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It’s been a long and winding road…to this particular Beat(les)croft Social Normally I’d tell any recipient of this newsletter that if they were looking for The Beatcroft Social radio show they should skip to the end for the playlist and streaming links. But please, for once read the following text first. Hey, it’s about a…

Includes the Beatcroft Social playlist and streaming links To listen to my weekly Beatcroft Social show 60 North Radio, 7-9pm on Fridays, click here and then on the 60 North archive (same page). From 9.00pm on Fridays it’s also on my Mixcloud page here. For the full playlist, including the Social Soul Selection, go to…

It was June 1966, the second last day of term before the summer holidays… If you’re looking for the weekly Beatcroft Social show, it goes 7-9pm on Friday on 60 North Radio and after that (from 9.00pm onwards) can be streamed on Mixcloud here. What follows is part of the first chapter of a book…

Links to stream the latest Beatcroft Social and more The latest two-hour Beatcroft Social radio show from 60 North Radio can be heard live 7-9pm every Friday by clicking here. The Mixcloud stream is available for whatever digital eternity may exist after 9.00pm on Fridays here. Scroll down for this week’s full playlist. Published on…

This week’s Beatcroft Social, plus some doggerel inspired by what’s going on at the Euros (especially the Tartan Army, sponsored, it seems by the industrial toxin which is Buckfast chronic wine) You can listen to this week’s Beatcroft Social as it goes out from 7-9pm on 60 North Radio here, or after 9.00pm it will…

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,…