Gracias and Obrigado

Teenage Fanclub played a fun festival in Ourense which meant spending some time in that lovely Galician city... 

Altogether now: "I'm on a See Food diet..."

I mean come on...

...AND some time in pretty Porto...

A return visit to the National Museum Soares dos Reis:

I reckon I'm a fan of Henrique Pousão

Evening libation? White port and tonic? Och, I don't really...

*burp*

I think This Cultural Life is my favourite radio show / BBC podcast. Latest listen was Marlon James. His ruminations on Bob Marley and Kurt Cobain = great.

Thanks, Duglas, for flagging up this song:

On the subject of good music - you might dig this.

An extract from Alan Bennett's diary:

I was glad to compose the music for this...

Meanwhile back at the ranch...

Hasta la vista, old fruit. x

"I feel proud of making Glasgow laugh at itself"

I was very glad to compose the music for this:

...and also for this, newly added to Netflix:

While we're at it - tell your tv/filmmaker pals about my updated showreel:

To the GFT. "Caligula - The Ultimate Cut" sure put the 'bonk' in bonkers. Nuts and horrible and - quite hard to describe.

I recently caught up with "And Then There Were None" (1974). Over-boiled baloney, of course, but that's a big part of the fun. And Bruni Nicolai's soundtrack is groovy.

But my gast was particularly flabbered by "Black Carrion" from Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense recently on Taking Pictures. 

Everyone should see this hokum once. Or maybe not.

Anne Enright is a fab guest on This Cultural Life: on being told from time to time that, as a writer, she is brave: "It's not really a word I use... it's the kind of thing your mother-in-law says about your carpet".

If - like me - you love Billy C, you should enjoy this.

The episode on Alison Lapper was very powerful TV.

Anyway - here comes some art. (Warning: includes a portrait of the writer of "Nature Boy"...)

(not the writer of Nature Boy)

 

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