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@davidmcguinness.bsky.social
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amateur executant: usually too busy organising music to make any.
https://linktr.ee/davidmcg
do yourself a favour and set aside half an hour to marvel at this from the astonishing Angine de Poitrine. microtonal looping in silly costumes at its absolute best
youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si=QbT15qioDgaEvG_B
5 days ago
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8 days ago
Interesting piece on Andy Goldsworthy's Gravetstones art work on the BBC website. It's an "exclusive first look" apparently. I offered it to a national newspaper last year but they turned it down. I ended up writing it for my Substack.
smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-find...
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Small Finds #7
Andy Goldsworthy
https://smallfinds.substack.com/p/small-finds-7
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anyone advocated a cultural boycott of the US yet?
25 days ago
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about 1 month ago
Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH.
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this is absolutely amazing - an anonymous person has spent two years mapping the state of every public path in Glasgow "with the movement of high support mobility device users as priority" 👏👏👏
glasgowaudit.wordpress.com/about/
about 1 month ago
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amazingly, Ski Sunday is still running as a TV programme, and it still has the same sig tune, but they drown it out with crap sound FX. better to subtitle it so we can all sing along
https://youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?si=xJJbkIIwTacgBtMg
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Ski Sunday!
YouTube video by TheJeremyLion
https://youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?si=xJJbkIIwTacgBtMg
about 1 month ago
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having just had to postpone a recording session because the organ pitch had dropped in the cold weather, this is definitely my favourite news story of the week
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/22/organ-tuning-books-english-churches-notes-warming-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/22/organ-tuning-books-english-churches-notes-warming-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 2 months ago
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even if Derek Griffiths had done nothing other than the music for Bod, and singing in the chorus on I Am The Walrus, he would still be an utter legend.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1zj
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Remembers... - Derek Griffiths Remembers... Bod
Derek Griffiths, himself an icon of children's broadcasting, looks back on the 1970s animated series Bod, a cult classic narrated by John Le Mesurier of Dad’s Army fame.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1zj
about 2 months ago
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Radical Graffiti
about 2 months ago
Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland
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Just got to listen to Maxim Emelyanychev trying out three different pianos (1844 Broadwood, 1880s Erard, 1970s Steinway), and going to see Josie Long tonight. Not bad for a day off, eh?
2 months ago
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this was so much fun to do: sitting round a table enthusing about XTC!
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2 months ago
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a wee sundial on my new old jacket, thanks to
@alisoneales.com
fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mox-nox
3 months ago
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The Quietus
3 months ago
“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
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this is incredible - Public Information Film meets Sesame Street. "Hey! Luggage Chute!"
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3 months ago
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Past Glasgow
3 months ago
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
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from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can)
concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
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Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness
Choose your preferred music service
https://concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
4 months ago
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coming to streaming services on Friday after only 24 years' wait - pre-save here
concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
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4 months ago
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today in the space of an hour, today's year 2 performance workshop had some Welsh triple harp, a bit of John Mayer, and Debussy played on two different Steinways and an Erard. The student consensus was for the Erard: yes! 🎉
4 months ago
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Tim Dunlop
4 months ago
Melbourne: ever helpful
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about 4 minutes into last night's
#totp
repeat you can spot audio legend Calum Malcolm miming to his carefully crafted keyboard parts on a classic CP-70/Prophet 5 combo in Edinburgh's power popsters The Headboys
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Top of the Pops - 11/10/1979
Andy Peebles presents pop chart programme, first broadcast on 11 October 1979 and featuring The Dooleys, Chic, Dr Hook, Viola Wills, Cats UK, Dave Edmunds, Dana and the Police.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04m9r6z/top-of-the-pops-11101979
4 months ago
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Jessica Kant
4 months ago
Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
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great to hear the unstoppable Matt Wadsworth in this feature on 200 years of Braille music notation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Sunday Feature - Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music - BBC Sounds
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
4 months ago
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Roland Space Echo onstage
#totp
5 months ago
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as of today, MUNGREL STUFF is available again on Bandcamp: over 70 minutes of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments in all their ridiculous glory. Get it here
concertocaledonia.bandcamp.com/album/mungrel-stuff
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5 months ago
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yesterday's organ tourism, at the 1970s-tastic Hradetzky in St Salvator's chapel in St Andrews, which my Buxtehude score reminded me I had played once before. Chris Bragg also showed me the amazing new Laidlaw Music Centre with its moving floor and reverberation chamber in the roof - wow!
