis and Elaine C Smith in 2028 #SpaArg #WorldCup

Inspirals are playing PJ Molloys in Dunfermline next month #TOTP

I spoke to Griffin Dunne about Madonna the other year, though that was the least of it #TOTP www.heraldscotland.com/news/2442209...

That Kenny G reaction felt like Twitter circa 2016 #TOTP

Pat once complained about the knot in my tie. So, he fixed it for me #HueandCry #TOTP

Here for the TOTP 80s. Spoke to Sara for @sundaypost.com in 2024 www.sundaypost.com/fp/sara-dall... #Bananarama #TOTP

"He'd have done. He's all right." Brenda Fricker in Pat O'Connor's adaptation of The Ballroom of Romance (1982). She could have walked out of a William Trevor short story. Maybe she did. RIP

Have to say, England bottled that

Some days I think it'd be fun to collect all the comics that were on sale the month I was born. This is one of them.

Ach, the wonderful Sam Neill. Imagining a Moviedrome double bill of Death in Brunswick & In the Mouth of Madness in tribute

Garbage's last Scottish gig? www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

Edinburgh Castle in there somewhere

Nice obit of Gerry Conway. I was a teenage comics fan in the 1970s and Conway was a huge part of that. A 17-year-old prodigy (grumble mutter) he had wonderful runs on DD and Hulk. Then his epic stint of Spidey. All were favorites.

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social review of Lear, starring a mercurial Maureen Beattie as Shakespeare’s ageing monarch. www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... @pitlochryft.bsky.social until Aug 1. www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/lear/ Image by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.

Nicky Campbell & guests talking Vikings on 5 Live. More fun than Farage. Reminded me of my day @ NMS storehouse talking Vikings with @archaeonado.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/1966009... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Courtney Love, Bunnymen, Beta Band, the Beatles, Big Country, Cabaret Voltaire & Pulp, Wham!, Cocteau Twins, Talk Talk, Neil & Chris: the best music books of the year (so far) @heraldscotland.bsky.social @newmodernbooks.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

I was deeply saddened by yesterday's news about the great Tony Rayns. Here are some memories and thoughts. #TonyRayns geoffandrew.com/2026/07/08/t...

"Football, bloody hell." Ad infinitum #ArgEgyp

Stereo Underground on Rewind playing Pete Shelley's Homosapien, Kraftwerk, the good Oasis song, Sparks and now this sexy fecker

The things you do for love

Caught a blast of Carroll Thompson's Lovers Rock classic Hopelessly in Love @ the Music is Black exhibition at V&A East at the weekend and its been in my head ever since. So summery you can smell the tarmac melting as you listen to it youtu.be/zvLDbseI0Wk?...

There's still one more screening of THE FURIOUS this Saturday! 👉 www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/the-fu...

Often silly, frequently ridiculous, but always exhilarating, The Furious deserved the round of applause it got @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social tonight

Pop quiz for a Monday morning. Costumes from Music is Black exhibition @V&A East. But can you name the artists who wore them?

I have been to London. It was hot. I went to the V&A East & V&A East Storehouse (inc the David Bowie Centre) on Saturday and it was my favourite day this year.

In this extract from A Restless Content (1996), made to celebrate his 70th birthday, Alastair Reid – reclining on a hammock in his Greenwich Village apartment – delivers his poem “Scotland” www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAgG...

From the archive… As a major exhibition of photographer Sandra George’s work opens in Edinburgh, a piece from 2022 on how her work was rediscovered. open.substack.com/pub/neilcoop... Sandra George: Start from the Level, City Art Centre until Sep 27. cultureedinburgh.com/events/sandr...

Said goodbye to one of my favourite people in this world today. Life's a flutter.

I know it won't affect him at all, but even so, this is pleasing.

Prince's Trust gig on BBC 2 good reminder that you should read @scottrowley.bsky.social's memoir of Stuart Adamson. #BigCountry www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

From sunset until sunrise on this year’s summer solstice, we’ve curated a dream-like night of radio documentaries from BBC Radio 3’s archives… Verity Sharp presents Midsummer Dreaming - a special celebration of the vast imaginative possibilities of the radio. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I talked to Janet Street-Porter for The Herald Magazine. As you might expect, it was entertaining www.heraldscotland.com/news/2619818... @heraldscotland.bsky.social

I know I'm biased, but they are a daily miracle. @heraldscotland.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Apart from everything else (and there's a lot; Is there another British painter so open to joy?) he always took a good picture. RIP David. #DavidHockney

The comeback is on #GAWA

More politicians on pop stars. Here is Paddy Ashdown on the Gypsy Kings

Feel my Herald review is the most technically accurate here. (Everything else also true, of course. It's a great book.)

Aretha's I Say a Little Prayer is one of the high points of western civilisation, I'm saying #Aretha@theBBC

Aretha's baby Afro one of my favourite things #ArethaattheBBC

JFT97 #TOTP

Just because you've got Pete Shelley's haircut ... #TOTP

Now reckoning Voyager were chucked in to make this episode conform to philosophy of wabi-sabi #TOTP

First band I saw live. First date too. Both went well #Squeeze #TOTP

One of the great Maurices #EWF #TOTP

Perfect. No notes. #BoogieWonderland #TOTP

Russell can still hit those notes #Sparks #TOTP

Current occasional reading is this century of political diary entries. Enjoying the moments when pop culture suddenly appears: Barbara Castle on the Beatles Gyles Brandreth on Cliff Tony Benn meets The Clash