April 2025

A poem and sweet suburban playlist, with pure plastic pop for now (and then) people You can listen to me reading the following essay and poem by clicking on the wee arrow above. There’s an hour-and-a-half ‘Sweet Suburbia’ playlist towards the end, with a spoken introduction on Mixcloud and the Spotify link too. THE LATE…

Including Les Vomiteurs, The Ubiquitous Chip, Two Fat Ladies at The Buttery, lost curry houses and, well…Lochgreen House Hotel in Troon… You can listen to me reading the following text here: The worst meal I’ve ever had was at a café I’ll call Les Vomiteurs in the then seriously untrendy, ungentrified, occasionally unsafe area of…

The musical frenzy that was Glasgow in the mid-1980s My photographer pal Stewart Cunningham and I are currently working on a wee photobook about our couple of years in the mid-1980s snapping and writing in Glasgow for the late music weekly Melody Maker. Here’s a taster. ‘Caught Up In This Big Rhythm’,will be available in…

Got them old lateral anterior descending artery blues again…(slight return) You can read the text below or spend nine minutes or so listening to me read it. Wednesday, late morning, April 2025. Battered plastic seating, firmly anchored. It’s sunny, hot for the start of supposed spring, and it’s quiet here at Reception. Waiting in the…