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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 18d

Over 1,000,000 have now signed a petition demanding we do not mandate digital ID.

This has united all political parties across the spectrum.

If Starmer doesn't back down now, this will end his premiership.

Please sign 🖊️

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Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

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Rob Adams @rabjourno.bsky.social · 18d

Karen Marshalsay plays the 19-string clarsach on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune here in Inverness.

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Karen Marshalsay @karenclarsach.bsky.social · Aug 17

Music from South Africa, Catalonia and Scotland will celebrate the international quality of the Fringe when the Whistlebinkies appear at artSpace@StMarks in Castle Terrace on Saturday 23rd August at 6:30pm.

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Rob Adams Journalist | Scottish folk group celebrate internationalism at the Edinburgh Fringe | 17 August 2025

Rob Adams, freelance journalist and music critic covering jazz, folk and traditional, world and Americana music.

www.robadamsjournalist.com

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Aug 4

Our group is looking forward to playing again at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! See you there ~

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Aug 4

Our group is looking forward to playing again at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! See you there ~

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our concert in Glasgow's West Fest will include the organ & folkgroup version of Barlinnie Highlander by Rab Wallace and The Kist o' Whistles by Eddie McGuire for The Whistlebinkes with Michael Bonaventure on organ as well as traditional selections. See you there!

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our concert in Glasgow's West Fest will include the organ & folkgroup version of Barlinnie Highlander by Rab Wallace and The Kist o' Whistles by Eddie McGuire for The Whistlebinkes with Michael Bonaventure on organ as well as traditional selections. See you there!

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · May 23

Celtic harp (Karen Marshalsay) & percussion (Peter Anderson) will be added later. Photo by Stuart Eydmann (concertina). Photo shows us playing 'The Kist o' Whistles' which I composed for The Whistlebinkies & Michael Bonaventure.

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · May 23

Rehearsals for our West Fest concert (June 27 'Scottish Folk with Organ!' in the Sanctuary of Renfield Church Centre 260 Bath Street Glasgow). With Gina Wright (viola), Anna Louise Wallace & Mark Hayward (violins), Rab Wallace (lowland pipes), Eddie McGuire (flute) & Michael Bonaventure (organ):

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · May 13

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · May 13

Just out from Patsy Reid & Alice Allen (Strathspey Queens) beautifully playing their selection of my violin & cello solos & duets:
Patsy Reid writes "It’s not being pressed into a 💿 but . . . you can head over to Bandcamp to buy your own digital copy!"
patsyreid.bandcamp.com

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · May 13

Just out from Patsy Reid & Alice Allen (Strathspey Queens) beautifully playing their selection of my violin & cello solos & duets:
Patsy Reid writes "It’s not being pressed into a 💿 but . . . you can head over to Bandcamp to buy your own digital copy!"
patsyreid.bandcamp.com

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks. When we get copies of the Mode Records DVD (Scottish Circus & 4'33'') we'll have a 'launch' - hopefully in the autumn & will let you know about that.

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks. In anticipation of the release of the DVD of Scottish Circus and 4'33'' (for ensemble) we issued a leaflet, attached. We'll have a launch gathering when we recieve copies of the disc, hopefully in the autumn. The substantial booklet will have a fuller explanation.

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Apr 2

The Whistlebinkies DVD recording on Mode Records of the John Cage piece that Claire describes will be issued later this year - that's 'Scottish Circus' as well as 4'33'' (John Cage's version for folk ensemble). The photo shows John Cage with The Whistlebinkies at the Fruitmarket Gallery in 1984.

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clairesawers.bsky.social @clairesawers.bsky.social · Apr 1

I reviewed Deep Time for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, a festival marking 40 yrs since Jean-Michel Basquiat & John Cage showed work at @fruitmarket.bsky.social. Curated by Elaine Mitchener w/ @niknakdjmusic.bsky.social Brìghde Chaimbeul @simoneseales.bsky.social @cathecticpetals.bsky.social & more💥

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BritSymphCup @britsymphcup.bsky.social · Feb 15

Born #OTD in 1948, Scottish composer & flautist, Eddie McGuire. Ensemble work, Euphoria (1980), was written as an antidote to political upheaval of the Thatcher Era. Debut at Edinburgh International Festival by The Fires of London & Maxwell Davies. open.spotify.com/track/6zt9T0...
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Euphoria

Eddie McGuire, Red Note Ensemble · Eddie Mcguire: Entangled Fortunes · Song · 2015

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Feb 24

Although James Iliff was my composition teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, my orchestration lessons were with Leighton Lucas.

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Feb 24

Just noticed you were on this site as well as 'X' - so I'll thank you here as well for listing my 1980 piece 'Euphoria'!

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Dec 11

Anyway, congratulations on your creative work and I hope it gets published sometime - I'll look out.

Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Dec 11

In otherwords a beggar minstrel. Similar to the German 'der bänkelsänger' or French troubadour 'saltimbanc'. Another explanation is it's derived from 2 Scots Gaelic words 'uasal' (noble) & 'being' (bench) - 'g' more of a 'k' sound - referring to the ancient chieftain giving up his seat to a harpist

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Dec 11

That book was called 'Whistlebinkie: Songs for the Social Circle' which has a long introductory essay titled 'A Disertation on Whistlebinkies'. The word is actually in Chambers Scots Dictionary which describes the meaning as 'one who plays a whistle on a bench ('bink') for his supper'.

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Dec 11

Thanks. Yes, that's an earlier CD we made. We're just about to release a recording / video of a John Cage piece we commissioned (in 1990) 'Scottish Circus' on Mode Records. We picked up the name 'Whistlebinkies' from a song-words & poetry book - published in 1832 in Glasgow.

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Eddie McGuire @eddiemcguire1.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hopefully not referring to The Whistlebinkies folkgroup in which I play flute !

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