Category: Diary
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Hiding from Hendrix Part 3
Would I have the nerve to go? My only claim to fame is turning down the chance to interview one of the world’s greatest rock stars.
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FOUND in chocolate (where else?)
Kev, Ziggy and Tommy enjoy the band Proud parents have followed FOUND the band to all kinds of places. We missed the Small Isles Festival on Eigg but made it to T in the Park, and a container gig (no kidding) in a car park plus sundry clubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. We were…
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Norwegians would
This is a museum, the real off license is closed Imagine a country where supermarkets do not sell wine and spirits and the only off licence chain is owned by the state. What’s more the offy closes at 3pm on Saturdays and doesn’t open at all on public holidays. No, of course that country is…
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Pelican patrol
Just to show I don’t spend all my time photographing litter. Here’s my attempt at origami pelicans to hang on the Poetry Tree in the Poetry Garden in St Andrew Square. So, you don’t know about the Poetry Garden? More about that later – right now I better go and pack for the trip to…
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Joining or dividing?
Does social media connect or separate communities? (With apologies to Ian Hamilton Finlay and Little Sparta) Distraction. I should be working but Googling alerts me to a poll on the Guardian’s Edinburgh blog. Should the Old Odeon become a Wetherspoons pub? By the time I vote (no, of course) and leave a comment the story…
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At a club, concert hall or container near you
Welcome back to the Broughton music festival (see yesterday’s blog). Thank goodness for the alphabet because it would be impossible to give any other order of priority to these highly individual musicians. What they all have in common is a desire to experiment and a strong collaborative streak. A roll of drums please for Andy…
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Broughton rocks…all over the world
You can find them at clubs, concert halls or festivals near you whether you are in New York, Austin Texas, Mexico, London, Edinburgh or Glasgow – a fantastic bunch of young people making music for a living and for fun. They are at T in the Park and on the Island of Eigg; live on…
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Bag for life
No time for blogging this week. I have thousands of words to churn out for another publication. But, oh dear, maybe I shouldn’t bother trying to write anything new here, a quick look at my dashboard shows another crop of comments on the old Tesco blogs. Could be my bag for life…
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Many a slip…thank goodness
Thank you, thank you Jim Naughtie. Yesterday was a pretty grim day news wise apart from that wonderful slip of the tongue on Today. And, oh, it was an accident waiting to happen, some people have names that invite mischief. Reminds me when I was a trainee reporter, on my newspaper in East Anglia we…
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Christmas rapping recycled
Sno Biz from Tommy Perman on Vimeo. Here’s something to cheer me up and maybe you too. I started the morning fed up with the snow, tired of people oohing and aaahing about how pretty it looks on Twitter, and wondering how much longer it can go on. Then I discover Tommy has recycled some…
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Gone fishin
Time for bed, tomorrow we are off to Berlin by train on a long slow journey from Edinburgh Waverley. I am still struggling to decide whether I should take my laptop. Maybe I should just fill my bag with books. On the other hand I might just look out of the window and watch the…
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Gormfull on the Water of Leith
One piece by the bridge at Stockbridge By the time we got there the red bikini was off. But the naked body in the water was discreetly half hidden by foliage. A couple pass by not quite sure what to make of it, “Look,” says the woman, “there’s someone in the water.” Which would Gormley…