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Film director: Big Gold Dream, Teenage Superstars, Far From the Apple Tree. Book writer- Hungry Beat @WhiteRabbitBks , Postcards From Scotland @omnibuspress

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A fortnight late but very happy to see the BFI put together a list of 35 Great British Horror films and one of mine made the list. Far From the Apple Tree alongside Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, Peeping Tom, Witchfinder General and The Innocents. Happy

Film list: Great British Horror Films

BFI Facilities Coordinator Rhys White has kicked off spooky season with a list of his favourite British horror films! How many have you seen? What else would you add?

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RIP #JamieReid . It takes an extraordinary talent to be able to immediately convey an entire genre of music in a single image, or maybe the music and attitude was the sound of his visuals. Regardless, rarely has art and music worked so perfectly together and inspired so much.

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The Killing Moon. I was even less prepared for this than The Cutter anniversary. No time to put anything together but here's Will demonstrating the autoharp and talking a little bit about the song. #Bunnymen #TheKillingMoon

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Tonight. A rite of passage for music fans. Like The Doors,it's the greatest album as a teenager, then it feels over rated,then you pretend it's overrated but listening without any context it really is one of the greats and with context even better,a genuine statement of intent...

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Depressing reading. "Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society. Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s"

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Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society

Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s

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What amazes me most about photos of Stuart Sutcliffe is that he looks like he came from about 25 years in the future. Even The Beatles looked and dressed about 10 years older on their first few albums while The Searchers looked like they were in their 40s. Proto Indie in 62

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I've been ambivalent, at best about Xmas but now enjoy it when the family enjoy it. Today we went to a pop-up event billed as a 'Winter Wonderland' and a chance to make a 'magical memory'. The 'Santa Train' consisted of a handless shop dummy in a farm grain shed.There were tears

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Quite rightly, Peel receives praise for introducing underground music to mainstream audiences but The Chart Show, I reckon did a good job of introducing 12 year olds to Psychic TV, Swans, C86, Metal, Hip-Hop, Acid-House etc on a Saturday morning on ITV.

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The Chart Show - Indie Chart (9th October 1987)

includesSugarcubes - BirthdayPop Will Eat Itself - Beaver patrol

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Took a punt on a record from a French retro shop because it came with a Françoise Hardy playing card that looked signed, and indeed it was...

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This should be interesting. A reel to reel video tape, unseen since 1978 with a box that's labelled 'Big in Japan'

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Despite being one of the most repeated rock myths, The Velvet Underground were actually quite popular in the 60s. Obviously we're not talking Beatles or Stones levels but they certainly had a level of success that brought them into the mainstream. I thought I'd take a look...

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Teenage Superstars will have its TV Premiere on Sky Arts - 23rd January at 21:00. Freeview Channel 11 - Set your video recorders. @HifiSean @DuglasTStewart @eugenekelly @GriffinWendy @aaslaven64 @IntrygaFilms @seannguthrie @iancolour @brianjaffa @petepaphides @ScotsPostPunk

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The shared roots of The Bunnymen, Teardrops and Wild Swans and Eric's Club. Featuring Paul Simpson, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson, Mick Finkler, Deaf School's Steve Allen and Ken Testi. The full story is told over two Revolutionary Spirit films.

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The Kinks invented 'Indie Music'...? While much was made of The Kinks influence over Brit-Pop in the 1990s, I want to make a case for them being the most important band in the evolution of what has now come to be regarded as 'Indie Music' …

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Best Tim's Listening Party yet - Bandwagonesque Here's Kurt Cobain, Eugene Kelly and Norman Blake Photo Stephen Sweet #TimsTwitterListeningParty #teenagefanclub #bandwagonesque

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Sunday eve listening is the first Françoise Hardy album. 61 years old and still stands up well. Pretty remarkable achievement - almost entirely self composed at the time Dylan's debut was nearly all covers, before The Beatles had even released an album and all done at 18.

