David McGuinness
@davidmcguinness.bsky.social
amateur executant: usually too busy organising music to make any. https://linktr.ee/davidmcg
anyone advocated a cultural boycott of the US yet?
January 19, 2026 at 6:33 PM
anyone advocated a cultural boycott of the US yet?
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Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH.
thecritic.co.uk/arti...
thecritic.co.uk/arti...
January 13, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Artificial Unintelligence: the government is in full retreat over copyright, and the attempts to make it look dignified only make it funnier. My SKETCH.
thecritic.co.uk/arti...
thecritic.co.uk/arti...
this is absolutely amazing - an anonymous person has spent two years mapping the state of every public path in Glasgow "with the movement of high support mobility device users as priority" 👏👏👏 glasgowaudit.wordpress.com/about/
January 12, 2026 at 3:16 PM
this is absolutely amazing - an anonymous person has spent two years mapping the state of every public path in Glasgow "with the movement of high support mobility device users as priority" 👏👏👏 glasgowaudit.wordpress.com/about/
amazingly, Ski Sunday is still running as a TV programme, and it still has the same sig tune, but they drown it out with crap sound FX. better to subtitle it so we can all sing along https://youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?si=xJJbkIIwTacgBtMg
Ski Sunday!
YouTube video by TheJeremyLion
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January 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
amazingly, Ski Sunday is still running as a TV programme, and it still has the same sig tune, but they drown it out with crap sound FX. better to subtitle it so we can all sing along https://youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?si=xJJbkIIwTacgBtMg
having just had to postpone a recording session because the organ pitch had dropped in the cold weather, this is definitely my favourite news story of the week https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/22/organ-tuning-books-english-churches-notes-warming-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
having just had to postpone a recording session because the organ pitch had dropped in the cold weather, this is definitely my favourite news story of the week https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/22/organ-tuning-books-english-churches-notes-warming-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
even if Derek Griffiths had done nothing other than the music for Bod, and singing in the chorus on I Am The Walrus, he would still be an utter legend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1zj
Remembers... - Derek Griffiths Remembers... Bod
Derek Griffiths, himself an icon of children's broadcasting, looks back on the 1970s animated series Bod, a cult classic narrated by John Le Mesurier of Dad’s Army fame.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
even if Derek Griffiths had done nothing other than the music for Bod, and singing in the chorus on I Am The Walrus, he would still be an utter legend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002p1zj
Reposted by David McGuinness
Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland
December 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland
Just got to listen to Maxim Emelyanychev trying out three different pianos (1844 Broadwood, 1880s Erard, 1970s Steinway), and going to see Josie Long tonight. Not bad for a day off, eh?
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just got to listen to Maxim Emelyanychev trying out three different pianos (1844 Broadwood, 1880s Erard, 1970s Steinway), and going to see Josie Long tonight. Not bad for a day off, eh?
this was so much fun to do: sitting round a table enthusing about XTC!
Twenty-five years after its release, Wasp Star remains XTC’s final statement. In today’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we head to the west of Scotland where Glasgow-based XTC fans show their love for a fascinating album. www.xtclimelight.com/2025/12/05/x...
XTC's Wasp Star at 25 - xtclimelight.com
Wasp Star remains XTC’s final statement. So how does the album stand up? Is it underrated? Is it neglected? And is it in need of some more love?
www.xtclimelight.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
this was so much fun to do: sitting round a table enthusing about XTC!
a wee sundial on my new old jacket, thanks to @alisoneales.com fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mox-nox
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
a wee sundial on my new old jacket, thanks to @alisoneales.com fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mox-nox
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“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest
buff.ly/QM9uFi9
this is incredible - Public Information Film meets Sesame Street. "Hey! Luggage Chute!"
AFC: AUTOMATIC FARE COLLECTION AND YOU (1969) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqO9tnRlcY
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
this is incredible - Public Information Film meets Sesame Street. "Hey! Luggage Chute!"
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I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history.
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things".
yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...
from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can) concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness
Choose your preferred music service
concertocaledonia.ffm.to
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
from today, all this ludicrous music where 18th-century Italian composers tried to sound Scottish and Scottish ones tried to sound Italian is out in the wild again - find your preferred streaming service here (and consider leaving Sp*tlfy if you can) concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
coming to streaming services on Friday after only 24 years' wait - pre-save here concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
coming to streaming services on Friday after only 24 years' wait - pre-save here concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mungrelstuff
at @uofglasgowmusic.bsky.social today in the space of an hour, today's year 2 performance workshop had some Welsh triple harp, a bit of John Mayer, and Debussy played on two different Steinways and an Erard. The student consensus was for the Erard: yes! 🎉
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
at @uofglasgowmusic.bsky.social today in the space of an hour, today's year 2 performance workshop had some Welsh triple harp, a bit of John Mayer, and Debussy played on two different Steinways and an Erard. The student consensus was for the Erard: yes! 🎉
Reposted by David McGuinness
Melbourne: ever helpful
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Melbourne: ever helpful
about 4 minutes into last night's #totp repeat you can spot audio legend Calum Malcolm miming to his carefully crafted keyboard parts on a classic CP-70/Prophet 5 combo in Edinburgh's power popsters The Headboys www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Top of the Pops - 11/10/1979
Andy Peebles presents pop chart programme, first broadcast on 11 October 1979 and featuring The Dooleys, Chic, Dr Hook, Viola Wills, Cats UK, Dave Edmunds, Dana and the Police.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
about 4 minutes into last night's #totp repeat you can spot audio legend Calum Malcolm miming to his carefully crafted keyboard parts on a classic CP-70/Prophet 5 combo in Edinburgh's power popsters The Headboys www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
great to hear the unstoppable Matt Wadsworth in this feature on 200 years of Braille music notation https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Sunday Feature - Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music - BBC Sounds
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
great to hear the unstoppable Matt Wadsworth in this feature on 200 years of Braille music notation https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jst7?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
as of today, MUNGREL STUFF is available again on Bandcamp: over 70 minutes of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments in all their ridiculous glory. Get it here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.com/album/mungrel-stuff
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
as of today, MUNGREL STUFF is available again on Bandcamp: over 70 minutes of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments in all their ridiculous glory. Get it here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.com/album/mungrel-stuff
yesterday's organ tourism, at the 1970s-tastic Hradetzky in St Salvator's chapel in St Andrews, which my Buxtehude score reminded me I had played once before. Chris Bragg also showed me the amazing new Laidlaw Music Centre with its moving floor and reverberation chamber in the roof - wow!
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
yesterday's organ tourism, at the 1970s-tastic Hradetzky in St Salvator's chapel in St Andrews, which my Buxtehude score reminded me I had played once before. Chris Bragg also showed me the amazing new Laidlaw Music Centre with its moving floor and reverberation chamber in the roof - wow!
today's organ tourism, on the wonderful early 18th-century styled Ahrend organ in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh. I gave a recital on this about 30 years ago, can't remember what I played ...
September 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
today's organ tourism, on the wonderful early 18th-century styled Ahrend organ in the Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh. I gave a recital on this about 30 years ago, can't remember what I played ...