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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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Part 2 catch-up from the inaugural Edinburgh Indiepop All-dayer at @mashhouse with @fightmilkisaband + @landehekt + @the.cords_band + @the.proctors closing the day on a high 👏 Big shout out to the organisers @eipcollective, artists and staff who mad
Part 1 catch-up from today's super-fun inaugural Edinburgh Indiepop All-dayer at The Mash House with cracking sets from @thejustjoans + Maison d'Etre + @fomachete + @josiebandcph 👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/edinburgh-indiep
How Thursday Ends: revisiting @strangetownco visceral production of Jennifer Adam's 'HER' which has only got more powerful since its 2023 premiere. Definitely see it if you get the chance (last @traversetheatre show is Fri 3 Oct, 7pm).
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How Thursday Starts: ace morning taking photos of @dunedinconsortscot 'A Baroque in Motion' project at @thedonaldsontrust in Linlithgow featuring a beautiful mix of music and movement 👏
Inspiring night taking photos for @cuttingedge_theatre as they celebrated their 30th birthday at @captheatres with a powerful introduction by Daniel from their youth theatre 🎂
Fun times at today's Friday Friends event at @nationalmuseumsscotland 😀 Friday Friends is a monthly event for D/deaf and visually impaired children and their families, organised in partnership with @edinburgh_council Additional Support for Learning
How Thursday Ends: always a treat being able to document the work of @dunedinconsortscot and their current 'Bach’s Italy' programme sounds amazing 👏👏👏 (hear it at @rcsofficial #Glasgow - Fri 26 Sep / St John's Kirk, #Perth - Sat 27 Sep)
How Thursday Starts: ace morning capturing the excitement at @nationalmuseumsscotland when pupils taking part in the Wee Explorers workshop got to see the Lewis Chess pieces for the first time 😮
Packed day documenting @edinburghnapier Open Day with hunners of potential students visiting the three campuses (and getting the photographer to clock up a bonus 🚴 20km + 🚶 10K) 😀
Perfect mix of skill, anger and humour at a legendary night from @mhaolmusic + @malloryhawk + @slothdotband at @sneakypetesclub (with optional M(h)aol pub quiz 😂). Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/mhaol-mallory-hawk-sloth-18-septe
Last visit to see loveable doofus Qabid, the greater one-horned rhinoceros at @edinburghzoo, before he says au revoir for pastures new. During his time in Edinburgh he got his head stuck in both a feed bucket and a tractor tyre so he's sure to make a
How Saturday Ends: couldn't resist another blast of @ditzband at Glasgow's @corethefestival - short, surreal, savage ❤️ Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/ditz-13-september-2025
How Saturday Starts: fun times at today's Dogs & Ducks event at @nationalmuseumsscotland National Museum of Rural Life when visitors got turned into a slalom course for a border collie and its flock of Indian Runner Ducks 😂
Wild, beautiful and unbelievably tight, @ditzband gig tonight at The Mash House c/o @432presents reinforces their position as one of the best bands in the UK. Glasgow pals shouldn't miss them at @thehugandpint tomorrow night 👏 Photo album with @comp
Fun day documenting all the good stuff at this year's 360 Fest at @nationalmuseumsscotland National Museum of Flight including the @extrememountainbikeshow not being limited by boring things like gravity 😳
Another fab Book(ish) event today at @nationalgalleriesscot with Senior Archivist Kirstie Meehan introducing some very Unbooky Books including Andy Warhol's 'Index Book' (with Velvets flexidisc), @chloespicerart 'Self Service Library Rave' (with disc
Edinburgh Psych Fest 2025 bows out with some cracking sets from @_deadletter + @la_securite_avant_tout + @thebanddonothing + @swiss.portrait 👏👏👏
Quick peek at the ongoing fun'n'mischief happening at today's Edinburgh Psych Fest with @iamheartworms + @blind_yeo_band + @theorchestrafornow + @anna___erhard 👏
That's Edinburgh Psych Fest 2025 (AKA Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Fest) out of the blocks with a storming set from @the_moonlandingz at @queens_hall including guest slot from @nadineshah 👏
After another depressing week of senseless cruelty and political cowardice, it was good to join today's Time to Take Action protest march to Bute House 🇵🇸 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/time-to-take-action-30-august-2025

Nirvana - Sliver

May 24, 2016 in Music + Memory Blog

WHAT Nirvana “Sliver”
WHEN Leicester - 15 June 1991

Just after I finished college I was living in a house with someone diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder. It turned into a year of self-harm, self-medication, attempted suicides and enforced hospitalisations. 

"After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep, and watched TV
I woke up in my mother’s arms

Grandma take me home
Never take me home
Grandma take me home

Wanna be alone"

At the end of 1990, “Sliver” was a goofy fun time Sub Pop single that gave a handful of us a two minute high. Its adolescent rush is the DNA of great noisy pop songs - "Can't Buy Me Love", "Teenage Kicks", "Song 2" - a breathless, giddy verse-chorus-verse memory firecracker. 

By the end of the next summer, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was a global Geffen commodity to over 10 million people (true story: I realised how far and fast Nirvana had gone two months later when I heard it coming out of a bedroom window next to the Tower of Pisa). The gear shift predictably ripped the guts out of it and less than three years later it was all over. 

Where did all the good times go?

Tags: Nirvana, Sliver, Grunge, Seattle, Cobain, Sub Pop
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