Andrew Tully

A life in two badges!

@memorialdevice The time I got a lend of Kevin Shield’s backline (is that a HMHB lyric🤔)

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@memorialdevice She’ll be delighted, eventually… “mum, you know how Twitter is now called X, and people call folk like Alan Bennett ‘National Treasures’, well…”

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My 87 year old mother just shared this in the family group chat with her sons aged 60 and 56… I think she may have heard it @memorialdevice

A wee trip to Barra perhaps, @nee_massey - you could go halfers with @jamesyorkston 🚜

@bothybikes @nee_massey Great that you got in! It sounded like a special night!

@nee_massey It was a really special show, what a celebration! It was nice to meet you as well!

Edwyn What a voice! What a man! What a set of songs! What a sound! You’re just getting going, big man! You’re showing us how it should be done Love you Edwyn❤️

@memorialdevice Here's a video on 'blue orchids band' google.co.uk/search?hl=en-G…

Soundtrack to this? 🦇

@caroline_binnie @callumeaster @ScotsPostPunk Absolutely - with a dangerous, sleazy style🤩

Callum Easter and the Roulettes tearing it up in the Spiegeltent on Friday. Mesmerising as always, huge Suicide vibes infused with Stooges’ punk spirit. @callumeaster @ScotsPostPunk @charlieendell #edbookfest

@nee_massey @Saul_Sadka Loving the response, and loving your gentle interjections into overheated harangues as you outlined at the Edinburgh Book festival - here’s a picture of a tractor🚜

@Saul_Sadka Maybe that’s the story book london, the Peter Pan london, and it’s fine and lovely, but last time I was there I was in this area, and I had a great time. Perhaps it’s the london people can afford to be in, it’s not so snooty and staid.

This is the London Banana. As long as you stay within the Banana, you'll have a great time in London. Almost everything outside the Banana is horrible these days, best avoid. Not clear why, or when this happened. But it is what it is.

@colinmccredie …and there was me thinking you were trying to recreate the Bunnymen video

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@inneslaing @JamieMagill5 youtu.be/rdT-7ZALX9s?si…

@JamieMagill5 Peter West doing the honours, then handing over to Jim Laker “G’’morning Peter, and a very good morning to everyone.”

Another thing I miss is the BBC TV cricket coverage beginning at 1055am 🏏 Gentle intros from Tony, the toss 🪙 Illy's pitch report (with those dreadful grey slip on shoes 😆) mornings from Ritchie and away we go 👍 This modern day prolix build up is, well precisely that....

@HibernianWomen @CamWanstall a visit to Legoland on the way🤔

We have been drawn against Fortuna Hjørring in the UEFA Women’s Champions League Second Qualifying Round Semi-Final. The tie will be played on Wednesday 27 August.

I have become an ‘expert’ in Minecraft, Roblox, Monster Trux, MMA, Manga and Taylor Swift. Today an 11 year old introduced me to ‘Breakcore’ and the ‘Amen Break’ - something I’ve heard on records over the last 35 years! 60 year old mind officially blown!#EveryDayIsASchoolDay

June is my favourite time of the year as a teacher when our Primary Transition pupils come up for their three day visit to High School. Over the years, to help the neurodivergent and the anxious settle in…/1 youtu.be/qwQLk7NcpO4?si…

‘Speedway’, given his more recent provocations seemed especially poignant “All of the rumours Keeping me grounded I never said, I never said that they were Completely unfounded” But for now, my heart is full. Thanks to fellow, loafing oaf, Margarita for the marvellous pics📸

And tonight, just like any other night, he swoons and seduces and I am, as always, overcome. The voice is strong, the quiff less so but this love is real…/2

“… I know ‘cause tonight is just like any other night That’s why you’re on your own tonight With your triumphs and your charms” Over 40 years since I first gazed shyly on that magnificent, mercurial, playfully misanthropic Morrissey /1

@neilfinlayson It was very special, just about all killer, no filler, the band were on fire and Iggy himself🤩

@charlieendell An astonishingly wonderful gig!

Iggy Pop tonight in Glasgow, last seen in 1991 when he was an old man of 44. Tonight, battle-scarred and ravaged,top discarded before the first four beats; the lone,leonine leader of the pack,still standing,still raging -Iggy, at the end, exit stage right to ‘Funtime’-magnificent

‘Pick up the baton and pass it on’. A righteous, riotous and riveting night @lyceumedinburgh A two-hander set in the Memphis motel the night before Martin Luther King’s assassination. Truly fantastical - there must be angels!

…some time near the end of that last century, working in a record shop in Edinburgh - he was selling shoeboxes full of old tickets, badges and this… Back between those dusty pages it flies!

Just turned 18, (Steve) Morrissey rallies the high-heeled hordes from his Stretford bedroom, you can hear those typewriter keys clacking still. Any clues as to who the anonymous Peter is? I purchased the letter from some “rain-coated lover’…

@Smiths_history Slipped between the pages of one of my dusty Smiths tomes, lovelorn for these last thirty years, this fragile missive tumbled to the floor from the North of England’s New York Dolls correspondent…