Graeme Thomson

A ginger and white cat curls up on the sofa

Tough gig

😁

Many thanks for this delivery @graemethomson.bsky.social, lots of superb post-Xmas reading to be done in my house! 📚🎵🙏😎

Excellent! 🙏

A ginger and white cat curls up on the sofa

Tough gig

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

A black cat sits upright with head bowed. Behind him, a square of blinding white light flares.

Let the ceremony commence

A black cat sits upright with head bowed. Behind him, a square of blinding white light flares.

Let the ceremony commence

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It's almost 4pm, it's December, and it's getting dark. So just in case you need a wee pick-me-up...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFL...

Green wall, Green uplight, light and shadow

Posted out a bunch of signed/dedicated books this morning. Still plenty of time before Christmas for anyone interested.

Would you recommend the R.E.M. book, btw? Not sure I've read a really good one

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I'm going to enjoy from the sidelines 😁

Green wall, Green uplight, light and shadow

I don't think I know that one

I doubt he'd have had much of a case re: the originality of Pump it Up!

Exactly... brains like tinder, waiting for a random spark

I haven't, will check out, thanks

Hurray!

Yeah, Wet Wet Wet nicked wholesale from Van's Sense of Wonder. I mean, that's just plagiarism, tbf... whereas Stipe is doing something a bit different.

Happens all the time, I imagine. Didn't Stipe more or less take 'Swan Swan H' from some old Civil War tract?

YouTube video by Rhythm andlife Fela & Africa 70 - Up Side Down

It's almost 4pm, it's December, and it's getting dark. So just in case you need a wee pick-me-up...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFL...

I'm reading a pretty generic thriller (first published in 1981) and it contains three exact phrases also found in Elvis Costello's 'Little Palaces' (released in 1986): 'dapper little man'; 'nicotine fingers'; and 'he doffs his cap'. Makes you think, eh?

Posted out a bunch of signed/dedicated books this morning. Still plenty of time before Christmas for anyone interested.

Am dipping my toe back into the world of promoting again and delighted to announce that @mjohnhenry.bsky.social will be heading my first ever show in Edinburgh at Home Bar, Tollcross on Friday 27 February.

Supports and ticket link to follow shortly.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry holding (90 degrees off centre) a copy of One World by John Martyn, which he has signed.

I've had reason this week to revisit the audio of the interview ('outerview' as he called it) I did with Lee Perry in 2018. It's utter chaos. Took me a week to transcribe. It begins with Scratch asking how John Martyn is doing. I tell him John is dead. 'Who kill 'im?' He laughs. 'That lickle girl?'

It's a beautiful song and a beautiful inspiration 🙏

I read the backstory to this in Charlie and Jim’s book (and @graemethomson.bsky.social ). Had me in tears.

I'm aware. I'm in the UK. Finding the exact same phrases in the first 10 pages of a book as appear in the song just struck me, that's all 👍