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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Brilliant atmosphere at today's 'Gather Around the Frame: A Celebration of Hand Quilting' event at National Museum of Scotland with inspiring mix of community and creativity.

Always a blast capturing @strangetownco Young Company's projects and loved their latest show 'Aphrodite Rogue' by Eleanor McMahon (including appropriate flashback fear on the joys of flat sharing 🙀). Last chance to see it at @summerhallarts tonight

Mind / ears blown away by sound wizard Chris Watson's excellent 'Planet Ocean' talk tonight at @edinburghcollegeofart c/o @music.eca 👏🎧👏🎤👏
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Playful night c/o @wavetable_ed #49 at their inaugural @fruitmarketgallery show with mint sets from @stevesnookerone47 + @gazwilliamsbass and @threefieldlines 👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/wavetable-49-26-march-2026

Fun day documenting Youth Theatre Arts Scotland's National Convention of Youth Drama and good to see the young team enjoying the movement workshop 😀

Beautiful night at @oldsaintpauls with Dr Paul Newton-Jackson directing the vocal consort Mater Matris in a concert of elaborate sacred works from 16th century Scotland. Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/mater-matris-14-march-2026

Tuesday Tunes #3 : Another exceptional show from @bathingsuitsband tonight with @shelflivesbaby at @mashhouse 👏👏👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.com/shelf-lives-bathing-suits-10-march-2026

Tuesday Tunes #2 : Excellent, intriguing lunchtime concert from @robinmichael76 + @annamichelspiano at @music.eca @edinburghuniversity 👏

Tuesday Tunes #1 : Fun times documenting St David’s RC Primary School visit to the @nationalmuseumsscotland Collection Centre where they discovered the beginning of the vinyl revival 🎶

Fun time at today's 'Prints & Drawings in Focus | French and Impressionist prints and drawings' @nationalgalleriesscot getting up close with exceptional work including Delacroix, Legros, Redon and a box-fresh new acquisition by Morisot (because y

Fine evening to be chasing the full Worm Moon across #Edinburgh 🌝
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Fab 'Gwen John | Strange Beauties' exhibition at @museumwales which really brings the details of @judithmackrell excellent biography 'Artists, Siblings, Visionaries' to life (especially Gwen's fondness for cats 😻). Scottish pals can see it at @natio

Virtuosic, dynamic and sensitive @joelvonlerber harp performance today at @rwcmd 👏👏👏

After a few weeks at the quieter end of the musical fun park, good times tonight mixing it up with a maximalist line-up of @thumper_666 + @oedipusandthemamasboys + @dietofwormsuk at @sneakypetesclub 👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfolio.

Class @thenightwith show last night with @unitedstringseurope at @fruitmarketgallery including ace 'Spindrift' by @aileen.sweeney.music that every Scottish group needs to get into their repertoire 👏👏👏 Photo album > https://andycatlin.myportfoli

Lovely set today from @inneswhitemusic + @ceitlinlilidh + @ellenfmacdonald at @nationalmuseumsscotland as part of the celebrations for @sngaidhlig World Gaelic Week 2026
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All-star alumni cast at last night's @weekofsound @music.eca Recording Culture concert celebrating 75 years of the School of Scottish Studies Archives @scottish.studies.archives and its remarkable work in both preserving and developing new work 👏 Ph

After last week's session in the recording studio, good time catching up with @blackstar_falling live last night at @whistlebinkies 👏

Sharp young minds at work today taking part in the Giant Geometry Challenge  at @nationalmuseumsscotland as part of their free half term family activities celebrating the latest exhibition 'Giants' https://www.nms.ac.uk/events/giants-half-term

Alternative Valentine's Day fun at @edinburghmedicalschool Anatomical Museum's heart-themed Public Open Day as part of their 300th anniversary celebrations (and way better than overpriced petrol station chocs'n'flowers 😍)

Albums of the Year 2025

December 31, 2025

DITZ - Never Exhale

Adwaith - Solas

Sorry - COSPLAY

Benefits - Constant Noise

Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

M(h)aol - Something Soft

Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On

Arvo Pärt & Vox Clamantis - And I Heard A Voice

Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten

Alice Sara Ott - John Field Complete Noctures

Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian - Vermilion Hours

Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver - Hinterland

Iona Lane - Swilkie

Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow

Albertine Sarges - Girl Missing

Jackie Mittoo - Reggae Magic

Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist

Kae Tempest - Self Titled

Marie Davidson - City of Clowns

Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight

Ringdown - Lady on the Bike

Sacred Paws - Jump into Life

Cerys Hafana - Angel

Snocaps - Snocaps

Duo Ruut - Ilmateade