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Part-time everything bloke, sadly bereft of charm, insight or wit. Just sitting here watching the hail of occurrence clobber life out to a shape no one sees.

Glasgow
Joined February 2011
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Just over a week to go until a night of Songs and Stories with Michael McMillan and Anne Gair. We were going to call it 'Songs, Stories and Balloon-Folding', but I staved my thumb opening a jar of marraschino cherries, so it will need to be just the songs and the stories.
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Lunchtime Selection – Special Guest – Raymond Weir celticmusicradio.net/lunchti… On the radio today from 12 to 2 with Ian Oliphant, talking and singing and stuff.
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The new Eisenhowers EP is now up on Spotify, i-Tunes and all the rest. Can't wait for those royalties to come flooding in, because I need a new spatula. open.spotify.com/album/0i78e…
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The Eisenhowers - The calm beyond the storm amazingradio.com/profile/the… I'm amazed that Amazing Radio picked up on this amazing track so amazingly quickly. There's only word to describe this, but -amazingly- I've somehow forgotten what that word is.
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Available on streaming platforms from Friday, but available on Bandcamp now, the new Eisenhowers EP. Features guest appearance by someone pretending to be Mick Karn. In a good way. theeisenhowers.bandcamp.com/…
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Out this Friday, a new single by The Eisenhowers, making the case for switching off 'the signal and the noise' and finding yourself a bit of headspace: youtube.com/watch?v=jhoSfEfd…
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Out on Friday, the new single by The Eisenhowers. A dreamy and atmospheric plea for some digital headspace, or something. youtube.com/watch?v=jhoSfEfd…
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My love for Mick Karn's bass-playing goes beyond words, but this guy manages to articulate some of that feeling: youtube.com/watch?v=jFyZMd6A…
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The ‘Panel Show Prince’ -according to the definition I’m making up- is an oleaginous media whore, willing to adjust his principles in line with the views and prejudices of his paymasters. Here’s a song about him: youtube.com/watch?v=MQhXShP-…
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'Panel Show Prince' by The Eisenhowers youtu.be/MQhXShP-Xmo?si=bJ1Y… via @YouTube The ‘Panel Show Prince’ is a regime comedian endorsed and promoted beyond his comedic talents because he frames his observations within boundaries dictated by the prevailing orthodoxy.
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Reports coming in of nothing much happening since I never left X.
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This is me not leaving X. Regular updates to follow as the situation develops.
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The Eisenhower's released Nudge Unit Blues at the start of the month. Seuras Og (@retropath) takes a listen to the latest album from Glasgow's post-punk polemicist. atthebarrier.com/2023/09/17/… @RaymondWeir
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Bazungatron is my word of the day.
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A song about being in a band. Probably not a happy ending, then. youtu.be/LF_2XUUPyLc
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Here's an acoustic performance of 'My Gang', a song about political polarisation. Anyone who doesn't like it is literally Hitler. youtu.be/uvfKDmNU5yo
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