Alasdair McKillop
@agmckillop.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A very happy Neil Young's birthday to all who celebrate 💜
I no longer live in this house
I have no idea where this much loved bootleg Smiths t-shirt went
But I still have the records! And I still love Neil Young!
I no longer live in this house
I have no idea where this much loved bootleg Smiths t-shirt went
But I still have the records! And I still love Neil Young!
Mellow My Mind (Neil Young cover) by Emma Swift
Pony Boy / Emma Swift release split single covers of Neil Young on COSMIC THUG RECORDSAvailable for pre-order NOW: https://cosmicthugrecords.bandcamp.co...Na...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A very happy Neil Young's birthday to all who celebrate 💜
I no longer live in this house
I have no idea where this much loved bootleg Smiths t-shirt went
But I still have the records! And I still love Neil Young!
I no longer live in this house
I have no idea where this much loved bootleg Smiths t-shirt went
But I still have the records! And I still love Neil Young!
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Saying happy 80th to #NeilYoung on the radio show tonight. Some roots flavoured tunes from the man himself and a few classy covers from #CowboyJunkies #DollyParton #kdlang and more. #bbcradioulster & #Sounds from 8. #neilyoung80 #neilyoungbbc #ralphmcleancountry
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Saying happy 80th to #NeilYoung on the radio show tonight. Some roots flavoured tunes from the man himself and a few classy covers from #CowboyJunkies #DollyParton #kdlang and more. #bbcradioulster & #Sounds from 8. #neilyoung80 #neilyoungbbc #ralphmcleancountry
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Our #NeilYoung At 80 show is off and running. First 2 tracks..Tonight’s The Night and Birds. NP Down By The River. Gotta a feeling this is going to be quite the show! Come join me on the BBC Radio Ulster airwaves. #NeilYoung80
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Our #NeilYoung At 80 show is off and running. First 2 tracks..Tonight’s The Night and Birds. NP Down By The River. Gotta a feeling this is going to be quite the show! Come join me on the BBC Radio Ulster airwaves. #NeilYoung80
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November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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George Harrison photographed by Gered Mankowitz in an outtake from the cover shoot for ‘Cloud 9’, 1987.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
George Harrison photographed by Gered Mankowitz in an outtake from the cover shoot for ‘Cloud 9’, 1987.
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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Remembering Gram on his birthday
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The Flying Burrito Brothers - Older Guys
YouTube video by J.R. Cunningham
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Remembering Gram on his birthday
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‘There is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all the hokum and stage magic might be misdirection of the sort that enables something secret to enter the room.’
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Francis Gooding · Hoodoo Man: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’
Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
‘There is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that all the hokum and stage magic might be misdirection of the sort that enables something secret to enter the room.’
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Francis Gooding on Dr John’s ‘very strange record’ ‘Gris-Gris’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Chatting to Ralph McLean about the @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social and @yokoono.bsky.social ‘Power To The People’ box set.
If you missed it, catch it here …
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you missed it, catch it here …
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Chatting to Ralph McLean about the @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social and @yokoono.bsky.social ‘Power To The People’ box set.
If you missed it, catch it here …
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you missed it, catch it here …
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Vive le France 🇫🇷
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Vive le France 🇫🇷
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October 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Haters of the Dodgers may complain about payroll disparities, but you can’t love baseball and not be in awe of Shohei Ohtani—perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived, Louisa Thomas writes. https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/shohei-ohtani-and-the-dodgers-are-a-sight-to-behold
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Haters of the Dodgers may complain about payroll disparities, but you can’t love baseball and not be in awe of Shohei Ohtani—perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived, Louisa Thomas writes. https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/shohei-ohtani-and-the-dodgers-are-a-sight-to-behold
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Lovely read on a very Heaney morning - autumnal, light shifting with the wind.
www.thetimes.com/article/619b...
www.thetimes.com/article/619b...
The genius of Seamus Heaney (plus Swallows, an exclusive new poem)
As a new collection of the Nobel Laureate’s complete poetry is published, Laura Hackett meets friends and family in his home town of Bellaghy
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October 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Lovely read on a very Heaney morning - autumnal, light shifting with the wind.
www.thetimes.com/article/619b...
www.thetimes.com/article/619b...
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Gore Vidal: American prophet
📕 Will Lloyd on the writer who understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
📕 Will Lloyd on the writer who understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
Gore Vidal: American prophet
The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
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October 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Gore Vidal: American prophet
📕 Will Lloyd on the writer who understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
📕 Will Lloyd on the writer who understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
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Thoughts and prayers with Alexis Petridis, who will shortly be going into hiding. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled
Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic w...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Thoughts and prayers with Alexis Petridis, who will shortly be going into hiding. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
BBC Radio 4 has adapted Philip Roth's Plot Against America with the great Richard Schiff reading. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds
Richard Schiff reads Roth's chilling alternative history of a far right-leaning 1940s USA.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
BBC Radio 4 has adapted Philip Roth's Plot Against America with the great Richard Schiff reading. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele
September 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele
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‘Leonard understands the dramatic satisfaction of coincidence and comeuppance and delivers them in unexpected ways, within a matrix of crossed wires and shifting allegiances.’
J. Robert Lennon on Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon on Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon · Never use your own car: Elmore Leonard’s Superpower
I don’t think there’s anyone on today’s bestseller lists as accomplished on the page as Elmore Leonard was; he...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘Leonard understands the dramatic satisfaction of coincidence and comeuppance and delivers them in unexpected ways, within a matrix of crossed wires and shifting allegiances.’
J. Robert Lennon on Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
J. Robert Lennon on Elmore Leonard: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
