September 2007

In Glasgow after accompanying Magnus on his first motorised foray onto motorways….and he did well, though my nerves were somewhat shredded at his cavalier attitude towards lane discipline on Dundee’s myriad roundabouts. Horrendous delays at the first roundabout coming into Dundee from Aberdeen…and the really odd thing was this: about 75 per cent of the…

Edwyn Collin’s new CD Home Again is album of the week over at the Tom Morton Show, and excellent it is too. Recorded before Edwyn’s two brain haemorrhages, his recovery has enabled him to finish and mix the record, and it contains some of his best solo work, I think. My old friend and colleague…

Dropped in on the E4+1 edition of The Sopranos tonight, and was completely swept up and away, despite my best attempts to abandon the telly and make tea. How frigidly cool is the music? leaving aside the Alabama (A) 3’s fabulous theme, so much of it reverberates still from past series – Nils Lofgren’s Black…

So, this is/was Connect on the Saturday…featuring Dave and Lucy, Rilo Kiley, some mud, a little sunshine and me with The Hold Steady…

It’s 25 years old, my wee Honda Silverwing, but it performed perfectly on the run from Clydebank to Aberdeen yesterday. Well, apart from the broken speedo cable, meaning that I had to guess my velocity from the movement of other traffic (I tried to keep somewhere between buses and Renault Clios). But the rain stayed…

Phew!Just wondering if the colossal amount of doner kebab Just consumed is going to kill me. (Not to self: double dose of pravastatin, atenelol and aspirin tonight) Seemingly endless bus trip back from Inveraray (why go via Dalmally and Tyndrum? What was wrong with the Rest and Be Thankful as on the way up from…