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I've got a book out. Vol. 1 of 2 covering Scotland's Independent music scene. Part 2 covers Glasgow's 90's bands and this one covers Shop Assistants, BMX Bandits, Soup Dragons, Jesse Garon, FiniTribe, Vaselines, TFC + A LOT more 1000 pages over two volumes

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Echo and the Bunnymen's first TV appearance, 1979. @Will_Fuzz @Bunnymen

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Evening listen. Velvet Underground : VU and Another View. I got these around 92 so they were just part and parcel of the canon albums but it must have been a hugely pleasant shock for fans when they came out in 85/6. Maybe the greatest unreleased music to see the light of day?

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RIP The SUPER cool Diana Rigg #dianarigg

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A cancelled week of work has led to writing a new book, one that had been on the back burner for a while. 100 pages into the oral history of Scottish Independent Music 1983-2003. Revisiting hours of old and unused interviews and shortly prepping for hours of new ones.

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It paid off! It was accepted. And a separate new CD box covering the same period. Musicians, expect some (very) frantic emails from me soon. Apologies in advance.

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A cancelled week of work has led to writing a new book, one that had been on the back burner for a while. 100 pages into the oral history of Scottish Independent Music 1983-2003. Revisiting hours of old and unused interviews and shortly prepping for hours of new ones.

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Eddie Cochran is rightly regarded as one of the absolute pioneers of Rock and Roll. His influence on music is immense, as is his influence on fashion – see attached photo for a blueprint of the 80s PopStar. Less widely celebrated are the equally huge talents of Sharon Sheeley

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Morning listening. Hats off to Neil Young. Not a greatest hits or 'best' but a remarkably eccentric mix of hits, b-sides and unreleased that ended up becoming his official introduction for 25+ years. With the detailed sleevenotes they make this the blueprint for all boxsets after

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Happy birthday to Rob Gretton. Often overlooked in favour of the flamboyant Tony Wilson, he was equally important in the story of Manchester music. Factory and Hacienda partner and manager of JD and NO. He brought a sense of uncompromising integrity to it all. Pic: Anton Corbijn

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I don't particularly like anything by The Who after 1968 but I love their 66-67 era very much. For me they went from creating a series of fiery 3 minute stabs of angsty, feral, fun. Pure pop energy, full of innovation and clever lyrics to lumpen confused, bloated pretentious rawk

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The Clash's White Riot Tour arrived in Liverpool on the 5th May 1977 and changed the city's musical landscape. Two days later it arrived in Edinburgh and did exactly the same. This Big Gold Dream excerpt explains how... #TheClash #SubwaySect #TheSlits

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Nico, unpublished set by Simon Bedford. London, 1974. Shot on Ektachrome.

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Devastated at the news of Alan Rankine. Thoughts with his family and friends. He was incredibly kind and generous to me. One of the most genuinely talented musicians from any era, and humble. An absolute pleasure to sit in front of him for these videos.😭

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Alan Rankine on how The Associates made Club Country

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Saw this for the 1st time in almost 40 years. I sometimes thought I'd dreamed it and could never track it down due to the half formed childhood memories. Seems like this was the same for many people. Daft Punk-esque disco Baroque classical space robots

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Rondò Veneziano - La Serenissima

Apparently ITV used to show this excellent music vid to fill schedule gaps in the early 1980s. It's La Serenissima by Rondò Veneziano, an Italian chamber orc...

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The Shop Assistants are one of Scotland's most important bands and David Keegan was Edinburgh's Stephen Pastel. Here's a VERY early rough cut of a film (and soon to be book) on how they and Rote Kapelle formed the genesis of Edinburgh's 80s Indie scene.

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Fast Forward Early Rough Cut with Guide Voice Over

Fast Forward Early Rough Cut with Guide Voice Over from our editorUnfinished sequel to Big Gold Dream covering Shop Assistants, Rote Kapelle, Jesse Garon, ...

