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
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.
It's well known that the first and only UK appearance of Iggy and the Stooges (before their reunion) was on the 15th July 1972 at the Kings Cross Cinema... but did Iggy also play a few days later in Tunbridge Wells?
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It's well known that the first and only UK appearance of Iggy and the Stooges (before their reunion) was on the 15th July 1972 at the Kings Cross Cinema... but did Iggy also play a few days later in Tunbridge Wells?
Scotland's Untold 1977 Punk Story — Caledonia Screaming
Part of Frets’ Action Time Vision at the Aye Write Book Festival, featuring Katy and Douglas.
13th Nov, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Ramones/Blondie/TH by Graham Scott, Glasgow '77
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/acti... @chrisstein.bsky.social
Part of Frets’ Action Time Vision at the Aye Write Book Festival, featuring Katy and Douglas.
13th Nov, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Ramones/Blondie/TH by Graham Scott, Glasgow '77
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/acti... @chrisstein.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Scotland's Untold 1977 Punk Story — Caledonia Screaming
Part of Frets’ Action Time Vision at the Aye Write Book Festival, featuring Katy and Douglas.
13th Nov, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Ramones/Blondie/TH by Graham Scott, Glasgow '77
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/acti... @chrisstein.bsky.social
Part of Frets’ Action Time Vision at the Aye Write Book Festival, featuring Katy and Douglas.
13th Nov, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Ramones/Blondie/TH by Graham Scott, Glasgow '77
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/acti... @chrisstein.bsky.social
“A few years ago, the Scottish film industry was a haggis-in-the-sky fantasy in the fevered imaginations of a talented handful. Now apparently over-night, it is a full-grown fact.”
Daily Record's 1983 article on Charles Gormley's Living Apart Together.
Daily Record's 1983 article on Charles Gormley's Living Apart Together.
September 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“A few years ago, the Scottish film industry was a haggis-in-the-sky fantasy in the fevered imaginations of a talented handful. Now apparently over-night, it is a full-grown fact.”
Daily Record's 1983 article on Charles Gormley's Living Apart Together.
Daily Record's 1983 article on Charles Gormley's Living Apart Together.
Caledonia Streaming: A History of Scotland's Moving Image 1967–2027
This book has been brewing for the past two years and already off to a great start - interviews with Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald, Outlander producer David Brown, and cinematographer Mick Coulter #scottishfilm #outlander
This book has been brewing for the past two years and already off to a great start - interviews with Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald, Outlander producer David Brown, and cinematographer Mick Coulter #scottishfilm #outlander
September 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Caledonia Streaming: A History of Scotland's Moving Image 1967–2027
This book has been brewing for the past two years and already off to a great start - interviews with Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald, Outlander producer David Brown, and cinematographer Mick Coulter #scottishfilm #outlander
This book has been brewing for the past two years and already off to a great start - interviews with Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald, Outlander producer David Brown, and cinematographer Mick Coulter #scottishfilm #outlander
I picked up this hefty tome of Scottish films by Mark Furse which has just been released. 427 features. 6 of them are by me with another 4 produced and around 40 I worked on or helped in some capacity. Really worth picking up. Very well researched and a worthy addition to Scotland's film story
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I picked up this hefty tome of Scottish films by Mark Furse which has just been released. 427 features. 6 of them are by me with another 4 produced and around 40 I worked on or helped in some capacity. Really worth picking up. Very well researched and a worthy addition to Scotland's film story
Easily the coolest and best dressed actor of the 60s. RIP Terence Stamp
August 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Easily the coolest and best dressed actor of the 60s. RIP Terence Stamp
I'm assuming the 'jazz club' is the Cavern. And despite Bill Harry's Mersybeat magazine being founded the year earlier it was 'skiffle' that was in the public consciousness and not yet 'Beat'.
August 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I'm assuming the 'jazz club' is the Cavern. And despite Bill Harry's Mersybeat magazine being founded the year earlier it was 'skiffle' that was in the public consciousness and not yet 'Beat'.
"Stuart went to Germany with a Liverpool skiffle group"
Fascinating that Sutcliffe's death made the front pages of the news. And bittersweet that the reporting was the only time it would be for his own achievements rather than a footnote to what was about to change everything.
Fascinating that Sutcliffe's death made the front pages of the news. And bittersweet that the reporting was the only time it would be for his own achievements rather than a footnote to what was about to change everything.
August 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"Stuart went to Germany with a Liverpool skiffle group"
Fascinating that Sutcliffe's death made the front pages of the news. And bittersweet that the reporting was the only time it would be for his own achievements rather than a footnote to what was about to change everything.
Fascinating that Sutcliffe's death made the front pages of the news. And bittersweet that the reporting was the only time it would be for his own achievements rather than a footnote to what was about to change everything.
Delighted to now be represented as a writer by the Hamilton Agency.
A few more books (and films) on the horizon soon too.
thehamiltonagency.co.uk
A few more books (and films) on the horizon soon too.
thehamiltonagency.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Delighted to now be represented as a writer by the Hamilton Agency.
