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Music + Memory: A Personal Photography Project

Music, words and photos are important things in my life. This ongoing project is a way of trying to show the special memories that  specific music has for me and talking a little bit about them. I'll also try to make a photo that captures some of what they make me feel.


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Dreich day didn't dampen the 50th Anniversary celebrations at @nationalmuseumsscotland National Museum of Flight with the Kite Club of Scotland bringing the aerial colours 🌈
Only do wedding photography for pals and it was 100% joy being around to document Michelle & Cristian's big bilingual day ❤️ (with bonus points for using my coo whispering skills to lure this young 'un into the party)
Grateful to the team from the Future Leaders Fellowship Development Network for letting me try to turn their group photo into album art 😀
Another excellent Book(ish) event at @nationalgalleriesscot with Tessa Ewart from Collections & Research team introducing up-close experiences including Dali's cheeky 'Invisible Straight from Nature', Douglas' gorgeous 'Within the Bloom', Cadell'
More photography fun today at the @nationalmuseumsscotland National Museum of Flight documenting the Mckinney family's visit with the team from @goeastlothian ✈️
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Impassioned and articulate Music and Words from the Trans Imaginary from @cn.lester tonight at @edinburghuniversity with support from @lighthousebks 👏🏳️‍⚧️👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/cn-lester-25-june-2025
Ace start to the working week documenting @dunedinconsortscot learning and participation work in primary schools 👏 Find out more at https://www.dunedin-consort.org.uk/learning-and-participation/schools-workshops/
How Friday Ends: second resistance lesson of the day with @strangetownco and their performance of Eleanor McMahon's "The Stars and After" at @traversetheatre which serendipitously echoed @garyyounge earlier talk with the play showing young
How Friday Starts: first resistance lesson of the day with a rich and thoughtful lecture from @garyyounge at @nationalgalleriesscot for the opening of the 'Resistance' exhibition which shows how protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest.
How Thursday Ends: Day 2 of @strangetownco visit to @traversetheatre with 'In the Cult of Work' performed by the Tuesday 14-18s group, written by Daniel Orejon and directed by Catherine Ward-Stoddart.
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How Thursday Starts: fascinating time documenting GovCamp Scotland, a day of quality discussions at @uoe_efi on how to get better outcomes for users of public services including health, arts, libraries, military, voluntary and academic sectors 👍
Great time capturing @strangetownco latest show 'Livin' On A Prayer' written & directed by James Beagon and performed by their Tuesday 8-25s Auditioned group. Recommend seeing it at @traversetheatre on Sat 21 June, 8pm 👏👏👏
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Pretty sure the grown ups were having most of the fun at today's Awesome Bricks event at @nationalmuseumsscotland National Museum of Flight 😀
Fun day in the sunshine exploring the nooks & crannies of our beautiful city with @edinburghnapier Ambassadors 😎
Another cracking gig from @francisofdelirium tonight with @boa_uk_official at The Queen's Hall 👏👏👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/francis-of-delirium-boa-12-june-2025
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In the face of current political backsliding on the natural environment, it was positive to see a broad coalition of organisations fighting the good fight at today's @scottishenvironmentlink Stand Up for Nature protest at the Scottish Parliament 👏 P
Ecstatic highs tonight from @foxing c/o @sneakypetesclub playing an away game at @mashhouse with quality support from CUTTINGS + @soboring.band 👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/foxing-cuttings-so-boring-8-june-2025 
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It's not every day you get to document hundreds of people recreating the video for Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights"... Edinburgh's Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever was simultaneously hilarious, absurd and 100% joyful 🥰 Bumper photo album &gt
Beautiful clarsach set tonight from @sianniemoodie c/o @livemusicnowscotland at @nationalgalleriesscot inspired by the current 'The World of King James VI & I' exhibition. 
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Can't recommend the Book(ish) events at @nationalgalleriesscot highly enough and today's session on LGBTQ+ Artists with Senior Archivist @kirstie.meehan shared some amazing work and stories from Anton Prinner, Aubrey Beardsley, Robert MacBryde &

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞

February 22, 2016

WHAT  Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ 
WHEN The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen - 27 March 2000

“The car is on fire, and there’s no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt
And we’re on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles”

Who the hell opens their debut album with a spoken word piece from their own abandoned film script? From their first recorded moment, Godspeed You! Black Emperor set out their stall and everyone else can go fuck themselves. Serious, dystopian and uncompromising, "F♯ A♯ ∞" is almost underdone by its own solemnity, but its steely self belief holds it together. With wandering guitar lines and lush string sections, it creates a progressively darkening dream-state that ladles out feelings of paranoia, dread and impending apocalypse.

Compared to Swans’ pummelling beat-downs or Big Black’s blunt force trauma (both of which I love), "F♯ A♯ ∞" is a masterclass in playing the long game as it inexorably overwhelms you in its very, very bleak now-world. I first saw them live supporting Sigur Rós in Aberdeen which was a bit like sending Nick Cave to open for Kylie Minogue... they were almost invisible onstage - hidden behind a set on a obscure projections - and never spoke. Mystery maintained.

Lock the doors, turn out the lights, be scared.


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