David McGuinness
@davidmcguinness.bsky.social
amateur executant: usually too busy organising music to make any. https://linktr.ee/davidmcg
a wee sundial on my new old jacket, thanks to @alisoneales.com fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mox-nox
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
a wee sundial on my new old jacket, thanks to @alisoneales.com fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mox-nox
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“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
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Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
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November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
this is incredible - Public Information Film meets Sesame Street. "Hey! Luggage Chute!"
AFC: AUTOMATIC FARE COLLECTION AND YOU (1969) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqO9tnRlcY
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
this is incredible - Public Information Film meets Sesame Street. "Hey! Luggage Chute!"
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I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
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This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can) concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness
Choose your preferred music service
concertocaledonia.ffm.to
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can) concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
coming to streaming services on Friday after only 24 years' wait - pre-save here concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
coming to streaming services on Friday after only 24 years' wait - pre-save here concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
at @uofglasgowmusic.bsky.social today in the space of an hour, today's year 2 performance workshop had some Welsh triple harp, a bit of John Mayer, and Debussy played on two different Steinways and an Erard. The student consensus was for the Erard: yes! 🎉
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
at @uofglasgowmusic.bsky.social today in the space of an hour, today's year 2 performance workshop had some Welsh triple harp, a bit of John Mayer, and Debussy played on two different Steinways and an Erard. The student consensus was for the Erard: yes! 🎉
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Melbourne: ever helpful
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Melbourne: ever helpful
about 4 minutes into last night's #totp repeat you can spot audio legend Calum Malcolm miming to his carefully crafted keyboard parts on a classic CP-70/Prophet 5 combo in Edinburgh's power popsters The Headboys www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Top of the Pops - 11/10/1979
Andy Peebles presents pop chart programme, first broadcast on 11 October 1979 and featuring The Dooleys, Chic, Dr Hook, Viola Wills, Cats UK, Dave Edmunds, Dana and the Police.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
about 4 minutes into last night's #totp repeat you can spot audio legend Calum Malcolm miming to his carefully crafted keyboard parts on a classic CP-70/Prophet 5 combo in Edinburgh's power popsters The Headboys www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
great to hear the unstoppable Matt Wadsworth in this feature on 200 years of Braille music notation https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Sunday Feature - Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music - BBC Sounds
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
great to hear the unstoppable Matt Wadsworth in this feature on 200 years of Braille music notation https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
as of today, MUNGREL STUFF is available again on Bandcamp: over 70 minutes of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments in all their ridiculous glory. Get it here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.com/album/mungrel-stuff
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
as of today, MUNGREL STUFF is available again on Bandcamp: over 70 minutes of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments in all their ridiculous glory. Get it here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.com/album/mungrel-stuff
yesterday's organ tourism, at the 1970s-tastic Hradetzky in St Salvator's chapel in St Andrews, which my Buxtehude score reminded me I had played once before. Chris Bragg also showed me the amazing new Laidlaw Music Centre with its moving floor and reverberation chamber in the roof - wow!
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
yesterday's organ tourism, at the 1970s-tastic Hradetzky in St Salvator's chapel in St Andrews, which my Buxtehude score reminded me I had played once before. Chris Bragg also showed me the amazing new Laidlaw Music Centre with its moving floor and reverberation chamber in the roof - wow!
today's organ tourism, on the wonderful early 18th-century styled Ahrend organ in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh. I gave a recital on this about 30 years ago, can't remember what I played ...
September 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
today's organ tourism, on the wonderful early 18th-century styled Ahrend organ in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh. I gave a recital on this about 30 years ago, can't remember what I played ...
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Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
September 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
well, this is both genuinely brilliant and properly hilarious. Martin Parr just doing what he does https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j0v3
Modern Times - Martin Parr: Think of England
As another St George's Day passes, Martin Parr, the celebrated Magnum stills photographer, travels the length and breadth of the country to look at the English and how they see themselves.
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September 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
well, this is both genuinely brilliant and properly hilarious. Martin Parr just doing what he does https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002j0v3
this morning: Bach on the 1844 Broadwood piano in the concert hall, this evening: pipe tunes with the organ in the chapel. Not bad for a Monday. #UofG
September 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
this morning: Bach on the 1844 Broadwood piano in the concert hall, this evening: pipe tunes with the organ in the chapel. Not bad for a Monday. #UofG
So chuffed that this album from 2001 is available once again: a bunch of Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish music from nearly 300 years ago, and still one of the favourite things I’ve done, for the sheer joyful weirdness of it.
August 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So chuffed that this album from 2001 is available once again: a bunch of Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish music from nearly 300 years ago, and still one of the favourite things I’ve done, for the sheer joyful weirdness of it.
great to see this available again, with a powerful performance of Sergeant Where's Mine, and a truly virtuosic fart routine which the subtitler clearly enjoyed too. The assistant camera back in 1975 was Jan Pester who later gave me my first jobs writing music for TV! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
The long-lost film featuring Billy Connolly’s 1975 Ireland tour captures ‘The Big Yin’ on and off stage, providing a captivating record of the comedy legend on the cusp of international stardom.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
great to see this available again, with a powerful performance of Sergeant Where's Mine, and a truly virtuosic fart routine which the subtitler clearly enjoyed too. The assistant camera back in 1975 was Jan Pester who later gave me my first jobs writing music for TV! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
nice to be reminded tonight of the joy of practising in a Gothic revival chapel on a summer evening
August 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
nice to be reminded tonight of the joy of practising in a Gothic revival chapel on a summer evening
spotted my first PLASTICINE ACTION t-shirt in the wild tonight in the Three Judges ✅
August 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
spotted my first PLASTICINE ACTION t-shirt in the wild tonight in the Three Judges ✅
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From Tom Leonard’s INTIMATE VOICES 1965–1983 (Galloping Dog Press, 1984)
August 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
From Tom Leonard’s INTIMATE VOICES 1965–1983 (Galloping Dog Press, 1984)
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A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.
July 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.
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youtu.be/KidL8T-Wzy8?...
Here's the link.
Saturday 26th July.
One night only.
Chat opens 7.00pm
Performance 7.30pm
#Cardiacs
Here's the link.
Saturday 26th July.
One night only.
Chat opens 7.00pm
Performance 7.30pm
#Cardiacs
CARDIACS - Recorded Live at the TOWN AND COUNTRY CLUB, London. 25 March 1988
YouTube video by abcglobus
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July 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
youtu.be/KidL8T-Wzy8?...
Here's the link.
Saturday 26th July.
One night only.
Chat opens 7.00pm
Performance 7.30pm
#Cardiacs
Here's the link.
Saturday 26th July.
One night only.
Chat opens 7.00pm
Performance 7.30pm
#Cardiacs