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Tag Archives: Edinburgh
Brilliant yellow tinged with melancholy
University: complete. The opening of a new chapter, as they say. Of course, there are conditionals. A possible return is not ruled out in the long term, but for now postgraduate study is not in the immediate pipeline. What is … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged day drinking, diet, Edinburgh, employment, future, Game of Thrones, life, news, Student, University, work
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Burger flippin’
You find me at the end of a month in the role of grillmaster at Eusa’s Gilded Garden burger outlet. After an unshaven dressinggowned week or so with a short intermission in Stirling for my brother’s brass band course concert … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged burgers, Edinburgh, Eusa, Fringe, German, Gilded Balloon, Leipzig, Literature, Teviot
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On Orwell
I don’t know if you know or don’t know but I’m currently living and, ostensibly, working in Germany as part of my Year Abroad from the University of Edinburgh. Hence weird gushing praise of Burns, hence the invocation of glorious … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience, Politics
Tagged Burns, Edinburgh, George Orwell, German, Germany, life, philosophy, Vikings, work, year abroad
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Where fishmen lounge at noon
Last weekend I went to London to attend the UK-German Connection seminar, which facilitates the starting up of joint projects between foreign language assistants in each of the respective countries. Before this I’d only ever driven through or skirted the … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged Doctor Who, Edinburgh, Fleestedt, George Mackay Brown, Glasgow, Hamburg, London, Manchester, T. S. Eliot, UK-German Connection, Van Gogh
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A refreshing take on technology: Public Service Broadcasting’s upcoming concert
What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘the modern world’? You might groan in despair at the current state of global affairs. Perhaps you’re perplexed by our times in which social interaction is framed by the shareable; … Continue reading
Jesca Hoop ‘Memories Are Now’ Review
Jesca Hoop’s Memories Are Now is truly something to behold. Conceptually bold in both musicality and subject matter, this is a brave and beautiful project from an artist exerting full masterly control over what she creates. Illustrated with a focused, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Review
Tagged 2017, Alasdair Flett, album, alternative, Edinburgh, indie, Jesca Hoop, Memories Are Now, music, Orkney, Review
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The rise of hyphenates and the demise of icons
As the concluding hours tick down on what to many has seemed a fairly dismal lap around the sun politically and in terms of “iconic” deaths I thought it was time to add my evaluation to the numerous top tens, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music, Politics
Tagged 2016, Berlin, Edinburgh, exams, flats, Frankenstein, Fringe, German, Glasgow, Honeyblood, journalism, life, Motion Poets, Orkney, St Magnus Festival, Twin Peaks, Warpaint, We Were Promised Jetpacks, work
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Salutations from the Solstice
December. Brown leaves linger – decomposing streaks on recomposing streets whose lights and likenesses change to suit the season. I’m set to return soon, where no such sodden mulch is to be found. Another semester past. Another set of exams … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Auslandsjahr, December, Edinburgh, English literature, German, Germany, Hemmingway, humanities, leaves, Leipzig, Orkney, science, Solstice, Spain, University, year abroad
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Meme Magic – Oh look he’s getting a bit political
The world has changed since when I met you last, Forces have gathered, grown and made their mark, Meme magic brewed an unsavoury broth, and left us Trump – God-Emperor of Earth. Oh, and also I became an editor at … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Politics
Tagged Alasdair Flett, alt-right, Edinburgh, election, Enlightenment, Literature, magic, memes, news, poetry, politics, post-truth, The Student, Trump
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Honeyblood @ Electric Circus Review
Glasgow duo, Honeyblood brought their distinct brand of low-fi noise pop to Edinburgh this October in what was the final gig of their pre-semaphore release tour. No strangers to the more intimate venues such as Electric Circus, one feels as though … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Review
Tagged alternative, Cat Myers, EAT FAST, Edinburgh, Electric Circus, Honeyblood, indie, low-fi, noise, punk, Review, Stella Tweeddale
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