5 months ago
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today's organ tourism, on the wonderful early 18th-century styled Ahrend organ in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh. I gave a recital on this about 30 years ago, can't remember what I played ...
5 months ago
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Adam Bienkov
5 months ago
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
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well, this is both genuinely brilliant and properly hilarious. Martin Parr just doing what he does
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j0v3
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Modern Times - Martin Parr: Think of England
As another St George's Day passes, Martin Parr, the celebrated Magnum stills photographer, travels the length and breadth of the country to look at the English and how they see themselves.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j0v3
6 months ago
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this morning: Bach on the 1844 Broadwood piano in the concert hall, this evening: pipe tunes with the organ in the chapel. Not bad for a Monday.
#UofG
6 months ago
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So chuffed that this album from 2001 is available once again: a bunch of Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish music from nearly 300 years ago, and still one of the favourite things I’ve done, for the sheer joyful weirdness of it.
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great to see this available again, with a powerful performance of Sergeant Where's Mine, and a truly virtuosic fart routine which the subtitler clearly enjoyed too. The assistant camera back in 1975 was Jan Pester who later gave me my first jobs writing music for TV!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
The long-lost film featuring Billy Connolly’s 1975 Ireland tour captures ‘The Big Yin’ on and off stage, providing a captivating record of the comedy legend on the cusp of international stardom.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hqvk/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet
6 months ago
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nice to be reminded tonight of the joy of practising in a Gothic revival chapel on a summer evening
6 months ago
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spotted my first PLASTICINE ACTION t-shirt in the wild tonight in the Three Judges ✅
6 months ago
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Association for Scottish Literature
7 months ago
From Tom Leonard’s INTIMATE VOICES 1965–1983 (Galloping Dog Press, 1984)
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Craig Grannell
7 months ago
A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.
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Chrisonwheels
7 months ago
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Here's the link. Saturday 26th July. One night only. Chat opens 7.00pm Performance 7.30pm
#Cardiacs
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CARDIACS - Recorded Live at the TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB, London. 25 March 1988
YouTube video by abcglobus
https://youtu.be/KidL8T-Wzy8?si=gaX7WHiSE7UpJNkH
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Andrey X
7 months ago
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
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Rob Cruickshank
7 months ago
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Gerry Hassan
7 months ago
The entire UK political/media narrative on welfare is that it is "burgeoning", "a burden" & "unsustainable". But how high is it compared to others? UK welfare at 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including pensions). Finland spends 25.7% of GDP; France 23.8%: both double the UK.
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Steph Paton
8 months ago
If I write to my MP saying how disgraceful it is that he supported the proscription of Palestine Action, will that now be classed as terrorism?
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The National
8 months ago
EXC: Labour have been branded 'deeply authoritarian' after reports emerged that the UK Government is set to proscribe Palestine Action 👇
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all these bands that I wanted to see when I was 12 (but was too young to get in) I can now hear from the comfort of my back garden as the sound crosses the river from Bellahouston Park
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8 months ago
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back from the sleeping giant, I can report that Wooleys of Arran is a properly top-tier local Scottish bakery (the Bakehouse in Blackwaterfoot is superb too)
#priorities
8 months ago
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a useful reminder
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/10/the-misogyny-of-the-metaverse-is-mark-zuckerbergs-dream-world-a-no-go-area-for-women?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
8 months ago
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Joe Noonan
9 months ago
Ireland has opinions
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Bricking It Glasgow
9 months ago
My
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homage to Raymond Depardon’s iconic
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of course Netanyahu using Eurovision to prop up his reputation can get to absolute f*ck, BUT the BSL interpreter who signed the Finnish entry and managed to upstage Erika Vikman deserves everyone's highest praise. Virtuoso stuff, 1hr 16mins in.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Eurovision Song Contest - 2025 Extra: Signed: Grand Final 2025 - Signed
Remember Monday fly the flag for the UK with their song What The Hell Just Happened?, as Graham Norton provides his iconic commentary – live from Basel, Switzerland. With British Sign Language.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002clt8/sign/eurovision-song-contest-2025-extra-signed-grand-final-2025
9 months ago
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why indeed …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?
When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/police-raid-london-quaker-meeting-house-very-worrying?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
9 months ago
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