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That'll Be the Day was released 50 years ago today. It's a great film but strange to have a period film set only 15 years earlier but look so long ago, relatively. That'd be like making a film about 2008 now when not much has really changed

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Crocodiles by Echo and the Bunnymen is 43 years old today. I interviewed Brian Griffin - possibly the greatest of all music photographers - who took the iconic front cover. While it is a classic it however didn't go to Brian's original plan. @bunnymen @lespattinson1 @Will_Fuzz

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Revolutionary Folk From Scotland. The original sequel to Big Gold Dream was an attempt to dispel a myth: that rather than being beardy light entertainment,Scotland's folk-music was actually an important and radical part of the foundations of late 60s UK/US counter-culture music.>

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This popped up on my Facebook memories from nearly ten years ago. I was alone on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides when this little guy just popped out of the water and flapped up to me, rolled around at my feet for a bit then flopped back into the sea. Lovely experience.

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Yellow Submarine is usually dismissed as spoiling or being misplaced on The Beatles Revolver album. Here's 5 reasons why I think it's great, important and has a perfect place on my album favourite record by them.

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'Shot by Both Sides' by Magazine was released on this day in 1978. It and Lipstick by Buzzcocks were both based on the same Pete Shelley Riff. What other examples are there of splinter groups basing a new song on an earlier one by the mothership band?

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Buzzcocks - Lipstick (Official Video)

Buzzcocks - "Lipstick", from Singles Going Steady, remastered and re-released by Domino Record Co.Subscribe to Domino Record Co on YouTube: http://smarturl.i...

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Outside of local radio, Marc Riley has got to be the hugest promotor of Scottish music to the UK. Him and Gideon are good guys and if you don't sign this a huge platform is going to be massively damaged by the madmen in charge. Please sign and share...

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Sign the Petition

Reinstate Marc Riley & Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Music shows

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A run of 5 very fine albums... #TheVelvetUnderground #Nico #LouReed #JohnCale #DontForgetDougYule

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Some of my thoughts on the kindness and encouragement given by Alan Rankine to strangers.

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Released 57 years ago today. Waterloo Sunset. On some days it's thee most perfect and beautiful song of the 60's (on other days that's Strawberry fields) but on most days it's the most perfect song of any time. Will always be the most Swinging London 7"

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The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

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The Revolutionary Spirit. Jem Kelly from The Wild Swans runs us through his guitar parts for the song which inspired and gave its title to a book, a film, a CD boxset, a magazine article and essentially sums up one of the great music scenes.

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Some thoughts from Bill Drummond on seeing Dr. Feelgood at Liverpool Stadium and Wilko's importance to punk music.

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The Velvet Underground were reasonably popular in the 60's. Since I put this together a couple of years ago it occasionally pops up in strange places. Mostly recently in somebody's PhD. It's due an upgrade soon after a few extra sources have come to light.

The Velvet Underground Myth? - Grant McPhee

One of the most repeated rock myths is that The Velvet Underground only sold a miniscule amount of records during their brief existence and that it took until many years later for them to find their...

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Our updated The Revolutionary Spirit poster. Zoo, Inevitable, Eric's, Probe, Leylines and Liverpool Post-Punk. From Iceland to Mathew Street and beyond...

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Rewatched South Bank Show Velvet Underground from 86. Other than the sight of Cale looking wasted it must have been a revelation alongside VU/Another VU:' The Ostrich' and certainly archive never shown on TV before. Undoubtedly bands formed from this ep

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Velvet Underground documentary - The South Bank Show 1986

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One of the big guns for tonight. Still fresh, exciting and just...immaculate. And don't believe anyone who trashes Adventure. Another excellent album that could never possibly compete. Tom Verlaine's 1st solo album is super too, I think anyway. #MarqueeMoon #Television

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Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester having a little dance during the production of Bride of Frankenstein #Frankenstein #jameswhale #boriskarloff #ElsaLanchester #maryshelley #BrideofFrankenstein

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The Pool of Life poster

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Today is the 40th anniversary of Echo and the Bunnymen's The Cutter. I put together a 2 part account of the making of the single and its video. It's a bit rushed as I thought the anniversary was this Monday! #Bunnymen @Bunnymen

Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter 40th Anniversary Parts 1 and 2

Part 1 – The Recording This is an extract from the forthcoming feature-film on Liverpool’s Post-Punk scene, The Revolutionary Spirit. It’s the dawning of 1983. Two bands are stand…

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Afternoon listening: Gilded Palace of Sin. A gateway for me. 'Indie' music of the day, Velvets and Doors was as far as my tastes could reach in early 90s. Country music to me was Jim Reeves and Sydney Devine and sold at indoor markets. This opened up a whole new world, thankfully

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Guide to making a social history documentary on UK pop culture? Rule 1 - no matter the subject, incorporate one or more of these images.

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Been listening to a lot of early 90s UK and Irish 'Indie'. That period must be one of the least written about or documented eras in music. Shame as there's a lot of great stuff that feels like it's been forgotten. Might have to write a book

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Hard to believe that before mobile phones not every gig was on YouTube 2 hours later. Bill Butt said 'there's nothing that's not been seen before' but I had a funny feeling about that old film roll and had it digitised and cleaned up. There was The Wild Swans Mk1, unseen since 81

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Very sad that Martin Phillips has left us. What a wonderful songwriter, one of my very favourites and a huge part of the indie-pop with The Chills in its alternative Antipodean evolution. The Triumph and Tragedy film shows he led a fascinating life. RIP

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Kaleidoscope World - The Chills

Very first Chills video clip from 1982. This song featured on Flying Nun's Dunedin Double EP.

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I don't think this clip of a very early Teenage Fanclub performing Everything Flows has been seen before. Tune in to the #teenagesuperstarsfilm watch party at 6pm for more Live chat with @DuglasTStewart and Sean Dickson. Hosted by @deesada1 Streaming at

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Evening listening. Doors 1st. Loved them since a teenager but for around 10 years I never listened to them. Think I thought they were a bit 'Rockist' but I was wrong. Immense band. Everything is here- building blocks of so much, great songs, arrangements, production, performance

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Not a good day. RIP #RobbieRobertson . My introduction to The Band, probably like many folk too was The Weight in Easy Rider. Another perfect match of music and visuals. Americana born here. And still sounds like 'fanny' to anyone from Scotland

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The Band The Weight (Easy Rider, 1969) (Restored)

Watch In 1440PLyrics:I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past deadI just need some place where I can lay my headHey, mister, can you tell me, wher...

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"Police were called...[Scott Walker] sang the same song twice". From mid 1969. Surely there's more to this story...

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Please Please Me by the popular Beat-Combo, The Beatles was released 60 years ago, on the 22nd March. A lot has happened over those 60 years but an awful lot happened to pop culture during their short time together and it all can be related to this release...

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A year ago today we had our Teenage Superstars premiere on Sky. Who woulda thunk our tiny made-in-a-front-room film would be featured in all these papers and more (M*ail, T*legraph etc)! Wild! Thanks a million for your wonderful support and of course the music and musicians.x

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Teenage Superstars will have its TV Premiere on Sky Arts - 23rd January at 21:00. Freeview Channel 11 - Set your video recorders. @HifiSean @DuglasTStewart @eugenekelly @GriffinWendy @aaslaven64 @IntrygaFilms @seannguthrie @iancolour @brianjaffa @petepaphides @ScotsPostPunk

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Another great photo of Norman Blake with pop star childhood friends @DuglasTStewart from BMX Bandits @HifiSean from Soup Dragons and Frances McKee from The Vaselines photo Kim Mcghlaughlan #TimsTwitterListeningParty #bandwagonesque #teenagefanclub

