Ross Maclean
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Ross Maclean
@rossmaclean.bsky.social
Freelance film critic and broadcaster, so likes films a fair bit. Appears on BBC Radio Scotland. Member of London Critics’ Circle.
Not a million miles from any of them, to be honest!
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can imagine! Now trying to think what the longest film I’ve done in a cinema is…
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Ross’s Year of Live Music™ or not, I wasn’t going to pass up an opportunity to see Bob Dylan again for a second time since last November. In awe of those arrangements. And this is definitely him in the illicit photos. I promise.
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Another second appearance for Ross’s Year of Live Music™ with a headline show for Getdown Services after loving them at Edinburgh Psych Fest in August. This was a blast.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Couldn’t quite wrap my head around the fact I was watching a gig there. They were great.
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ross’s Year of Live Music™ arrived in London for a first gig at the Royal Albert Hall and a second Wet Leg of 2025 (bizarrely with it not the last either). Tight, punchy set from a band having fun filling that space and who just keep getting better and better.
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I couldn’t not.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Added another today. I swear this one wasn’t intentional.
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
And the Nick Cave solo performance of The Mercy Seat (Idiot Prayer version) sequence might rank up there with my favourite of the year.
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
And (whispering this in front of my angry fellow Jack White fans) Twenty One Pilots doing White Stripes covers.

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Twenty One Pilots - Seven Nation Army | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Cover
YouTube video by The Pilots
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November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
November 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Haim provided Ross’s Year of Live Music™ with a Halloween — or Haim-lloween — spectacular. They put on one of the most purely enjoyable shows I’ve seen all year. Blistering stage presence and now firmly on my roster of bands to see again and again.
November 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Can he be enticed out with Kettle Chips?
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Is it impending? This is exciting. (Not the Kettle Chips)
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM