October 2005

Last Thursday Alan MacLeod of Mooney’s Wake and North star fame put on a multi-faceted event at Mooney’s for John Peel Night, along with dozens of other promoters throughout the country. I was due to spin a few discs as part of the DJ team, but at 5.30 pm Alan called to ask if there…

This is the world-famous tombolo, or double-sided beach, between St Ninian’s Isle and Bigton in the south mainland of Shetland. On Sunday, for the first time in my experience, the sea had broken through the spit of sand – combination of high tide and stormy weather – though it was still possible to cross to…