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Early eve listening: Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Still amazes me how wonderfully creative and unusual a songwriter Syd Barrett was.I love both sides of psychedelia shown here, the still unsurpassed reflections on childhood innocence and the full on freeform deconstructions of pop

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Delighted and excited that this is coming out on the very excellent White Rabbit Books. Huge thanks to everyone involved, especially Lee, Neil, Angela, Innes, Erik and the truly amazing work of Douglas Mac who pulled a blinder on it. #FastProduct #PostcardRecords

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Announcing HUNGRY BEAT by Douglas MacIntyre & Grant McPhee, the definitive oral history of Scottish postpunk and two labels that changed the landscape of British music: Postcard & Fast Product Available as a record store special edition with exclusive 7"

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RIP Gordon Lightfoot, best known around the world for If You Could Read Your Mind. But in my mind he's best known for writing Nico's 1965 first single on Immediate Records. #GordonLightfoot #Nico

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I'm not sayin' by Gordon Lightfoot

I'm not sayin' from the album Lightfoot!, Please rate and comment.

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Afternoon listening. Forever Changes. My most listened to LP, wearing out many copies. Discovered this via a Damned cover of Alone Again Or. That involved a 2 hour bus trip and backtracking 'Bryan MacLean' via the Virgin Store orders then searching 2nd stores. Hurrah for internet

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Big Star, or more accurately arguing about who was the first person to listen to them seemed to take up much of an 80's indie musicians time.I thought I'd create a press timeline to see who got there first. It wasn't Bobby Gillespie

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Part Two: Big Star - Give Me Another Chance

Alex Chilton Take 3 Early 1977 would finally see the release of the second batch of Alex’s 1975 recordings and the timing would be perfect for introducing Big Star to a new audience. This is certai...

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Scotland is not known for its contributions to 1960s psychedelic rock.Other than the folkier off-shoots (which there is an abundance of quality) there was never any Piper or Sgt Pepper. But there are some fantastic psych singles to find so I thought I'd put together a selection>

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Thanks Liverpool for a wonderful week of kindness on The Revolutionary Spirits film An amazing afternoon with Will Sergeant, an evening with Paul Simpson, a morning in David 'Yorkie' Palmer's basement and a night sifting through top secret footage with Bill Butt. London next week

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Delighted is an understatement to have Teenage Superstars included in Rolling Stone's essential British music docs. Thanks Lauren O'Neill. @DuglasTStewart @HifiSean @RealifersRoss @eugenekelly @angela_slaven @GriffinWendy @joemcalinden @TheSandbergs

The essential British music documentaries you need to watch

From The Beatles and Britpop to beats, bass and Bros: the story of modern UK music in ten indispensable films

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41 years ago today Echo and the Bunnymen released The Cutter. Here's Dave Balfe and Bill Drummond discussing its importance. And on the next Tweet, Les, Will, Brian Griffin and Bill Butt tell the story of the video and record artwork.

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Very sad news about Denny Laine. A hugely talented singer, musician and songwriter. A UK No.1 with Moody Blues, founding Wings and this, one of his greats, as sung by Colin Blunstone is a pretty huge legacy by any means. RiP

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Colin Blunstone - Say You Dont Mind

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Happy birthday Marianne Faithfull. Lazily referred to as 'Mick Jagger's girlfriend' she's in reality one of the huge cultural architects of the last 60 years.People joke abut Keith but she's the real survivor. One of her finest moments, her collaboration with Derek Jarman in 1979

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I saw the repeats when they aired again in 1986 and I was 10.The first band I loved.I had no idea they were from the 60s but naively and optimistically believed that when they said 'we'll maybe be comin' to your town) they'd somehow appear in a small fife village. They didn't

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Happy Birthday to The Monkees tv show. 1st aired this day in 1966. Based loosely on The Beatles early image,the series follows the adventures of 4 young men trying to make it as a rock 'n roll band. The show introduced a number of innovative new wave film techniques #TheMonkees

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This lovely anecdote sums up everything that was great about The Shop Assistants. Great songs, caring and sharing attitude and with just a little bit of naiveté. If more bands were like them the world would be a better place. Sleaford Mods take note.

