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The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies. We’re talking classic films, brand-new films, film festivals, the politics of film, arthouse thinkers *and* action bangers with loads of explosions.
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Anahit’s written a book! BFFs is about the radical potential of female friendship, so your best podcast pals are here for a pals’ chat about a pal’s book (except for Jamie, who is waylaid on another project we’ll tell you about later…)
Elsewhere, we take a big ol’ honk on Hello Dankness, the latest from mash-up nouveau-agitprop legends Soda_Jerk, ahead of its Glasgow Short Film Festival screening, and Anahit fills us in on the lovely Rye Lane.
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Billy Connolly’s ex-bandmate Tam Harvey dead as fans pay tribute to music star
BILLY Connolly’s bandmate Tam Harvey has died, his daughter has confirmed. Tributes have been flooding in to the Scottish music legend who started The Humblebums group in the 1960s. The band …
By Jonathan Whitelaw
BILLY Connolly’s bandmate Tam Harvey has died, his daughter has confirmed.
Tributes have been flooding in to the Scottish music legend who started The Humblebums group in the 1960s.
The band featured Harvey, The Big Yin and Gerry Rafferty.
They grew in reputation after playing local pubs and clubs in Glasgow.
Now Harvey’s daughter Georgiana Mannion has shared the sad news about her dad on social media.
And she revealed that he had even taught the Scots comic how to play guitar.
She posted a pic of the group’s album featuring both her father and Connolly on the sleeve.
She said: “My father died a few hours ago.
“So sorry for your loss.”
We told you earlier how Connolly wants to apologise to a woman photographer he told to ‘f*** off’ during one of his gigs.
The Big Yin, who is battling Parkinson’s Disease, launched a verbal volley at the snapper and later said he had no regrets.
But he now says he wanted to say sorry to Valerie O’Sullivan over the incident at the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney, Ireland.
Source: Billy Connolly’s ex-bandmate Tam Harvey dead as fans pay tribute to music star
Burnistoun “Mad Uncles”
BBC Scotland and BBC One Scotland and BBC Two Scotland sketch show from Robert Florence and Iain Connell. 22 episodes 2009 – 2019.
Robert Florence and Iain Connell write and perform this sketch show set in a fictional Scottish location that somehow seems eerily familiar. Burnistoun has its own newspaper, furniture store, gym, pub and all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, radio station and even an ice-cream van.
Characters include Uncle Willie the man who insists on having his own funeral before he dies, wannabe girl-band singer Jackie McGlade who can make any tune sexy except football songs, and John and Terry two pub pals who insist they do not fantasize about each other sexually.
Other Burnistoun characters include disgruntled serial killer The Burnistoun Butcher, and snippy siblings, Paul and Walter, who share high drama inside their ice cream van.
More about Burnistoun at Comedy UK