My 17 year old off to TRNSMT on the w/e. I ask for a rundown of programme and he talks excitedly about @DeclanMcKenna @gerrycinamon before saying "then I have to sit through some band that are *literally* called Garbage ..."
There's the multigenerational gulf right there! 😆
There's the multigenerational gulf right there! 😆
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The final part of my mini series 'Forever Songs' - inspired by songs, memories & my delightful neighbour, Al Beck - airs on @BBCRadio3 at 9.45pm, then heads to @BBCSounds
Expect a surprise guest.
And have a hankie ready.
Huge thanks to Al's family and to producer @breithorn
Expect a surprise guest.
And have a hankie ready.
Huge thanks to Al's family and to producer @breithorn
“Thinking of you, over the fields…”
An elegy in song, for a rural East Lothian legend, by celebrated folk musician @IAMKP, in the back garden. The Essay: Forever Songs on @BBCSounds 📷 John Beck ▶ bbc.in/4cnQpvZ
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Music - Memory - Connection - Kindness - Humour - Spark - Grief - LOVE. Part 3 of 'Forever Songs' inspired by my late neighbour, Al Beck, is on tonight at 9.45pm on @BBCRadio3 First two episodes already available on @BBCSounds
“Thinking of you, over the fields…”
An elegy in song, for a rural East Lothian legend, by celebrated folk musician @IAMKP, in the back garden. The Essay: Forever Songs on @BBCSounds 📷 John Beck ▶ bbc.in/4cnQpvZ
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Do I know anyone here who's got an in to behind scenes end of @HibernianFC?
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Karine Polwart retweeted
The Essay - Forever Songs - How Happy I Am - BBC Sounds Loving this story as it unfolds. @IAMKP inspired and inspiring as always. Thanks for your good wishes for my @SalonCompassion it was a great discussion and fab feedback for my book. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
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Karine Polwart retweeted
A beautiful thing about a beautiful thing: @IAMKP's Radio 3 essay about playing a back garden gig, during the pandemic, for a friend nearing the end of his life. Episode one is available now. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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Karine Polwart retweeted
How good is this from @BBCRadio3 & @IAMKP? Out of this world. Every note & syllable. Listen to the whole series
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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Thanks so much to @PaulEnglishhack for helping to tell the story of the delightful Al Beck and his back garden, homespun, single household lockdown festival: BECKSTIVAL - featured tonight and all this week at 9.45pm on @BBCRadio3 - 'Forever Songs' -
In today’s @heraldscotland, my front page exclusive telling how folk singer Karine Polwart @IAMKP staged a micro-festival in the garden of a neighbour in the last stages of cancer.
#buyapaper
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The gift of a bespoke garden gig to a neighbour nearing end of life in the summer of 2020.
A glorious email trail about the beloved songs that tell his story.
A homespun, single household, lockdown FESTIVAL.
Forever Songs @BBCRadio3 @breithorn
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
A glorious email trail about the beloved songs that tell his story.
A homespun, single household, lockdown FESTIVAL.
Forever Songs @BBCRadio3 @breithorn
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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WTF?!
🚨BREAKING🚨
@BrewDog have *sacked* one of our members for challenging senior management for allowing the EDL - a known fascist organisation - to meet in their workplace, the biggest pub in London
We will be doing everything we can legally & industrially to support this member
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on MAPS and what they tell us + closed auction gig fundraisers for @MedicalAidPal
karinepolwart.com/campaigns/9436…
karinepolwart.com/campaigns/9436…
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Three tickets left for this evenings Compassion Salon at 7pm, Steel Coulson Southside in Edinburgh - brilliant bar, brilliant beer, brilliant company.
Only three tickets left !❤️❤️ @writerkcampbell @IAMKP
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Just because it's become a TikTok smash the magnificent "Smalltown Boy' by @bronskibeatband + "Here Comes The Rain' by mighty @DaveStewart @annielennox with @IngeThomson @GraemeJSmillie @AdmiralFallow Louis Abbott, Calum Mc & Stevie P.
youtube.com/watch?v=YJl-Qx…
youtube.com/watch?v=YJl-Qx…
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The Stars Are Ours for the right to access land as communities - to roam, to camp, to live in peace.
Me and @MilliganDave on tour later in June to @MKStables @StollerHall @FireStationSun @BACKendal & Cheshire’s Clonter Opera.
Me and @MilliganDave on tour later in June to @MKStables @StollerHall @FireStationSun @BACKendal & Cheshire’s Clonter Opera.
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Ocht so sorry to hear about the death of Rod Paterson. One of the sweetest ever singers in Scots. As a soloist and also with Jock Tamson's Bairns and The Easy Club, in particular. Love to family and friends.
Here he is - "My Nannie, O" youtu.be/R1WVgky1Pxw?fe… via @YouTube
Here he is - "My Nannie, O" youtu.be/R1WVgky1Pxw?fe… via @YouTube
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Bairns singing #SmilesBetter from the #SnappyOpera me & @pippamurph made for @mahoganyopera
The dastardly (actually just misguided) Smiles Better Inc. bring their shiny Smile Hoover, Smile Remover & Smile Improver, to town.
But no-one actually needs it …
The dastardly (actually just misguided) Smiles Better Inc. bring their shiny Smile Hoover, Smile Remover & Smile Improver, to town.
But no-one actually needs it …
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Dundonians - how would you pronounce 'The Gaumont' - the old cinema that used to be in the town? Like "Cow-mont' or like "Haw-mont' or in some other particular Dundee fashion? Ta!
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Karine Polwart retweeted
War crimes before our eyes, intensified deliberately by Israel, whilst the UK persists in its complicity with genocide 💔🇵🇸
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Karine Polwart retweeted
Horrific scenes from Rafah tonight.
Too awful to re post- charred and decapitated bodies of children.
And all while the world watches.
I truly hope that in my lifetime we see those in power held to account - those who could have stopped this and failed to do so
The appalling heartless leaders who could not even find the words to condemn a massacre that has been live-streamed on our phones for months
So many of us have publicly and privately urged our government, the PM, the @FCDOGovUK to act.
This is on their watch - because they armed , supported and failed to condemn Netanyahu and his extreme right wing
We failed to support the ICJ , abstained at the UNSC , undermined the ICC and continued to arm and support a regime that has brutally slaughtered innocents for months.
UK foreign policy on Palestine is morally bankrupt.
I am sorry we failed you.🇵🇸
Too awful to re post- charred and decapitated bodies of children.
And all while the world watches.
I truly hope that in my lifetime we see those in power held to account - those who could have stopped this and failed to do so
The appalling heartless leaders who could not even find the words to condemn a massacre that has been live-streamed on our phones for months
So many of us have publicly and privately urged our government, the PM, the @FCDOGovUK to act.
This is on their watch - because they armed , supported and failed to condemn Netanyahu and his extreme right wing
We failed to support the ICJ , abstained at the UNSC , undermined the ICC and continued to arm and support a regime that has brutally slaughtered innocents for months.
UK foreign policy on Palestine is morally bankrupt.
I am sorry we failed you.🇵🇸
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