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stuart murdoch

@nee_massey

4 years

@Anitta olá, posso escrever uma música para você? Ou é tarde demais?

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6 years

Tragic news about Scott Hutchison. The whole music community in Scotland was praying for a different outcome. Folks, if you are up against it, having dark thoughts, please tell someone, family, a friend or a doctor. There is always another way, though it might not seem like it.

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@Anitta Hi Anitta! I saw your tweet from 2014, we are fans of yours over here in Scotland. If ever you want us to play or write for you, consider us your band! Sending love 😘

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I mean, I like the appropriation, but I’d have to do something with all the black space below.

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4 years

I paused to tie my shoe laces and noticed this rock smiling at me. So I’m passing that smile onto you.

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3 years

Great band in argyle street this morning, way to busk! ‘I fought the law’ (sorry lads, didn’t catch the name)

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3 months

この番組で歌うことができてとても嬉しいです。関係者の皆様、ありがとうございました 😊

THE FIRST TIMES_NEWS

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NHK朝ドラ『虎に翼』劇中歌をスコットランドを代表するバンド“ベル・アンド・セバスチャン”のスチュアート・マードックが歌唱 #虎に翼 #スチュアート・マードック #ベルセバ #森優太 #THEFIRSTTIMES @asadora_nhk @bellesglasgow @nee_massey ▼写真・記事の詳細はこちら

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2 years

How to listen to our new lp if you are an established fan. Have a drink Understand it’s not Sinister, Tigermilk or Arab Strap Understand we can’t take you back to those days and the way you felt then Listen to one track, maybe track 5. That’s enough for today

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10 months

Just a wee note to mark the passing of our lovely mum, Norma. She trained as a nurse at the old Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow. We’re sharing old pictures, I thought I’d share this with you. God bless Norma and God bless the NHS.

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9 months

i think they did us pretty well, what do you think? Beans and Stevie are particularly well represented.

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4 years

The Boy With The Arab Strap listening party is on Monday 27th April at 9pm. #timstwitterlisteningparty Join us for melodies maladies and memories !🙄😃

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10 months

I sometimes put my pictures into the BBC weather page, but they never get picked.🥹So just for you, here’s some weather from Saltcoats this afternoon. Was lovely.😃

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4 years

Tonight, not meaning to be self referential, but..

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1 year

I love that we get Patty and Selma!

Simpsons Albums

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1 year

Belle and Sebastian- Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (2000)

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2 years

Ok, this album is definitely out, or we spent all the money on that billboard for nothing!

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9 months

Following yonder star😊💥

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4 years

I’m looking out the window and I think I’m seeing things. Does that look like it’s floating?

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2 years

Exchange with workman “What do you do in there?” “We’re musicians. We’re in a band.” Pause “Maybe you’ll make it big one day. The next U2.” Then under his breath “Doubt it.” 🤣🤣

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4 years

have you been following @Tim_Burgess and his listening parties? well he's been in touch and signed us up for The Boy With The Arab Strap. That will be fun, plenty to talk about with that one. Thanks to Tim for doing these.. We can do this people, kick this strife in the nuts!

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8 months

That’s me looking into the future, and it’s looking good. I’m wishing you all the very best of New Years. ❤️

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2 years

I'm so sorry for Steve Mackey's family and for the Pulp family. Belle and Sebastian sends our best wishes, prayers and condolences. A vital part of a vital band.❤️

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

This is me on Arran today, beside a footprint left by a giant reptile called Chirotherium. It predated the true dinosaurs, and left its mark 240 million years ago!!

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11 months

I’m still in the midst of a drawn out battle with low mood. One of the key signifiers is simply not enjoying the things I used to, not finding the joy. To counteract this I’m going to post about about things I love when they occur to me. I love a hot water bottle.

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4 months

Northern lights happening in Glasgow, my wife dragged the kids out to a park at ten, but I’m glad she did, genuinely exciting 😊

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7 years

Nostalgia- the café I wrote ‘Arab Strap’ in, 1997 (the year Café Nero started I think) Soho - a great place to watch people and waste time..

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4 years

Me and Isobel at the church hall where I lived, and where we recorded, around 98/99. Picture by miriam stahl.

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1 month

don't know how i managed to persuade the group to come to a Mets game, but i hope they enjoyed it.. this is the old shea stadium where the Beatles played, maybe that's what clinched it for them

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3 years

When we made our first record Tigermilk I was pretty confident it would do ‘something’, and find an audience. After that I never felt the same confidence releasing a record. Must’ve been young and stupid!😉🤪

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

Look how dapper Rotten looked in ‘77! He also looks.. timeless. (Arnhem, Netherlands. - Photo by Bob Rider) #thesexpistols

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3 years

A walk across the rooftops. Glasgow nearly in full bloom, tree-wise.

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6 months

love this band, always

Camera_Obscura_

@Camera_Obscura_

6 months

Our new single, We're Going To Make It In A Man's World, is out now. Check it out here:

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21 days

Quite ‘Lost In Translation’. Nice view!

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

I think my songwriting kicked up a gear with Dog On Wheels. This is part of the list I made of songs 'needing recorded', in December 1995, a month before the band sort of came together. I still go back to this list and try to record the missing ones..

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6 years

I was in Abbey Road for the first time today. I sneaked into the Beatles room and felt a bit giddy, but I think that’s because I hadn’t had any lunch.

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7 years

Shit, we left Richard in North Dakota. Anyone want to be a hero and get him to St Paul, Minnesota somehow. The gig hangs in the balance..😳

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5 months

I love this movie! Signed, A Sad Bastard❤️

All The Right Movies

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HIGH FIDELITY was released 24 years ago this week. One of the most successful adaptations of a Nick Hornby novel, and as popular with music lovers as movie fans, the behind-the-scenes tale has to be in the Top 5 making of stories… 1/31

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8 years

"Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 2" - Nico Robert Salvatore Murdoch. Born Nov 4th at 0345. Mum and child all well. X

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20 days

I know we aren’t in Brisbane until next week, but The GoBetweens are never far from my mind.😁

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11 months

My wee mum is in hospital, a bit confused, but she’s getting there. A nurse her whole life, she dismissed my sister from the bedside saying “I better have a sleep now because I’m on duty at five.” ❤️

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2 years

Meet you at the statue?

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2 years

My youngest managed to get in the space behind the racks at ⁦ @Monorail_Music ⁩ today. A wee surprise for those engrossed in their Saturday vinyl hunt.

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

On a bike ride down in Ayrshire, a sudden thunderstorm, pouring rain and I find myself “underneath the smokers railway arch again”. The one where I wrote the Middle Distance Runner song. #nostalgia 😬

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

Hey guys It’s Stuart here. Obviously we’re all very disappointed to be missing the UK tour, and now South America. There would be nothing we would like more than to be playing to you, in the warm embrace of the music and the wonderful Belles’ audience..

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3 years

Me in ‘91, Saturday night, no mates, no where to go. I’m taking my earrings out.

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2 months

When i finally got a band together, i was happy there was a lot of people involved. It seemed less likely it would crumble somehow (so many people had said no to me previously). I can’t even find a picture of the original artful eight! It was like herding cats.

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

Hey folks, hope to be back communicating with you in the new year, missing everyone and everything! In the meantime, sending loads of love and best wishes for Christmas to you all.❤️

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stuart murdoch

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1 year

I am as proud of my achievements, getting through illness and darkness, hauling my ass out of black holes, as I am of any song or record or concert I ever took part in. I salute anyone who’s going through such days and nights. You are the creative genius!!❤️

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stuart murdoch

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4 months

It was great to finally meet J Mascis and the rest of the Dino crew in Salt Lake City, we had lots to catch up with. We had such a great day at ⁦ @kilbyblockparty ⁩ , it was also great to meet the guys from Death Cab/ Postal Service, they were all so nice.😊

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

Hello from misty Broughty Ferry, hope everyone has a peaceful and happy day x

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10 months

Two words “Hello, son.” You could phone my mum at any time, and once she got her hearing aid in and ascertained who it was, that was always her response. Two words, said in such a warm and glad way, I don’t know what I did to earn such grace. “Hello, son.” She was listening

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2 years

Hey, whaddya have to do to get your own alley around here?! 😁⁦ @theflaminglips ⁩

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5 years

Walked down a semi-circular street, got to the end and saw that it was in fact..

