Grant McPhee
@grantmcphee.bsky.social
Film director: Big Gold Dream, Teenage Superstars, Far From the Apple Tree.
Book Writer - Postcards From Scotland and co-writer Hungry Beat
Book Writer - Postcards From Scotland and co-writer Hungry Beat
Today's Velvet Underground myth takes a deep dive into whether Brian Epstein, Bowie and The Yardbirds has a pre-release 'acetate' of the Velvet Underground and Nico album
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Bowie, Brian Epstein, and the Velvet Underground Myth
This is a slight detour from the continuing Velvet Underground Popularity Myth series: The Bowie, Brian Epstein and the Velvet Underground Myth.
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December 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today's Velvet Underground myth takes a deep dive into whether Brian Epstein, Bowie and The Yardbirds has a pre-release 'acetate' of the Velvet Underground and Nico album
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth
Part 8
September and October 1966
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Part 8
September and October 1966
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December 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth
Part 8
September and October 1966
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Part 8
September and October 1966
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth
Part 7: July and August 1966
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Part 7: July and August 1966
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth
Part 7: July and August 1966
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December 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth
Part 7: July and August 1966
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Part 7: July and August 1966
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Caledonia Screaming in Christmas Eve's The National.
The forgotten 1977 punk story
The forgotten 1977 punk story
December 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Caledonia Screaming in Christmas Eve's The National.
The forgotten 1977 punk story
The forgotten 1977 punk story
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth Part 6 - May 1966 pt2 and June 1966
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December 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth Part 6 - May 1966 pt2 and June 1966
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Thanks Penny Black Music for making Caledonia Screaming their Book of the Year runner-up. Congrats to Chris Wade for being top
"a more rounded and balanced account of 70’s punk that has ever been produced before, not just for Scotland but throughout Britain"
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"a more rounded and balanced account of 70’s punk that has ever been produced before, not just for Scotland but throughout Britain"
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Pennyblackmusic - Book of the Year 2025
We reveal our Book of the Year for 2025.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thanks Penny Black Music for making Caledonia Screaming their Book of the Year runner-up. Congrats to Chris Wade for being top
"a more rounded and balanced account of 70’s punk that has ever been produced before, not just for Scotland but throughout Britain"
pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Home/Details...
"a more rounded and balanced account of 70’s punk that has ever been produced before, not just for Scotland but throughout Britain"
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth - Part 5: May 1966 (1 of 2)
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December 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth - Part 5: May 1966 (1 of 2)
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth: Pt.4 - April 1966.
The busiest and most high profile month yet - and still a year away from recording their debut album.
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The busiest and most high profile month yet - and still a year away from recording their debut album.
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December 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth: Pt.4 - April 1966.
The busiest and most high profile month yet - and still a year away from recording their debut album.
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The busiest and most high profile month yet - and still a year away from recording their debut album.
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth.
Part 3 - February and March 1966.
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Part 3 - February and March 1966.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth.
Part 3 - February and March 1966.
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Part 3 - February and March 1966.
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth: Part 2 - January 1966.
In which Andy Warhol becomes sponsor and introduces them to high society.
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In which Andy Warhol becomes sponsor and introduces them to high society.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth: Part 2 - January 1966.
In which Andy Warhol becomes sponsor and introduces them to high society.
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In which Andy Warhol becomes sponsor and introduces them to high society.
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The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth 2.
Pt.1 1963-1965
I went a bit crazy with updating my Velvet Underground Myth. There's about 40 of these Substack things though 63-65 is short, every other one is a single month through the eyes of the local press.
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Pt.1 1963-1965
I went a bit crazy with updating my Velvet Underground Myth. There's about 40 of these Substack things though 63-65 is short, every other one is a single month through the eyes of the local press.
grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Velvet Underground Popularity Myth 2.
Pt.1 1963-1965
I went a bit crazy with updating my Velvet Underground Myth. There's about 40 of these Substack things though 63-65 is short, every other one is a single month through the eyes of the local press.
grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...
Pt.1 1963-1965
I went a bit crazy with updating my Velvet Underground Myth. There's about 40 of these Substack things though 63-65 is short, every other one is a single month through the eyes of the local press.
grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet...
The good folk at Jumbo Records, Leeds have 2 copies of Caledonia Screaming left.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The good folk at Jumbo Records, Leeds have 2 copies of Caledonia Screaming left.
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www.jumborecords.co.uk/book-single....
ust in time to arrive for Christmas.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
ust in time to arrive for Christmas.
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All Tomorrow's Parties 7" reviewed in September 1966. The Velvet Underground even had their own fanclub by this point.
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
All Tomorrow's Parties 7" reviewed in September 1966. The Velvet Underground even had their own fanclub by this point.
Caledonia Screaming making the front page of the Herald this weekend in preview form, and a two page physical spread in the magazine. Thanks again Russell Leadbetter.
December 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Caledonia Screaming making the front page of the Herald this weekend in preview form, and a two page physical spread in the magazine. Thanks again Russell Leadbetter.
Caledonia Screaming in IT
Caledonia Screaming
Scotland, the Underground, and the Punk That Wasn’t Meant to Exist
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Scotland, the Underground, and the Punk That Wasn’t Meant to Exist
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December 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Caledonia Screaming in IT
The advent of punk music north of the border is traced in Caledonia Screaming, a new book that tells, in granular detail, the vivid story of Scotland’s punk years of those two years. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Scotland's first punk gig took place far away from where you might imagine
The first punk gig in Scotland took place in the Tower Hotel, Hawick, on August 28, 1976, and the "London rock group" that proved to be of…
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December 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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With my 🎅 hat firmly on, I’m giving away a signed book. Simply reply/quote tweet with your favourite song by one – only one – of the subjects of the books pictured: John Martyn, Kate Bush or Simple Minds. A winner will be picked at random. The book you win will correspond to your song choice🎄📚 📦
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
With my 🎅 hat firmly on, I’m giving away a signed book. Simply reply/quote tweet with your favourite song by one – only one – of the subjects of the books pictured: John Martyn, Kate Bush or Simple Minds. A winner will be picked at random. The book you win will correspond to your song choice🎄📚 📦
Some Caledonia Screaming chat with Daffy - and a rare chance to hear some Matt Vinyl and the Decorators
Today's Daffy's Discs from Sunny Govan Radio features @grantmcphee.bsky.social - We talk about his new book 'Caledonia Screaming' , discuss the Scottish punk scene 1976-77 and play some seldom-heard tunes. Now available on Mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/SunnyG103/da...
Daffy's Discs 6th December 2025: Grant McPhee & Scottish Punk ('76-77)
Daffy's Discs as broadcast on Sunny Govan Community Radio on 6th December 2025. A special show featuring an interview with Grant McPhee, who discusses his book 'Caledonia Screaming' which examines the...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Some Caledonia Screaming chat with Daffy - and a rare chance to hear some Matt Vinyl and the Decorators
Yah! Caledonia Screaming is one of the Herald's music books of the year. "Punk was alive, well and living in Falkirk, Glenrothes and Ayr". Thanks Teddy Jamieson.
Lots of exciting '50th anniversary of punk' things in store for the book next year. Thanks all for your help with it.
Lots of exciting '50th anniversary of punk' things in store for the book next year. Thanks all for your help with it.
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yah! Caledonia Screaming is one of the Herald's music books of the year. "Punk was alive, well and living in Falkirk, Glenrothes and Ayr". Thanks Teddy Jamieson.
Lots of exciting '50th anniversary of punk' things in store for the book next year. Thanks all for your help with it.
Lots of exciting '50th anniversary of punk' things in store for the book next year. Thanks all for your help with it.
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3 left in the whole wide world come on come on
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Songbook, by Alex Fergusson
13 track album
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December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
3 left in the whole wide world come on come on
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I can never have too many books about early punk 🎶 @grantmcphee.bsky.social
Thanks @monorailmusic.bsky.social
Thanks @monorailmusic.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I can never have too many books about early punk 🎶 @grantmcphee.bsky.social
Thanks @monorailmusic.bsky.social
Thanks @monorailmusic.bsky.social
John Cale and Edie Sedgwick in the Sunday Mirror, August 1966 in a surprising article about the Fugs and Velvet Underground. Not as surprising though as a January 1966 review in the Daily Telegraph of the VU's gig at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry!
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
John Cale and Edie Sedgwick in the Sunday Mirror, August 1966 in a surprising article about the Fugs and Velvet Underground. Not as surprising though as a January 1966 review in the Daily Telegraph of the VU's gig at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry!
"Nico is not a talkative girl"
Youth Beat's interview with Nico during Chelsea Girls promotion, 1967
Youth Beat's interview with Nico during Chelsea Girls promotion, 1967
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Nico is not a talkative girl"
Youth Beat's interview with Nico during Chelsea Girls promotion, 1967
Youth Beat's interview with Nico during Chelsea Girls promotion, 1967
Anachronistic proto-punk bands in local newspapers #21 : The MC5 in the Greenock Telegraph, 2nd April 1977. With a competition to win a free copy of Back in the USA.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Anachronistic proto-punk bands in local newspapers #21 : The MC5 in the Greenock Telegraph, 2nd April 1977. With a competition to win a free copy of Back in the USA.