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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Suzanne Ciani's first ever Scottish gig. Amazing.

A woman stands on an illuminated elevated platform in front of a bank of old school synth equipment

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Legend who's been in the game for half a century... and apparently this is her first ever gig in Scotland.

Sign for Suzanne Ciani at Tramway in Gltas part of Sonica festival

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My phone's pish, here's someone else's photo. In Paisley, no-one can hear you scream.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Walked past Paisley Abbey earlier, so of course I had to go and find the Alien xenomorph

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not my usual kind of Friday night trashy movie but what the hell. Now watching:

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mrs Mills and Stuart Anderson have dropped out of Ed Sheeran's tour.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Gonna try and claim this is cultural appropriation, just for the hate clicks

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's set in London, but filmed largely in Edinburgh and Glasgow, makes no effort to hide it (Arthur's Seat!), and even has people go down one street in Edinburgh and appear in another one in Glasgow etc. If you get hung up on minor Scottish geographical details you'd lose your shit at this one.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Think I may have just watched the most geographically confused Bollywood film I've ever seen.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tonight's cinema outing: Claude Chabrol double bill

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now watching the 1967 krimi Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen, aka The Devil's Girls. There is a small clue in the opening title card as to why this particular one interests me. (And no, obviously it's not actually filmed there)

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Books I've read this year, latest update:

Well worn old hardback book collecting three plays by Stewart Conn

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've long been fascinated by this chest from the Darien scheme in the National Museum of Scotland. If I had to pick one item from the collection that summed up Scotland, I think this might be it.

Large, very old, empty wooden chest with a ridiculously complex locking mechanism inside the lid

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Castle's gone a bit Close Encounters

Edinburgh Castle, lit up by an array of coloured lights

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Popped in to the NMS to see this lass from Ballachulish. Who is she? Naebody kens!

A 3000-year-old woman carving found in a bog

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you're anywhere near the great city of Dunfermline on Sunday 6th September you can have a Scottish-themed film double bill of the best film of 2025 followed by a bunch of Scottish short films, as part of the Outwith festival.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Since it's been restored and is now on BFI Player, I'm revisiting Toomorrow, which I appear to have watched (and not been impressed by) just a couple of years ago but have already completely forgotten.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Regret to announce that my trusty Batman / Fringe Survival bag is on its last legs. It'll be a sad day when I have to transfer all these badges to a new bag... Mainly because I got so sick of them breaking off that I've superglued them all

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My first event of the bookfest for this year. Lovely stuff.

Photo of ticket for Peter Ross at Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Greatest room in the entire National Museum of Scotland.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today's charity shop haul. Must be all the Fringe theatre I'm watching at the moment has got me in the mood.

A book of Borders ballads and a bunch of plays

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have to admit, this combination of words intrigues me.

Street sign for "Christian Science Church"

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Back at the posh festival on a beanbag again.

Stage set up awaiting a band, with Edinburgh International Festival in yellow lighting.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First haggis pakora of the festival!

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First haggis pizza of the festive!

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I went to the exhibition at the NLS at the moment on the history of the paperback. It's free, except that I love an old paperback so having been there I was immediately inspired to head to a second hand bookshop and buy a couple so the exhibition wasn't that free to me after all.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Amazing that we've reached a point where a headline like this is even needed but welcome to Britain in 2026 I guess

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Books I've read in 2026: latest update

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Okay then, despite the fact that August is the month when I have the least time to actually watch any telly, I am finally starting on this, years after I picked up the complete box set in a charity shop. It had better be as good as you all said it is.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's my #EdFringe kicked off then, went to a preview of The Singer at the Traverse and was not disappointed. A lovely night out indeed.

A man reaches skyward, lost in music, in a poster for The Singer, at the Traverse Theatre from 4th to 30th August as part of Edinburgh Fringe.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Had my first trip to Fringe by the Sea for a wee while this evening. Eve Simpson and Rianne Downey, both class.

Young woman on stage singing and playing keyboard

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What The Odyssey was really missing was this lad bellowing MORTALS, YOU DEFY THE GODS?! I SENTENCE YOU TO WANDER AMONG UNKNOWN STARS etc.

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

More genius behaviour from Edinburgh Council. West Crosscauseway now changed to one way from west to east BUT no signs updated to say no left turn and the no entry signs are set so far back you can't see them until you turn in. So cars are now routinely driving the wrong way along it (as per pic).

A traffic light giving no indication you can't turn left at the junction ahead

A red private hire car drives the wrong way past some "no entry" signs

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I love that these are just signposted "Callanish II" - like most sequels, they are somewhat inferior to the original (which you can see on the horizon if you look really closely)

A small group of standing stones, with a small loch and hill in the background

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

PSA for Fringe attendees: as the Francesca Moody productions always tend to be the hot tickets, it's worth noting that this year's Roleplay appears to be currently sold out on all but the last day so you may want to move quickly if you plan to see this one.

Screenshot of Fringe website showing every day except 31st August sold out

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spent the last few days in my ancestral homeland again. Not bad.

Large deserted beach beneath bright blue sky

Some large marquee tents in a field beneath a sunny sky

Golden beach with just a few people on it in front of a lovely blue sea and some big hills in the background

An old graveyard and ruined old church beneath a bright blue sky

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Deliberately obscured to maintain the suspense, but my Big August Spreadsheet is nearly there

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

At last, the truth about Theo Van Der Cowdenbeath

BBC headline which reads "Why does a Dutch World Cup star share his name with a Scottish town?"

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Was just watching an old Scottish documentary short and I have to say, the acknowledgements in the end credits really take a turn at the end there

List of people and organisations being thanked at the end of a film and the list ends with "Gualtiero Jacopetti and all the truly great SHOCKUMENTARIES"

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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Another bumper update to the "books I've read this year" thread. First time reading Sunset Song since I was at school and because I'm not 14 anymore I actually enjoyed it.