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Tom Morton’s two-hour show as heard on 60 North Radio Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler — The Eagle and the Dove Simple Minds — The American (acoustic) The Magpie Arc — Love Never Dies Mary Chapin Carpenter — Between the Earth and the Stars Steve Earle — Guitar Town Unthanks — The Old News John…

As heard on 60 North Radio Link to Mixcloud stream is here PLAYLIST: James Yorkston — Sometimes the Act of Giving Love Nick Lowe — A Better Man Suzy y Los Quattros — Radio! Stereo! Dada — The Last Time Led Zeppelin — Communication Breakdown Dropkick — Until I Fall Away Pugwash — The Perfect…

As heard on 60 North Radio, Friday 16 September Tonight’s Bought, Begged and Stolen show is on 60 North Radio 7-9pm. Previewing now on Mixcloud, link below playlist. Mickey Jupp — Learning to SwimJames Edwyn and the Borrowed Band — Buy Me a TicketDel Amitri — ShamePaolo Nutini — Shine a LightFirst Aid Kit —…

Two hours of music from Nashville to Kelvin Way New show for the week of 26 August. 7-9pm on 60 North Radio, also on Mixcloud and the 60 North archive after 9.00pm. From Nashville to Kelvin Way via some Lost Horizons. Listen here or via link after playlist: Al Stewart — Terminal Eyes Nick Drake…

Byron Rogers is the ex-feature writer’s feature writer They lurk in the double-page spreads of newspapers no-one cares about and few buy, his disciples, imitators and conscious or unconscious clones. Not that Byron Rogers is without his own influences. Earlier Fleet Street giants like William Connor (Cassandra) and Anthony Carson, masters of observed eccentricity and…

All tracks from CD, vinyl or tape. Stuff I actually own. The full-length Bought, Begged and Stolen show goes out on Friday nights, on 60north.radio 7-9pm, available on the Shetland Webcams, through Radio Garden, the 60 North Radio smartphone app and various other high-tech facilities. It’s also streaming on Mixcloud now (link follows) and will…

Retrieving a stranded, ledge-bound lamb may come at too high a cost Sheep. There are a lot of them about here in Shetland. Around 150,000, it’s said, which makes six woolly gods per human inhabitant. Shetland is a rocky archipelago, Atlantic on one side, North Sea on the other, with over 1600 miles of indented,…

(Bruce Don’t Go) Darkness on the Edge of Morningside (Bruce Don’t Go) (Audio/video on YouTube here) Me and Stacey drank, Colin said he’d drive St James Park 1985 Furstenberg, Tennents, we thought we walked the darkness of Candy’s Hall Red wine and whisky Burgers, flags and tears One of those gigs that get you through…

Eight days and still it goes on. Restrictions beckon. A third of Scots have Covid, but that’s a guess, really. It’s hard to escape the feeling that getting tested is being made deliberately difficult, so that Governments can pretend normality has returned. If you have symptoms, stay at home and shut up and thole it.…

40 years ago, in a Whiteinch railway arch, we made a record… You can blame Liz Truss. I certainly do.  Her speech about the UK possibly sending warplanes to Ukraine threw a switch somewhere in my dodgily-wired head, and suddenly I was humming the elderly song that appears, with haphazard recent video, on YouTube if…