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It’ll be lonely this Christmas…or will it? An extended soundtrack and story for a snowbound Yule… Once upon a time… Phoebe Bridgers — If We Make It through December Lucy Dacus — Last Christmas Pretenders — Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas John Mellencamp — I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus Dave Edmunds and Plum…

And long, long ago – how on earth did we even find out what music we were supposed to like? As usual, you can read this and dig out the tunes mentioned yourself (they’re on a Spotify Playlist you can find at the end, with the exception of Pete Atkin’s National Steel – it’s on…

Are you ready to sell your soul? And your hot water bottles? Is vinyl really ‘a zombie format’? As Christmas looms, it’s music and mammon time The following tracks illustrate what is a chunky piece of text (3000+ words). You can listen to me reading the essay, with the tracks in full, on Mixcloud here:…

How Ginster was named and lost. On the Broken Record Inn jukebox: from the Ramones to Joe Cocker via U2 and Leonard Cohen. You can listen to the text below, interspersed with all the records on the jukebox, on Mixcloud. The playlist is also available on Spotify without the muttering. Mixcloud link: https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/at-the-broken-record-inn-chapter-6-socks-cornish-pasties-and-a-loss/ Ginster. Second…

…and Tom Morton’s Leaky Feeder show is another story The story so far: Philip and Mandy Creighton, music business managers from Edinburgh, have turned up at the Broken Record Inn, looking for former client Fingal, once front man of Glamour Ghost, the band they managed. They’re sent on a supposed short cut to their hotel…

Music from Matt Deighton, Graham Parker, Deacon Blue, Fat White Family, Idles, Aoife O’Donovan and more On the supercharged, bass-heavy cassette player of Fingal’s Series Three Long-Wheelbase Landrover 110…and audible, with a reading of the text below, on Mixcloud here: Graham Parker and the Rumour — Mercury Poisoning Matt Deighton — Villager/Bone Dry Boat Deacon…

Including a Land Rover mixtape and a virtually foolproof recipé… On cassette tonight, in the spartan cab of a Series Three long-wheel-base Land Rover…streaming on Mixcloud here. Full text below and the music too. Ane Brun and Dustin O’Halloran — Lose My Way Michael Nesmith — She Thinks I Still Care Average White Band —…

Looking for Fingal… Playing on the Broken Record Inn jukebox tonight…for all the music and speech click here for the Mixcloud stream The Lost Soul Band — The Last Train Scotch Mist — Pamela Van De Graaf Generator — Refugees John Cale —  Big White Cloud Matching Mole — O’Caroline Justin Townes Earle — Someday…

Somewhere on an old Highland road, it’s waiting for you. If you can find it… For the audio version of this, with all music included, listen on Mixcloud here: https://www.mixcloud.com/tom-morton2/at-the-broken-record-inn-an-introduction/ The Broken Record Inn is both easy to find, and obscurely difficult to enter, although its door is usually unlocked. We are trusting folk in…

And the new Beatcrofting radio show Originally published in the online magazine CABLE a few years ago, then on my lost Medium blog, I’ve given this a bit of a freshening up with a view to using at least some of it in the Louder than God memoir. WARNING: It’s long… The inspiration for writing…