Stephen Martin

Twenty years in national newspapers, now plying trade in comms. Dad, runner, optimist. All views my own.

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⁦@FRETSCONCERTS⁩ Thank you so much for an impossibly good gig last night. AND WHAT. AN. ENCORE. Hell yes. All together now: Rest & be thankful! ⁦@sister_john⁩ ⁦@GramSkin⁩ ⁦@thebathersoffi1 👏👏👏

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@TheMekons Howdi folks! Terrific gig in Glasgow last night. Thank you! And Gideon Coe’s just read out messages from me and another guy saying what a belting night it was - and plugging the rest of the tour! 👍👍🙌

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If someone said a few years back that @MrNormanBlake1 @jamthrawn & Bernard Butler would play a gig in Strathaven - let alone 4 more & launch an album here last night - we’d have laughed ‘em out of town. Huge hat’s off @FRETSCONCERTS & @creepingbentorg for making magic happen!🙌

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@R0Poem @TheBarrowlands @dvdmcc @urbancrofter62 @creepingbentorg @johnmccusker And makes it look effortless - which I’m a trillion per cent certain it’s definitely NOT!

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@TheBarrowlands debut for The Bluebells: if ever a gig was worth waiting 40 years for!! Joyous, life-affirming. Massive thank you @dvdmcc @urbancrofter62 @R0Poem @creepingbentorg. And brilliant @johnmccusker on fiddle: what a bonus!👏

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@R0Poem Cannot wait for this!! It’s been a brilliant, brilliant Celtic Connections and this could just be the icing on the cake. Bring it on! All roads lead to the Barrowland Ballroom 😁

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@DutchGundersen @MarkWalton67 Hell yes! BRING IT ON!!

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The best weekend of the year.

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@MairiD What a small world, eh? Bring it on re Nov SYB … and well done on the offspring’s musical taste 👏👏 Always v funny when the kids “discover” stuff in your anthems directory and confidently announce it as, er, a “discovery”😆😆

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@GramSkin @FRETSCONCERTS @TheCowboyMouth @LNFGlasgow @XanTyler Hell yes! Get there early folks!

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@FRETSCONCERTS “Magic in the room…” Absolutely right! Just a total privilege to be there .. Huge thanks all 👏👏👏👏

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Wow! Truck-load of love in the room ⁦@FRETSCONCERTS⁩ last night for ⁦@michaelheadtreb⁩ - and rightly so! Superb support from Stevie Jackson. I’m totally on board with the bloke at the back who yelled: “Is this an annual event, Mick?” Yes please!! 👏👏👏👏

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New entry on the long gigs-I-wish-I-was-at list: March ‘83: Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout AND … The Kingfishers, who were just sparkling last night @FRETSCONCERTS. Thank you @creepingbentorg & crew 👏👏 And @thepearlfishers on superb form too, sans drummer an’ all! Lovely stuff!

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@Les_hoggan @FRETSCONCERTS @StrathavenHotel @PeteAstor @the_vaselines Or both!! 👍👍

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@Les_hoggan @FRETSCONCERTS @StrathavenHotel @PeteAstor @the_vaselines Would make a cracking exhibition would it not?? I for one would be queueing at the door for that!!

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Shed load of love in the room last night for @AstorPete and then @the_vaselines. Terrific stuff. 👏👏 as ever @creepingbentorg for putting on these @FRETSCONCERTS. Hat’s off to @Les_hoggan for documenting them all. And, @eugenekelly: phone the t-shirt bloke next time! 😀😀

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@scottlavene @BBC6Music Yaaaas! Great news .. 👏👏@gladtobegay

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@thebathersoffi1 @FRETSCONCERTS @HazelAMorrison @CallumFT Yeah just about! Bothwell Castle in better nick😁

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Morning after the night before and it’s the usual @FRETSCONCERTS disbelief: Did that magic really happen on our doorstep? Just beautiful & life-affirming last night from @thebathersoffi1. @HazelAMorrison @CallumFT THANK YOU! All together now: Strathaven Castle is falling down…