Lost Glasgow
@lostglasgow.bsky.social
Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
This just in...
President Trump has bombed Celtic Park. Wilfried Nancy and his wife have been captured, and are now on a CalMac ferry heading for Rothesay.
More as I get it...
President Trump has bombed Celtic Park. Wilfried Nancy and his wife have been captured, and are now on a CalMac ferry heading for Rothesay.
More as I get it...
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
This just in...
President Trump has bombed Celtic Park. Wilfried Nancy and his wife have been captured, and are now on a CalMac ferry heading for Rothesay.
More as I get it...
President Trump has bombed Celtic Park. Wilfried Nancy and his wife have been captured, and are now on a CalMac ferry heading for Rothesay.
More as I get it...
Oh, here, we lost this bad brother the other year.
He once asked me to put my head in his bass bin, then did Bomber; Deaf for a week.
Mind you, he also gave me lines of his 'diesel' speed...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt...
He once asked me to put my head in his bass bin, then did Bomber; Deaf for a week.
Mind you, he also gave me lines of his 'diesel' speed...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt...
Motörhead – Bomber (Official Video)
YouTube video by Motörhead Official
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Oh, here, we lost this bad brother the other year.
He once asked me to put my head in his bass bin, then did Bomber; Deaf for a week.
Mind you, he also gave me lines of his 'diesel' speed...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt...
He once asked me to put my head in his bass bin, then did Bomber; Deaf for a week.
Mind you, he also gave me lines of his 'diesel' speed...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt...
My old Dundee brothers, the Swiss Family Orbison, are back on fire,
Next week..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONk...
Next week..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONk...
"I'm in Love"
YouTube video by kitclark
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:55 AM
My old Dundee brothers, the Swiss Family Orbison, are back on fire,
Next week..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONk...
Next week..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONk...
Glitter Band 'Let's Get Together Again' (live)
YouTube video by GlitterBandFan
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Pretenders
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Night!
Thinking of my bestie, Colin, who I lost 4 years ago today.
He was in a hospice, with cancer, so I couldn't visit,
On our last phonecall we counted 72 Fall gigs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90E...
Thinking of my bestie, Colin, who I lost 4 years ago today.
He was in a hospice, with cancer, so I couldn't visit,
On our last phonecall we counted 72 Fall gigs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90E...
The Fall - Touch Sensitive music video
YouTube video by Stefan Davenport
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Night!
Thinking of my bestie, Colin, who I lost 4 years ago today.
He was in a hospice, with cancer, so I couldn't visit,
On our last phonecall we counted 72 Fall gigs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90E...
Thinking of my bestie, Colin, who I lost 4 years ago today.
He was in a hospice, with cancer, so I couldn't visit,
On our last phonecall we counted 72 Fall gigs...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90E...
The Chocolate Watchband - Baby Blue
YouTube video by heavenlyblueorange
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I have a thing with Patti - I love her.
I bought her early singles/LPs - I was about 11; I knew she was the real deal.
Roll on, a photograghy exib in Clydbank - standing, looking at a belter, and a voice behind me says...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Fr...
I bought her early singles/LPs - I was about 11; I knew she was the real deal.
Roll on, a photograghy exib in Clydbank - standing, looking at a belter, and a voice behind me says...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Fr...
Patti Smith - Horses
YouTube video by hazárd
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I have a thing with Patti - I love her.
I bought her early singles/LPs - I was about 11; I knew she was the real deal.
Roll on, a photograghy exib in Clydbank - standing, looking at a belter, and a voice behind me says...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Fr...
I bought her early singles/LPs - I was about 11; I knew she was the real deal.
Roll on, a photograghy exib in Clydbank - standing, looking at a belter, and a voice behind me says...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Fr...
Oh well, I suppose it's almost...
Pic: Pollokshields, by Martin Graham
Pic: Pollokshields, by Martin Graham
January 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Oh well, I suppose it's almost...
Pic: Pollokshields, by Martin Graham
Pic: Pollokshields, by Martin Graham
George Square, Hogmanay, 1966.
Pic: David Newell-Smith
Pic: David Newell-Smith
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
George Square, Hogmanay, 1966.
Pic: David Newell-Smith
Pic: David Newell-Smith
As the Sun begins to set on the old year, I'm about to vanish off for a long, hot bath, ahead of tonight's shenanigans.
Wishing you all a happy Hogmanay, and a guid New Year.
See you on the flipside.
Slainte!
Wishing you all a happy Hogmanay, and a guid New Year.
See you on the flipside.
Slainte!
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As the Sun begins to set on the old year, I'm about to vanish off for a long, hot bath, ahead of tonight's shenanigans.
Wishing you all a happy Hogmanay, and a guid New Year.
See you on the flipside.
Slainte!
Wishing you all a happy Hogmanay, and a guid New Year.
See you on the flipside.
Slainte!
I'll be setting my digibox for this new, and very timely, tribute to the late great Stanley Baxter.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Being Stanley Baxter
The story of TV star Stanley Baxter, revealed through personal archive and recordings.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I'll be setting my digibox for this new, and very timely, tribute to the late great Stanley Baxter.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Forty-one-years ago, aged 18, I used most of my first pay cheque to buy my first picture - a huge maritime screenprint -from Roger.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2572895...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2572895...
'Moved and uplifted': Glasgow business owner bids farewell after 50 years
In October, Roger Billcliffe announced he would be retiring on Wednesday, 31 December, following years at the centre of Glasgow’s fine art scene.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Forty-one-years ago, aged 18, I used most of my first pay cheque to buy my first picture - a huge maritime screenprint -from Roger.
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2572895...
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2572895...
Was at a festive hoolie at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground last night and, walking up Peel Street, wandered into an artwork.
Factors' Office, Peel Street, Partick, August 1978, by Sarah Swain.
The block still exists, only, today, the factors' office is the Clip Joint hair salon.
Factors' Office, Peel Street, Partick, August 1978, by Sarah Swain.
The block still exists, only, today, the factors' office is the Clip Joint hair salon.
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Was at a festive hoolie at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground last night and, walking up Peel Street, wandered into an artwork.
Factors' Office, Peel Street, Partick, August 1978, by Sarah Swain.
The block still exists, only, today, the factors' office is the Clip Joint hair salon.
Factors' Office, Peel Street, Partick, August 1978, by Sarah Swain.
The block still exists, only, today, the factors' office is the Clip Joint hair salon.
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Off out to a birthday bash tonight...
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Off out to a birthday bash tonight...
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Off out to a birthday bash tonight...
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Off out to a birthday bash tonight...
Born #OTD in 1914, in Springburn, writer, photographer and mountaineer, Tom Weir.
In 1950 he was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and in 1952 was one of the first mountaineers to explore the hitherto closed ranges of Nepal, east of Kathmandu.
Pic: Tom Weir by John Stephens-Orr.
In 1950 he was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and in 1952 was one of the first mountaineers to explore the hitherto closed ranges of Nepal, east of Kathmandu.
Pic: Tom Weir by John Stephens-Orr.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Born #OTD in 1914, in Springburn, writer, photographer and mountaineer, Tom Weir.
In 1950 he was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and in 1952 was one of the first mountaineers to explore the hitherto closed ranges of Nepal, east of Kathmandu.
Pic: Tom Weir by John Stephens-Orr.
In 1950 he was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and in 1952 was one of the first mountaineers to explore the hitherto closed ranges of Nepal, east of Kathmandu.
Pic: Tom Weir by John Stephens-Orr.
Au revoir...
French actor Laurent Terzieff giving Brigitte Bardot a piggy-back ride on the beach at North Berwick, in a scene from the film ‘Two Weeks in September’, directed by Serge Bourguignon. August 01, 1966.
Pic: Jim Gray
French actor Laurent Terzieff giving Brigitte Bardot a piggy-back ride on the beach at North Berwick, in a scene from the film ‘Two Weeks in September’, directed by Serge Bourguignon. August 01, 1966.
Pic: Jim Gray
December 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Au revoir...
French actor Laurent Terzieff giving Brigitte Bardot a piggy-back ride on the beach at North Berwick, in a scene from the film ‘Two Weeks in September’, directed by Serge Bourguignon. August 01, 1966.
Pic: Jim Gray
French actor Laurent Terzieff giving Brigitte Bardot a piggy-back ride on the beach at North Berwick, in a scene from the film ‘Two Weeks in September’, directed by Serge Bourguignon. August 01, 1966.
Pic: Jim Gray
Alasdair Gray would have turned 91 today.
Happy birthday to the artistic and literary gunslinger, the Riddrie Kid; his words and imagery echo off every wall in Glasgow...
Happy birthday to the artistic and literary gunslinger, the Riddrie Kid; his words and imagery echo off every wall in Glasgow...
December 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Alasdair Gray would have turned 91 today.
Happy birthday to the artistic and literary gunslinger, the Riddrie Kid; his words and imagery echo off every wall in Glasgow...
Happy birthday to the artistic and literary gunslinger, the Riddrie Kid; his words and imagery echo off every wall in Glasgow...
Fire and light...
Sometimes, an image jumps out and grabs you by the lapels.
Looking more like a still from a gritty British gangster flick than downtown Glasgow, this was the scene by the Clyde on the night of May 18, 1957, when the Riverside Mills, in Shearer Street, caught fire.
Sometimes, an image jumps out and grabs you by the lapels.
Looking more like a still from a gritty British gangster flick than downtown Glasgow, this was the scene by the Clyde on the night of May 18, 1957, when the Riverside Mills, in Shearer Street, caught fire.
December 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Fire and light...
Sometimes, an image jumps out and grabs you by the lapels.
Looking more like a still from a gritty British gangster flick than downtown Glasgow, this was the scene by the Clyde on the night of May 18, 1957, when the Riverside Mills, in Shearer Street, caught fire.
Sometimes, an image jumps out and grabs you by the lapels.
Looking more like a still from a gritty British gangster flick than downtown Glasgow, this was the scene by the Clyde on the night of May 18, 1957, when the Riverside Mills, in Shearer Street, caught fire.
Wonderful words from Bob Dylan on one of my musical heroes, Willie Nelson.
December 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Wonderful words from Bob Dylan on one of my musical heroes, Willie Nelson.
