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Sandy Sneddon
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Christian, Husband, Dad, Grandpa, Retired.
Good food & drink, films, music, travel.
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Waiting to get into a gig, the shadows of the crowd on the wall gave me a kind of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari vibe

#Edinburgh
December 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Farage: The House of Lords borders on corruption and needs to go.

Also, Farage: welcome Tory scum from the House of Lords. #ukpolitics
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The fatuous FIFA Peace Prize seemed familiar, now I've got it...
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I love football, but watching the World Cup draw reminds me why I can't stand FIFA.

So cringeworthy
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

I enjoyed this. Ethan Hawke will be up for some acting awards for his portrayal of Lorenz Hart, songwriting partner of Richard Rogers. Blue Moon has Hart dealing with success of Oklahoma! written by Rogers and his new collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3253...
Blue Moon (2025) ⭐ 7.0 | Biography, Comedy, Drama
1h 40m | R
www.imdb.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

Playing this again ahead of seeing Kirsten Adamson live on Saturday.

Dreamviewer is a very good record, it's like she has really found her voice
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

Wednesday evening film, Left-Handed Girl has already picked up several awards.

Its also Taiwan's entry for International Film at the Oscars.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2772...
Left-Handed Girl (2025) ⭐ 7.4 | Drama
1h 48m | R
www.imdb.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by Sandy Sneddon
Britain: where overstating your junior chess playing skills is worse than being accused of tormenting Jewish kids with songs about the gas chambers
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#BookSky 📚 💙

Alan McDougall combines the emotional roller coaster that all fans experience with professional analysis you'd expect from a historian. As well as the highs of the great footballing triumphs, he writes about the tragedies at Heysel and Hillsborough & the enduring life of The Kop.
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

A gripping documentary investigating & challenging, as much as is possible 50 years after the event, the authorship of the iconic Purlitzer Prize winning "Napalm Girl" photograph from the Vietnam War in 1972.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3530...
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) ⭐ 7.4 | Documentary, Biography, History
1h 43m | R
www.imdb.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Sandy Sneddon
“The #BBC in no way represents the… cultural or political life of #Scotland.

“This was a major Scottish news story on Scotland's national day, which they [recorded] then took an editorial decision not to cover in any way at all.“
BBC 'chose not to cover' St Andrews Day service celebrating Saltire
THE BBC has been slammed after "choosing not to cover" a St Andrew’s Day service where politicians and faith leaders united behind the…
www.thenational.scot
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It was a nice winter morning, a bit chilly, but dry and bright, for our walking & foraging group.

#Edinburgh
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#BookSky 💙 📚 and #MusicSky crossover

#NowPlaying is the #Vinyl reissue of Norfolk Coast, The Stranglers 2004 album that relaunched and revitalised the band

I'm also reading Baz Warne's track-by-track description from hos newly published book, No Grass Grows On A Busy Street
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

Hugh Cornwell's 2022 album, Moments of Madness, is really good
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#ScottishFitba

Linlithgow Rose v Queen's Park in the Scottish Cup on BBC Scotland.

Linlithgow's ground is better than QP's new City Stadium!
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The people who campaigned for Brexit should be reminded of this every time they appear in the media. And, no, "But its not the right kind of Brexit" is not the correct answer.
Brexit costing UK as much as £90bn in lost tax revenue every year, analysis finds

The analysis also found that the average Briton has seen a hit to GDP per head of between £2,700 and £3,700

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
Brexit costing UK as much as £90bn in lost tax revenue every year, analysis finds
Brexit is costing the UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenues every year, according to new analysis.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
That's been a busy & productive morning, and it's not even 10.30 yet!

Tickets booked for three gigs next year:
The Stranglers
Squeeze + Billy Bragg
The Proclaimers

Time for a cup of tea after all that.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#FilmSky 🎥

Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn are the twin leads in this. The film starts as an almost Mike Leigh-style study of unremarkable lives unremarkable places, but then there's something just a bit off...

8/10 from us.

www.imdb.com/title/tt3238...
Dragonfly (2025) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Thriller
1h 38m
www.imdb.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#BookSky 💙 📚
#MusicSky

Baz Warne writes about the albums, the gigs, the shenanigans of his 25 years as guitarist, singer and songwriter in The Stranglers, my favourite band.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

I watched Scorsese's adaptation yesterday, today I'm watching Masahiro Shikoda's 1971 adaptation of Silence, with the screenplay cowritten with Shûsaku Endô, author of the novel about persecution of Christians and Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0067...
Chinmoku (1971) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama, History
2h 9m
www.imdb.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#MusicSky
#NowPlaying
#Vinyl

My own wee tribute to Jimmy Cliff after hearing the news today that he has died.

This is a 2018 reissue of the 1972 soundtrack album, The Harder They Come
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#MusicSky

The great Jamaican singer and actor Jimmy Cliff has died. Thank you for the music, Jimmy.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#FilmSky 🎥

We rewatched Silence, Martin Scorsese's masterful 2016 adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel about the persecution of Christians and Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0490...
Silence (2016) ⭐ 7.2 | Drama, History
2h 41m | R
www.imdb.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Drumpellier Loch. I grew up half a mile from here
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM