Hello everyone.
I've written a book x

Elbow in Glasgow tonight. I spoke to Guy Garvey back in March about knife fights, marriage & his teenage years: heraldscotland.com/news/24165030.…

So, Stuart Maconie played Thomas Lang on 6 Music this morningand it sent me down a wormhole youtu.be/tBtHVcs4U4o?si…

Teddy Jamieson Caught Tony’s new tune on Mike Read’s Heritage Chart Show. It’s only on some channel called XPTV at 3am. Massive band on stage but he must have forgot to send the tickets as the crowd was clearly CG’d in. Bunch of shadows all making the same moves. Yet, tune surprisingly ok.

Including two Spandau tracks was already pushing it #TOTP

Steve Norman last year
heraldscotland.com/news/23257564.… #SpandauBallet #TOTP

Diplomat/laundromat alert #TOTP

As mentioned in Herald Mag & Arts's Forgotten Scottish Films. Watch out for the letter catch.

Airthrey Loch this evening

📣 The UK Premiere of The Outrun will open this year's EIFF

🎞 We can also reveal the name of our short film competition: The Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence, Thelma will be in attendance

Full story edfilmfest.org/stories/opening

📸 StudiocanalUK

Reading that Ian mcShane interview n The Guardian sent me here. Now imagining Bryan Ferry as Lovejoy
youtu.be/aKOy3D58Mdo?si…

Happy Birthday Alan Bennett. I spoke to him about shyness, sex and Scotland for Herald Mag & Arts in 2009:
heraldscotland.com/life_style/art…

There's more to movie life than Trainspotting, you know. For Herald Mag & Arts I came up with a list of 10 'forgotten' Scottish movies (& movies by Scots) that (mostly) deserve a little more attention. Please feel free to suggest others:
heraldscotland.com/life_style/243…

Ahead of his appearance Boswell Book Festival this weekend, I spoke to the architect John McAslan about the Glasgow's George Square, King's Cross, The Beatles, Richard Rodgers, Zaha Hadid and Dunoon. He was an absolute tonic:
heraldscotland.com/news/24303706.…

This is so sad. I had the amazing opportunity to work with him on a song with Rosa Mota. He was really great company, I’ll never forget my experience. He asked me to leave a message on his friend’s answer machine to prove we were working together…I was chuffed to say the least.

Danny Boyle's Sunshine on the big screen tonight. Cillian Murphy and a giant nuclear bomb, though in this case space itself is the killing machine

And very grateful also to Teddy Jamieson writing for the The Herald about what is truly a golden time for writing of all kinds from N Ireland.

I spoke to Aasmah Mir for Herald Mag & Arts about old & new challenges and her definition of a lie-in:
heraldscotland.com/news/24291668.… Boswell Book Festival

Ahead of Boswell Book Festival I spoke to Aasmah Mir about growing up in Glasgow, 70s childhoods, feeling different & starting a new life in your fifties.
heraldscotland.com/news/24299757.…

Teddy Jamieson Abir Mukherjee Caroline Eden Patrick Grant Stuart Maconie Emil Ferris Thank you so much, Teddy. It’s definitely a golden age for N Irish writing - such an exciting time to be writing.