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Ah that's a blow, was in there a couple of weeks ago
Legendary Edinburgh record store Vinyl Villains announces sad closure after four decades
Opened the year before Avalanche. I used to send the students down there when we opened next to the university.
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Allan Tanner retweeted
🏉🏆 Calling all rugby fans! The Raeburn Shield needs YOU🎉 Not your average corporate title, this is where passion meets pride! Let's rally to get the shield back to its rightful place before this weekend. 🙌 Help us reclaim it so we can ride the wave of success into next week!
Smart, might get one of these
Inspired by our past. Built for now. 🏰
Introducing your 2026/27 @MacronSports European kit, on sale now.
Ah farkin hell Edinburgh getting pumped tomorrow.
The new season starts here. 🏰
Your Edinburgh team to face Ulster at Affidea Stadium tomorrow night! 🔵
@URCOfficial | #ULSvEDI
Still not convinced F***ge really wants to be PM given what that role actually entails. He's not Trump and UK operates differently anyway. Maybe this gives him an off ramp "you all hate me, I'm off"
I feel this post qualifies for @AccidentalP
It’s Oban-Wan Kenobi as Ewan McGregor to sail from west coast town on Long Way to Rio dlvr.it/TVRDCj
Yesterday it was 'Fringe show are being cancelled in the final week as ticket sales fall'.
Fringe ends with 2.8 million tickets issued - an 8% increase on last year bbc.in/3UvgGV1
Every year there are dire warnings about crowds, the cooncil, accommodation etc. and on it goes. Word of mouth is key for bums on seats. 3000-odd shows this year, they're not all going to be well attended for 3 weeks. Next up: Assembly says "subsidise us or we're doomed" (again)
Enter Sandman with an SG and unclean distortion sounds a lot, lot better.
Three girls from a conservative village in Garut, Indonesia.
In 2014 they were 14. They found System of a Down on a school computer. A teacher said start a band. They did.
Then the village answered.
Stones. Death threats. Smashed windows. Cars trying to run them down. Power cut mid-gig. “Devil’s music.” Haram. All because three hijab-wearing kids dared to play metal.
They named the band Voice of Baceprot. It means “noisy.”
This is them in France covering “Enter Sandman.” Leather jackets. Headscarves. Barefoot on the drums. No click track. No extra help. Just a trio that learned how to survive first, and play second.
Most covers try to honor Metallica.
This one feels like they earned the right to touch the song.
From hated noise in a small village… to a stage in Rennes, then Glastonbury, then the world.
That’s not a gimmick.
That’s defiance with a riff.
Just bought a ticket for londonmetalfest.co.uk/, first time seeing @candlemass after almost 40 years following (#oldmetalbastard) @AcidReignUK see you there after missing you in Glasgow last month.
BBC Radio 6 trying a bit too hard in devoting a whole day to The Strokes' 'Is This It?' 25 years on. A good album but doesn't merit the confected adulation. Era-defining? Nah.
If Burnham is serious about shifting perennial focus on the south east to other parts of GB, a high speed rail initiative linking Scotland and 'the North', thereby removing the need to fly, would be welcome. We could call it...HS3?
Allan Tanner retweeted
Following the Princes Street fire, highly complex remedial work continues.
This includes securing the front façade, with pieces of stonework being removed individually by hand due to the building's delicate condition.
We appreciate your patience during this time.
ALT Image of the damage following the fire on Princes Street in July 2026.
I don't mind a bit of Scottish kitsch but the unfailing ability of our media to do the work of Tunnock's marketing dept. for them leaves me baffled.
OK. Been a metal fan for 35 years ish. Thinking that Dead Skin Mask is possibly the best metal song ever. Riff + nasty + solo + general metal + finish. Can anything really beat it. I mean properly beat it?