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21 days

Japan bound! Can’t wait to see you there!😁🇯🇵

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3 years

Up in Glasgow right now COVID is close around us, way more prevalent than it ever has been, in a local sense at least. I just want to reiterate how grateful I am for the vaccine. Life would have stopped completely again without it, and we would be in fear for our lives.

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stuart murdoch

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4 months

My wife sent me this from Facebook. I look at it and my knees hurt in anticipation of the landing.😏

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3 years

Scotland score, immediately I think of Seinfeld: George: I don't want hope. Hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. When you're hopeless you don't care. Jerry: So, hopelessness is the key? George: It's my only hope. 🙏🏽😧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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4 years

I may have posted this before. It’s funny tho.

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7 months

Sometime posted a picture of a pothole, everyone saying it looks like Illinois, but all I can see is..

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stuart murdoch

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3 months

I met Jim from the Mary Chain last night, and J Mascis (again) the day before. I only need to meet Blur today and My Bloody Valentine tomorrow and I will have completed the Rollercoaster tour line up from 1992.

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4 years

Me walking and talking in the hills above Glasgow. No wisdom, just nice views.👍🏽

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

All the very best to you Stuart

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

Jeepster posted this picture of me, wearing a Felt t shirt Isobel made me. I still listen to that band pretty much everyday. They were miraculous.

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3 years

I know lots of kids are going back to school and some for the first time. Here’s my guy Nico, aged four, on his first day. He chose to assuage the weight of expectations on him by lying down on the road and making faces. Fair enough, I thought😁

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4 years

Jeez, my uncle Jimmy really looked like me in the 50s.

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4 years

We’re back in recording today, hurrah! We’re in our own little studio now. Funny that it’s just round the corner from the old CaVa studio (pictured) where we recorded the bulk of ‘96-01.

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1 year

After a conversation about set lists during a concert the other night, I thought I’d pin them up here. The encore was The Stars Of Track And Field and Judy & The Dream Of Horses.

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7 years

A new sign appeared on our bus. Should be ok now..😉

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2 years

You know what Glasgow, sometimes you can fuck off. I’ve been cycling all weekend, and I’ve been sworn at, threatened, and nearly knocked off my bike. We think we’re gallus but there’s more bullshit masculinity under the surface than most other cities I’ve been in.. Rant over.

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5 months

Sometimes I forget how much I used to love Stereolab. The first time I saw them live was so great, a totally unique vibe, what a treat I mean, they did so much great work, I just mostly remember that initial burst when I was listening, ears big eyes wide

The Way Will Be Opening

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7 years

That’s the Kelvin almost frozen over. We’re just a witch and two beavers short of the full Narnia.

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stuart murdoch

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2 years

I’m getting slowly back on my feet after being quite unwell, using faith and love to charge my batteries again.. and a lot of help from family and friends. We’re so sorry for any inconvenience caused to you. We sincerely hope we can make it up to you sometime in the future..

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3 years

Can you go for this? I can do. But is it acceptable stage wear? or do I need to grow up and get a bit smarter?🧐

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2 years

I turned back, and it was like I was being pursued by an effect from an eighties’ movie.

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stuart murdoch

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4 years

It’s November 3rd now in Europe. Good luck America, good luck world, let’s get rid of the pestilence, be kind to ourselves and each other, and make a new start🙏🏽🌎

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2 years

Set list from first Paris show, 1998. First performance of Lord Anthony, five years before it would eventually come out. Modern Rock Song as the opener? Different times!😀

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4 years

Sometimes during Zoom meetings I pretend to freeze for a while - to see what people say about me when they think I’ve gone offline.

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3 years

Peak autumn, me on my bike on the car-free Kelvin Way, on the way into the studio.

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3 months

Finding myself wrapped up in books in Madrid. Second hand book shops have a universal smell.😎

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And there’s Maebh, best dressed member of the public tonight. Her folks (who raised her on B and S) were with her too😊

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4 years

people ask us if we ever get sick of playing 'arab strap' personally i don't, it's fun, the crowd make it fun.. #timstwitterlisteningparty @bellesglasgow @nee_massey @Tim_Burgess @beansgeddes

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7 years

In a cab, 2017-2020 “What’s yer band?” “Belle and Sebastian” “Youse lost yer drummer in a supermarket!”

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2 years

so what do rockstars do on the day their album is released? i don't know about that. i'm just really happy that i found a ready meal in the fridge and the use-by is 6th may! i'm having it!

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3 years

While i was thinking about stage wear, thought I’d do my COP wear too. Not very mature, but heartfelt nevertheless 🧡❤️💙

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2 years

I never voted SNP, but I think it’s fair to say that Nicola Sturgeon was the best British leader we had in a generation. I like that she stood up for harassed minorities, it was brave, and will be part of her legacy, though it’s clearly a position the UK is not ready to embrace🙄

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11 months

I know her. And I should know, because I Am Indie.

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You aren’t indie unless u know her

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6 months

Dear God Please can I play music with my band until the day I die? I mean, your will and all that, but we’re just getting good. 😉

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6 years

Now I’m over 50. I can officially sit in garden centre cafés for ages with absolutely no intention to buy anything.

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2 years

Limited public interest, but relaxing footage of my wife skating, me following her on the scooter. An alternative lighter video to I don’t Know What You See In Me.😊

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Belle And Sebastian, at the United Theatre, LA, May 15th, just before stage. Picture by Stevie Dreads.

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2 years

saturday night, up working for the band, the usual. if you told me i'd be working harder for B&S in 2022 than i was in 2002 i wouldn't have believed you! it's not glam, it's not glitzy. no cocaine, no fast dates. i'm still glad my job is 'creativity' though. It's a privilege🙂

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10 months

Best opening lyric “I am angry, I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin My irritability keeps me alive and kicking” ☺️

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3 years

I was listening to the Scotland game. I passed a pub showing the match in so I went in. I didn’t realise it was a Rangers’ pub. As I stood there watching the game, people glowered at me. I forgot that I was wearing a bright Kelly green jacket and almost white trousers! I got out.

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2 years

“We’re out of practice we’re out of sight, on the edge of Nobody’s Empire.” Ciara MacLaverty and I back in ‘92, a brighter day in the middle of an ME/CFS wilderness. A few years later Ciara was on the ‘Sinister’ record cover. Picture by our friend Michael Mair.

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9 months

Kinda goofy snap, but taken maybe the same day we got married at city hall? Happy 16th Anniversary to Marisa, let’s stay goofy. ☺️

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me and stevie occasionally reminisce about 1979, how it felt like our peak pop year. on our radio were tracks like sunday girl, oliver's army, rhythm stick, cars, cool for cats, pop muzik, brass in pocket, don't like mondays, message to you and this one,

The Stranglers - Duchess

Original music video for Duchess by The Stranglers released as a single on 10th Aug 1979. Directed by Russell Mulcahy.www.thestranglers.co.ukwww.facebook.com...

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4 years

The Botanic Gardens tonight on my way home, lots of folk out grooving.

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8 years

folks, please don't be too down this morning. trump is a blip in the human story, the odd backward step. keep love in your heart.

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4 years

Check out the new number one lp in the UK!

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6 months

How dare we treat the people of Gaza like animals, to die as if they are worth nothing. If Israel is the country that has power over Gaza, has Gaza within its territory, then surely it does not have the power to kill as it pleases.

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4 years

I love it when the sky decides ‘I’m just going to do this for a while.

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