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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tape out now.

Crackle. Organ hum. Rough beats & dub daze.
The bass blown-out and up front.
Everything echoes or covered in fuzz.
Nothing is clear.

One fragment of cut-up text remains... "artists bury night, wreck ears"

blackhilltransmissions.bandcamp.com/album/transm...

'TRANSMISSION #4' TAPE, by Black Hill Transmissions

3 track album

blackhilltransmissions.bandcamp.com

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 6h

One of my own tracks came on in the car earlier & I enjoyed it like it wasn't mine 😁

I didn't play bass or guitar on it so its only partly mine anyway, & the guitar part Gavin Laird plays in the break is very beautiful so I recommend it

youtu.be/zXYry3WD8tM?...

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS - LAST WALK TO BLIND LAKE ( VERSION)

YouTube video by BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 7h

Its been a year since I found a teenage diary - a entry from this week in 1988; I like this one cos it has some nice details and it identifies the main reason I loved going to gigs when I was a kid - to meet people.

but I also thought Miles Hunt was cool? wow...

the past is another planet.

Diary entry, 7th October, 1988 "Met Emma at 8.30 to go to the Wonder Stuff gig at the QM. We took the tube to Hillhead & met Mo, Mo, Kev <deleted> & General in the queue, so we jumped in with them. The Wonder Stuff were shit hot. The singer's a cool bastard. We met lots of people there, I met Bryan <deleted>! Arsehole. We took a taxi to George Square and got a bus to E.K. Got home in time to see 'The Monkees' on TV (4am). Went to sleep about 5.30am after some tea & naughties.

Yellow concert ticket - Glasgow Queen Margaret Union, The Wonder Stuff, Friday, 7th October 1988

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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 7h

It's #BookshopDay. A good day - as they all are - to visit your local independent book shop, or order something from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social (where they currently have Our Secrets Are The Same on sale with a little discount)
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/our-...

Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds

Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds

uk.bookshop.org

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 7h

Love 'em.

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 7h

Good stuff. Fuck the flag wavers.

Gary @shamrocknroll84.bsky.social · 7h

New artwork in Glasgow.

'Flag waving is a drain on humanity'

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2553218...

'Lamppost Patriotism' mural appears in Glasgow amid flag controversy

A Glasgow-based artist who went viral for a mural of Donald Trump has installed a new artwork satirising the recent controversy over flags

www.heraldscotland.com

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 8h

Or people could just say '1930s' or '1950s'...

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks to whoever mentioned the BBC Archive on YouTube, just brilliant 👏

youtu.be/M4giMqoVVWE?...

1980: Ruefrex - Belfast Punk Documentary | Cross The Line | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 10h

I've absorbed british culture for decades and no matter how many times 'georgian', 'edwardian', 'regency' etc are mentioned in terms of timescale I have no idea when any of those times are cos I hate royals so much...

yes, I am watching Grand Designs.

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 20h

Love it. Thanks for sharing.

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 23h

I really enjoyed Ayoade Bamgboye talking on this...

shows.acast.com/18dcd5db-f89...

EP.261 0 AYOADE BAMGBOYE | THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam talks with Nigerian writer/performer Ayoade Bamgboye

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

Aye, I was thinking about the recent 'Into The Dub' track GD did when I asked the question... I totally love it btw 💥🧨

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Rock Action @rockactionrecords.scot · 1d

✨ NEXT WEEK ✨

@plasmatron.bsky.social will be performing with @elisabethelektra.bsky.social followed by a DJ set at Stereo, as part of Pop Mutations’ multi-venue night in support of the fantastic @tinychanges.bsky.social 💙

👉🏽 www.seetickets.com/tour/pop-mutations-x-tiny-changes

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

Is that what the Bug/Ghost Dubs stuff keeps reminding me of? I think it might be...

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

I remember buying them on emusic (i think it was calld?) In the late 2000s. It might be a bit too subtle for me but I will revisit over the weekend

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

Jeez, I thought you were talking about Big Star for a minute...😀

Fuck em, some dope will always pay it.

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CreepingBent @creepingbent.bsky.social · 1d

Tickets go on sale at 7pm tonight/Friday 10th Oct (which is when this link will become live):
wegottickets.com/event/678735
for the final Creeping Bent action in Edinburgh, which will take place at Edinburgh College of Art on Saturday 13th Dec.

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

Keeping this for later. Fuck Thatcher.

Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting piece, this. Unlike his friend, Kingsley Amis, Burgess is sharply critical of Thatcher, for inducting a social philosophy that suggests '[t]here is something criminal about being poor'. He also warns, unheeded, that education should never 'be considered in terms of a market economy'...

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 1d

On this week’s newsletter: 100 years of the Iron Lady. Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) assesses Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. But what does he make of the her?

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

I was listening to the recent billy woods album on commute this morning & I rewound this to play it again 💥💥💥

I really like Despot's verse on 'Versailles', off woods' 'Aethiopes' album, but this track has real 'back to Def Jux' vibe with (I assume) an EL-P beat

youtu.be/jsccMRqKVmY?...

Corinthians

YouTube video by Billy Woods - Topic

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

giving the camera a hard stare there, like it.

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 1d

I dug into the Wierd Eighties for @thequietus.com

Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987 | The Quietus

Joe Muggs looks back beyond rigid gatekeeping to the mad flux of the 1980s and the Scottish band who were outsider art and proto-rave

thequietus.com

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

I would have spent a whole lot less time alone trying to make beats like EL-P and a whole lot more time making a racket with pals in dark rooms

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

I pretty much check out anything they put out, not always into it but I really like their whole deal/vibe/whatever

The albums I play most are the last three Damon Locks albums on International Anthem - i find him pretty inspirational

BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

Is that you wi the wrangler jaiket?

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 1d

Fingers poised for 8am tomorrow at warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com

Reverse inner and outer sleeves of the same record.

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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 1d

Love it. Here's a selection of me & my folks, 1970s.

4 Photobooth photostrips of a mum, dad and son (sister on the way)

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