Thank you The Wire and Claire Sawers for this review of Scene Within a Scene. 'A super enjoyable dive into an ethically and musically fertile time.'' You can pick up the mag in all good magazine shops, and you should.
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Film director: Big Gold Dream, Teenage Superstars, Far From the Apple Tree. Book Writer - Postcards From Scotland and co-writer Hungry Beat
Thanks so much Iain Key and Louder Than War for this review of Scene Within a Scene. Delighted to see David Douglas McArthur Richie Dempsey and Craig Tannock get mentions too. Check out David's excellent new band, Dark Mile too. See you at the launch party at Mono! louderthanwar.com/scene-within...
Scene Within A Scene: Scottish Independent Music 1992-2001
Scene Within A Scene follows the authors excellent Postcards From Scotland, this time focusing on 1992-2001
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louderthanwar.com@louderthanwar.bsky.social · yesterdayScene Within A Scene follows @grantmcphee.bsky.social excellent Postcards From Scotland, with labels such as Chemikal Underground and acts such as Belle and Sebastian and bis joining the party. @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @omnibuspress.bsky.social louderthanwar.com/scene-within...
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Grant McPhee takes us through an oral history of the early days of one of 90s Glasgow's fiercest live bands, Urusei Yatsura Teen Dreams: Kitten Frenzy, Urusei Yatsura & the 90s Scottish Indie Scene @omnibuspress.bsky.social buff.ly/NTCtKsv
More Scene Within a Scene today. This time Urusei Yatsura and Modern Independent Records in The Quietus. thequietus.com/culture/book...
Teen Dreams: Kitten Frenzy, Urusei Yatsura & the 90s Scottish Indie Scene | The Quietus
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Scene Within a Scene: Scottish Indie Music from 1992–2001, Grant McPhee takes us through an oral history of the early days of one of 90s Glasgow's fiercest l...
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Teenage Superstars screening with Radhika, 1st August at North Berwick's Fringe by the Sea! www.enjoy.ly/uk/activity/... Anyone with a ticket will receive a 20% discount on my new book, Scene Within a Scene from the good folk @omnibuspress.bsky.social @fringebythesea
Wavelength - Teenage Superstars/Grant McPhee/Radhika
A 3-part Wavelength film/chat/gig event. Enjoy a screening of 'Teenage Superstars' (1hr 32, 2017) in which director Grant McPhee delves into the pre-Britpop Sco…
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50 Years of Punk at Edinburgh Book Festival. 28th August. An evening of music and chat. A Q&A with author Grant McPhee and Nicola Meighan, and concludes with a special performance by the Caledonia Screaming Band performing deep cuts from the punk explosion of 1976 and 1977.
Scene Within a Scene is one of this week's 'Reads of the Week' in the Sunday Post. "This is the fascinating history of how visionary Scottish bands changed the trajectory of the country's indie scene'
I only discovered this album existed yesterday and it's great. It's on the same label as The Watersons' Bright Phoebus, so, already in great company. Dark drones and spooky folky goings-on, helped by the backing band including Martin Carthy, Tim Hart and Ashley Hutchings.
My deep dive into LSD through the eyes of the UK press Part 1 - 1952-1966. From wonder drug to mind-warfare to teenage scourge, to garden centre mayhem, to people dressed as moths. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/when-drugs...
When Drugs Go Bad : The Changing Perceptions of LSD in the UK Press
When Drugs Go Bad : The Changing Perceptions of LSD in the UK Press
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The great and good folk @ Monorail and @OmnibusPress have put together a fantastic Glasgow launch for Scene Within a Scene Featuring the excellent Radhika, DJ sets and a Q+A with Lung Leg's Annie Spandex, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite and Stuart Murdoch from Belle and Sebastian 5th August, 7PM, Mono
Monorail Music@monorailmusic.bsky.social · last mo.delighted to be hosting a launch evening for @grantmcphee.bsky.social's latest release Scene Within A Scene, in collaboration with @omnibuspress.bsky.social. Featuring a panel discussion, live music from Radhika and DJs sets till the wee hours (just). tix: monorailmusic.com/products/sce...
I'm Free by the Soup The Soup Dragons was released 36 years ago today Its story is one of THE big music injustices so I wanted to set the record straight; not only perceived press reaction but its place in pop history - and its unexpected afterlife grantmcphee.substack.com/p/injustice-...
Injustice In Pop #1 : The Soup Dragons and I'm Free
The history of pop and rock is laced with injustice: corrupt managers, dodgy labels, incorrect songwriting and publishing credits, unfair firings, unaudited and incorrect accounting.
