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Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
A top night of Cramps-related nonsense at the #luxlives hoolie.
Chapeau doff, as usual, to Colin D'uff and crew for gathering the clans.
These guys ripped it tonight - their Rockabilly version of Bella Lugosi's Dead being an unexpected hight point.

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February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
There's something brewing in Maryhill, a new exhibition about the historic Cafe D'Jaconelli and our Scots/Italian pals.

If you're visiting the Burgh Halls, take time out to visit Jaconelli's - I can vouch for the quality of their coffees, and their 'big breakfast' is to die for...
February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Tomorrow night, I get to groove with these guys.

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HUMAN FLY - GUS 'n' FIN
YouTube video by GUGUG
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February 6, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I don't think I've ever seen a more vivacious double portrait - you are there with them.

Madame Georges Hugo and her son, Jean, by Italian artist Giovanni Boldini, 1898.
February 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Before SAHB, Alex Harvey was playing in the house band for the hippie musical, Hair.

Here he is on guitar, with a young Paul Nicholas and Elaine Paige, outside the Shaftesbury Theatre, with, appropriately, the St Mungo's homeless charity in the background.

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Alex Harvey with - maybe - the cast of 'Hair'
YouTube video by MoriduraAlt
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February 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Born #OTD in 1935, the 'sensational' Alex Harvey.

A beautiful outtake from Ken McGregor's 'Jock 'n' Roll' doc, where Alex lays down the music law to BA Robertson.

'A Fender Telecaster is a better invention than the AK47 - it has more penetration.'

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Alex Harvey Obituary
YouTube video by Ken MacGregor
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February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Peace Frog
YouTube video by The Doors - Topic
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February 5, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Call the Police
YouTube video by Oblivians - Topic
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February 5, 2026 at 1:56 AM
A fucking B-side; Ringo's reverse is magic.

Try playing that...

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The Beatles - Rain
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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February 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
So, I get to see these guys next week.

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HUMAN FLY - GUS 'n' FIN
YouTube video by GUGUG
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February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Not many papers get two films - The Post, and All The President's Men - sad for the staff and readers of #WashingtonPost Sad for good journalism.

Oddly enough, both films at the same black heart of US government.

What do we get, Melania.

#jeffbezos yer an arse, and will be remembered as such.
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
With every news story a fresh nightmare, I watched #DiggingForBritain, and the the beautiful burial of the Iron Age dog nearly made me greet. The fact it had been loved and cared for - even recovering from a serious leg break - gives me hope.

What's the Iron Age for 'Who's a good boy?'
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Boom and bust on Queen Street - old bank Brutalised this corner.

Pic/text: The City That Disappeared: Glasgow's Demolished Architecture by Frank Worsdall (1981)
February 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
I'll miss our occasional jousts.

I've never met a better-read man. He once snorted a fine dram down his tweed jaisket at one of my puns, and bought us both another.

Pretty sure it was he who told me to read Alberto Moravia.

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Allan Massie obituary: Acclaimed novelist, critic and commentator
The writer lived in the Borders and excelled in historical novels which merged the personal and political.
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February 4, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The B-52's - Roam
YouTube video by NottsUK
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February 4, 2026 at 2:53 AM
I was up the back, smoking!

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Natalie Merchant - Hello In There (Live)
YouTube video by Natalie Merchant
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February 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
All I Want
YouTube video by Amy Rigby - Topic
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February 4, 2026 at 12:51 AM