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Bonnie Prince Billy’s The Purple Bird is wonderfully subversive but Stuart Duncan’s fiddle playing…perfection. youtu.be/kxoq9yq5pJc?...

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Landing. Glad I wasn’t trying to fly Shetlandwards yesterday

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Instead of a spurious so-called “Fair Isle” slipover from the corporate shower that is House of Bruar, get a genuine piece of #Shetland knitwear, made by a Shetlander, from Jamiesons in Lerwick. And much cheaper too.

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I miss Lerwick Sheriff Court. This is a classic. Should point out that cars on the island of Unst don’t need an MOT, and drivers only require a provisional licence… www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/02/20/d...

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Can’t vouch for the seller, but I’ve had a V660 (slot head, round shoulder, as pictured) for 5 years and if you like fairly chunky Gibson necks, it’s a great guitar. Solid spruce top. Fishman Sonicore. Phenomenal value. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22524354...

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Raiding the charity shop…

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Currently reading Holy Waters: Searching for the Sacred in a Glass by @thebeatcroft.bsky.social This book is a journey across the world examining the intersection between alcohol and religion. Each chapter is accompanied by a Holy Flight, complete with tasting notes, if you'd like a taste.

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Gotta love a proscenium arch. No drum riser, no effects pedals, no stage set, no in-ear monitors. #NickLowe and #LosStraitjackets tear up Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre.

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Fly me from Newark out to Greenland See a polar bear, that would be such fun I would’ve gone to Newfoundland But Jared shot all the Canadian ones But now that they’re the 51st and 52nd states It’s dollars everywhere, no exchange rate… open.substack.com/pub/tommorto...

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Switching to #Canadian guitars forthwith! #ArtetLutherie

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Selling on #eBay now clearly a waste of time and money. Two vintage guitars, both won by Italian bidders who immediately cancelled bids. (Secretly relieved, but still…)

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40-odd years ago, some young loons fae Ellon went to that America…#APB

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Some hilarious stuff in this interview but “underdone Yeats…” And I’m sure the women of Ayr are extremely grateful to Mr Scott…

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“Nicely done…” neither Dominic West nor Idris Elba will ever surpass their turns in this. Punishingly expensive to stream but snagged the DVD box set cheaply…4 seasons to go! #TheWire

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Definitely NOT #Shetland

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Well, quite.

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Coal gloves. Just stoking the Rayburn with evil, climate-busting ‘Ovoids’ and I remembered my mum’s special oversized Marigold rubber gloves, only used for the careful placement of coal on the fire.

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Latest Substack. In defence of Spotify, the issue with old vinyl, more vikings, and four books about music. "I mean, the artist gets more from each Spotify play (yes, a minuscule amount) than from the sale of a second-hand LP or CD." open.substack.com/pub/tommorto...

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Another fantastic #Threadinburgh tale. 1918’s ‘Battle of May Island’ is the worst naval disaster you’ve never heard of threadinburgh.scot/2025/01/31/t...

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As quoted in @barneyhoskyns.bsky.social’s biography of #TheBand, Across The Great Divide…

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So there’s an exact copy of me in an ever-expanding universe, somewhere (10 to the power 10 to the power 29 meters away). Worrying. www.facebook.com/share/1Cxx8v...

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Just great. Bobby Charles! The book about collecting 78s is wonderful but It Still Moves was an inspiration www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

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It’s taken me weeks to finish. Abandoned Kindle for pulped tree, paused and looped around Spotify playlists, CDs and vinyl. Huge and detailed, breathless and cogent, very personal and brilliantly written. Profound and beyond, as Robert Plant says. #andtherootsofrhythmremain #joeboyd

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“The Kirk is now… an irrelevance in Shetland and Scotland and the sordid, money-grubbing antics involved in selling off its built heritage are just shameful.” Me and the Church of Scotland, not on the best of terms… www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/01/29/c...

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It’s Up Helly Aa Day in Lerwick… Livestream from 7.00pm www.facebook.com/share/p/1DDp...?

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Hepworth so on the money here, though with me it was Boots in Kilmarnock, Fairbairns and then Speed in Troon, and from 1973, Listen in Glasgow. All about flicking those sleeves. www.instagram.com/reel/DFSrKXC...

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Please, no more pesky-kids investigative podcasters in cold-case Irish comedy thrillers (#Crá and the awful #Bodkin, because of which the entire Obama presidency must be reassessed, seeing as Barack and Michelle exec-produced it.)

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In 1889, the Rev. Joseph Forrest of St. Andrew's Prebyterian Church in Douglas, Isle of Man, resigned his post in protest after a number of his Elders and Deacons attended a Burns' Supper. "As a minister of the Gospel, he could not stand at the head of men who attended" such a celebration

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The Wisdom of Greg: absolutely no intention of swimming in #Shetland winter seas, but this is a very enjoyable wee series. And indeed, nostalgia befuddles. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2J...

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The best of America. Old, weird and beautiful. Terrific documentary on Harry Smith and the Anthology currently streaming on Apple TV

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A little gentle arm-twisting and I’m back in the rare, antiquarian and chewed-by-an-unidentified creature books business…

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Tattie scone. How I’ve missed you.

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“Look out the window, tell me what do you see? I see a golden calf, pointing back at me…”

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Good grief, that Sam Fender vocal on Noah Kahan’s Homesick…

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This is very odd. Even odder is that no councillor seems to have leaked the name. Or news outlet printed it. Come on! www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

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Jura, Lagavulin…bought chainsaw! South Ayrshire coastal driftwood, I have official permission, a Toyota Hilux and you are heading for a Shetland stove…

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How much of my life has been spent howking large lumps of ancient hi-fi gear up and down stairs, then trying to make it all work? Needle drops on Life is Like A Mountain Railroad and it’s worth it. John Fahey, if you’re asking.

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Everything we write, every piece of film, music, art, every weighed and nuanced decision is now simply food for AI. Creativity - humanity - has become meat for machines.

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Six alleged poems... "I do not like a whitrit, I do not love a ferret Unless you’re hunting rabbits they have very little merit..." open.substack.com/pub/tommorto...

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New diet #neateats

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Full moon dawn at the Brae Co-op. No lumpy drama on the Aberdeen-Shetland run, mild wobbles in Da Roost. Home to the delightful aroma of suppurating mouse…

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