Ali Wilson
@drumslinger.bsky.social
Drummer. Songwriter. Band leader.
Mainly music. Vinyl lover.
Occasionally working in film and TV.
Scottish Borders & Edinburgh.
Mainly music. Vinyl lover.
Occasionally working in film and TV.
Scottish Borders & Edinburgh.
Whirlwind shopping trip to Edinburgh’s excellent Thorne Records to spend my “Secret Santa” voucher. A cracking selection at entirely reasonable prices. Thanks Mark! Thanks also to whoever my SS was. Can’t be certain but I’m fairly sure a local Pantomime Villain was lurking close to this one! 🎼😎🎼
January 19, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Whirlwind shopping trip to Edinburgh’s excellent Thorne Records to spend my “Secret Santa” voucher. A cracking selection at entirely reasonable prices. Thanks Mark! Thanks also to whoever my SS was. Can’t be certain but I’m fairly sure a local Pantomime Villain was lurking close to this one! 🎼😎🎼
There are a hundred or more wedding bands claiming online to be *Scotland’s Number One Wedding Band*. This simply can’t be true. I’ve a good mind to call Trading Standards.
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 AM
There are a hundred or more wedding bands claiming online to be *Scotland’s Number One Wedding Band*. This simply can’t be true. I’ve a good mind to call Trading Standards.
Thanks to Scottish Borders Council for sending the gritter round to spread…sorry…lay…a stripe of grit on our street. Not sure how effective this will be. Perhaps the Grit Fairy will come and spread it more effectively. Or maybe I’ll just grab a brush and try to do it myself….
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Thanks to Scottish Borders Council for sending the gritter round to spread…sorry…lay…a stripe of grit on our street. Not sure how effective this will be. Perhaps the Grit Fairy will come and spread it more effectively. Or maybe I’ll just grab a brush and try to do it myself….
Sifting through my music storeroom and found *five cowbells*! I don’t ever recall buying a cowbell. Possibly once when I was a kid back in 1976 to play “Alright Now” with my first band but never two nor indeed five. But here they are!
#LessCowbell
#LessCowbell
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Sifting through my music storeroom and found *five cowbells*! I don’t ever recall buying a cowbell. Possibly once when I was a kid back in 1976 to play “Alright Now” with my first band but never two nor indeed five. But here they are!
#LessCowbell
#LessCowbell
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Go on…dive in! #MusicSky
Please check out our YouTube channel to watch our music videos right here: youtube.com/@thelegendaryh…#newmusici#indiemusici#rocknrolll#scotlandn#MusicSkyky
https://youtube.com/@thelegendaryh…
January 16, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Go on…dive in! #MusicSky
Woodpecker! Took his time arriving today but there he is!
#PeckerCam
#PeckerCam
January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Woodpecker! Took his time arriving today but there he is!
#PeckerCam
#PeckerCam
Now playing. Find Yourself (Don’t Fight The Feeling) by @thelegendaryhearts.bsky.social. #MusicSky
open.spotify.com/track/5HFkmt...
open.spotify.com/track/5HFkmt...
Find Yourself (Don't Fight The Feeling)
open.spotify.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Now playing. Find Yourself (Don’t Fight The Feeling) by @thelegendaryhearts.bsky.social. #MusicSky
open.spotify.com/track/5HFkmt...
open.spotify.com/track/5HFkmt...
Actual Woodpecker on the Pecker Cam. Fuzzy zoom I know but it’s definitely a pecker!
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Actual Woodpecker on the Pecker Cam. Fuzzy zoom I know but it’s definitely a pecker!
This tune got a proper release today and is now available to stream, download etc from all the usual places.
Dive in!
Dive in!
Our track “Find Yourself (Don’t Fight The Feeling)” which was previously only available via Bandcamp is now on general release. It’s on most streaming and download platforms from today and on YouTube right here: youtu.be/CHuZOgHY63Q?...
We’d be delighted if you’d give it a listen. 🎼👍🎼
We’d be delighted if you’d give it a listen. 🎼👍🎼
Find Yourself (Don't Fight The Feeling)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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January 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
This tune got a proper release today and is now available to stream, download etc from all the usual places.
Dive in!
Dive in!
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and the band or artist…
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and the band or artist…
Got a jar of this for Christmas. Been looking forward to trying it. Opened it today and it’s feckin’ awful. A total waste of decent honey. Not sure whose idea it was to combine truffles with honey but they need to have a word with themselves. I’ve decided to store it…in the bin.
January 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Got a jar of this for Christmas. Been looking forward to trying it. Opened it today and it’s feckin’ awful. A total waste of decent honey. Not sure whose idea it was to combine truffles with honey but they need to have a word with themselves. I’ve decided to store it…in the bin.
Spent a couple of hours setting up a “Pecker Cam” so we can watch the birds in our garden. First location was too far away so relocated the cam. This is as close as I can get. Waiting for the Greater Spotted Woodpecker to arrive. He’s magnificent! Meantime it’s just a few tits…
January 8, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Spent a couple of hours setting up a “Pecker Cam” so we can watch the birds in our garden. First location was too far away so relocated the cam. This is as close as I can get. Waiting for the Greater Spotted Woodpecker to arrive. He’s magnificent! Meantime it’s just a few tits…
Almost 37 years late to the party but I’m loving this Discogs find. A promo copy of Paul Haig’s “Chain” LP with relevant A4 press blurb. It’s an excellent record and no mistake.
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Almost 37 years late to the party but I’m loving this Discogs find. A promo copy of Paul Haig’s “Chain” LP with relevant A4 press blurb. It’s an excellent record and no mistake.
Happy New Year Bluesky chums!
It’s 4am and I’m winding down after my Hogmanay gig.
Bed time now, but no rest for the wicked as I’m playing another gig in a mere 8 hours. No (proper) sleep until Friday.
All the glitz and glamour of rock’n’roll is right here…after a nice cup of tea!
Slainte! 🎼❤️🎼
It’s 4am and I’m winding down after my Hogmanay gig.
Bed time now, but no rest for the wicked as I’m playing another gig in a mere 8 hours. No (proper) sleep until Friday.
All the glitz and glamour of rock’n’roll is right here…after a nice cup of tea!
Slainte! 🎼❤️🎼
January 1, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Happy New Year Bluesky chums!
It’s 4am and I’m winding down after my Hogmanay gig.
Bed time now, but no rest for the wicked as I’m playing another gig in a mere 8 hours. No (proper) sleep until Friday.
All the glitz and glamour of rock’n’roll is right here…after a nice cup of tea!
Slainte! 🎼❤️🎼
It’s 4am and I’m winding down after my Hogmanay gig.
Bed time now, but no rest for the wicked as I’m playing another gig in a mere 8 hours. No (proper) sleep until Friday.
All the glitz and glamour of rock’n’roll is right here…after a nice cup of tea!
Slainte! 🎼❤️🎼
For anyone wishing to bridge the flat spot between Christmas and New Year with some excellent live music, the RAB HOWAT BAND ANNUAL PARTY is happening next Tuesday, 30th December, at Bannermans Bar, Cowgate, Edinburgh from 8pm.
Featuring special guests. Free entry!
All welcome. Come on down! 🎼👍🎼
Featuring special guests. Free entry!
All welcome. Come on down! 🎼👍🎼
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
For anyone wishing to bridge the flat spot between Christmas and New Year with some excellent live music, the RAB HOWAT BAND ANNUAL PARTY is happening next Tuesday, 30th December, at Bannermans Bar, Cowgate, Edinburgh from 8pm.
Featuring special guests. Free entry!
All welcome. Come on down! 🎼👍🎼
Featuring special guests. Free entry!
All welcome. Come on down! 🎼👍🎼
“Lingerie. Remember lingerie?” - Bruce Spence as the Gyro Captain in “MAD MAX 2”.
“And you may ask yourself. Well, how did I get here?” - Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime.”
Unplanned trip to local traditional woman’s outfitters. 😳
“And you may ask yourself. Well, how did I get here?” - Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime.”
Unplanned trip to local traditional woman’s outfitters. 😳
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“Lingerie. Remember lingerie?” - Bruce Spence as the Gyro Captain in “MAD MAX 2”.
“And you may ask yourself. Well, how did I get here?” - Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime.”
Unplanned trip to local traditional woman’s outfitters. 😳
“And you may ask yourself. Well, how did I get here?” - Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime.”
Unplanned trip to local traditional woman’s outfitters. 😳
“Feed the birds. Tuppence a bag!” as they sang in Mary Poppins. Now I know that was some time ago but I’ve decided recently to regularly feed the birds in my garden and it’s now bloody fourteen hundred and ninety nine pence a bag! Reduced from nineteen hundred pence a bag. Nuts!
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“Feed the birds. Tuppence a bag!” as they sang in Mary Poppins. Now I know that was some time ago but I’ve decided recently to regularly feed the birds in my garden and it’s now bloody fourteen hundred and ninety nine pence a bag! Reduced from nineteen hundred pence a bag. Nuts!
This is just brilliant. Brought a tear to my eye and also some happy memories of visiting the Sheriffmuir Inn a few times when I lived and worked in Hercules’s neck of the woods in the early 1980s.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Hercules the Bear - A Love Story
The remarkable true story of the world’s most famous grizzly bear and the Scottish couple who raised him as their own.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is just brilliant. Brought a tear to my eye and also some happy memories of visiting the Sheriffmuir Inn a few times when I lived and worked in Hercules’s neck of the woods in the early 1980s.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A favourable review!
Thanks to @freshonthenetblog.bsky.social for this great review of our future Christmas classic song “Cold Christmas”. Available now on 7” single from Bandcamp and record shops. Also on download and streaming in all the usual places. Music video is on YouTube.
#christmassong #newmusic #christmas2025
#christmassong #newmusic #christmas2025
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A favourable review!
Found this in the attic at the bottom of a box. “Mary Of The 4th Form” by The Boomtown Rats, signed by the band in May 1978 at Bruce’s on Edinburgh’s Rose Street. I was never a big fan but I remember the 15 year old me being quite excited at the time.
I thought I’d lost this during a move in 2010.
I thought I’d lost this during a move in 2010.
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Found this in the attic at the bottom of a box. “Mary Of The 4th Form” by The Boomtown Rats, signed by the band in May 1978 at Bruce’s on Edinburgh’s Rose Street. I was never a big fan but I remember the 15 year old me being quite excited at the time.
I thought I’d lost this during a move in 2010.
I thought I’d lost this during a move in 2010.
A very brief trip to Glasgow. Wet, but not nearly as wet and windy as the weather forecasters predicted. Parking prices almost as bad as central Edinburgh. £14.40 for 2 hours. I may come back in the summer. Warmth and dryness make all the difference. #LetGlasgowFlourish
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A very brief trip to Glasgow. Wet, but not nearly as wet and windy as the weather forecasters predicted. Parking prices almost as bad as central Edinburgh. £14.40 for 2 hours. I may come back in the summer. Warmth and dryness make all the difference. #LetGlasgowFlourish
Yesterday’s vinyl delivery. The brilliant @hamishhawk.bsky.social channels his inner, and indeed outer, Ivor Cutler with this limited edition pressing. A studio recording of his “Life In A Scotch Sitting Room, Volume 0.” Edinburgh Book Festival stage show celebrating things Cutler-esque.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Yesterday’s vinyl delivery. The brilliant @hamishhawk.bsky.social channels his inner, and indeed outer, Ivor Cutler with this limited edition pressing. A studio recording of his “Life In A Scotch Sitting Room, Volume 0.” Edinburgh Book Festival stage show celebrating things Cutler-esque.
So, this is Saturday night TV viewing in 2025. Brutal…however the subject of this particular round is at least of some interest to me…
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
So, this is Saturday night TV viewing in 2025. Brutal…however the subject of this particular round is at least of some interest to me…
Was thinking about upgrading my Hi-Fi speakers and was lucky enough to discover these guys…and there’s a sale on! 😳😳😳😳😳😳
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Was thinking about upgrading my Hi-Fi speakers and was lucky enough to discover these guys…and there’s a sale on! 😳😳😳😳😳😳