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Roy Gill

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Writes things, sometimes involving a blue box. Likes books, dogs and vinyl 🏳️‍🌈 https://roygill.wordpress.com

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 20d

Really happy to say I have a new Doctor Who audio adventure in this set, out in December - “Lure of the Zygons”! Mysterious Spaceships and Shapeshifting Monsters! 2 parts/2 hours! I hope you’ll give it a listen…

Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 20d

The Eighth Doctor v Zygons! 📣 Click https://bgfn.sh/8zygons to read all about December's forthcoming adventure. 📣 Paul McGann! 📣 Nicola Walker! 📣 Hattie Morahan! 📣 It's about time!

Sean Longmore's cover artwork for Doctor Who: Empty Vessels, featuring the Eighth Doctor in his Dark Eyes leather jacket ensemble, holding the sonic screwdriver. Behind him is a Zygon, holding a crystal. Either side are Helen (and her doppelganger) in a Zygon ship and Liv in a spacecraft corridor.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 14h

NEW #DoctorWho postcard pack on sale next week. 15 Doctors, 15 debut stories. Artwork based on #DavidPelham’s #PenguinBook covers from the 1970s. Here are the first four —

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Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 12h

OTD 1989: Liza Minnelli – Results
Thanks to lovely Roy for alerting me to one that wasn’t on my calendar (it is now)
Now listening as I walk along!
Losing My Mind extraordinary
The best take on Twizt in my Zobriety
I Want You Now powerhouse opening
Don’t Drop Bombs is (So Sorry, I Said) a banger

Liza Minnelli – Results cover: Liza in black and white surging through the mist. It was the ’80s.

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 15h

Mine should be coming today...

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 15h

They'd sold out before I'd even clicked 'add to basket' 😢

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 15h

...introduced a generation of baby gays to Sondheim...

(Just me?)

David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 17h

Fantastic, bizarre album. Cover of 'Twist in My Sobriety' with hip hop beats & rapped 'It's Liza with a "Z" not Lisa with an "S"' bit; Shakespeare sonnets recited over trancey beats; gorgeous orchestral versions of 'Rent' & 'Tonight is Forever'

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 1d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Link: monorailmusic.com/events/

Events | Monorail Music

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a small Scottish chain of record stores called Assai that do in-store gigs. (They also do album launch events at nearby venues - I was at one tonight!) There’s also the excellent Monorail in Glasgow that is a record shop/pub/cafe/venue combined. I can imagine that might work well?

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

A house that can fit 40-50 people is a bit of an ask, Melvin! 😂 But there’s lots of good small venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling etc if she’s coming to Scotland…!

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

They just need to add a vortex and an angry aspidistra (Meglos?). That’ll solve everything

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Check your DMs.

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no!!!! 😟

I got a code sent to me yesterday as a result of pre-ordering her album from her website the day before…

There was no mailing list announcement though, I just happened to go to her website when I saw posts about a tour

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

I generally enjoy them, mainly for The Adventure Game vibes. It must be said though, seeing the exact same puzzles play out in each instalment is less appealing and a tighter edit wouldn’t hurt either…

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

Why thank you! Allow me to return the courtesy!

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

***ears wag****
Your silliness is noted!

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 1d

3rd September 2005

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

2nd Japanese Paperback | Kawade Bunko

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

I felt Ocean to Ocean was such a return to form and I suspect her current political concerns will give this new album a lot of bite and drive… Felt I had to go, really!

Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

He’s a Very Good Boy!

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🎃 Andy Lambert 🎃 @and-e-roo.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 48th Birthday to the world's greatest robot dog, K-9..! 🥳 🎂

Myself kneeling next to K-9, at a friend's flat back in 2004.

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Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social · 1d

I gritted my teeth and paid for stalls. I haven’t been able to go to her last few tours for various reasons so I felt I could justify the extra (to myself)

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CSbungo @csbungo.bsky.social · 1d

Helpfully I explained to some pointing tourists that Glaswegians had much longer legs back in the day

Mackintosh house up at Glasgow Uni. The front door is several feet off the ground with access being via the adjoining Hunterian

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

And one of the industries which, relying entirely on freelance workers, but requiring public audience spaces, was fucked over completely by the pandemic, without mercy or assistance, but survived, on its knees so it can now get another kick in the teeth from these soulless twats.

Corey Brotherson - ready for my close up--NOOO TOO CLOSE! @coreybrotherson.bsky.social · 1d

Hey kids!

Remember when the pandemic struck and eventually the (Tory) government told everyone to stay at home, and the arts and entertainment industries were one of the few things keeping everyone from pulling our own eyes out of our skulls from abject fear and boredom?

Remember that?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

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HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 1d

3rd September 2005

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

2nd Japanese Paperback | Kawade Bunko

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