Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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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
Haim were fun, and had some really creative staging.
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
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.
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.
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, 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.
I have two more exciting, acclaimed debuts to read in advance of chatting with the authors at Aye Write!. I love my job.
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
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.
Scotpol today feels a bit like this...
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Scotpol today feels a bit like this...
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
Watching High Potential. It’s good to see Tam from Still Game got a job in the LAPD.
I’d like to think that i am one of the dolls
From Randalism & Co near the Barras in Glasgow
From Randalism & Co near the Barras in Glasgow
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I’d like to think that i am one of the dolls
From Randalism & Co near the Barras in Glasgow
From Randalism & Co near the Barras in Glasgow
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Recommended. Absolutely horrifying.
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Recommended. Absolutely horrifying.
Here’s a monster who just dragged their owner through a very deep puddle.
October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Here’s a monster who just dragged their owner through a very deep puddle.
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-...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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-...
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...
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
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.
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.
Ofc electricity isn’t free, but on a night tariff it doesn’t cost anything near petrol.
August 8, 2025 at 6:36 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.
Ofc electricity isn’t free, but on a night tariff it doesn’t cost anything near petrol.
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
The IMAX at Glasgow Science Centre is showing Prince’s Sign ‘o the Times in August. I am very excited about that.
This made me laugh. Protesters in Nantucket earlier this week.
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This made me laugh. Protesters in Nantucket earlier this week.
(Source: LGBT Foundation on Insta):
July 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
(Source: LGBT Foundation on Insta):
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
Just a wee reminder that this is happening next week and it’s going to be great fun. The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday evening.
Via r/glasgow, the Anderston Centre is in the trailer for The Running Man reboot.
July 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Via r/glasgow, the Anderston Centre is in the trailer for The Running Man reboot.
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
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.
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
It’s a nice day to support your local queer bookshop. Nicer still if you’ve got the new Lorde to soundtrack your trip.
Selkie and I have been looking forward to this, by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social.
June 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Selkie and I have been looking forward to this, by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social.
I wrote about Bring It On too! From Carrie Kills A Man, image with alt text.
June 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I wrote about Bring It On too! From Carrie Kills A Man, image with alt text.
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
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.