Articles by Tommy Mackay

Chapel Door Run

The Foul present the Chapel Studio instrumentals included in the box set re-issue of Fall Heads Roll, with added Mark E Smith vocals. Tracks: The Industrial Estate Boss Cruisers Party Song Twang King Get Out…


FFS Free

photo: Colin Mearns   I’ve come very late to all this I’ve been plowing my own furrow for many years now So I didn’t realise how much Scotland meant to me How deeply it means…


Tommy Mackay At Oran Mor

Here’s the set I did at Oran Mor on March 14th 2026. Songs – Children Of The Devolution, The Mind’s Ay Cradled Whan The Grave Is Near and Wee Country. Introduction by William Duguid. Photo…


‘Til Hairs Grow On The Moon

  Well this love is a solid love Growing each day And I know it’s an always love It’s not going away It will be with us From the stars above Like a never ending…


Be Vewy Vewy Quiet

  Captain Howdy provides the pictorial inspiration for this Bjork/Johnny Cash/Elmer Fudd stramash-up. Woo woo! see also: album cover by Captain Howdy  


The Crying Of The Fair

  Drums in the Walligate, pipes in the air, Come and hear the cryin’ o’ the Fair. A’ as it used to be, when I was a loon On Common-Ridin’ Day in the Muckle Toon….


T.Rek

Boldly going where no stramash-up album has gone before, here’s the T.Rex album mixed with Star Trek. Tracks: The Children of Khan Uhura Jewel The Visit To A Sad Planet Childe Hamlet The Time of…


B.I.S.H.O.P.

  British Intelligence Service Headquarters Operation Priest.  Stramash-up of the Jerry Anderson series The Secret Service starring Stanley Unwin. see also:


Our Educational System

  (Gin you’re surprised a village drunk Foreign references s’ud fool in, You ha’ena the respect you s’ud For oor guid Scottish schoolin’. For we’ve the maist unlikely folk Aye braggin’ o’ oor lear, And,…


At Swill Two Bards

  Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett get together over a pint of Fat Boy Slim. Featuring such gems as ‘I am a gutty!’ and ‘The stuff I’ve published heretofore… is just trash!’ see also: