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Ali Wilson
@drumslinger.bsky.social
Drummer. Songwriter. Band leader.
Mainly music. Vinyl lover.
Occasionally working in film and TV.
Scottish Borders & Edinburgh.
There are a hundred or more wedding bands claiming online to be *Scotland’s Number One Wedding Band*. This simply can’t be true. I’ve a good mind to call Trading Standards.
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Thanks to Scottish Borders Council for sending the gritter round to spread…sorry…lay…a stripe of grit on our street. Not sure how effective this will be. Perhaps the Grit Fairy will come and spread it more effectively. Or maybe I’ll just grab a brush and try to do it myself….
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
That’s outrageous! No cowbell? Unforgivable. 🎼🤬🎼
January 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I love a bit of BÖC. Last time I saw them was over 20 years ago in Glasgow when their tour manager came onstage during “Reaper” holding the biggest cowbell I’ve ever seen. He hammered it all the way through the song. Quite funny, but he was no Gene Frenkl. 🎼😎🎼
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Sifting through my music storeroom and found *five cowbells*! I don’t ever recall buying a cowbell. Possibly once when I was a kid back in 1976 to play “Alright Now” with my first band but never two nor indeed five. But here they are!
#LessCowbell
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Sad but true.
January 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
It’s in my Braveheart blood fella…although I believe a very small part of me is from Chester-Le-Street.
January 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Oh…I see. I’m Scottish. I don’t like opening up new food when there’s old stuff still to be eaten.
January 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I mean I haven’t had a Pot Noodle since July ‘25 or possibly even earlier last year.
January 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Just using up what I had lying around fella. Forgot about the bowl of Thousand Island Dressing I had in the fridge though. Big culinary error right there!
PS: It’s my first Pot Noodle in 6 months or more.
January 16, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Homemade beef burger with Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodle.
A meal fit for a clown.
#masterchef
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Go on…dive in! #MusicSky
January 16, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Woodpecker! Took his time arriving today but there he is!
#PeckerCam
January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Now playing. Find Yourself (Don’t Fight The Feeling) by @thelegendaryhearts.bsky.social. #MusicSky

open.spotify.com/track/5HFkmt...
Find Yourself (Don't Fight The Feeling)
open.spotify.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Actual Woodpecker on the Pecker Cam. Fuzzy zoom I know but it’s definitely a pecker!
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
This tune got a proper release today and is now available to stream, download etc from all the usual places.
Dive in!
Our track “Find Yourself (Don’t Fight The Feeling)” which was previously only available via Bandcamp is now on general release. It’s on most streaming and download platforms from today and on YouTube right here: youtu.be/CHuZOgHY63Q?...
We’d be delighted if you’d give it a listen. 🎼👍🎼
Find Yourself (Don't Fight The Feeling)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert, and the band or artist…
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Got a jar of this for Christmas. Been looking forward to trying it. Opened it today and it’s feckin’ awful. A total waste of decent honey. Not sure whose idea it was to combine truffles with honey but they need to have a word with themselves. I’ve decided to store it…in the bin.
January 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Gene Frenkle. 🎼👍🎼
January 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Spent a couple of hours setting up a “Pecker Cam” so we can watch the birds in our garden. First location was too far away so relocated the cam. This is as close as I can get. Waiting for the Greater Spotted Woodpecker to arrive. He’s magnificent! Meantime it’s just a few tits…
January 8, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Almost 37 years late to the party but I’m loving this Discogs find. A promo copy of Paul Haig’s “Chain” LP with relevant A4 press blurb. It’s an excellent record and no mistake.
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Happy New Year Bluesky chums!
It’s 4am and I’m winding down after my Hogmanay gig.
Bed time now, but no rest for the wicked as I’m playing another gig in a mere 8 hours. No (proper) sleep until Friday.
All the glitz and glamour of rock’n’roll is right here…after a nice cup of tea!
Slainte! 🎼❤️🎼
January 1, 2026 at 3:46 AM
For anyone wishing to bridge the flat spot between Christmas and New Year with some excellent live music, the RAB HOWAT BAND ANNUAL PARTY is happening next Tuesday, 30th December, at Bannermans Bar, Cowgate, Edinburgh from 8pm.
Featuring special guests. Free entry!
All welcome. Come on down! 🎼👍🎼
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“Lingerie. Remember lingerie?” - Bruce Spence as the Gyro Captain in “MAD MAX 2”.
“And you may ask yourself. Well, how did I get here?” - Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime.”
Unplanned trip to local traditional woman’s outfitters. 😳
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“Feed the birds. Tuppence a bag!” as they sang in Mary Poppins. Now I know that was some time ago but I’ve decided recently to regularly feed the birds in my garden and it’s now bloody fourteen hundred and ninety nine pence a bag! Reduced from nineteen hundred pence a bag. Nuts!
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM