March 2024

Memories, strange platonic romances and some truly stupendous guitar playing Not so much an illustrated essay this week as a few emotional songs and some words about them. The full playlist is at the end. You can listen to this show on Mixcloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/the-beatcroft-antisocial-tunes-fae-troon-volume-one/ There’s a Spotify playlist at the end too. I’ve known…

New Celeste’s On the Line is a 1979 masterpiece. Now remastered and rereleased You can read the essay below while listening to the Spotify playlist (it’s at the end) or listen to me reading the whole thing, with the listed tracks played at occasionally relevant points, on Mixcloud here. https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/scotlands-great-lost-album-new-celeste-and-a-1979-treasure-remastered/ New Celeste — Johnny An…

A matter of inflation… Four in the morning, and boat anxiety strikes. The wind has risen after a day calm enough for me to unpack and inflate my Ukrainian dinghy, henceforth known as The City of Dnipropetrovsk. Dnipro for short. She – let’s be traditionally distaff – was made in a factory there, presumably within…