We’re Only Human I Suppose After a quick family sojourn to the car park to retrieve our evening attire, we return to the arena and set up for the night erecting our sun tent. The picnic blanket is unrolled in front and the luminous blue Lay Sac is gracefully inflated by yours truly before being … More Electric Fields – Steve Mason
A family day out which starts in a pop/ up vinyl shop and ends ….. ? … More Festival Adventures : Partick to Drumlanrig
They say you should never meet your hero’s. I disagree. … More Meeting The Charlatans (Part 1)
For those reminiscing on this 2nd Strathallan T Saturday. It’s been a long time 20 years to be exact Since they set up the stages On the blaze at Strathy Park With the camping located Right next to the Loch A few thousand sun-crazed campers Across a bridge did walk And into the arena With … More 21st T -A Farewell to Balado
I’m not going to be present this weekend at T In The Park. This will be only the second time in 23 years that I have not made it along for at least one day of the crazy weekend of music and hedonism. I’ll miss it. In the beginning – almost. My relationship with … More This Is The Point (TITP)
17 years ago this very night I carried my new wife over the threshold of our flat. Here are 7 songs which mark important stages of our relationship. Crystal Ships – The Doors This is the song which was being played when we first became a couple. We were at The Venue in Edinburgh to … More The Story So Far In Seven Songs
The Glass Half Empty ex-member of Arabstrap puts a smile on our faces. Naw Really he did. … More Do you realize : Sardonic Self Deprication Makes You Smile
It was a wet, late winter night in Whitburn, West Lothian back in 1990 and I was 19yrs old when it happened. I had been out on the town with friends and at chucking out time we headed back to an empty. Musically I was getting over my early teenage obsession with all things Simple Minds. … More SHORES TEST ONE
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The other day I got a message on my facebook author page, and the conversation that followed went like this: Sam: “So I’m having a relaxing evening, vodka in one hand, kindle in the other. Get to the end of chapter 22 [of Pyrite] and, I’m not going to put up any…
Tomorrow will see the end of Avalanche Records as a presence on the streets of Edinburgh. The reasons are many fold and can be read in depth at http://www.avalancherecords.co.uk/ Now, I’m not going to wax lyrical about the sadness that this brings to my heart, or how this will herald the end of an era. … More Confessions of a Vinylist.
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