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Andrew Tully

@charlieendell.bsky.social
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Edinburgh Man. Parent, teacher, musical footnote - in that order.

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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Fabulous new release, finally arrives, from Bhajan Bhoy. ‘Summer In St Mary’s’ is a rich and plangent album of drone music, a Plantagenet (see what I did there!) take on Éliane Radigue, La Monte Young and Áine O’Dwyer composed & recorded on a old church organ in a 15th Century church. Lovely stuff!
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sliding (un)sentimentally into the summer holidays with this pair - ‘A Nazi in Patagonia’ could be an unreleased Peel track. For 6 months in the mid-80s biG⭐️fLAME lit up my life as @alternativestovalium can testify to! Thanks to @precrecs.bsky.social for liberating this fine slab of vinyl!
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“… I know ‘cause tonight is just like any other night That’s why you’re on your own tonight With your triumphs and your charms” Over 40 years since I first gazed shyly on that magnificent, mercurial, wilfully misanthropic Morrissey./1
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Iggy Pop tonight in Glasgow, last seen in 1991 when he was an old man of 44. Tonight, battle-scarred and ravaged, the top discarded before the first four beats; the lone, leonine leader of the pack, still standing, still raging - Iggy, at the end, exit stage right to ‘Funtime’ - magnificent
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
‘Pick up the baton and pass it on’. A righteous, riotous and riveting night @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social A two-hander set in the Memphis motel the night before Martin Luther King’s assassination. Truly fantastical - there must be angels!
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma... “Most MCs rap on beat. Saafir didn’t. He swung. ‘He didn’t rattle off Coltrane or Miles Davis,’ Moran pointed out. ‘He went: Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, Hank Mobley. He’s dealing with the outsiders.’” Sometimes the London Review of Books throws up a real curveball…🤩
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Alex Abramovich | Saafir 1970-2024
An interview with Saafir showed up on my Instagram feed last November. Jason Moran posted it with the caption: ‘There...
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“I would rather not go back to the old house, There’s too many bad memories Too many memories” Slipped between the pages of one of my dusty Smiths tomes, lovelorn for these last thirty years, this fragile missive tumbled to the floor from the North of England’s New York Dolls correspondent…
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? See youse all in the Premiership next season - albeit briefly🫣
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My fave new thing - Cameron Winter’s album ‘Heavy Metal’ is neither heavy or metal - a lovely little thing that touches blindly on some sweet spot between Bill Callahan, the Purple Mountains and…Rufus Wainwright, go figure! youtu.be/kbP1724y7Ws?...
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The Rolling Stones
YouTube video by Cameron Winter
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ach, Friday night’s alright in Auld Reekie’s own Colony Club, The Onion Cellar, a heady mix of Leith’s low-lifes and its alcoholic, artistic elite…I’m naming no names🫣…
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“Listen to everything all the time, & remind yourself when you’re not” I 1st came across the name Pauline Oliveros during Bill Drummond & Tam Dean Burn’s ‘Hear Hard’ schlep round Edinburgh’s howffs! Then today,switching on the radio, what should appear but this joy of a programme-Hear Hard indeed!
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Sunday Feature - Afterwords: Pauline Oliveros - BBC Sounds
An exploration of the work of composer and 'deep listening' pioneer, Pauline Oliveros.
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Superb evening with that most (un)likely sex symbol Stuart Staples & the sublime Tindersticks. Apparently effortless, but wonderfully pinpoint poised with strings and brass filling out a delicately sinuous sound. Braw to see so many well-kent faces in the queue for the bar @tindersticks.bsky.social
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Brilliant news - well done Jenni! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize
The author said she hopes resulting publicity ‘is used to help stop other children falling through all safety nets as I did repeatedly’
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A homecoming in so many ways, Hamish Hawk in Edinburgh, spanning his world from the sun-kissed cul-de-sacs of Edinburgh’s Fairmilehead to the comedy divine of ‘The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973’ - sublime🤩 @hamishhawk.bsky.social
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.” A chilling Merchant of Venice on a chilly Valentine’s night - genuinely shocking courtroom scene, difficult to watch but impossible to look away from!
