May 2024

New music from The Kaisers, Kevin McDermott, Iain Shaw and Blue Rose Code It’s been a very busy week with all kinds of pre-holiday grasscutting, motorcycle fettling and computer wrangling, as well as council activity and my first wedding as a celebrant (more of that next week, assuming all goes OK!) Off on the boat…

A special radio show in memory of Lenny Love, and a long piece about local politics. you have been warned! The extraordinary life of Lenny Love – pop mover and shaker, record producer, promo man, DJ, boulevardier, life and soul of Edinburgh, and latterly an inspired humanist celebrant, is being celebrated on 28 May at…

Plus playlist and streaming link for this week’s Beatcroft Social show on 60 North Radio, an Ian Bairnson special Hallo there. The Mixcloud link for this week’s Beatcroft Social (goes out 7-9pm Fridays on 60 North Radio) is here and the playlist is at the end of the newsletter. But first…some thoughts on St Kilda,…

Plus the full playlist and streaming link for this week’s Beatcroft Social on 60 North Radio Listen to the Mixcloud stream of Friday’s Beatcroft Social by clicking here. Full playlist at the end of this post. As I write, on Friday 10 May, the UK at large is baking in May sunshine. Shetland is haar-haunted,…

It’s May. Shetland is baking in the sun while 10,000 fiddlers fiddle and frolic. The start of May, and not untypically, Shetland is actually warm. The sun is shining, hoverflies are hovering and the lambs, marked in lurid spray-paint for identification, and presumably so their mothers don’t lose them, are cavorting on the hill. It’s…