Graeme Thomson
@graemethomson.bsky.social
Critic, feature writer & author: Under The Ivy; Small Hours; Themes For Great Cities &tc. Email: [email protected]; Web: www.graemethomson.net
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Christmas is looming. Books make great gifts. If there is anyone in your life who might enjoy a signed/dedicated copy of one/some/all of these paperbacks (even if that person is you) drop me a line.
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Thanks @graemethomson.bsky.social. Here's the playlist converted to #AmazonMusic, just in case it's useful for anyone else. 👍🎸😎
Check out this playlist on Amazon Music: What Is Life: George Harrison, the People's Playlist
music.amazon.co.uk/user-playlis...
Check out this playlist on Amazon Music: What Is Life: George Harrison, the People's Playlist
music.amazon.co.uk/user-playlis...
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music.amazon.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thanks @graemethomson.bsky.social. Here's the playlist converted to #AmazonMusic, just in case it's useful for anyone else. 👍🎸😎
Check out this playlist on Amazon Music: What Is Life: George Harrison, the People's Playlist
music.amazon.co.uk/user-playlis...
Check out this playlist on Amazon Music: What Is Life: George Harrison, the People's Playlist
music.amazon.co.uk/user-playlis...
24 years ago today George Harrison took another step towards moksha. Earlier this year I compiled a People’s Playlist of his music guided by scores of Bluesky responders. Each song here is somebody’s very favourite George-related track. Three hours, ’63-‘01. Enjoy.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
What Is Life: George Harrison, the People's Playlist
open.spotify.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
24 years ago today George Harrison took another step towards moksha. Earlier this year I compiled a People’s Playlist of his music guided by scores of Bluesky responders. Each song here is somebody’s very favourite George-related track. Three hours, ’63-‘01. Enjoy.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
open.spotify.com/playlist/1xv...
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Every time I glance pass some photo-story about Lily Allen and her former husband, for a brief moment my brain tries to process the idea that she was married to John Grant
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Every time I glance pass some photo-story about Lily Allen and her former husband, for a brief moment my brain tries to process the idea that she was married to John Grant
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I'm listening (again) to Missals now. 'Harrow' has that transcendental meditative 'Small Hours' energy, which is not nothing. It's all so beautiful. Do check it out. robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'm listening (again) to Missals now. 'Harrow' has that transcendental meditative 'Small Hours' energy, which is not nothing. It's all so beautiful. Do check it out. robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
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Why not buy something from your local bookshop today, or order from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - they are offering free shipping all weekend: uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Why not buy something from your local bookshop today, or order from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - they are offering free shipping all weekend: uk.bookshop.org?next=t
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Annual reminder to writers not to miss the end of November deadline to submit 2025 works to ALCS. Money for nothing, folks, the best sort.
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Annual reminder to writers not to miss the end of November deadline to submit 2025 works to ALCS. Money for nothing, folks, the best sort.
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You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River
YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Every time I glance pass some photo-story about Lily Allen and her former husband, for a brief moment my brain tries to process the idea that she was married to John Grant
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Every time I glance pass some photo-story about Lily Allen and her former husband, for a brief moment my brain tries to process the idea that she was married to John Grant
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Axing Scottish Music Programming bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/28/a...
Axing Scottish Music Programming
Stephen McAll, Constant Follower on the catastrophic cuts to BBC Radio Scotland’s Music Programme content. This is a long but important read if you value Scottish music and don’t want to see …
bellacaledonia.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Axing Scottish Music Programming bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/28/a...
You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River
YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Why not buy something from your local bookshop today, or order from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - they are offering free shipping all weekend: uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Why not buy something from your local bookshop today, or order from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - they are offering free shipping all weekend: uk.bookshop.org?next=t
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good morning! today I am releasing Missals https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
Missals, by Robert Dallas Gray
6 track album
robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
good morning! today I am releasing Missals https://robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
I'm listening (again) to Missals now. 'Harrow' has that transcendental meditative 'Small Hours' energy, which is not nothing. It's all so beautiful. Do check it out. robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'm listening (again) to Missals now. 'Harrow' has that transcendental meditative 'Small Hours' energy, which is not nothing. It's all so beautiful. Do check it out. robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/album/missals
She pulled off a similar trick years later with her cover of 'Madame George'
Watching Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth's forthcoming Marianne Faithfull doc, Broken English and I love that they choose this as the first track to represent early Marianne. It's such a perfect cover. Donovan is the observer but MP is completely inside the song. youtu.be/3fp0wo3qA1c?...
