November 2007

To the Radiocroft this morning, earlier than usual, to take part in a discussion on the Fred Maculay (and Co) show about why The Beatles were/are rubbish. This featured a brief snatch of the Tom Morton Two song Learning to Hate The Beatles which you can download for free HERE. Hamish from the NME seemed…

Joe at the Hillswick Post Office is getting used to my almost daily visits with books to send all over the world…but stocks are diminishing fast. Thank goodness! This business of being a literary entrepreneur takes up a lot of time and energy. Not to mention money… So, if you fancy giving a copy of…

In response to listener Billy Long from Dalry, whose house is in a smoke-free zone and who has therefore not seen a solid fuel fire for 18 years he says, here’s the Radiocroft today with the pot-bellied stove on. Welcome to the BBC’s (and possibly the world’s) only peat-fired radio programme!

A lot of talking about the weather on the show today…you can hear it in its two-hour entirety using the BBC’s Listen Again service…or just bits of it. Many, many texts and emails…why was Troon ‘like Boston’? Was there really a five metre swell on the Pentland Firth? (It’s five to seven metres in the…

This all stated with an emailfrom Sandy and Fiona Forbes, who comprise the moving force behind the excellent Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club. Recalling the importance of the 1960s Island compilation album You Can All Join In (we had a ‘sampler LP’ thread running on the show last week) Sandy mentioned the stellar lineup of bands…

…first, the band from Shetland attracting heavy duty interest from record companies, lawyers and music biz types from a’ the airts. This is their first video, shot by my old pal Dave Hammond. Black Bic Biro, then – whaddaya think?http://burntcandle.co.uk/VideoJukebox/VJB8/…and another wee word about my Logik Reciva wi-fi radio: the whole experience of using it…