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Alan Burns

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Kilmarnock-born Edinburgher. Pen-pusher by day, even less interesting by night. Here for the funny stuff, music and niche trivia.

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 38m

The Doctor is coming to Fortnite so you can buy jibbitz for your Pastry

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 44m

Doctor time, let's have a Pastry

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 46m

Barkels of rain
Barkels of tears
Got all them barkels comin' out of my ears

Reposted by Alan Burns

Sub Pop Records @subpop.bsky.social · 20h

Available NOW on all digital streams, on gold vinyl via Sub Pop Mega Mart, and on clear vinyl via sunn O)))’s online store and on tour! A widely available edition will be out later in 2025. Take a peek at that limited merch while you’re at it-> music.subpop.com/sunn_o_etern...
📸 Charles Peterson

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

This is so good. Almost feels like the three artists' names should be listed in reverse to what's on the album: dominated by some very tasty percussion and jubilant streaks of Wadada everywhere; *very* understated guitar, Jakob's barely there for much of it. Great exercise in restraint on his part

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Yessss here goes
Four minutes of solo percussion upfront? Why not, sounds ace

CD cover of Murasaki by Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith and Marcus Gilmore [Loveland Music, Oct 2025]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Yup, he's on a tear releasing great stuff at the moment, but with one CD coming to £30 all-in I'm going to have to ration myself

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

George Winston-tastic! Love it

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

This annoys my other half no end - as soon as a good film's finished, I want to see it again pretty soon so I can get more out of it, and it probably is because I do that with albums every day. Whereas she's happy just watching something two or three times a year (if it's good)

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Ahh brilliant, Defiant Life was so good earlier in the year, that's one that's still growing on me

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Yesss happy Murasaki day to all celebrating

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Yessss here goes
Four minutes of solo percussion upfront? Why not, sounds ace

CD cover of Murasaki by Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith and Marcus Gilmore [Loveland Music, Oct 2025]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

The piano continues (this one being the composer's own piano, at his old gaff)

CD cover of Grieg: Lyric Pieces performed by Leif Ove Andsnes on Greig's piano, at the composer's villa, Troldhaugen [EMI Classics, 2002]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Throbbing Gristle Jones

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Piano time, let's have a piano

CD cover of The Melody At Night, With You by Keith Jarrett [ECM 1675]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

The Hood from Thunderbirds in glowing-eyes telepath mode

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Time for this again

CD cover of Echo Canyon by James Newton [Celestial Harmonies, 1984]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Annie Wolf Hall (RIP)

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Now playing, this just sounds better and better the darker the mornings get. Makes me want to have a big banqueting hall with a roaring fire

CD cover of Libro primo by Rolf Lislevand [ECM NS 2848]

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Audiobooks need livened up a bit. Every recording session should feature quantities of Class As sufficient to make 1979 Lindsey Buckingham or 1991 Bobby Gillespie genuinely concerned for the reader's wellbeing

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1d

Mondeo Man, Essex Man, Workington Man, Big Naturals Man

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 2d

And there it goes AGAIN, just for a few seconds but annoyingly long enough that the broadband now needs to reconnect. Is this an Edinburgh-wide thing, someone at work suggested last week's one was

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 2d

Just had our second short-term power cut in as many weeks, and it's definitely not our wiring that's doing it, nothing ever trips on the board, wtf

Alan Partridge saying "The 70s, spacehoppers and er... sweets they don't make any more"

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite Carpenter/Howarth soundtrack ideas, this one: maybe slightly on the nose for a kind of blue collar dystopia, but it just works

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 4d

Bet I still have all those files on a DVD-R or memory stick somewhere, buried under dozens of other sticks and burned discs of impossibly rare pure gold that I've now totally forgotten ever coming across one random weekend in 2009 or something

Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 4d

I remember when this whole thing (every mp3 and every VHS rip) just dropped on somebody's Blogger page one day. Digging into it was like some clandestine artefact from an alternate universe where Chariots Of Fire never existed: except both did coexist in ours, what an incredible guy Vangelis was

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 4d

A chat with @andyzax.bsky.social reminded me of a real late 1990s artifact, Vangelis's "Tegos Tapes," done for a Greek surgeon as background music for training videos because said surgeon figured just him talking would be boring as shit. 8 hours plus of spacelanes drift!

Vangelis - The Tegos Tapes (1998) : Annum Integrum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Tegos Tapes is an interesting example of an obscure and heretofore unreleased Vangelis soundtrack unknown by many of even his most devoted fans.The...