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50 Years of Scottish Punk : The Questions - a Q + A with songwriter, Paul Barry. Edinburgh new-wave teenager to international number one hits. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/50-years-o... #thequestions #paulbarry #someotherguy
50 Years of Scottish Punk: The Questions ‘Some Other Guy’ single.
50 Years of Scottish Punk: The Questions ‘Some Other Guy’ single.
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For the record there was nothing audacious about it at all. We thought it was funny that someone would say that about our band and we put it at the start of the record for a laugh 🤷
The Waterboys 3CD/3LP ATLANTIC RAIN is out July 17. It contains some of our best music - lost for almost 40 years. Pre-orders and pre-saves here: thewaterboys.lnk.to/atlr
'Jerks set off protests' The Sex Pistols 1978 tour of America has been extensively covered. Surprisingly, there was a lot of space dedicated to the band in 1976, from their earliest days. I've compiled a chronological look at what was written then. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/sex-pistol...
Sex Pistols in the American Press in 1976
The Sex Pistols 1978 tour of America has been extensively covered, and the last few months of 1977 also had extensive coverage of what was about to land on their shores.
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49 years ago today the Sex Pistols didn't play Clouds, Edinburgh, due to the fall-out from the Jubilee boat-trip. Emergency Exit were due to support and Jim Kerr was due to attend. Edinburgh was more open to punk than Glasgow and pressure rarely applied. Generation X would see similar weeks later
This is what I was getting up to at the weekend. And lovely to meet Allan Williams' children. Not only did Allan effectively start MerseyBeat when he replaced local bands for the departed Eddie Cochran slot, he told Bill Drummond to start Big in Japan www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/mus...
Forgotten festival that kickstarted Liverpool revival celebrates 50 years
There are very few people who remember one of the city's oldest festivals
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Joy Division were booked to play here, 46 years ago today.
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #12 : Bill Drummond joins the Liverpool School and Illuminatus! grantmcphee.substack.com/p/50-years-o...
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #12: Bill Drummond Joins The Liverpool School
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #12: Bill Drummond Joins The Liverpool School
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50 Years Jung order of screenings for the event on the 6th of June at Mathew St. These will be playing in the former O'Halligans Parlour all afternoon. So, plenty of time for everyone to have a chat, share memories and reflections; have food, a drink, go and come back or watch some rare films
Proof that music can change people and cities On the left, 50 years ago today: Sex Pistols at Lesser Free Trade Hall (Paul Welsh) On the right: Tony Wilson Place, 40 years later With lots of money and great records made inbetween. Hopefully new footage gets released today
6th June 1976. Liverpool's Lesser Free Trade Hall moment : The 1st Jung Festival. A new Substack article grantmcphee.substack.com/p/50-years-o...
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #11: The First Jung Festival
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #11: The First Jung Festival
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49 Years of Scottish Punk: Glasgow's Burning. An extended story of when the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads and Television spent a weekend in Scotland. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/21st-22nd-...
21st –22nd May 1977 – Glasgow’s Burning: The weekend of New York Punk
21st –22nd May 1977 – Glasgow’s Burning: The weekend of New York Punk
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50 Years of Liverpool DIY #9 Dream. The two dreams which changed a city and the very strange story of how they opened a warehouse on Mathew St. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/50-years-o...
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #9 : Dreaming a City.
50 Years of Liverpool DIY #9 : Dreaming a City.
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Norman, Sean & I are in the Paper today about a special screening and Q&A event happening in our old home town of Bellshill. @hifisean.bsky.social @grantmcphee.bsky.social www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...
'It is a big moment' - Bellshill indie music legends to reunite after nearly 40 years
Members of BMX Bandits, Teenage Fanclub and The Soup Dragons will gather on Friday, June 5 at Bellshill Cultural Centre.
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The double helix parallel evolution of Scottish 80s/90s indie music. Despite the 1992 subtitle of Scene Within a Scene they both effectively start in 1983. Same God but different prophets.
#PetSounds by the #BeachBoys was released exactly 60 years ago today, on the 16th May 1966. Or was it? The preceding week, from the 11th of May to the 15th of May certainly suggests otherwise, showing record stores having it available for purchase. grantmcphee.substack.com/p/happy-60th...
Article 58 and Creeping Bent 100. Get your order in for both of these straight away - essential purchases for anyone vaguely interested in Scottish post-punk, and related friends of Scottish post-punkers such as Alan Vega and Vic Godard. Get them on Creeping Bent/LNFG. And get them now!