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Lovely afternoon with @persianrug.bsky.social and Beve uptown at the thought-provoking Everlyn Nicodemus exhibition. Pic1: ‘Everyday Life’ by Everlyn Nicodemus Pic2: ‘Still Life with Wheelchair and Fire Extinguisher’ by Charlie Endell
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The unbridled joy of listening to @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - driving home yesterday morn across Scotland’s frosty borderlands, the home of Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, I was sorely awoke from my reverie by this banger - hats off to Petroc Trelawny m.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGO...
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” Agitated, articulate and angry @omarelakkad railing against genocide in Palestine and our complicity🇵🇸
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What better place to see the film ‘The Brutalist’ than Galashiels, home to Scotland’s finest example of Brutalist architecture the Gala Fairydean football stand designed by Peter Womersley built in 1964…
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
3 months ago I saw Mahmoud Muna in Edinburgh for the launch of ‘Daybreak in Gaza’ chronicling the voices of the dispossessed in Gaza, now he’s been arrested by Israeli Police, citing a single children’s colouring book as evidence of ‘incitement to terrorism’. Very soon we will all be terrorists✊🏽 🇵🇸
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Princes Street Gardens, October ‘86, Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, our first ever photo shoot(?). Bedecked in our thrift shop best, bass player posted missing, undoubtedly dawdling, to be replaced by the massed ranks of the Vienna Boys Choir…
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Leeds v Cardiff today. 50 years ago dad and a 10 year old me were at Elland Road for the FA Cup🏆 My main memory of the game is at half time a dozen Cardiff fans ran on to the pitch to claim the centre circle; swiftly followed by a swarm of Leeds fans who ‘peacefully ushered’ them off the pitch🤛🏼
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Riotous, righteous and rapturous…and that was just meeting up with the young ones before Femi Kuti and the Positive Force ripped it up at Celtic Connections!
Femi Kuti on stage with the Positive Force.A group of ne’er-do-wells in Glasgow
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Nearly 40 years on, these young whippersnappers are snapping at the heels of their elders and betters - marvellous!🤩
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Slipping under the wire of 2024, my record of the year, the Green Telescope’s R1 session. For those of us coming of age in Edinburgh in the early ‘80s, these cats were where it was at - our own Exploding Plastic Inevitable - check out that front row from their WipeOut gig in 1984 at Bobby McGee’s!🤩
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
“Music Is The Answer” - Portobello gonna be rockin’ on New Year’s Day - got my diamond tank top, Gabicci knit polo shirt and hi-waisters all ready to go - DJ VicGalloway on the wheels of steel🪩 Tickets available here - what a lovely way to start 2025 - edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... Lovely Boxing Day reading @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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‘The Loudest, Brightest Thing’ | Sam Huber
Late one evening when I was twenty, a boy I liked shared a theory: queer people who come out in adulthood go through a second adolescence. Freed from the
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Only 1 more shopping day left to Xmas - Desperadoes merch available has doubled - thanks to Mark Reed for this porcelain birthday present, available at your local National Trust tea room soon! Remarkable how the mug handle matches my ears! 🙉10” still available from @precrecs.bsky.social
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
School Xmas night out-as we got closer to the restaurant I realised I was on hallowed ground. The distant echo of my old band, Rote Kapelle, still to be heard in the old brickwork & despite some pot-pourri, the fusty smell of our old rehearsal rooms 40 years on. The past truly is a foreign country!
Rote Kapelle in our first smelly rehearsal roomMe - in the same space, 40 years later, now an upmarket event space.Rote Kapelle posing poorly in Blair street in 1984Me, posing poorly in Blair Street 40 years later!
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Cheap music everywhere” Callum Easter at the Queens Hall - the louche intensity of a woozy carny soul revue - a Lynchian mash up of Suicide, Nectarine No. 9 and the long forgotten Dave Howard Singers!
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Marvellous Erland Cooper concert at St Luke’s tonight. An elegiac reimagining of people and place, nature and time - a privilege to bear witness to. (And no, that’s not me checking out the fridge before the gig!)
Erland Cooper plus string quartet at St Luke’s, Glasgow.Erland Cooper plus string quartet at St Luke’s Glasgow.Sign for Erland Cooper gig at St Luke’s Glasgow. Underneath is a chef checking out the fridge in the kitchen.
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Thrift shop post-punk 1984 - Rote Kapelle in Edinburgh’s Old Town, 19 years old and smelling of dead men’s overcoats and damp rehearsal rooms - there’s me, second left, staring off into a glorious future 🤩
Rote Kapelle posing in the middle of a deserted street in Edinburgh’s Old Town, trying vainly to look like NME cover stars…1984
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Post you from a different era. Feb 1989 - Trip down to London - ‘home of the brash, outrageous and free’ 🫣
London travel card from 1989 with a Picture of a Shane McGowan lookalike on the front.
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Lost Edinburgh-c.1880-rarely seen photo of The Red Chapel Gang (Rote Kapelle), a notorious motley crew of ne’er do wells, ragamuffins and street urchins who terrorised the Grassmarket in the late 19th Century; thought to be the inspiration for Fagin’s gang of pickpockets in Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’!
An early picture of stylish Edinburgh post-punk indie band Rote Kapelle standing outside a gift shop on Forrest Road in 1985.
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
‘Just one more thing…’ Well this just made me want to go back and watch Colombo from the start again…🕵🏻‍♂️
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‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’ | J. W. McCormack
Television’s best jokes turn hierarchies upside-down. In some cases ghoulish beauty standards are treated as ordinary, like when Morticia Addams clips the
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Rote Kapelle in a basement bar in Edinburgh 40 years ago - young, gifted(?) and dishevelled…
The band Rote Kapelle playing an early gig in 1984/5 in a basement bar just off the Royal
Mile in Edinburgh
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The always entertaining and thoughtful Com Toibin quoting Yeats “now, after politics has utterly failed us, the imagination can come to the fore.” He was a riot at the Edinburgh Book Festival - a delightful flaneur!
Colm Toibin at the Edinburgh Book Festival
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The energy I bring to Bluesky
An old man sitting forlornly in a rundown barber’s shop.
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Disconcerting evening bearing witness to Nick Cave in Glasgow recently. He was on imperious form, profoundly moving at times, scabrously funny at others - two & a half hours flashed by & one could but admire the durability of his hair colour - that’s surely never over the counter product…🧵
Nick Cave performing at the Glasgow HydroA pro- Palestinian protestor outside the Nick Cave gig holding up a poster that states ‘Cave is a Cnut’
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
At age 14, the most politically minded action I had taken was to flick the 'V's at the passing local NF candidate during that year's (1979) General Election campaign whilst I was taking part in a road traffic census as part of my maths 'O' Level studies…1/4
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a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan
Alt: a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Mild -mannered Indie Shamblers - think again! The Desperadoes masquerading as bloody, garage gore-hounds 37 years ago! With @helsing_lenny as El Capo…
Poster of Desperadoes gig from St Valentines Day 1987
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A life in two badges!
A Rote Kapelle badge and a Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes badge.
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Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
In a land faraway, The Desperadoes hit London for the first time. Backstage at the Clarendon Ballroom on a very sticky summer’s night in 1986 - the East Kilbride massive out in force🤩
The Desperadoes backstage with Michael and Eddie from Meat Whiplash, and Douglas from the Jesus and Mary Chain. The Desperadoes are wearing cardigans… Some of the Desperadoes hanging off the back of a London bus - re-enacting the DoubleDeckers TV show.
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