Marianne Faithfull - Sunny Goodge Street
YouTube video by I♥MarianneFaithfull
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
She pulled off a similar trick years later with her cover of 'Madame George'
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I rarely miss an opportunity to tell people that the late, great Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets used to call me 'G-Pop'
Hip-hop godfathers the Last Poets: ‘In times of great chaos, there’s opportunity’
Members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color.
#MusiC #MusicSky #HipHop 🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color.
#MusiC #MusicSky #HipHop 🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Hip-hop godfathers the Last Poets: ‘In times of great chaos, there’s opportunity’
Members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I rarely miss an opportunity to tell people that the late, great Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets used to call me 'G-Pop'
I rarely miss an opportunity to tell people that the late, great Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets used to call me 'G-Pop'
Hip-hop godfathers the Last Poets: ‘In times of great chaos, there’s opportunity’
Members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color.
#MusiC #MusicSky #HipHop 🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color.
#MusiC #MusicSky #HipHop 🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Hip-hop godfathers the Last Poets: ‘In times of great chaos, there’s opportunity’
Members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I rarely miss an opportunity to tell people that the late, great Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets used to call me 'G-Pop'
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Weird the things that turn up online. A recording of Roddy Frame playing 'The Wrong Road' at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, a few days after Grant McLennan's death. I was there. It struck me then and now as the perfect song choice. One of the saddest songs ever, I think.
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
Roddy Frame - The Wrong Road (Queens Hall, Edinburgh 12 May 2006)
Roddy Frame's live rendition of ' The Wrong Road' by The Go-Betweens from The Queens Hall in Edinburgh on 12 May 2006. Less than a week previously, the Australian band's Grant McLennan had died sudden
soundcloud.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Weird the things that turn up online. A recording of Roddy Frame playing 'The Wrong Road' at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, a few days after Grant McLennan's death. I was there. It struck me then and now as the perfect song choice. One of the saddest songs ever, I think.
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
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Train journey yesterday and a lie in today meant I got to spend time with these two. A lovely story about friendship, family and staying relevant long after your peers have given up.
Cried once. Smiled a lot.
Great work bringing two reluctant voices to the page. @graemethomson.bsky.social
Cried once. Smiled a lot.
Great work bringing two reluctant voices to the page. @graemethomson.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Train journey yesterday and a lie in today meant I got to spend time with these two. A lovely story about friendship, family and staying relevant long after your peers have given up.
Cried once. Smiled a lot.
Great work bringing two reluctant voices to the page. @graemethomson.bsky.social
Cried once. Smiled a lot.
Great work bringing two reluctant voices to the page. @graemethomson.bsky.social
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Night comes in
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Night comes in
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Travel well, Jimmy Cliff. What a talent. I saw him at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh in the early 2000s. He looked like a king in a red suit and he was still absolute dynamite.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Travel well, Jimmy Cliff. What a talent. I saw him at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh in the early 2000s. He looked like a king in a red suit and he was still absolute dynamite.
Night comes in
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Night comes in
Weird the things that turn up online. A recording of Roddy Frame playing 'The Wrong Road' at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, a few days after Grant McLennan's death. I was there. It struck me then and now as the perfect song choice. One of the saddest songs ever, I think.
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
Roddy Frame - The Wrong Road (Queens Hall, Edinburgh 12 May 2006)
Roddy Frame's live rendition of ' The Wrong Road' by The Go-Betweens from The Queens Hall in Edinburgh on 12 May 2006. Less than a week previously, the Australian band's Grant McLennan had died sudden
soundcloud.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Weird the things that turn up online. A recording of Roddy Frame playing 'The Wrong Road' at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, a few days after Grant McLennan's death. I was there. It struck me then and now as the perfect song choice. One of the saddest songs ever, I think.
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
soundcloud.com/kays-camera/...
Travel well, Jimmy Cliff. What a talent. I saw him at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh in the early 2000s. He looked like a king in a red suit and he was still absolute dynamite.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Travel well, Jimmy Cliff. What a talent. I saw him at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh in the early 2000s. He looked like a king in a red suit and he was still absolute dynamite.