This week’s Beatcroft Social, plus some doggerel inspired by what’s going on at the Euros (especially the Tartan Army, sponsored, it seems by the industrial toxin which is Buckfast chronic wine)

You can listen to this week’s Beatcroft Social as it goes out from 7-9pm on 60 North Radio here, or after 9.00pm it will be streaming on Mixcloud here. The playlist is at the end of this post.

In Germany: It’s the hope that kills you…

My Dacia Duster died in downtown Cologne

And I can’t charge my mobile phone

I’ve run out of phenobarbitone

And the  Buckfast too

I could have done without that incident

The guy from Larkhall and his pop-up tent

In all my actions I was innocent

They were misconstrued

I bought a camper van, it wasn’t dear

Volkswagens seem quite plentiful out here

I can’t get it out of  second gear

It’s just the way they’re built

Gave a lift to Bob from Ochiltree

He hitchhiked all the way to Germany

Said he got lifts quite easily

Going commando in a kilt

Now we’re in Stuttgart facing Hungary

The masterplan is working  perfectly

We’ll be defeated, proudly, wonderfully 

It’s the path Scots always choose

Those Flower of Scotland words are glorious

Send homeward all of those lovers of  Liz Truss

Only one thing really matters to us

And it’s that England lose…

You can listen to this week’s Beatcroft Social as it goes out from 7-9pm on 60 North Radio here, or after 9.00pm it will be streaming on Mixcloud here. The playlist follows… 

Be Good Tanyas — It’s Not Happening

James King and the Lonewolves — Whipping Boy

Warren Zevon — Lawyers Guns and Money

Kate Rusby — Don’t Go Away

Father John Misty — Well You Can Do It Without Me

Edwyn C

ollins — Outside

Van Morrison — Bulbs

Siobhan Miller — Queen of Argyll

Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets — Went to a Party

Hurray for the Riff Raff — Hawkmoon

Shelby Lynne, Alison Moorer — Not Dark Yet

Mary Chapin Carpenter — Between the Dirt and the Stars

The Bogmen — Pandemic Blues

Kathleen Edwards — Glenfern

Anne Briggs — She Moves through the Fair

Lily Hiatt — Brightest Star

Jenny Lewis — Head Underwater

Teddy Thompson — I Should Get Up

Richard Thompson — Turnstyle Casanova

Richmond Fontaine — Post to Wire

Kathleen Edwards — Six O’Clock News

Peter Bruntnell — Handful of Stars

Lucky Jim — Let it Come Down

Emma Swift — Queen Jane Approximately

The Rails — Breakneck Speed

Bruce Cockburn — Night Train

Jeff Tweedy — The Ballad of the Opening Band

Elvis Voe and His Fitful Head — I Just Want To Read BooksEliza Gilkyson — Is It Like Today?

REM — I Believe

Adam Holmes  — Blues Run the Game