Danny Wilson with Mary's Prayer from the album Meet Danny Wilson.
Possibly the nicest sound to ever come out of Dundee this track is pure aural gold.
Following the break up of the band vocalist Gary Clark went on to have a successful songwriting and production career working with artists such as Natalie Imbruglia and Liz Phair amongst others.
Danny Wilson on Wikipedia
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23 November 2007
16 November 2007
Jock Rock #11 : Jaunty Sideburns From Jordanhill
Del Amitri with Nothing Ever Happens from their album Waking Hours.
Always tuneful the band were most successful at the end of the 80's, early 90's. They also produced a, rather dirge like, anthem for Scotland's World Cup challenge in 1998.
Lead singer Justin Currie has never even been remotely connected with the wonderful Uncle Devil Show album A Terrible Beauty, no sir, no siree bob...
Del Amitri on Wikipedia
Always tuneful the band were most successful at the end of the 80's, early 90's. They also produced a, rather dirge like, anthem for Scotland's World Cup challenge in 1998.
Lead singer Justin Currie has never even been remotely connected with the wonderful Uncle Devil Show album A Terrible Beauty, no sir, no siree bob...
Del Amitri on Wikipedia
14 November 2007
Was It A Chopper?
Aye, Scotland can be a funny place at times...
Taken from the BCC News site here. (The pay off line is a cracker)
Bike sex man placed on probation
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
Mr Stewart was caught in the act with his bicycle by cleaners in his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr.
Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.
"They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white t-shirt, naked from the waist down.
"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."
Both cleaners, who were "extremely shocked", told the hostel manager who called police.
Sheriff Colin Miller told Stewart: "In almost four decades in the law I thought I had come across every perversion known to mankind, but this is a new one on me. I have never heard of a 'cycle-sexualist'."
Stewart had denied the offence, claiming it was caused by a misunderstanding after he had too much to drink.
The bachelor had been living in the hostel since October 2006 after moving from his council
house in Girvan.
He now lives in Ayr.
Taken from the BCC News site here. (The pay off line is a cracker)
Bike sex man placed on probation
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
Mr Stewart was caught in the act with his bicycle by cleaners in his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr.
Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.
"They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white t-shirt, naked from the waist down.
"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."
Both cleaners, who were "extremely shocked", told the hostel manager who called police.
Sheriff Colin Miller told Stewart: "In almost four decades in the law I thought I had come across every perversion known to mankind, but this is a new one on me. I have never heard of a 'cycle-sexualist'."
Stewart had denied the offence, claiming it was caused by a misunderstanding after he had too much to drink.
The bachelor had been living in the hostel since October 2006 after moving from his council
house in Girvan.
He now lives in Ayr.
2 November 2007
Jock Rock #10 : Bluster From Bathgate
Goodbye Mr MacKenzie with The Rattler from their album Good Deeds & Dirty Rags.
Probably most famous for having Shirley Manson on keyboards and vocals, the band also featured Big John ex Exploited. I remember the big fella working at Listen record shop in Renfield Street at one point, and a jolly nice chap he was too.
Whilst Shirley went on to front Garbage, the rest of the band probably spent time collecting it...
Goodbye Mr MacKenzie on Wikipedia
Probably most famous for having Shirley Manson on keyboards and vocals, the band also featured Big John ex Exploited. I remember the big fella working at Listen record shop in Renfield Street at one point, and a jolly nice chap he was too.
Whilst Shirley went on to front Garbage, the rest of the band probably spent time collecting it...
Goodbye Mr MacKenzie on Wikipedia
25 October 2007
Jock Rock #9 : Punk Power From Dunfermline
The Skids with their classic single 'Into The Valley'.
I saw The Skids supporting The Stranglers at the Glasgow Apollo back in '78 and there was something quite intriguing about them. Richard Jobson wasn't the greatest singer and danced like a spazz but Stuart Adamson was a great guitar player and their songs and sound were different from a lot of other stuff around at that time.
