Our Mr Stainer

Journalist, editor, columnist, author.

[ScotIndyPodcast @mgreenwell]

Can't stress enough. Many people haven't received polling cards. YOU DON'T NEED POLLING CARD TO VOTE. YOU CAN STILL GO. #indyref Please RT

[John Colbourne @John_Collbourne]

Ireland fought for decades to reclaim its stolen land. All that Scots - 2nd class citizens of another enforced "union" - need to do is vote.

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@TVsPatKilbane No! I'd a protracted bust-up w Amazon:4 tel assts & a supervisor insisted my 2007 Writers & Artists was delivered Jan 1, 1970

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman I do so enjoy feigning knowledgeability.

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman Not Blondie but XTC bassist Colin Moulding collaborated w Rick Wakeman 2012 & this year w Days Between Stations. Erm,Wikipedia

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@emma_kupa Yr "Boy,Look at What You Can't Have Now" w @darrenhayman never off my playlist.Shades of Saki's Filboid Studge in a perfect song.

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman @joanvich @iparky Not quite same I guess (abbreviation) but does The Electric Light Orchestra count?Just ELO for past 25 years

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman Not that bad. In 79 I fronted duo Robespierre & The Jacobin.Didn't help I was musically talentless,hence writer by elimination

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman Very sad;but like all yr songs,wonderfully perceptive.Discovering yr back catalogue,finding 1 treasure after another.Thank you

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman 1) Over 10yrs later than everyone else but almost coughed lungs up at lyrics of Gabriel At The Airport. God you nailed that :)

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@darrenhayman 2)That & Porn Shoes 2 of most addictive,clever songs I've heard,& I bought Dark Side of Moon on release w my paper-round money

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 1.JC V-C - HA HA!! Well,I *am* dictating my memoirs to a minion at present.Yes! I WILL write it up - in a blog. Ppl shld know/

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 2. the truth about that night. J C V-C was brushing fans of other people seeking other celebs' autographs aside, wrist wafting

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 3.aloft, crying dismissively "I haven't got a hand!" (That's how I got waved back into the ditch).They also need to know about

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 4.the incident w/ Andrew Lloyd "Spitting Image Puppet" Webber, who'd "grabbed one" for Evita. As he & 10 other luvvies carried

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 5.Oscars into Elton's bash, a man across the street cried, purely as an experiment, "Plagiarist!" (I believe the heckler, who

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 6.had a dog in his arms,may have had a Scottish accent) & the *only* celebrity who stopped walking and, blinking, looked round

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 7.apprehensively like a naughty scout-master was his tiny enobled eminence. So yes, yes, and yes - a blog! Just remember, tho,

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 8. Mo, that it will all be your fault & yr suggestion when the International Internet Police knock down my door at 4am, bundle

[Our Mr Stainer @NimrodStainer]

@THEMOCOLLINS 9. me into their little electric car with laptops in the back window & beat me w/ the latest tablets in the cells at London's