Grant McPhee

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The Four Rules For Making a Social History Documentary on UK Pop Culture The Four Rules for making a social history documentary on UK pop culture

The Four Rules For Making a Social History Documentary on UK Pop Culture

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Belle and Sebastian: 1996 in the press Belle and Sebastian: 1996 in the press

Belle and Sebastian's very busy 1996 : through the press

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What does that even mean?

My Perfect British 70s Horror Portmanteau Despite being mostly half-remembered and often objectively not particularly well made, the sheer nostalgic joy of watching British 1970s anthology horror as a child gives them a very special place amo...

My Perfect British 70s Horror Portmanteau

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Good shout on Heron. That's one I'd probably have chosen on another day

Wyrd-Folk Top 15 Greatest Albums. My Wyrd-Folk Top 15 Greatest Albums

Wyrd-Folk Top 15 Greatest Albums

From Davy Graham to Camberwick Green.

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The Texture of the French Connection I watched the French Connection recently

The texture of the French Connection.

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#WorldBookDay

My current reading.

Just finishing Hungry Beat (great memories & a great read) before moving onto Postcards.

Recommended #weekendsingles guys.

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Thank you Tony! Delighted you enjoyed.

Hurrah for 90s UK VHS labels Hurrah for 90s UK VHS labels.

Hurrah for 90s Video Labels
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Thanks Erik

Brilliant, thanks

Thanks Mike

I love this story. A politician you can trust - The Alter 8-tive (Hard Core) Party. Chris came 4th in 1992, amazingly!

"Chris Peat one half of Stafford’s chart-topping Altern 8 pop group is standing for the Altern 8-tive (Hard Core) Party He said: “The other parties are far too boring"

Radio Stars' 1978 Dundee gig blew fans away - so what stopped them becoming punk greats? Radio Stars brought chaos and charisma to Dundee, with lead singer Andy Ellison's wild antics stealing the show from the night's headliners.

Radio Stars photos from Dundee, 1978
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Harry Robinson - Pop Music’s Hidden Hero There can’t be many music people with such a richly diverse, highly successful career who remain as little known as Elgin’s Harry Robinson.

Harry Robinson - Pop Music's Hidden Hero (and semi-connect connected diversions)

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Transatlantic - Britain's Coolest Forgotten 60s Independent Label Independents and their impresarios like Factory and Tony Wilson, and earlier antecedent cultural visionaries such as Immediate, are rightly revered.

Britain's coolest forgotten 60s independent label - Transatlantic

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Thanks Allan Glenn for this Record Collector review of Caledonia Screaming. Pick up your copy of Record Collector is got a great best records from Edinburgh list from Allan too.

Caledonian Screaming – Scottish Punk 1976-77 (Pre-order) Published by: Into Books Format: Paperback Pages: 512 Publication: May 2026 ISBN: 9781919424576 Scotland appeared to embrace punk early. The Ramones’ debut album reached Glasgow within days of its US ...

💥 @grantmcphee.bsky.social's new book, Caledonia Screaming, is now available to pre-order. 📚
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The Velvet Underground Myth An archive of The Velvet Underground through the press

There were quite a few before this. I've put together an archive from 1965-1993
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Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music in the Press Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music in the Press

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music : The Myth and Contemporary Newspaper Story.

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The Fake Sex Pistols Poster Why the Yellow Caird Hall 1st December Sex Pistols Poster is a Fake

The Fake Sex Pistols Poster
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Here's a little taster from the Leicester Chronicle, reviewing their first album in 1966.

Haha. All the AI's have my cards marked now!

Thanks Auld Bairn. Love are in the queue and I've been looking at this for a while. They were pretty popular in the UK with Forever Changes charting. I've a few things together - it's just very time consuming trying to sort Love the band from Love the emotion!

Nobody Had SEEN Anything Like Them! The Velvet Underground Myth Nobody Had SEEN Anything Like Them!

The Velvet Underground Myth: Nobody Had SEEN Anything that looked like them before...

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Songs They Never Play on the (UK) Radio: Velvet Underground and Nico Songs They Never Play on the (UK) Radio: The Velvet Underground and Nico

Songs They Did Play on the Radio.
The Velvet Underground and Nico on UK radio during 1967. Another investigation.
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Some wonderment from the good folk at AV-8 Records. Sunstack Jones, Dead Goat and the always fabulous; Edgar Jones. Reviews soon...

It's the only way I can imagine they'd all have got it. It was featured very heavily in the press at the time. Bit weird for the preppy school kid band though