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Plus the latest Beatcroft Social radio show, with full playlist and links The Beatcroft Social playlist and streaming links for 60 North Radio and Mixcloud go live at 9.00pm on Friday 14 June (after the show goes out on 60 North Radio from 7.00pm) are at the end of the essay. Or if you can’t…

And this week’s Beatcroft Social, streaming with playlist Scroll down to get the playlist for the latest Beatcroft Social from 60 North Radio. Listen to it after 9.00pm on Friday 7 June at the 60 North archive page or on Mixcloud. Full disclosure: Part of my meagre pension as a Shetland Islands Councillor will be…

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…

Just 90 minutes of great records with me chatting about them. Kind of like a radio show… Pilot — Never Give Up David Bowie — Absolute Beginners Freda Leask — Old Man of Madison Kevin McDermott Orchestra — Hole in the Ground Marco Rossi — Can’t Cut It Yvone Lyon — the Hands That Learn…

Elvis Voe’s Fitful Head sings about cars, girls and (possibly temporary) Scottish Government ministers… I want to ride In Lorna’s limousine  She’s got a driver She’s just like the queen It’s a hybrid It’s sort of clean Paid for by a Government department  There’s space to practise  Her circus skills She can do handstands Going…

A song by Elvis Voe’s Fitful Head Apologies to Mark Knopfler, who said in an interview: “I will always cross the street, to a window of guitars”, but who, as far as I know, has not used the phrase in a song. Yet.” In the window of guitars You can see the price of dreams …