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Basil Pieroni

@basilatwork.bsky.social
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Scotsman. Guitar player with Butcher Boy, Glasgow’s best least successful chamber pop group. Sings with Huxter Hobos, Glasgow’s best underground traditional country band

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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Here’s a photo I took in 1983 (or thereabouts) of John on drum machine with the Galloping Gunshot Boys at the Grange in Irvine. Davy Hughes on guitar & vocals. Davy still somehow looking the same. Possibly John’s first public performance.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Twenty seconds to comply
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I went out into the garden yesterday morning after the Scotland game finished and watched the sun rise on a grateful nation. Only it wasn’t the sun, it was the floodlights on a work crew on the railway. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Words to live by.
Photo of the side of a freight train truck with the words ‘not to be loose or hump shunted’.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Check my big thumb.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It’s a miracle! Or a tragedy.
A pair of crutches abandoned on a street.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Did I mention I play in a country band? Huxter Hobos are on at the Embsay Festival near Skipton (North Manby, Castle House West, Embsay BD23 6PH) Saturday 8th May. On stage at 6pm. £10 on door (gate?) and kids go free. Many other fine musical acts, local beer & Afghan food.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#Glasgow stop the war march.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My local MP was elected for #uklabour but his leaflet somehow doesn’t mention this. Is he confused? I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months muting expensive looking ads on YouTube featuring his leader Anas Sarwar. Now I’m confused.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
For once, I am correct!
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
My “Is he deid yet?” button.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Soup that would ’put a bane in yer shite’ as they say in Ayrshire.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My Moon over Pollokshields phone wallpaper from years back still doing it for me.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Hey - the Broadway cinema in Prestwick, Scotland that I’ve been helping renovate this year is taking bookings for next weekend for the newly-built pop-up museum & first look at the auditorium since 1976. (Pic from this summer). #cinema #museum www.broadway.scot/post/the-bro...
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I used all my years of experience in Word to make this attractive poster. Please absorb and if you’ll be around, act on the info thereon. Includes songs by Tom T Hall, Jerry Jeff Walker, David Berman, J Cash, Louvin Bros, Wilco etc. You get the picture.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Still looks pretty impressive.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Short straw.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Paging @petepaphides.bsky.social Flavour includes pipe smoke, zipper cardigans and dank Soho doorways.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The guys insulting our floor last year found these.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Pulled out my favourite @kinkyfriedmanofficial novel ‘Roadkill’ and found two (!) ticket stubs from a tremendous show at the Tron theatre in 2008 signed by the Kinkstah and the Texas Jewboys. Had forgotten about the tickets and I don’t remember getting them signed. Kosmic. @willienelson.bsky.social
Photo of cover of Kinky Friedman novel ‘Roadkill’ overlaid with signed show tickets.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Sheffield at the weekend. 💐
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Fuck me, that was quick! Will be getting into this very soon. Thanks for signing my copy @alantyler.bsky.social
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
From the archives. I keep this with my City & Guilds, YOP certificate and degree. All the important stuff.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Here’s a #TBT. First winter since I was a kid that we’ve had milk delivered.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Anyway, gaze ye upon my minestrone and tremble. Finished the year on a high.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
It’s Hogmanay in Scotland so someone has to make a pot of soup in every house. It’s the law. I’m definitely bending the rule by making minestrone, but that’s just how I roll.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Getting vibes of this Tenniscoats jazz covers album (it’s a cracker!)
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
2002 - the year I lost my dad and my pal Larry Rhodes within the space of six weeks. A year topped off another six weeks later by the death of my teenage hero Joe Strummer (I ditched having heroes a long time ago and now just go for people being heroic). Anyway, me and Joe forty-two years ago.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
From our community paper (you know the thing, reports from local groups & councillors and adverts from tradespeople). Well, look who isn’t mentioned in this full page advert. Guess this is what happens when most of your potential customers despise the business owner.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Sometimes you do need stinking badges. My better half’s (almost) complete collection of badges from John Hunt’s monthly club night National Pop League, held in the late lamented Woodside Social club in Glasgow. More here: nplarchive.com/category/nat...
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The hits keep coming. Mainly me and a bunch of other auld guys on their own having a pint to themselves.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Gotta love Heraghty’s.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Having a @rodneyfarmer.bsky.social solo pint. Well, I will, when it settles.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My year in review. Butcher Boy there because we had our first show in seven years and I had to relearn the songs (from scratch!). Top song: Petit Fou Fou by Rhove & Anna - absolute banger, mi raccomando!
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Surprisingly lighthearted Q&A with the JAMC tonight in Glasgow. 👏
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Listening to Yo Yo Ma playing Bach sonatas while using paint stripper to take a manky layer of old dark varnish off our fake Monarch of the Glen we got at the Barras market 15 years ago. Feeling like I’m in one of them art restoration YouTubes. #swanky or #wanky?
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Post you from a different era. Twenty-six year old me not realising that this was as good as that face was going to get.
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Largest chanterelles I’ve ever found (back in August in Perthshire).
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Basil Pieroni @basilatwork.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Got my big boy Duane back after almost a year in my pal Rab Spark’s cupboard while we renovated the hoose (thanks sir 🙏). Looking forward to getting to getting some twang on!
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