I quite enjoyed this kaleidoscopic oral biography of a fictional lost folkie, though it is somewhat hampered by almost every character speaking in more or less the same register.

Happy 35th birthday to Disintegration, the third (or perhaps fourth) best Cure album...

As their highly influential debut LP “A Walk Across The Rooftops,” turns 40, music writer Graeme Thomson reprints his 2006 interview with The Blue Nile’s leader Paul Buchanan, who properly views his music in “cinematic terms: playing a role” in his songs.
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Happy May Day
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Happy May Day
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Pubs of Scotland: William McIlvanney in Clark's Bar, Dundas Street, Edinburgh. (1989) Pic: Robin Gillanders.

A Walk Across the Rooftops was released 40 years ago today. A fair excuse to dig out the interview with Paul Buchanan I did in 2006 for Kathleen Morgan at the very fine old Herald magazine. 'Silence is perfect - what are you going to put on it?' medium.com/@graeme_17133/…

An utterly excellent interview with one of the greats. Forty years of A Walk Across The Rooftops? I think I only missed the first week. Playing it now, still - and always will be - luminous.

This is a fabulous read with some wonderful quotes from the great man…

Unbelievable - 40 years today since the first Blue Nile album was released! PJ still making music - check out the 'new' sounds at pjmooreandco.com PJ Moore The Blue Nile

I've had the pleasure and privilege of spending the past few weeks living with the new HH album. It's a bold, brave and truly brilliant record.

Happy birthday to Willie Nelson, 91 today. One of the great American lives - lived mostly on the road. I wrote this in 2005, towards the end of my book, The Outlaw. I think it more or less holds true today.

Happy birthday to Willie Nelson, 91 today. One of the great American lives - lived mostly on the road. I wrote this in 2005, towards the end of my book, The Outlaw. I think it more or less holds true today.

It’s Willie Nelson’s 91st birthday so today I shall be mostly wearing the #WillieNelson bandana I purchased at his 85th birthday party in Nashville. I may also, time permitting, rob a bank!
Expect a lot of the man’s music on the radio show tonight from 8pm. #happybirthdaywillie

Willie Nelson turns 91 tomorrow. What a life. When I wrote my Willie biography, The Outlaw, in 2006, it ended on a somewhat valedictory note. Little did I know! I'd like people to read The Outlaw, a good book that was poorly published. The kindle is here: amazon.co.uk/dp/B008FY4PAY

Willie Nelson turns 91 tomorrow. What a life. When I wrote my Willie biography, The Outlaw, in 2006, it ended on a somewhat valedictory note. Little did I know! I'd like people to read The Outlaw, a good book that was poorly published. The kindle is here: amazon.co.uk/dp/B008FY4PAY

We had a family viewing of 16 Candles the other night. I kept boring everyone by pointing out how heavily influenced it is by Gregory's Girl.

You can buy the kindle of Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds for less than the price of a pint amzn.eu/d/65plQAU