Andrew Tully
@charlieendell
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Teacher, parent and one time musical footnote.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2011
I have become an ‘expert’ in Minecraft, Roblox, Monster Trux, MMA, Manga and Taylor Swift. Today an 11 year old introduced me to ‘Breakcore’ and the ‘Amen Break’ - something I’ve heard on records over the last 35 years! 60 year old mind officially blown!#EveryDayIsASchoolDay
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June is my favourite time of the year as a teacher when our Primary Transition pupils come up for their three day visit to High School. Over the years, to help the neurodivergent and the anxious settle in…/1 https://t.co/MjcAYh5usJ
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‘Speedway’, given his more recent provocations seemed especially poignant “All of the rumours Keeping me grounded I never said, I never said that they were Completely unfounded” But for now, my heart is full. Thanks to fellow, loafing oaf, Margarita for the marvellous pics📸
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And tonight, just like any other night, he swoons and seduces and I am, as always, overcome. The voice is strong, the quiff less so but this love is real…/2
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“… I know ‘cause tonight is just like any other night That’s why you’re on your own tonight With your triumphs and your charms” Over 40 years since I first gazed shyly on that magnificent, mercurial, playfully misanthropic Morrissey /1
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Iggy Pop tonight in Glasgow, last seen in 1991 when he was an old man of 44. Tonight, battle-scarred and ravaged,top discarded before the first four beats; the lone,leonine leader of the pack,still standing,still raging -Iggy, at the end, exit stage right to ‘Funtime’-magnificent
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‘Pick up the baton and pass it on’. A righteous, riotous and riveting night @lyceumedinburgh A two-hander set in the Memphis motel the night before Martin Luther King’s assassination. Truly fantastical - there must be angels!
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…some time near the end of that last century, working in a record shop in Edinburgh - he was selling shoeboxes full of old tickets, badges and this… Back between those dusty pages it flies!
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Just turned 18, (Steve) Morrissey rallies the high-heeled hordes from his Stretford bedroom, you can hear those typewriter keys clacking still. Any clues as to who the anonymous Peter is? I purchased the letter from some “rain-coated lover’…
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…Then today, switching on the car radio on the weekly shopping trip, what should burble forth on @BBCRadio3 but this little joy of a programme - Hear Hard indeed!👂🏼
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“Listen to everything all the time, & remind yourself when you’re not Serendipity indeed! I first came across the name Pauline Oliveros last year during Bill Drummond and Tam Dean Burn’s ‘Hear Hard’ schlep round the more insalubrious of Edinburgh’s howffs!
bbc.co.uk
An exploration of the work of composer and 'deep listening' pioneer, Pauline Oliveros.
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The unbridled joy of listening to @BBCRadio3 - driving home yesterday morn across Scotland’s frosty borderlands, the home of Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, I was sorely awoke from my reverie by this banger - hats off to @PetrocTrelawny
https://t.co/ndWJ3wm0vh
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“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” Agitated, articulate & angry @omarelakkad railing against genocide in Palestine & our complicity
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…he’s been arrested by Israeli Police, citing a single children’s colouring book as evidence of ‘incitement to terrorism’. Very soon we will all be terrorists✊🏽@bookseller_jer @SaqiBooks @matthewteller
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3 months ago I saw Mahmoud Muna in Edinburgh for the launch of the book he edited ‘Daybreak in Gaza’ chronicling the voices of the dispossessed in Gaza and now🇵🇸…Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners | Israel | The Guardian
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Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as attempt to create ‘culture of fear’ among Palestinian intellectuals
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Riotous, righteous and rapturous…and that was just meeting up with the young ones before Femi Kuti and the Positive Force ripped it up at Celtic Connections
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“All you good, good people” - Portobello gonna be rockin’ on New Year’s Day - got my diamond tank top, Gabicci knit polo shirt and hi-waisters all ready to go - @VicGalloway on the wheels of steel🪩
Only a few days to go! @edhogmanay presents: 🍋 VITAMIN C 🍋 Weds 1st January 2025 🍋 Portobello Town Hall 🍋 "Music is the Answer" @the_vaselines LIVE @sacredpaws LIVE @thedjangos DJ Set @n0b0daddy & I residents 7.30pm – 1am (Doors 7pm) Tickets 🎟 https://t.co/RTYNIdRRyt
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Some thought-provoking Boxing Day reading @NYRB_Imprints Sophie’s Brave New World | Sam Huber | The New York Review of Books
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Late one evening when I was twenty, a boy I liked shared a theory: queer people who come out in adulthood go through a second adolescence. Freed from the
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Bless my cotton socks - I’m on a mug!☕️
Only 1 more shopping day left to Xmas - Desperadoes merch available has doubled - thanks to @mpreed for this porcelain birthday present, available at your local National Trust tea room soon! Remarkable how the mug handle matches my ears! 🙉10” still available from @PrecRecs
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School Xmas night out-as we got closer to the restaurant I realised I was on hallowed ground. The distant echo of my old band, Rote Kapelle, still to be heard in the old brickwork & despite some pot-pourri, the fusty smell of our old rehearsal rooms 40 years on!
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