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Tag Archives: gig
Book Sales and Rising
Image: Blogspot Get Over It I felt absolutely downtrodden going to the day job yesterday and it was all down to the thought of missing that blasted Arab Strab gig. It got stupid when people were tweeting they had a … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Arab Strap, Baccara Burning, crime, dining out, dinner, drinks, ebook, eBooks, Editing, Family, Fiction, Friday Vid, friends, gig, Glasgow, Leith, meal, Music, Nice n Sleazy, paranormal, Poetry, revising, royalties, sales, Shed Seven, The First Big Weekend, Twitter, Video, Writing
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Arab Strap Wound Me Right Up
Image: Tourdates.co.uk Arab Strap Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat managed to get my hopes up yet again last night, when more tickets for the Arab Strap gig at Nice n Sleazy’s were made available to the next 30 on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, eBooks, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, Arab Strap, Benidorm, Blasted Heath, cover art, Dreaming, dreams, Fiction, ghosts, gig, Glasgow, illustrations, JT Lindroos, Kids' Poems, Malcolm Middleton, Music, Nice n Sleazy, nightmare, novel, Poetry, scanning, short fiction, thriller
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Opening Night of the Trees for Life Charity Exhibition
Trees for Life I attended the official opening night of the Trees for Life charity exhibition last night. It was a very strange experience to see my own poetry framed and mounted on a wall in a gallery for people … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Leith, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Art, Beasley Street, Blue Drill Hall, Caledonian Forest, charity, Edinburgh, Evidently Chickentown, exhibition, Friday Vid, gig, Japanese food, John Cooper Clarke, Kid Canaveral, King Creosote, Leith, Liquid Room, Lothian Road, Lydia Crow, Out of the Blue, Poetry, prose, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Video, Wagamama, YouTube
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Making an Arse of It, Part 2
I’ve written before about how great the recently re-released debut album from Kid Canaveral Shouting at Wildlife is, and I’ve also mentioned how much I enjoy listening to singer/songwriter King Creosote. As luck would have it, both of them kicked … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged Ali Wilson, arse, Bannerman's, beer, Blue Drill Hall, eBooks, Fiction, Finnegan's Wake, gig, Kid Canaveral, King Creosote, Leith, Liquid Room, live music, Music, Out of the Blue, Poetry, Rab Howat, review, The Dalry Lamas, The Rab Howat Band, Trees for Life, websites
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It’s That Time of the Year Again
Image: Unknown Shocked Lunchtime. I’m munching on a chicken roll and a cup of bacon and sweetcorn chowder soup. I tune into the BBC News website, as I always do, to see what’s happening in the world. One of the … Continue reading →