The Skids on Wikipedia
I saw The Skids supporting The Stranglers at the Glasgow Apollo back in '78 and there was something quite intriguing about them. Richard Jobson wasn't the greatest singer and danced like a spazz but Stuart Adamson was a great guitar player and their songs and sound were different from a lot of other stuff around at that time.
The Skids on Wikipedia
A Bit Behind
I liked this piece by Scotsman columnist Robert McNeil so much that I thought I would preserve it for posteriority...
Watch out! The fatographers are after you
There was an explosion of fat people's bottoms in the papers over the weekend. I don't know how they get away with it. Every time there's a scare about the big wobbly problem of obesity, photographers are dispatched to the high streets of the nation to capture images of lardular bahookies waddling doon the road. The television does the same, mercilessly tracking some hapless bloater as she plods from shop to shop in search of ice-cream and pies, or perchance one of those cut-off tops by which she can show off her belly to the nation on a Saturday night.
Imagine the shame of seeing your buttocks thus displayed on the printed page, under an article headed, "Call for fat people to be imprisoned". It'd be even worse if the picture was seen first by your pals or even your spouse.
"Haw, Effie, there's a picture o' your bahookie in the paper."
"Yir kiddin'. Whit's it daein'?"
"Just kind o' wobblin' doon the street."
"Is it an articule about female beauty?"
"No, it's about being a bloater"
As a columnist, I'm used to seeing hideous pictures of my coupon beside the invisible rubric : "Here's what this idiot thinks". But if you're an innocent jumbo, you run the risk of being snapped from behind by a professional fatographer, and so should seriously think about having your buttocks copyrighted.
And before anyone gets all uppity about me being unfair to lardicularly challenged persons lets just say I am no stranger to a steak pie myself...
Watch out! The fatographers are after you
There was an explosion of fat people's bottoms in the papers over the weekend. I don't know how they get away with it. Every time there's a scare about the big wobbly problem of obesity, photographers are dispatched to the high streets of the nation to capture images of lardular bahookies waddling doon the road. The television does the same, mercilessly tracking some hapless bloater as she plods from shop to shop in search of ice-cream and pies, or perchance one of those cut-off tops by which she can show off her belly to the nation on a Saturday night.
Imagine the shame of seeing your buttocks thus displayed on the printed page, under an article headed, "Call for fat people to be imprisoned". It'd be even worse if the picture was seen first by your pals or even your spouse.
"Haw, Effie, there's a picture o' your bahookie in the paper."
"Yir kiddin'. Whit's it daein'?"
"Just kind o' wobblin' doon the street."
"Is it an articule about female beauty?"
"No, it's about being a bloater"
As a columnist, I'm used to seeing hideous pictures of my coupon beside the invisible rubric : "Here's what this idiot thinks". But if you're an innocent jumbo, you run the risk of being snapped from behind by a professional fatographer, and so should seriously think about having your buttocks copyrighted.
And before anyone gets all uppity about me being unfair to lardicularly challenged persons lets just say I am no stranger to a steak pie myself...
18 October 2007
Jock Rock #8 : Electro Pop From Aberdeen
The Shamen with 'Jesus Loves Amerika'.
Formed as an indie rock band in Aberdeen The Shamen took on board influences from the acid house scene to move through Jesus Jones and Pop Will Eat Itself territory to a fully fledged rave sound and the execrable 'Ebeneezer Goode'.
The Shamen on Wikipedia
Formed as an indie rock band in Aberdeen The Shamen took on board influences from the acid house scene to move through Jesus Jones and Pop Will Eat Itself territory to a fully fledged rave sound and the execrable 'Ebeneezer Goode'.
The Shamen on Wikipedia
17 October 2007
Sheet Georgia Maroon
Well, the balloon may not have exactly burst, but it is deflating and will soon look like an OAP's scrotum.
Tonights less than perfect performance leaves the Scotland team with a bit of a mountain to climb.
If clothes maketh the man is it any wonder that if you dress like Hearts you end up playing as badly as them...
I wonder how many of the limited edition "claret" coloured (cursed) strips will fly off the shelves now?