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The Smiths both saved and killed 'Indie' After revisiting and conducting around 100 interviews this week I was struck as to how many groups around 83-89 cited The Smiths as reviving 'Indie' music in the immediate Post-Punk period. I think that has now been unwritten online...

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This is fascinating. Ramones album 'must be banned'. From Glasgow Evening Times via Berlin Ramones Museum. We covered Punk being 'banned' in Glasgow in HB and BGD but that was 1977 and Grundy /Anarchy Tour was Dec76. This is Aug76. Glasgow City Council were punk banning pioneers

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Another hot day in Liverpool, filming for The Revolutionary Spirit. Les Pattison under a tree, looking at Les Pattinson under a tree. Jayne Casey standing on 'the portal'

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I saw the tweets earlier and hoped it wasn't true but it is. RIP Mark Stewart. Incredibly kind to us for Big Gold Dream and Hungry Beat and a huge, huge influence to that scene. Thoughts with Gareth, the rest of the band, management and friends and family.

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Another rare sunny evening in Scotland so sitting in the garden listening to Fred Neil's glorious 1971 live album. Utterly sublime and contains 2 of the greatest songs ever written. The title track is a close contender too. Do yourself a favour and listen if you've not already

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Take away the headline-grabbing teenage snottiness of JAMC, I think Shop Assistants were the ones who truly nailed the sweetness/heaviness perfect-pop balance. No need for layered feedback, David's guitar alone is enough. + the double drums of early 7"s

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01 - Shop Assistants - I Don't Want To Be Friends With You

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Happy 80th birthday Jacques Dutronc, effortlessly cool. Bob Last told me this is one of the pre Fast Product singles that encapsulate everything Fast Product was about. It's one of the great tracks of the 1960s.

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Jacques Dutronc - Et moi, et moi, et moi 1966 Subtitulada al Español LatinoParolesSept cent millions de chinoisEt moi, et moi, et moiAvec ma vie, mon petit c...

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I suppose a curse of marrying a Beatle is you're forever known as a Beatle-wife, and to the public become less who you were and are. Linda McCartney is and was one of the best rock photographers long before meeting Paul. The photo on his first is one of my favourites in all music

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A little bit from photographer Brian Griffin discussing the Ocean Rain location.

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HB Paul. To me, the greatest songwriter of the Rock and Pop age. For all his achievements, influence and success -for which there are many - surely the greatest is his ability to have made millions of people happy. Few in history have done that by simply just picking up a guitar.

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Some Garage classics tonight. Like with other ephemeral genres it must be both bewildering, fascinating and satisfying for these musicians to see their work consistently repackaged, discovered, reappraised, loved and influencing new generations over 6 decades. #TheSeeds

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Sister Albums: An inconsistent premise of my top 10 records that share an element of kinship beyond a single artists natural, chronological output. No.10 – Iggy Pop's The Idiot and Bowie's Low. The Exemplar!

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I was on a beach with Scarlett Johansson and she asked if I thought it would be OK if she did a wee behind some rocks

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What’s your favorite interaction you’ve had with a celebrity?

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Evening listening - Nico Chelsea Girl. My favourite Nico album, despite her dislike of it. Full of exotic instrumentation, drones, unusual tunings and baroque strings. What's not to like? Even the flutes are lovely.

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Last nights movie: Blow-Up. A tight and fraught 30 minute thriller that's spread over a leisurely 2 hours of over-stylised 60s imagery; an observers picture-postcard vision of a Swinging London where people just stand about, coolly distant. It's pretty much a perfect film for me

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Tonight's film: Far From the Madding Crowd. Despite being released at the height of The Summer of Love and starring 2 icons of Swinging London it couldn't be more removed from the free cinema of Tom Jones, it's simply just elegantly made and beautifully photographed by Nic Roeg

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