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About Me

Clyde Cards is the place you get to after buying one of Tom Livingstone's MARINE ART cards. THAT'S ME. This is my start on MySpace. It will have WATERCOLOURS and BOATS when I get a minute. There are PICTURES on the PHOTO PAGE. These are STEAMBOATS in SCOTLAND a hundred years ago in watercolour. This bunch are from a show I did for the PADDLE STEAMER PRESERVATION SOCIETY and they went nuts............ ToolsForMySpace.com Cavern Soundcheck Here.......http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7DMHuXlp_x8........ and a rehearsal here...........http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJckfieC64& ;feature=related

My Interests

Travel a long way on boats and trains to paint people's boats.Played for Scotland at World Pinball Championship in Melkweg Amsterdam. Designed the company colours for Caledonian Macbrayne. Play Hammond for Man at the Window.

I'd like to meet:

Whoever nicked my Acetone GT7 in 1987

Music:

Deborahe Glasgow..always first...Lloyd Charmers, Wailers, Augustus Pablo, Burnin Spear,Gregory, Steve Winwood, Kevin Ayers, Sonny Aide, Orchestra Makassay, The Small Faces, Trojan Deep Ska, Oblivion Express, Airplane, Quicksilver, Miles Davis,Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Bob Crosbie, the music on Chaz Stewart's Myspace and John McGeoch's My Space and Edwin Collins MySpace and Volker Hinkle's My Space, Pink Floyd especially two years either side of Atom Heart Mother. Spend hours playing old Blues on You Tube....like this....http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6SrNc7ueMDA .............Own a Hammond and a harp and write a new song everyday.

Movies:

TREMORS. Seen eleven times. Never get weary. AMILIE. There are so many French films you can't get now, thank goodness for this one. LOCAL HERO some of my pals are in it. ONLY YESTERDAY. Anything by Studio Ghibli wears out the freeze frame in our house. HAPPY GILMOUR, just happy. THREE AMIGOS, love the song. WEDDING CRASHERS, last film I laughed at in a cinema. KID CREOLE best Elvis film. HARD DAYS NIGHT, best Beatles film. LAUREL and HARDY. Pink Floyd live at Pompei.....Very relaxing YouTube of Grantcester....http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZPNQPNw-U& ;feature=related

Television:

Doctor Who. Get Smart. Southpark. Top Cat. Bronco Layne. Clangers. Noggin the Nog. Whirlybirds. The High Life.

Books:

Been writing one for thirty years. You're all in it!!

Heroes:

My Girl,Hiya Toots!

My Blog

Macbraynes Bus

We went to a bus and truck show on Sunday. There were about forty old buses fixed up and running just the way you'd remember them. Padded upholstery, bright classic colours, chrome details and th...
Posted by clydecards on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:47:00 PST

Cavern Soundcheck

Found a nice video of MATW soundcheck at the Cavern in Liverpool. You can't see me, I'm playing Hammond and Piano at the back by the drums but Clydecards Secretary is there and so is our origina...
Posted by clydecards on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:33:00 PST

Im a Man

I'm a Man yes I am.....guess who was watching Steve Winwood concert in Glasgow last night. Had to leave a Man at the Window rehearsal early. Never done that in twenty five years. Thought it was going...
Posted by clydecards on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:59:00 PST

What Submarines??

Okay I give in. As more than a few of you lot have been pointing out, some of my steamboat pictures are set in places where you can't go because of submarines. Yes I did know that already but thanks ...
Posted by clydecards on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:26:00 PST

High Head

High Head Green Gathering, festival ten miles south of Carlisle. Just lovely says me. We played till they dropped. Anyone wearing hairgell went blind with sweat. This is the way I remember festival...
Posted by clydecards on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:05:00 PST

Tale from a Girls Dorm

Anybody who has come over here from the Man at the Window site will know that the band sounds pretty slick these days. Anybody who has known us in the last twenty five years would recognise that in re...
Posted by clydecards on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:45:00 PST

The Season Starts 2008

I had expected to follow "The Season Starts 2007" with tales from a marine artist. You get to meet all different people and sail and have adventures...usually. U.K.2007, a blazin...
Posted by clydecards on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:47:00 PST

Long Awaited Roger Chapman

Long awaited Roger Chapman gig on Friday night. We decided to stay over at Central Hotel in case of too much Guinness. One day when I wins the lottery I'm going to sell up and take a top flo...
Posted by clydecards on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:54:00 PST

The Season Starts 2007.

Thats us back from Oban, sunburned and slightly skint. Sheana will post a full report later but for anybody who wasn't there. Phew. Thats my erudite contribution. Greenock to Arran in the mist Friday...
Posted by clydecards on Tue, 08 May 2007 05:24:00 PST