Hopefully this will be the death knell to an overtly cynical marketing ploy.
Tonights less than perfect performance leaves the Scotland team with a bit of a mountain to climb.
If clothes maketh the man is it any wonder that if you dress like Hearts you end up playing as badly as them...
I wonder how many of the limited edition "claret" coloured (cursed) strips will fly off the shelves now?
Hopefully this will be the death knell to an overtly cynical marketing ploy.
12 October 2007
Jock Rock #7 : Glasgow's Tommy Steele
Alex Harvey was possibly the greatest, most charismatic, front man for a rock band ever, and what a band he fronted!
During the mid 70's The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were one of the best live acts on the circuit, their Christmas gigs at the Glasgow Apollo in 1975 are now legendary (and one of the best concerts I have attended).
I remember seeing this Old Grey Whistle Test performance when it was originally broadcast and I still love it to this day.
Sadly Alex died of a heart attack in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday. He seemed like an old man in a young persons world back then, it is sobering to think that I am that age now...
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band continue to gig to this day and still provide a damn good night out.
The Alex Harvey wikipedia entry
The SAHB Official website
Wade's SAHB site
During the mid 70's The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were one of the best live acts on the circuit, their Christmas gigs at the Glasgow Apollo in 1975 are now legendary (and one of the best concerts I have attended).
I remember seeing this Old Grey Whistle Test performance when it was originally broadcast and I still love it to this day.
Sadly Alex died of a heart attack in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday. He seemed like an old man in a young persons world back then, it is sobering to think that I am that age now...
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band continue to gig to this day and still provide a damn good night out.
The Alex Harvey wikipedia entry
The SAHB Official website
Wade's SAHB site
5 October 2007
Jock Rock #6 : The Sunshine Sound Of Castlemilk
The Cosmic Rough Riders with Revolution (In The Summertime?) from the album Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine.
Despite one journalist, at the time of the albums release, claiming them to be "the best band on Earth right now" and a few top 40 singles this band have struggled to achieve more than best newcomer status.
The Cosmic Rough Riders Wikipedia entry
Despite one journalist, at the time of the albums release, claiming them to be "the best band on Earth right now" and a few top 40 singles this band have struggled to achieve more than best newcomer status.
The Cosmic Rough Riders Wikipedia entry
3 October 2007
The Bootiful Game
What the hell is wrong with Scottish football?
The national side beating France home and away and rising to 14th in FIFA's world rankings...
Rangers handing Lyon a three goal beating away from home...
Celtic beating AC Milan, repeat AC Milan 2-1 at Parkhead...
Hopefully the Dons will take heart from this and do the business against Dnipro!
This surely cannot be right.
Bring back Bertie Vogts before its too late!
On a serious note the villain of the piece tonight is not Dida for the most ridiculous, sustained bit ofcheating acting since Rivaldo. No, it is the wee ned fan who ran on and presented the cheat goalkeeper with the opportunity.
The national side beating France home and away and rising to 14th in FIFA's world rankings...
Rangers handing Lyon a three goal beating away from home...
Celtic beating AC Milan, repeat AC Milan 2-1 at Parkhead...
Hopefully the Dons will take heart from this and do the business against Dnipro!
This surely cannot be right.
Bring back Bertie Vogts before its too late!
On a serious note the villain of the piece tonight is not Dida for the most ridiculous, sustained bit of
28 September 2007
Jock Rock #5 : The Darker Side Of East Kilbride
The Jesus And Mary Chain with April Skies from their second album Darklands.
Formed around the songwriting partnership of the brothers William and Jim Reid the band took The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, Duane Eddy and a heaped teaspoon of feedback and put them in a blender.
The result was a dark brooding noise with a pop core, violence, riots at gigs, controversy, a brotherly fall out and finally reconciliation.
The Jesus And Mary Chain Wikipedia entry
Formed around the songwriting partnership of the brothers William and Jim Reid the band took The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, Duane Eddy and a heaped teaspoon of feedback and put them in a blender.
