Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Fabulous 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! 020
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Sliding (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! 040
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./1 130
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Iggy 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 1402
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! 020
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 25/05/2025www.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…🤩lrb.co.ukAlex Abramovich | Saafir 1970-2024An interview with Saafir showed up on my Instagram feed last November. Jason Moran posted it with the caption: ‘There... 000
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… 130
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Whatever happened to the Likely Lads? See youse all in the Premiership next season - albeit briefly🫣 000
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025My 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?...youtu.beThe Rolling StonesYouTube video by Cameron Winter 042
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Ach, 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🫣… 130
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!bbc.co.ukSunday Feature - Afterwords: Pauline Oliveros - BBC SoundsAn exploration of the work of composer and 'deep listening' pioneer, Pauline Oliveros. 041
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Superb 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 000
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Brilliant news - well done Jenni! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...theguardian.comJenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prizeThe author said she hopes resulting publicity ‘is used to help stop other children falling through all safety nets as I did repeatedly’ 010
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 23/02/2025A 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 010
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! 010
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Lovely 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 020
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The 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... 000
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🇵🇸 060
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025What 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… 1130
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 10/02/20253 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✊🏽 🇵🇸 110
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Princes 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… 1110
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Leeds 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🤛🏼 120
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Riotous, 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! 041
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Nearly 40 years on, these young whippersnappers are snapping at the heels of their elders and betters - marvellous!🤩 041
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Slipping 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!🤩 060
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... 052
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... Lovely Boxing Day reading @nyrb-imprints.bsky.socialnybooks.com‘The Loudest, Brightest Thing’ | Sam HuberLate 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 000
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Only 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 042
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 21/12/2024School 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! 060
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! 140
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Marvellous 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!) 040
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Thrift 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 🤩 2260
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Post you from a different era. Feb 1989 - Trip down to London - ‘home of the brash, outrageous and free’ 🫣 050
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Lost 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’! 161
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…🕵🏻♂️nybooks.com‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’ | J. W. McCormackTelevision’s best jokes turn hierarchies upside-down. In some cases ghoulish beauty standards are treated as ordinary, like when Morticia Addams clips the 030
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Rote Kapelle in a basement bar in Edinburgh 40 years ago - young, gifted(?) and dishevelled… 1140
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The 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! 020
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Disconcerting 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…🧵 120
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024At 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…1/4media.tenor.coma man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyanAlt: a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan 140
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Mild -mannered Indie Shamblers - think again! The Desperadoes masquerading as bloody, garage gore-hounds 37 years ago! With @helsing_lenny as El Capo… 020
Andrew Tully @charlieendell.bsky.social · 11/11/2024In 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🤩 061