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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@carriem.co.uk
Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam
Haim were fun, and had some really creative staging.
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
In Oran Mor to see @brokenchanter.bsky.social and Emma Pollock and some pals. Gerry Rafferty is playing through the PA. I’ve had worse starts to a night.
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This, by Seth Insua, is an extraordinary novel and incredible debut: part queer awakening, part forbidden love story, part family drama, part thriller. Cried, obviously.

I have two more exciting, acclaimed debuts to read in advance of chatting with the authors at Aye Write!. I love my job.
October 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Scotpol today feels a bit like this...
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Watching High Potential. It’s good to see Tam from Still Game got a job in the LAPD.
October 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’d like to think that i am one of the dolls

From Randalism & Co near the Barras in Glasgow
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you’ve read Small Town Joy you’ll know that Sunny G Radio is one of its stars, and that I found Steg and Delaina to be really inspiring. So I’m delighted to be the guest for this free Book Week event on 20 November at Sunny G HQ. Come along!
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Post you from a different era

1999, at a gig experiencing so much stage fright I don't remember a second of it. The guitar has aged much better than I have.
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Recommended. Absolutely horrifying.
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Here’s a monster who just dragged their owner through a very deep puddle.
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Another bit of Aye Write! excitement: I'll be chatting with Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh and Lewis Hetherington on Saturday 8 November about Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland.

www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Stumbled across Karen Pirie on streaming and really hoping the rest is as entertaining as the first episode: crime! St Andrews! Feminism! Val McDermid! Lauren Lyle is great in the title role.
August 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I traded in my ragged 15yo Merc estate in June for a newer, smaller hybrid Skoda. 7 weeks after I filled the hybrid car’s tank there’s about half left after 1,000 miles. 200+ mpg :-o

Ofc electricity isn’t free, but on a night tariff it doesn’t cost anything near petrol.
August 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The IMAX at Glasgow Science Centre is showing Prince’s Sign ‘o the Times in August. I am very excited about that.
July 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This made me laugh. Protesters in Nantucket earlier this week.
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
(Source: LGBT Foundation on Insta):
July 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Just a wee reminder that this is happening next week and it’s going to be great fun. The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday evening.
July 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Via r/glasgow, the Anderston Centre is in the trailer for The Running Man reboot.
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Saw this on the bad place and laughed. And then saw someone post “grok is this true” and lost a bit more faith in humanity.
June 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s a nice day to support your local queer bookshop. Nicer still if you’ve got the new Lorde to soundtrack your trip.
June 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Selkie and I have been looking forward to this, by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social.
June 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I wrote about Bring It On too! From Carrie Kills A Man, image with alt text.
June 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hell no.
May 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I got this pin from @stonewalluk.bsky.social a few years ago. The second pic is their website today. Nothing about the EHRC, nothing to reassure scared trans folks. They’ll sell me a defiant t-shirt though, they’re trying to get rid of those.
April 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM