Grant McPhee

This clip seems to have upset some Joy Division fans over on Instagram.

My guest Scottish filmmaker/author @grantmcphee.bsky.social on his trio of films about the Scottish indie music scene and the @jesusandmarychain riot that happened in 1985. Listen to @revpermovie.bsky.social here: shows.acast.com/revolutionsp...

The C86 cassette comp that was so impactful on the British Independent scene, but also how many of the bands did not want to be associated with it in the end Part of my conversation with Scottish author/filmmaker @grantmcphee.bsky.social on this week’s @revpermovie.bsky.social

My chat with the excellent Christopher Slusarenko at the Revolutions Per Movie podcast.

“A few years ago, the Scottish film industry was a haggis-in-the-sky fantasy in the fevered imaginations of a talented handful. Now apparently over-night, it is a full-grown fact.”

Daily Record's 1983 article on Charles Gormley's Living Apart Together.

Caledonia Streaming: A History of Scotland's Moving Image 1967–2027
This book has been brewing for the past two years and already off to a great start - interviews with Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald, Outlander producer David Brown, and cinematographer Mick Coulter #scottishfilm #outlander

Scottish indie 45s - Groovy Times The seven greatest 45s from Scotland's fabled post-punk, indie scene as nominated by the authors of Hungry Beat, a highly-regarded book on that very subject

Hey @scotspostpunk.bsky.social - did you ever see our article on Scottish indie 45s?

@grantmcphee.bsky.social and Douglas MacIntyre select seven vital 7s

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The Cords - When You Said Goodbye Listen to When You Said Goodbye by The Cords.

The Cords' new single "When You Said Goodbye" is a lush, dreamy tearjerker that's bound to become a last-dance staple. Utterly perfect and totally timeless. What a record.
lnk.to/cords-goodbye

Ha. I did. This is great - top work, Tommy!

Thanks Adam

I picked up this hefty tome of Scottish films by Mark Furse which has just been released. 427 features. 6 of them are by me with another 4 produced and around 40 I worked on or helped in some capacity. Really worth picking up. Very well researched and a worthy addition to Scotland's film story

Easily the coolest and best dressed actor of the 60s. RIP Terence Stamp

And with some "London Town" foreshadowing.

Ha. Great work

Absolutely. It's like reading about a possible alternative reality

They're from the Post and Echo, Ian. Really strange to read in that context

I'm assuming the 'jazz club' is the Cavern. And despite Bill Harry's Mersybeat magazine being founded the year earlier it was 'skiffle' that was in the public consciousness and not yet 'Beat'.

"Stuart went to Germany with a Liverpool skiffle group"

Fascinating that Sutcliffe's death made the front pages of the news. And bittersweet that the reporting was the only time it would be for his own achievements rather than a footnote to what was about to change everything.

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Were you watching it through a ZX Spectrum? I've never seen it look so pixelated! That's supposed to be one of the high-points of 70s cinematography. Amazing film regardless of format though but... :)

YouTube video by Grant McPhee Fast Forward Edinburgh 80s Indie Film. Rough cut that formed the basis for Postcards From Scotland

I've put up a couple of unfinished films on YouTube for a short period.
Songs From Northern Britain assembly and Fast Forward that became the basis for Postcards From Scotland and Teenage Superstars.
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Delighted to now be represented as a writer by the Hamilton Agency.
A few more books (and films) on the horizon soon too.
thehamiltonagency.co.uk

I like your tie for a start.
Paul McCartney's unnaturally large makes the front of the Daily Record in December 1965 as the Beatles start the first date of their last UK tour, in Glasgow.

Allen Klein and Ringo, Daily Record 1971

UK, 1967 Verve advert for 1st Velvet Underground album. With the UK/Canadian/New Zealand cover

Thanks!

Hi Simon, thanks for the message. I think it's now going to be next year when it comes together, which probably works better

On this day in 1970 Funhouse by the Stooges was released in the US. It wasn't out here until December but was reviewed in the Nottingham Evening News and Post. Not sure about it being 'All a laugh'. Always amazed at what appears in local papers. Good coverage of Graham Bond too. Poor old Scott W.

18-18 lyrics. Johnny and the Self Abusers after the original name change to Simple Minds, the proposed follow-up single to Saints and Sinners.
#simpleminds

Can't wait to join the good folk at Louder than Words for another fun weekend. And excited to bring Caledonia Screaming.