And the hits just keep on coming

Another new song from the forthcoming Teenage Fanclub album...

More Fanclub news here.

I am glad to be composing for this project.

I recommend this film - sweet, moving and engaging:

Reminded me of We Are Northern Lights.

Picked this up:

Enjoyable whimsy...

I was at a memorial service recently. The Salvation Army Brass Band set the mood. That sound.  Puts me in mind of this poem by the amazing Wendy Cope.

Still doing you know what (not yoga)...

And some no-life-drawing efforts:

Tinkety-tonk, old fruit.

 

 

Farewells

Not a self-portrait

New Fanclub song...

For live news / album pre-order visit  www.teenagefanclub.com

I enjoyed this:

..and this (well done, Sunny Sandler):

I just learned that Mario Adorf died earlier this year at the age of 95. He was in loads of films and TV shows including the BBC series Smiley's People. But he will always be Don Camillo to me.

And goodbye, Dolly...

A memory popped into my head of my once telling Alex Chilton about meeting, very briefly, Willie Nelson after a show at The Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Willie had time for everyone who waited outside his tour bus. He looked at you while you were talking to him, holding your gaze until you broke eye contact first. This reminded Alex of meeting Dolly Parton and her being so very sociable and generous with her time, chatting on longer than politeness required.

If you haven't read it, Dolly's letter to graduates of her Imagination Library is a thing of beauty.

To other matters.

I can recommend the lentil soup here:

I am still attending life drawing classes...

And meanwhile back at the ranch...

Go well. x