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Return of saturn by no doubt
A look back at an album that didn’t get all the love but always deserved it. All the boys at school moved to Manchester’s sound. Some of them made their own noise, Scottish teenagers suddenly singing through their noses like Liam, swaggering around the schoolyard in parka jackets bought from the Littlewoods catalogue. Britpop made… Read more
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Hometown Boring?
A few months ago, I was approached by a producer at The BBC to be interviewed for a new podcast called Hometown Boring? all about underrated towns and the people that live in them. Now I don’t live in Cumbernauld anymore, but they reached out to me and I thought it sounded like a good… Read more
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Racks and stacks: magazine mania at the book shop
I loved losing myself in magazines. Something about turning a page just appeals, but then as an author of contemporary fiction, that’s a given. These days, not so much. Oh, you can read books and magazines, but digital copies don’t have the turn and flick sensation that connects me to the page. Not that I… Read more
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We used to meet at the clock…
Dr. Beeching helped me learn how to tell the time. Not personally, of course. That was my mother. Besides, Beeching was long gone by the time I discovered the St. Enoch Clock in Cumbernauld Town Centre. As a wee bairn, I passed it nearly every day with my parents, who used it to show me… Read more
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Chat shows and literary show stoppers
The greatest chat show host ever is Dick Cavett and no-one will ever come close. When I use the phrase ‘chat show’, I’m referring to the rarefied profession of hosting a late night gathering in a studio, rather than the ridiculous fun of Ricki Lake who, alongside many others, is a talk show host. A… Read more
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Steep City *or Record Store Day revisited*
The point of Record Store Day isn’t just to keep local businesses alive and thriving, which it does in the same way pantomime keeps your theatre lit and lively the whole year round. The real point, the true reason Record Store Day exists, is to sell records to people who can then show off their… Read more
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