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 south on Sunday night for 10 days in Troon, Linlithgow and Glasgow.

That nasty cynic Elvis Voe has been rattling off tunes and verse on Facebook, and a few of his extraneous verbal doodlings are here. But first, the playlist and Mixcloud link for Friday night’s 60 North Radio show, the Beatcroft Social. Which features new Scottish releases from Blue Rose, Code, Kevin McDermott, the Kaisers and Iain Shaw.

Listen online by clicking here…

Cosmic Spin — Cool Cool Water

Dusty Springfield — Goin’ Back

Pearlfishers — Her Heart Moves Like the Sea Moves

Iain Shaw — Bonjour Madame

Matt Deighton — Villager/Bone Dry Boat

Slim Gaillard — Tutti Frutti

Sh Na Na — Those Magic Changes

Kevin McDermott — Sha Na Na (Who shot the…)

MC5 — Tutti Frutti

New Order — Tutti Frutti

Harry Krapsho — Blowin’ my Mind

Jerome Fletcher — How Can You say that you love me but your’re leaving?)

The Triplett Twins — Weekend Madness

Candi Staton — Here I am again

Dan Penn — Do Right woman, Do Right Man

Edwyn Collins — For the Rest of My Life

The Rockingbirds — Jonathan Jonathan

Jonathan Richman — Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground — Sweet Jane

William Tyler — Highway Anxiety

The Kaisers — Tremblin’

Paul Quinn Edwyn Collins — Pale Blue Eyes

Lulu — Marley Purt Drive

Doll by Doll — Janice

Jackie Leven — Call Mother a Lonely Field

Lyle Lovett — God Will

Blue Rose Code — Jericho

The Magpie Arc — Don’t Leave the Door Open

Those Photo Opportunities…

As performed in part by the infamous Elvis Voe And His Fitful head. Check out my Facebook feed for more

Put that chicken down Kate

You’re causing it distress

That little lamb’s incontinence

Is ruining your dress

Alex, leave the dogs alone 

For sometimes they excrete

Photographers have lenses trained

Watch where you put your feet

He’s trying to drive a steam train 

Wee Douglas never fails

to blow a handy whistle

And keep going off the rails

Patrick and Lorna at the old Forth Bridge

The circus has come to town

They’re legalising all the drugs

They’re sending in the clowns

For the Liberal Democrats, it’s no surprise 

If you’re on a paddle board, you will capsize

For Sir Ed Davey, it’s sink or swim

A team of divers are still looking for him

The Tories know they don’t have the ghost of a chance

Sent Rishi on the sleeper train to Penzance

On the Night Riviera,said his sleep was sound

His backpack cost £750

Meanwhile the SNP think there should be no consequences 

If you lie to your bosses about your expenses 

I mean, 11 grand? That’s a drop in the ocean

When Michael returns they’ll give him a promotion 

Some candidates won’t, some candidates will

The would-bes, the useless, the evidently ill

In Stoke Newington Labour needs to say who it’ll be

And show just a little grace and humanity

Oh how the snappers love to see

This kind of  stupidity

So bring us more of these, please

Photo opportunities…

And what’s this? Ed Davey back on a bike

Freewheeling downhill, wobbly as you like

At least we’ll remember him, grinning and fiery

And not having to appear at the Post Office Inquiry