Did you know there's a 6CD box set of Doc Pomus songwriting demos coming out next week? I didn't. "You Can't Hip A Square". 160 little masterclasses in pop songwriting, all gathered into one place. This could be very, very special.

YouTube video by Bionic Dub UPSETTERS - Bathroom Skank [1973]

Crazy song! 🐔

He was certainly in a very experimental period when he made all his 'skank' tunes. I've always enjoyed this one on the same riddim as Kentucky Skank...

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YouTube video by 't Polder Cannabis Olie team Lee Perry - Kentucky Skank

Ahead-of-its-time madness on 1973 reggae tune "Kentucky Skank" by Lee Perry & the Upsetters. Produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry. Opening song on the album Double Seven. #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Fr...

#5albums50s60s5 The Small Faces - Self Titled (1966) I recently landed this debut. Operating in the same general area as The Who but with a bluesier feel and a mod's obsessive love of US R'n'B. Marriot's guitar work has a raw beauty. So, so good. #MusicSky

Neil C Duff's Free Renaissance style commercial building of 1901 looks even more impressive when set against its modern neighbours. Built for George Miller, and first occupied by the Carsewell Fishing Gut Company, it was converted to housing in 2003.

#Glasgow

Walked past the CRM-designed Scotland Street School Museum early this week. What's the latest update with this building? Is the museum going to reopen as nursery and digital hub anytime soon?

#charlesrenniemackintosh #scotlandstreet #glasgow

Today's teatime tunes: I'm reading a very good Swedish novel so I've had these Swedish jazz psych mentalists as my soundtrack. They even chuck in a sitar sometime. Glorious music

Absolute corker of a thread (and article) telling the story of the Portobello lido: art deco styling, gorgeous white concrete, an enormous pond 'heated' with leftover warm water from the local power plant, and a 'sham wave' machine. No wonder that on Glasgow Fair days it was 'like a little Glasgow'!

Railwaywomen in the kitchen - Railway Work, Life & Death For Women's History Month, we look at accidents to women employed by the Great Western Railway in kitchen spaces.

#OnThisDay 1914 GWR kitchen maid Jones was injured at #Neath, #Glamorgan, #Wales.

Her hand was cut on a bread machine.

#Railway200

Read more about railwaywomen kitchen maids:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/railwaywomen...

It's such a privilege to be giving a talk about my research at the New Glasgow Society! Come and hear about 19th century men - and some women - who swam in the River #Clyde in #Glasgow + the ongoing citizen enquiry on 'Who Owns the Clyde'. Aug 19. Free! #rivers #water #SportingHeritage #Glasgow850

It’s Thursday 16th Dec 1965 & The Sentinel-Echo paper, serving some of the good folks of New Jersey, reports on what had been the Velvet Underground’s first gig - at Summit High School - with Mo Tucker on drums . One ‘Suzie Surfer’ did not like their look -or that of their fans- at all. (1/2)

Chickadee 🪶

#weekendsingles

7" of Dennis Alcapone - Jah Rastafari on Upsetter label. Released in 1972. Produced by Lee Perry.

Belated happy birthday to Dennis Alcapone who turned 78 yesterday.

In the early 70s Dennis toasted on the best JA riddims for Studio 1, Treasure Isle and Lee Perry, just like this one on Dave Barker's Prisoner Of Love... Yeeeeaaah

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#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #musicsky

Up next…
All time favourite of mine ✊🏻

#nowspinning #vinyl #jazz

Detailed Floor Plan Drawings of Popular TV and Film Homes If you've ever wondered what the layout of your favorite fictional character's apartment looked like, interior designer Iaki Aliste Lizarralde may have

Iaki Aliste Lizarralde's floorplans of homes from television shows and films. I can't begin to tell you how bewilderingly fascinating these things are. The apartments from "Friends". 742 Evergreen Terrace. Seinfeld's place. It draws you in. mymodernmet.com/inaki-aliste...

Good morning! It’s Friday August 8th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Out this very month in 1975, just 50 years ago, the magazine-sized Space 1999 #1 from Charlton Comics, with its cover by Gray Morrow.)

You be careful out there among them English, John Book.

Advert in the NME for 25th June 1983, promoting "A Midsummer Night's Tube". A lapel, with loads of button badges pinned to it (U2, Robert Plant, Duran Duran etc) and the tagline "This Friday, one button gets them all".

Belter of an advert for "A Midsummer Night's Tube" from NME, 25th Jun 1983. Really simple idea, carried off beautifully.

YouTube video by MrPasta The Kestrels - Wolverton Mountain

#Just4Funsies Forgot to post this banger when we wer talkin' about Claude King... 😱

A music collection in 100 individual tracks:

4. Bredda Gravalicious 45”, by The Wailing Souls, 1979.

“I say you're too damn craven”.

Bouncing Babies from ‘79 #theteardropexplodes #MusicSky #VinylSky

This is Brian and Tommy Quickly about to board a plane. Did Tommy take his cat with him?!

NGS Talks Series #6

As part of #Glasgow850, our ‘Talks’ series brings together writers, artists, and historians to uncover the many layers of the city’s history and culture. This month, Lucy @lucyjanes.bsky.social joins us to discuss the story of swimming in the #Clyde.

YouTube video by theaceface The Jam Live - Slow Down

The Jam with a fierce live cover of the Larry Williams R&R tune "Slow Down" in 1977. From the group's debut album In the City. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-WX...

YouTube video by SeagreenSerenade THE FALL new puritan (Peel Session) 1980

Peel Session version of "New Puritan" by The Fall from September 16, 1980. Shorter version found on Totale's Turns. #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=KfYw...

YouTube video by Trevor Wain The Teardrops-Count De BokBok

1980 song "Hey Count De Bok Bok" by Buzzcocks/The Fall side project The Teardrops. From only album Final Vinyl. #FallFriday m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-kM...

YouTube video by Marco Soverini PHIL OCHS , the sound of Now ,1968

The late topical singer-songwriter (his description) Phil Ochs performing and interviewed on the show The Sound of Now in 1968. Length: 25:01. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6u0A...

One of my favourite music autobiographies - in the loosest possible term - alongside the equally essential, and equally loose, ‘a drink with Shane MacGowan’ from 2001 and ‘what does this button do?’ by Bruce Dickinson.

A psychedelic style business card held in a hand. The card reads “Ashram, the circulating light, Carmel, Calif”

Michael Winner “The Stone Killer” (1973)