The result was a dark brooding noise with a pop core, violence, riots at gigs, controversy, a brotherly fall out and finally reconciliation.
The Jesus And Mary Chain Wikipedia entry
21 September 2007
Jock Rock #4 : The Lighter Side Of East Kilbride
Aztec Camera with the wonderful Oblivious from the album High Land, Hard Rain (introduced by the incomparable Ivor Cutler)
Aztec Camera on Wikipedia
Aztec Camera on Wikipedia
14 September 2007
Jock Rock #3 : The Hair Bear Bunch From Dunfermline
Nazareth with This Flight Tonight from the album Loud'N'Proud.
There was a time during my schooldays where it almost became compulsory to carry a copy of a Nazareth album, usually Razamanaz or Loud'N'Proud, under your arm. The band themselves never quite made it as big as they probably deserved to though they were pretty successful.
A later lineup of the band included ex SAHB guitar maestro Zal Cleminson.
The band are currently involved in some second hand chart action after a riff from their track Hair Of The Dog was sampled by Girls Aloud on the single Sexy! No No No. Bizarre...
Nazareth on Wikipedia
There was a time during my schooldays where it almost became compulsory to carry a copy of a Nazareth album, usually Razamanaz or Loud'N'Proud, under your arm. The band themselves never quite made it as big as they probably deserved to though they were pretty successful.
A later lineup of the band included ex SAHB guitar maestro Zal Cleminson.
The band are currently involved in some second hand chart action after a riff from their track Hair Of The Dog was sampled by Girls Aloud on the single Sexy! No No No. Bizarre...
Nazareth on Wikipedia
11 September 2007
Justice?
I have to admit my complete lack of understanding of the Scottish legal system.
This week the trial of a convicted murderer and rapist was thrown out due to lack of evidence. Forensic evidence linked the accused, both victims and his vehicle at the time. The key element in the dismissal of this case appears to be the failure of the prosecution to present any evidence showing a forensic link between the accused and the ligatures used to murder the two young women.
A couple of years ago a 16 year old boy was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend when he was just 14 in a "savage knife attack". There was no forensic evidence linking the boy to the crime, nor any witnesses placing him at the scene.
I just don't get how this works...
This week the trial of a convicted murderer and rapist was thrown out due to lack of evidence. Forensic evidence linked the accused, both victims and his vehicle at the time. The key element in the dismissal of this case appears to be the failure of the prosecution to present any evidence showing a forensic link between the accused and the ligatures used to murder the two young women.
A couple of years ago a 16 year old boy was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend when he was just 14 in a "savage knife attack". There was no forensic evidence linking the boy to the crime, nor any witnesses placing him at the scene.
I just don't get how this works...
7 September 2007
Jock Rock #2 : Otherworldly Sounds From Grangemouth
The Cocteau Twins with Heaven or Las Vegas from the album of the same name.
This is especially for Big Rab who thinks that the Cocteaus are art school pish... nothing could be further from the truth...I don't think they went to art school...
The truth is that The Cocteau Twins have turned out to be extremely influencial. You can hear echoes of their atmospheric soundscapes allied with strange vocalisations in the work of many other bands to this day.
The Cocteaus on Wikipedia.
This is especially for Big Rab who thinks that the Cocteaus are art school pish... nothing could be further from the truth...I don't think they went to art school...
The truth is that The Cocteau Twins have turned out to be extremely influencial. You can hear echoes of their atmospheric soundscapes allied with strange vocalisations in the work of many other bands to this day.
The Cocteaus on Wikipedia.
31 August 2007
Jock Rock #1 : If The Byrds Came From Bellshill
A new feature for Friday's, selected clips of some Scotland's contributions to the world of rawk.
Teenage Fanclub with Sparky's Dream from the album Grand Prix...
What's not to love?
For further info see The Fannies entry on wikipedia.
Teenage Fanclub with Sparky's Dream from the album Grand Prix...
What's not to love?
For further info see The Fannies entry on wikipedia.
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