David Hutcheon

But definitely worth it for the songs.

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Apparently, I’d said 2015 and that threw them - but I was writing it after the match. Thanks for spotting

It’s not often anybody gets a game of that drama with so much at stake. And it’s really not very often a Scotland game has highlights I want to watch again and again. Best night out ever

It was the last big weekend of the year, but it was the best and this was a highlight.

I’m not going to say Bob Dylan is as good as Scott McTominay, that would be crazy - but he could definitely lob Schmeichel from the halfway line.

Excellent - very loud and garagey, Bob playing some wild piano (reminded me of Ruben Gonzalez … see, I’ll never make it as a music critic).

Went to Dylan in Glasgow last night. On the train there, sitting next to a wee wifie who starts telling me all about the time she saw him at the Odeon cinema in 1966. “He played a solo set, then the band came on …” Oh, to have been a wee Glasgow wifie watching Bob go electric

That’s odd, the RFH crowd were totally into it. Mulatu still the coolest, too

Magic news, congratulations to the both of you. Hx

Well, that’s just fabulous. Looking forward to catching up with the pair of you sometime soon. Hx

Remember Rachel from the ST, 30+ years ago. I wonder if her appreciation of the subs’ white magic came from her own time editing AA Gill. Now there was a job for only the bravest

MOJO 386 – January 2026: The Smiths/Best Of 2025 A new take on The Smiths, an exclusive Best Of The Year CD, plus Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and more in latest magazine.

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Mavis doing what Mavis has always done, on perhaps her greatest album. The message is simple: Be more like Mavis and we may just make it

Sex Pistols On Trial: “The powers that be wanted to crush them.” Stabbings, spunk and the Anglo-Saxon for testicles: As Never Mind The Bollocks turns 48, MOJO recalls how the Sex Pistols fought the law... and won.

Sex Pistols On Trial: “The powers that be wanted to crush them…”

Stabbings, spunk and the Anglo-Saxon for testicles: As Never Mind The Bollocks turns 48, MOJO’s own punk Boswell, Pat Gilbert, recalls how the Sex Pistols fought the law... and won.

Mavis illustration by PaNiK - based on Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster of Barack Obama

Mavis Staples gets ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ lead album feature in new @mojomagazine.bsky.social. “Be more like Mavis,” writes @hutchie.bsky.social. Amen.

It’s a beauty, too - up there with the best of the best she has sung on. Everybody needs to be more Mavis

You know your envy is the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning

The current @mojomagazine.bsky.social is a good one. I see you Lennon, Springsteen and Hendrix and raise you @andrewmale.bsky.social on Brigitte Fontaine, Patti Smith in Paris, soul searching with Lucinda Williams, @steviechick.bsky.social on Prince’s coming of age and, sorry, me on Mavis Staples

Patti Smith’s Horses was supposed to be released 50 years ago today, on the anniversary of Arthur Rimbaud’s birth.

Due to oil shortages, it didn’t get released until November 10, 1975, the anniversary of his death

No Arzak for you tonight!

Did they let you into the back room? This is not a euphemism … so many treasures of a soul variety. You could spend all your food money in there easy

Annie & The Caldwells are touring next year - Ronnie Scott's at the end of January, then Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol. Don't hesitate. Now all we need are some Scottish dates.

“I’m as meek as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

Danny Thompson RIP. Played with Roy Orbison, Blues Incorporated, Pentangle, John Lee Hooker, Cliff, Rod, Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Tim Buckley, Tubby Hayes ... I do have a few records he's not on.

Like a family of Rubik’s Cubes … I think they might be about to become a sensation, right after Later airs in October

I know, I know … you’d think I was still some kind of TV expert or something

The Suede / Miss Annie & The Caldwells summit - coming to a telly near you next month

I'm delighted to share the finished cover of my new book, Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland. It will be published on September 11, by @headlinebooks.bsky.social. I hope you like it. Spot the wee fox!

It’s mine. He said, do you have all the issues? I do … “Wow, that must be a big room.”

Michael knows that @mojomagazine.bsky.social will be the best read you’ll hear all month