"Democracy In A Couplet"

I enjoyed listening to Jackie Kay on This Cultural Life.

It was a wee while ago now but Robert Forster (with his Swedish band) was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G at St Luke's in Glasgow. Just wonderful. Glad he played this gem from his latest album (which he started to write, as he told us, last time he was in Glasgow and Edinburgh).

It all brought back fond memories of this happening.

Re-watched Blue Velvet. Angelo Badalamenti, man.

Wangled a *great* seat for Scottish Opera's fab production of La Bohéme.

Belissimo.

A wee plug for this sure-to-be-groovy event in Glasgow soon.

Celebrity Traitors, eh?

I zipped through this:

Wondering about reading another one of his.

I don't use the library enough but I recently checked out two books: "The Sound Of Things Falling" by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and "Dust And Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever" by Victoria Whitworth.

Unknown Number is quite something, huh?

I am re-watching this.

God, it's good.

Farewell, Gilson Lavis. Another drummer (see also with Jet Black and Charlie Watts) with whom I used to try and tap along in my early teens has exited the stage. (I was wearing a Squeeze t-shirt when my brother ran me and my drums round to Norman Blake's granny's house in Bellshill for my first (dual) rehearsal with The Boy Hairdressers and BMX Bandits (and that wisnae yesterday).)

Those Motown fills near the top of "Black Coffee In Bed" are splendid. And then there's this:

(Thankfully Stewart Copeland and Ringo are still with us.)

I enjoyed this:

Finn Wolfhard kindly invited Teenage Fanclub along to his recent sold-out-by-99%-very-vocal-teenage-girls show in King Tut's:

A great night. Then it was back to the old folks home for some ovaltine and a game of dominos.

(Roll on Stranger Things finale! We're big fans in our house.)

Here's a photo of the ever-wonderful Laura Cantrell being accosted by an old jakey in Glasgow recently:

"Any spare change, hen?"

Oh wait a minute - that's me.

(That'll be Cafe Gandolfi haggis ticked off of LC's bucket list.)

This Sex Pistols podcast is worth it for Richard Branson's anecdote about the Professor Of Linguistics at Nottingham University alone. (Episode 6)

I have been working on music for a lovely documentary about the late great Victoria Wood. More on this anon.

Aye but what else you? Well, here...

Adios x