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Bryan Peterson

Bryan Peterson

Shetland Islands Council Elections 2022 candidacy

Posted on March 29, 2022April 15, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
Posted In Writing

I’m standing as an independent candidate for the South Mainland ward in the 2022 Shetland Islands Council Elections on 5th May. Here’s my Election Profile on the Shetland News website. Updates Monday 13th April Monday 11th April Friday 8th April – Jonny at The Art Machine made a rather natty Continue Reading

Youth Trad Big Band

Posted on February 5, 2022March 30, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
Youth Trad Big Band
Posted In Video

It was a pleasure to be the guest bassist for this project designed to explore new ways of learning and teaching traditional music.

The Shetland Gruffalo

Posted on July 1, 2020March 30, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
The Shetland Gruffalo
Posted In Video

Karlin reading The Shetland Gruffalo we an ill lik craeter in the background.

Rhodin EP1

Posted on November 15, 2019April 3, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
Rhodin EP1
Posted In Music, Video

4 tracks by singer, songwriter, musician, and videographer Rhodin. For more info and streamable/downloadable tracks visit https://rhodin.bandcamp.com

The Wise Monkeys live at S.A.E.

Posted on August 1, 2016April 3, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
The Wise Monkeys live at S.A.E.
Posted In Music

Inness Thompson on guitar and vocals, Bryan Peterson on bass, Mark McGuiness on drums. Recorded in 2005.

A-Z of Shetland

Posted on October 29, 2015March 30, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
A-Z of Shetland
Posted In Video

A peerie bairn asked me for my autograph because he recognised me from this film. His mam told me that he ran back to her and said I was the most famous person he’d met since Mickey Mouse at EuroDisney the year before.

Curse of the Bruck Monster

Posted on September 7, 2015April 7, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
Curse of the Bruck Monster
Posted In Video

A work of genius from JJ Jamieson. Here’s some background info on the project.

The Fortune Sons

Posted on August 30, 2015April 3, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
The Fortune Sons
Posted In Music, Video

An excellent band I had the privilege of playing with for a couple of years in Glasgow in the 00s.

Flying Buttress

Posted on May 30, 2014March 30, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
Posted In Music

A collection of tunes recorded in 1998 using a record player, reel-to-reel tape recorder, monophonic synthesizer and a sampler with 8 seconds of sample playback.

Sassermaet Clatch

Posted on November 20, 2013April 3, 2022 by Bryan Peterson
Sassermaet Clatch
Posted In Video

Mam and me making her world-famous recipe. We made this film after I’d mentioned “Sassermaet Clatch” a few times on a BBC Radio Shetland show I co-hosted. My fellow hosts’ had never heard of it (which is no wonder as ‘The Clatch’ had never been made anywhere apart from mam’s Continue Reading

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Bryan Peterson

  • Shetland Islands Council Elections 2022 candidacy
  • Youth Trad Big Band
  • The Shetland Gruffalo
  • The Psychology of DIY
  • Rhodin EP1
  • Decision Fatigue
  • Zeigarnik Effect – finish your tasks to clear your head
  • 100 Word Philosophy – condense your thoughts into a nugget of wisdom
  • Changing minds – a brain like a meat computer running buggy software
  • Sitting in silence – We haven’t evolved to deal with noise
  • Auntie Sheena, Jedi Master
  • Punctuate the day with an info full-stop
  • Netiquette, and don’t feel that you need to have an opinion on everything
  • The solution to punctuality – a pre-appointment meander yarn allowance
  • New Year finance check-up – a resolution £worth keeping
  • Christmas Consumerism
  • Giving up the booze
  • Winter Positivity
  • Procrastination
  • Habits are more effective than goals
  • Overthinking – I’d worry less if I had more sympathetic imaginary friends
  • Sleep Learning – my plan to read the entire works of Shakespeare via overnight audiobooks
  • News induced angst
  • Pomodoro concentration technique
  • Gratitude
  • Christmas music (I wish it could be breakfast everyday)
  • If music be the food of love: a journey from fry-ups to Freeform Jazz
  • The Wise Monkeys live at S.A.E.
  • A-Z of Shetland
  • Curse of the Bruck Monster
  • The Fortune Sons
  • Flying Buttress
  • Bongshang – Sirenik
  • Bongshang – Still Standing Still (Back From Beyond)
  • Sassermaet Clatch
  • Becoming Posthuman
  • Bongshang – Morita Pt1
  • Bongshang – Remastered back catalogue albums
  • Bongshang – Outcast
  • Moonwalking and murder
  • It’s all Mareel’s fault
  • Apocalyptic airlift
  • Mareel. And we’re off….
  • Pedalling and the pedantry of multiples
  • Tesco vs. 3 old men armed with ferrets careering downhill in a bathtub
  • Politics of Waving (if in doot, wave and toot)
  • The really big and the really peerie
  • e-mail misery guts
  • Club Licensing
  • Tickets Please
  • Broadband in Shetland
  • Decentralisation
  • A moan about moaning
  • Twitter and twats
  • The campaign to Keep Instrumental Tuition Free in Shetland
  • Online Privacy
  • SIC bans Shetlink & Alec Couper for Christmas #1
  • Google Street View
  • BOINC-ing
  • Eggcorns
  • Digital Britain
  • Copyrights and wrongs
  • Portmanteaux
  • I wouldn’t defend the BNP to the death
  • Virtual Murder and Inspector Remorse
  • Contrariously circular logic
  • Tesco, youthful automotive pursuers and vandalism
  • Forum Moderation
  • Learco Chindamo
  • Sociological and ethical impact of Cyber Communities
  • On the Internet in my Underpants
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