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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…

Plus the weekly Beatcrofting radio show Another chunk of enamel disappears, courtesy of Marks and Spencer’s all-too granular granary bread, and my tongue restlessly probes the fissures, tunnels and caverns of my West of Scotland teeth. A dental speleology. My dentist dad’s mercury amalgam fillings are mostly still intact. It’s the natural white chewing implements…

Excerpt from Louder than God, some typing, old and very new music from John Douglas and Shetland’s North Country Fair Thanks for subscribing ( if you have) to my newsletter, which I’m trying to put out weekly and includes the latest hour-long selection of music that usually streams on 60 North Radio under the Beatcrofting…

Motorbike memories, tall tales of folding bicycles, the return of Covid and some lovely live tracks on this week’s Beatcrofting Carless for the past week, pottering about on foot and aboard my ancient Brompton folding bicycle, I’ve been thinking about motorbikes. Just as the season for riding the things in comfort begins to fade into…

Shetland-Aberdeen-Glasgow-London-Glasgow-Troon-Linlithgow-Troon. Plus the latest Beatcrofting radio show It’s been a pretty full-on, five-different-beds week, involving a lot of running about the country using public transport, feet and a folding bike, all in the midst of the most extreme September heatwave for half a century. Back in Troon, now, where at least I can appal my…

Celebrating the astonishing Weeley Festival, which took place 52 years ago… The poster for 1971’s Weeley Festival, held at Mersea Island, by Clacton-on-Sea in Essex over the weekend 27-29 August, seems like a faked-up replica. I mean, The Faces, T Rex, Status Quo, Rory Gallagher and literally dozens of other top acts, all in one…