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Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse? The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing

This is a really important piece. Glasgow is haemorrhaging its art spaces, turning a once vibrant city a cultural void, and we’re all the poorer for it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Werner Herzog's Mutiny on the Buses.

Very good!

(This joke worked better in my head).

I was planning to get dressed up for World Book Day as a World Book...

... but I usually look nonchalant or confused, so was worried people would think I'd come as Atlas Shrugged.

I only write things featuring ventriloquist dummies and necromancy.

This tweet needs more Gaye Bykers on Acid.

Although I'm more amused by whomever penned the Wikipedia article on Grebo, which is just plain weird (and mentions Leicester) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grebo_(...

Leicester grebo siren

Having moved to a university town I was aghast when I realised there was just a single bookstore - WHS. Soon to be zero, I suspect, considering how empty it now is. Le sigh.

That'll learn me to wear my specs when on my phone. Thought for a second that there's a free cassette with the new Faux Flora LP, and I’d half-scripted a reply asking if they were a new ethereal folk duo.

Fred Dibnah

LA's heat pump expert...

BBC Two - Small Prophets A mystical recipe in an old journal promises Michael Sleep the answers he longs for.

If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series.
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More of a stay in bed until noon (with servants delivering breakfast) then start drinking whilst wearing a sensational frock, pact.

I'm willing to job-share being Princess Margaret with you.

Adult males of fighting age, no less.

I hope they don't have any criminal records.

It was great seeing them in a slightly more intimate venue than usual (and they played Remurdered, which always make me happy).

Paisley, very much Scotland's rock city (he said, in no way being sarastic)... that's dedication. Shout if you're about pre-match!

Doing the Scottish gigs or just Birmingham onwards?

I know three of those in real life... and you're absolutely spot on.

Apparently I'm due to work in the London office for the rest of the week.

Might phone up my boss and demand additions to my rider. Three bottles of decent tequila, 44 bottles of Czech pilsner and a large bowl of M&Ms with the yellow ones removed.

As a weird 15 year old I lived in my bedroom and listened to three albums on heavy repeat. Electric Warrior by T-Rex, The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, and Hunky Dory. Not bad taste, if I say so myself.

Don't mind me. I'm just going to get very, very drunk whilst listening to Bowie's Hunky Dory at a rather neighbour-unfriendly volume.

First record I ever bought - on week of release in fact (yes, still have it).

Slade were great. Old New Borrowed and Blue is a superb LP. I approve.

Which track?

The cheery, Sunday night listen.

Tony Hart, who passed away in 2009. And again in 2011, 2015 and 2020. He's next due to pass away later this year.

I preferred them when they were called Goldie Lookin' Chain.

The Tufty Club badge.

Looking at the state of the world today, I definitely think it’s time that the Tufty Club grew a paramilitary wing.

I’m in.

I hated it so much that my second gig was also Shakin' Stevens.