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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 1h

Good to see Colin get the recognition he deserves:

"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4h

The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …
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A green wall. On it is a piece of another wall, cut out to encompass a mural by Alasdair Gray. On the left, a red semi-heraldic Scottish lion rampant is sitting at a table, using a laptop computer. One foot is under the table grasping a computer mouse (which resembles a real mouse, apart from the cable coming out of its nose and linking it to the laptop). A scroll of paper emerges from the laptop's screen, and the lion is using a quill pen to write on it. The scroll has handwriting on it, saying

words
wards
wurds
Scots
Scottish
Scotch
Scoatch
Caledonian

The scroll rolls out of the top of the laptop screen and across the rest of the wall, becoming a banner reading

SCOTTISH Books

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NPR @npr.org · 8h

Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/3LsPthh

Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert

Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to see that Thom has entered his Bob Dylan era, channeling the spirit of quixotic line deliveries, vocalisations and generally mixing up the medicine on Radiohead's The Bends.
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Radiohead 11/5/25 “The Bends” at Movistar Arena in Madrid,Spain

YouTube video by Gregory M

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 2d

“The amplitude, the riot and hoot…of One Battle After Another make for cineplex joy. It is only once out of the theater that we may sense that this frantic diversion has left its central material essentially unconfronted.” —Jonathan Lethem

Frantic Realism | Jonathan Lethem

Paul Thomas Anderson fits a generation’s worth of cineplex joys into One Battle After Another, but the revolution refuses to get off the couch.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Wings by Paul McCartney review – a brilliant story of post-Beatles revival

A compelling oral history traces the rise one of the most successful bands of the 70s from the ashes of a creative breakup

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 2d

KÖLN 75 looks fun. John Magaro (who is stacking up a pretty amazing filmography) as Keith Jarrett!

Köln 75 International trailer

YouTube video by ScreenFlanders

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

"Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run" is a revealing history of the post-Beatles years and captures the low-budget, zesty spirit of McCartney’s often derided band
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Why you’re wrong about Paul McCartney’s Wings

This revealing history of the post-Beatles years captures the low-budget, zesty spirit of McCartney’s often derided band

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

And if you've never saw Vidz back in the day, do yourself a favour, all of their fantastically anarchic shows are available on youtube!

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The anarchic video rental review show Vids, devised and hosted by Nigel Buckland and Stef Gardiner was a must-watch weekly late-night treat, and first aired in 1998. Almost all* the VIDS here are so...

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

Here is Stef reading from Alasdair Gray's magnificent Lanark a couple of years ago for Gray Day.

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Gray of the Day 73 Stef Gardiner reads from Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’

YouTube video by Alasdair Gray Archive

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

I love it when my obsessions collide in unexpected ways! For example, I was delighted when I discovered that Stef Gardiner one half of the wonderfully irreverent late night 90s Channel 4 film review show, Vidz, also was Alasdair Gray's last assistant!

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

"The Folies Bergère was a notorious pick-up joint where women were treated as commodities to be hired. It was something Manet also wanted us to notice. ...Brice turns the woman-bar-mirror triangulation on its head and recasts the females as sassy barroom Amazons"
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Instead of attacking the old masters, this exciting show has fun with them

Subservient women in Manet, Caravaggio and Degas fight back in Lisa Brice’s paintings

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

Drama on 4: Samhain By Ben Lewis.

Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song, inspired by the myths and rituals surrounding the Pagan festival of Samhain.

Claire and her husband David are staying in a isolated old house on the remote Scottish island of Jura...

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Samhain

By Ben Lewis. Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song.

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
The composer says music in America is flourishing — despite Silicon Valley’s apathy
www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...

John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’

The composer says music in America is flourishing — despite Silicon Valley’s apathy

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 3d

Philip Pullman: “To see this Labour government be so pusillanimous in the face of our enemies — and Trump’s America is an enemy — is awful.”

But what makes him most angry is the “inescapable logic of corporatism”, which puts moneymaking above everything else.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10d

Nobody told me that in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights there’s a frame narrative in which Emily Brontë is played by SINEAD O’CONNOR.

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 4d

Could she still be alive? The incredible disappearance of Licorice McKechnie

The Incredible String Band singer went missing 35 years ago. Now her ex-husband offers his theories on her vanishing
www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/i...

Could she still be alive? The incredible disappearance of Licorice McKechnie

The Incredible String Band singer went missing 35 years ago. Now her ex-husband offers his theories on her vanishing

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 5d

A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 5d

"Then you get Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag pounding the piano like it owes him money, rock & roll leaking from the seams of a folk suit. He was never a purist; he was a raccoon in the pantry of Americana, and he still is."

Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 5d

This review is so great that it should have been part of the box set.

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Open the Window, Hear the Howl: Bob Dylan’s Origin Myth, Remixed, Rewired, and Still Breathing

Through The Open Window: Bootleg Series 18 (A Review The Never Happened)

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

"Here, I don't have to quiet
Here, I don't have to be kind
Extraordinary and normal, all at the same time"

~ Florence + The Machine, Everybody Scream

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Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

"It must be nice
to be born a man
and make borin' music
just because you can"

Hell yeah Florence!
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Florence + The Machine - One of the Greats (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

Good to see Jokerman podcast @jokermen.bsky.social being used as a defence against silly Dylan books.

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matoswk.bsky.social @matoswk.bsky.social · 6d

I always like @raypadgett.bsky.social's interviews with people who've played with Bob Dylan over the years, but his sit-down with Roger McGuinn is revelatory, even as someone who's read plenty about both of them.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/roger-mcgu...

Roger McGuinn Talks 50 Years of Rolling Thunder

Plus The Byrds, Tom Petty, Bobfest, and the rest of his time with Bob Dylan

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iB @iainboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

The Windmill, Brixton: a gig venue thriving amid a wave of closures
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The Windmill, Brixton: a gig venue thriving amid a wave of closures

What makes a modest-looking south London pub the nucleus for one of the most exciting scenes in British indie music?

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