February 2024

Searching for the perfect backpack Listen to me reading the essay, complete with all the tracks, on Mixcloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/beatcroft-social-musical-essay-the-redemption-of-a-rucksack/ If you just want the Spotify playlist without speech, that’s at the end. Lloyd Cole — My Bag It was a bad idea to dump the Millican backpack, the one the company called, for whimsical…

Elvis Voe And His Fitful Head Available on Spotify here: At a party  in Partick She said it was time to  go  I asked her to come with me She said no Had the keys in my pocket I decided to drive Three sheets to the windscreen  Unwanted dead or alive That was when I…

Fear used to stalk me after sunset. Things change, though. And strike a light, spring is around the corner Listen to the entire ‘audio essay’, complete with the songs and me reading the text below, by clicking here https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/beatcrofting-in-the-darkbut-with-light-on-the-way/ The darkness comprehendeth it not… James King and the Lonewolves — My Queen Has Lost Her…

Two hours of Zetlandic (and Zetland-approved) music, plus a meditation: Here Come The Pacifist Vikings, by Elvis Voe and His Fitful Head And so, for another year…it begins! Up Helly Aa season has erupted via the Scalloway Fire Festival and of course the gigantic Lerwick affair, but there is so much more to go. Sunday…