Articles by Tommy Mackay


My Quarrel With England

  And let me pit in guid set terms My quarrel wi’ th’owre sonsy rose, That roond aboot its devotees A fair fat cast o’ aureole throws That blinds them, in its mirlygoes, To the…


Lula

  Girls will be boys and boys from Brazil Don’t have to pretend that they are a shill For Bolsonaro Balls to Bolsonaro The left is back and the right upturned It’s a mixed up,…


Crisp Sandwich Day

  A stramash-up medley for Crisp Sandwich Day featuring Get Down Services, Orson Welles, Leptagon, DJ Krispy, Fett Collects and @brainmage.bsky.social   see also:


Creation’s Whirligig

  Grugous thistle, to my een Your widdifow ramel evince, Sibness to snakes wha’s coils Rin coonter airts at yince, And fain I’d follow each Gin you the trick’ll teach. Blin’ root to bleezin’ rose,…



Parliamo Mambo

  The Stanley Baxter and Captain Beefheart  Duolingo School.   from the album Captain Braveheart’s Tribute to The Kings Of Scottish Comedy   see also:


Kings Of Scottish Comedy

The new Captain Braveheart album presents a salute to some of Scottish comedy’s old masters. Tracks: The Good Old Veterans Days The Welly Boot Stomp Captain Cutler A Wee Cock Zaba Neon Meate Dream Of…


In The Keel Of Heaven

  Maun I tae perish in the keel o’ Heaven, And is this fratt upon the air the ply O’ cross-brath’d cordage that in gloffs and gowls Brak’s up the vision o’ the warld’s bricht…


Space Towers

  An unearthly melding of David Bowie and Mark E Smith. In space!   see also: