Torquil MacLeod

Carbon based, oxygen breathing; makes radio programmes.

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

Look! It's ANOTHER new album. And this one's mine, all mine. Turn your face towards the sun, close your eyes and drift away on a cloud of warm, fuzzy electronica. Mmm . . . (unless you're driving) https://t.co/k1IRT0aKwS

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@JoeBanksWriter I agree re. Stalker/Roadside Picnic. I find it hard to think of many SF film/TV adaptations that equal or transcend their literary origins. Good as Blade Runner is, it misses out so much of the oddness of Do Androids Dream . . . (Mercerism, fetishization of animal ownership etc.)

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@druienbird You're not wrong!

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@Gulftastic @DrMatthewSweet https://t.co/Q5qbQcWwgg

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@Paytress Well yes, they're fantastic too and I'd hate to be without any of them. I guess Baxters holds a special place in my heart because it was the first Airplane album I heard. I borrowed it plus Live Dead from a school friend. Life was never the same again!

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@IMcMillan That's quite a spectacle.

[Mike Batt @Mike_Batt]

I was once whingeing to Paul McCartney that I'll always be known primarily for the Wombles. Straight-faced, without irony, he said, "Yeah, I have the same problem with The Beatles".

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@AnotherCinna @RoyalAlbertHall Wow!

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@harryhew It's over 40 years since I read it, but from what I remember that second assessment sounds about right.

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@eggsbened Don't fight it. Embrace the beige safari suit!

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

New music for you! Boiled Crewman is my electronica/ambient collaboration with Nev Brewin.

https://t.co/6udhtwdBEE

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@MickPuck It's The Beatles

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@OskarCoxJensen @NaomiPaxton 😂

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@OskarCoxJensen @NaomiPaxton I hoped that you were going to treat us to the traditional street cry of the C19th Italian jewellery pedlar 😁

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@memorialdevice The Fall

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@prodnose Bought it when it came out. Loved it then, still love it today. I was 10 at the time so Bowie's covers were the first versions of most of these songs that I'd heard. And Aynsley Dunbar's drumming is fantastic throughout.

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@TheLastHatGirl Julian Cope has tons to say about all this in The Modern Antiquarian. I don't think his ideas about neolithic and mesolithic societies are necessarily orthodox (no surprise there), but they're definitely interesting.

[Torquil MacLeod @torqmac]

@TheLastHatGirl If we're looking at a belief system in which the natural world is inherently sacred then maybe these interventions are there to accentuate aspects of the landscape and their relation to astronomical events that are particularly conducive to that worship.