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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fancy a #musichall conference? Of course you do! Call for Papers out now: April 2027!

Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Here's a treat from Dundee Libraries to mark @musichallsociety.bsky.social #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2026 Theme this year is #Seaside, so here's Olga and the Diving Norins, at Dundee's King's Theatre in March 1913. Personally I’m going to see Mascot - the "Best Educated Horse in the World"!

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Throwback to September 2025, in the latest @musichallsociety.bsky.social ‘Call Boy’, with a little piece about the excellent #MusicHall themed ‘Wax Fruit’ book launch at BAaD Glasgow Follow @waxfruittvseries on Instagram for more updates! @jamiemacdougall.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Beautiful collection of paintings, drawings, and prints - the Herbert & Ann Lucas Collection - at @pianonobile.bsky.social Well worth a visit #ennui #musichall #oldbedford #Sickert

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#MusicHall research down in Lambeth today at the @musichallsociety.bsky.social archive. #Dundee posters, Hetty King’s shoes, Max Miller’s hat, and the trousers of G.H. Elliott! #planning #WatchThisSpace @lambetharchives.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

One of my favourite #folk things - and found close to where my family crofted too! Adopt the ‘Ballachulish Goddess’ and help a great museum! Do so and you’ll get this cracking key ring! www.justgiving.com/campaign/bal... www.glencoemuseum.com/post/the-mys... #Ballachulish #Glencoe

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

How’s this for a theatre poster? 1849, Theatre Royal, #Dundee. A bit of a curiosity as it looks like a budding poster designer has sketched out ideas on the back. Always welcome for some thoughts on #Alexander and #Woodward! #History #Theatre #Pantomime #Turpin #TomKing #Punch

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Not sure if it will help with any sales, but recommended your books in our @uniofstandrews.bsky.social newsletter today 👍🏻

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Wonderful end to an excellent #musichallvarietyday 2025! Laughs a plenty at ‘Duck Soup’ and a splendid intro by Matthew Jarron touching on Chaplin, Keaton, Dan Leno & more! (I did a bit too!) Much thanks to @musichallsociety.bsky.social for sponsoring tonight’s screening! #MHVD2025 #FoodAndDrink

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Wonderful #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025 walk - which ended with a very special treat - a look around what was Springthorpe’s Music Hall. Much thanks to Drawing Projects Scotland for the warm welcome! For more info: linktr.ee/dundeemusich... #MHVD2025 #FoodAndDrink @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Today’s the day! #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025! Join us tonight for an introduction and rare screening of Laurel & Hardy’s classic 1927 short ‘Duck Soup’. Free but booking required! linktr.ee/dundeemusich... #MHVD2025 #FoodAndDrink Generously supported by @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Today’s the day! #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025! It’s Sunny Dundee today, ideal for a music hall walk with a very special treat at the end! 😉 Free but booking required! linktr.ee/dundeemusich... #MHVD2025 #FoodAndDrink @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Tickets still available for this special screening of Laurel and Hardy's 1927 short 'Duck Soup'! Kindly supported by @musichallsociety.bsky.social as part of #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025 #MHVD2025 #FoodandDrink More info and to book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/duck-soup-...

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Delighted to have been nominated 'Outstanding Teacher (Arts & Divinity)' at this year's Students' Association Teaching Awards. Much congratulations to all nominees & winners! #EverToExcel More info: www.yourunion.net/representati... @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @arthistorysta.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Can’t escape the lad. Spoiler alert: #Sickert wasn’t #JackTheRipper

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Back to the studio for a little filming for our exciting @vadundee.bsky.social online short course @arthistorysta.bsky.social In the meantime, explore other online short courses offered by the University at: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/online... @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Excellent visit to Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art today, thanks to Maria and Malcolm for the inspiring tour! #Filming #Ideas #Collaboration #WorkingTogether #Projects #DJCAD

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Here’s a little taste of Marie singing one of her favourites ‘A Little Of What You Fancy Does You Good’, recorded a few years later in 1916. youtu.be/X6P_zU5oxF8?... #musichallmonday @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What’s on this week in #Dundee #musichall #history? Well, the great Marie Lloyd (1870-1922) was at The Gaiety in 1909. The Courier & Argus though gave her a somewhat muted review, “while her songs are of the catchy style, [they are] perhaps not what a Dundee audience is familiar with.” 30 March 1909

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

According to The Dundee Advertiser he was “quite unlike the great majority of comic singers we are accustomed to see in Dundee, most of whom seem to think that to be vulgar is to be amusing.” (19/03/ 1867)

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What’s happening this week in #Dundee #musichalls #history? Back in 1867 ‘Champagne Charlie’ himself, George Leybourne, took to the Alhambra. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today! 19 March! Fancy hearing more about the visual culture & history of Dundee's music halls? Come along to the Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews, at 2:30pm to hear about 'Remembering Dundee's Music Halls: 1846-1914' 👉🏻 events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/music... @musichallsociety.bsky.social #musichall

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What’s happening #OTD in #Dundee #musichalls #history? 13 March 1867 saw the reporting of “Alleged Defacing of Dundee Music Hall Bills by the Lessee & Bill Poster of the Alhambra” at the Dundee Sheriff Small-Claims Court. Naughty Alhambra! @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fancy hearing more about the visual culture and history of Dundee's music halls? Come along to the Laidlaw Music Centre, St Andrews, on Wed 19th March at 2:30pm to hear about 'Remembering Dundee's Music Halls: 1846-1914'. 👉🏻 events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/music... @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Pick up the latest issue of songlines magazine for my reviews of Parchman Prison Prayer’s ‘Another Mississippi Sunday Morning’, Brigid Mae Power’s ‘Songs For You’, and more #music #new www.songlines.co.uk

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

What’s happening this week in #Dundee #musichalls #history? #OTD 6 March 1867 saw the announcement that the “great Irish spectacle of Donnybrook Fair” was coming to Dundee Music Hall & Opera House on Shore Terrace. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For more information on the theatre’s history, including more photographs, check out: arthurlloyd.co.uk/Dundee/KingsTh…

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What’s happening this week in #Dundee #musichalls #history? In February 1908 news broke that a new hall was to open in the city – see ‘Dundee Courier’ 24 February 1908. The King’s still stands in the city, now in the process of reopening as a nightclub. @musichallsociety.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Looking for 2025's next #BigWalk #challenge. We're tempted by this. Toying with completing the core 39 miles in 24 hours. 🤔 We like the idea of claiming to have walked across Scotland in a day! 😂 #AntonineWall #Scotland @classicalalan.bsky.social

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Horrible day for a walk. Hoges has the right idea - quick stop at The Newport for some refreshment ☕️ #newportontay #aplacetobe #fife #scotland

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