August 2024

Nottingham or Shottingham? James Graham’s Sherwood or Tom Cox’s 1983, with optional cats and golf? The new series of Sherwood is so bleak and brutal  I keep expecting Halldor Laxness or some even more obscure Scandic doom-monger to get a screen credit, along with Tobe Hooper. Coming soon: The Independent Skegness Lawnmower Massacre. And It’s…

Wham ne’er a town surpasses… Heading by clattering electric train from the gloriously restored (after a fire) Troon Station to the (finally and just barely open again) Ayr equivalent, I was tracking my teenage self’s search for godly guitar glory. I took this route to my first ever public performance, bellowing gospel songs, strumming a…

No Beatcroft Social, but some short chunks of audio and a Spotify playlist Apologies… First, apologies – there’s no Beatcroft Social this week, either on 60 North Radio or on Mixcloud. I do have a new two-hour playlist on Spotify which you’re welcome to peruse and bend your ears towards, should you feel the need.…