A few more books (and films) on the horizon soon too.
thehamiltonagency.co.uk
A few more books (and films) on the horizon soon too.
thehamiltonagency.co.uk
I like your tie for a start.
Paul McCartney's unnaturally large makes the front of the Daily Record in December 1965 as the Beatles start the first date of their last UK tour, in Glasgow.
Paul McCartney's unnaturally large makes the front of the Daily Record in December 1965 as the Beatles start the first date of their last UK tour, in Glasgow.
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I like your tie for a start.
Paul McCartney's unnaturally large makes the front of the Daily Record in December 1965 as the Beatles start the first date of their last UK tour, in Glasgow.
Paul McCartney's unnaturally large makes the front of the Daily Record in December 1965 as the Beatles start the first date of their last UK tour, in Glasgow.
Allen Klein and Ringo, Daily Record 1971
July 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Allen Klein and Ringo, Daily Record 1971
UK, 1967 Verve advert for 1st Velvet Underground album. With the UK/Canadian/New Zealand cover
July 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
UK, 1967 Verve advert for 1st Velvet Underground album. With the UK/Canadian/New Zealand cover
On this day in 1970 Funhouse by the Stooges was released in the US. It wasn't out here until December but was reviewed in the Nottingham Evening News and Post. Not sure about it being 'All a laugh'. Always amazed at what appears in local papers. Good coverage of Graham Bond too. Poor old Scott W.
July 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
On this day in 1970 Funhouse by the Stooges was released in the US. It wasn't out here until December but was reviewed in the Nottingham Evening News and Post. Not sure about it being 'All a laugh'. Always amazed at what appears in local papers. Good coverage of Graham Bond too. Poor old Scott W.
18-18 lyrics. Johnny and the Self Abusers after the original name change to Simple Minds, the proposed follow-up single to Saints and Sinners.
#simpleminds
#simpleminds
July 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
18-18 lyrics. Johnny and the Self Abusers after the original name change to Simple Minds, the proposed follow-up single to Saints and Sinners.
#simpleminds
#simpleminds
Velvet Underground and Nico in local UK newspapers #23. The Nottingham Guardian, a day after its UK release date, 25th Nov 1967.
#velvetunderground
#velvetunderground
June 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Velvet Underground and Nico in local UK newspapers #23. The Nottingham Guardian, a day after its UK release date, 25th Nov 1967.
#velvetunderground
#velvetunderground
Sex Pistols unseen. Alternative Dundee ticket for a gig which was later rescheduled. Unseen for nearly 50 years. After my book on Scotland's earliest punk days expanded from 3 weeks to a year I was making final touches when this fell onto my lap in its last week via Perth punks 76! . #sexpistols
June 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sex Pistols unseen. Alternative Dundee ticket for a gig which was later rescheduled. Unseen for nearly 50 years. After my book on Scotland's earliest punk days expanded from 3 weeks to a year I was making final touches when this fell onto my lap in its last week via Perth punks 76! . #sexpistols
Sex Pistols at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall. This time with Buzzcocks. 20th July, 1976 #sexpistols #buzzcocks
April 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sex Pistols at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall. This time with Buzzcocks. 20th July, 1976 #sexpistols #buzzcocks
Here's the man himself
April 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Here's the man himself
But for me, somehow thinking we'd done something unique it was an incredibly surreal (and realising you know far less than you thought) experience. If you want to look for yourself you can stream Apple Tree on BFI in UK and Amazon in US; and Archive81 is available on Netflix.
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
But for me, somehow thinking we'd done something unique it was an incredibly surreal (and realising you know far less than you thought) experience. If you want to look for yourself you can stream Apple Tree on BFI in UK and Amazon in US; and Archive81 is available on Netflix.
The posters are a thematically and literally similar. If you look very closely at Apple Tree you can see that Maddy, the woman from the video is also visible and split on the right side of Judith's head.
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The posters are a thematically and literally similar. If you look very closely at Apple Tree you can see that Maddy, the woman from the video is also visible and split on the right side of Judith's head.
They both use the very rare Fisher Price PXL2000 toy camera, with footage from it being used throughout and using also being filmed wandering corridors with the camera poking around in cupboards.
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They both use the very rare Fisher Price PXL2000 toy camera, with footage from it being used throughout and using also being filmed wandering corridors with the camera poking around in cupboards.
they both have friends on the outside who provide exposition regarding the mysterious employer. And because the phone signal is so poor they need to have these conversations in the nearby woods. This is pretty clunky and cliched in both films.
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
they both have friends on the outside who provide exposition regarding the mysterious employer. And because the phone signal is so poor they need to have these conversations in the nearby woods. This is pretty clunky and cliched in both films.
There's also a very similar art gallery scene, an exhibition that seems to feature women with distorted or obscured faces which the protagonists are mysteriously drawn to.
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There's also a very similar art gallery scene, an exhibition that seems to feature women with distorted or obscured faces which the protagonists are mysteriously drawn to.
To their horror they both realise the employer had secretly been recording them
April 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
To their horror they both realise the employer had secretly been recording them