Articles by Tommy Mackay

The Emptiness At The End

  There’s muckle in the root That never can wun oot, Or’t owre what is ’ud sweep Like a thunderstorm owre sheep. But shadows whiles upcreep, And heavy tremors leap… C’wa’, Daith, again, sned Life’s…


Where’s Me Casbah?

  Where’s me jumper? Where’s me jumper? My brother knows Karl Marx He met him eating mushrooms in the people’s park “What do you think about my manifesto?” “I like your manifesto, put it to…


Wraith Rovers

As Gordon Brown reveals his part in an exorcism at Raith Rovers, we remember the ill fated film and soundtrack from 2012. Trailer: Soundtrack: Wraith Rovers – Original Soundtrack by Sensational Alex Salmond Gastric Band


Fier Comme un Ecossais

  Fier comme un Ecossais. If a’ that I can be’s nae mair Than what mankind’s been yet, I’ll no’ Begink the instincts thistlewise That dern—and canna show. Damned threids and thrums and skinny shapes…



Stewart Smellville

  Just a black hole where there should be a soul And chat gpt for a brain All his influencers eaten by sharks Artificial insemination Something’s gone badly wrong Humanity under attack Stewart Smellville, takes…


The Barren Tree

  The barren tree, dry leafs, and cracklin’ thorns, This is the mind o’ a’ humanity, —The empty intellect that left to grow ’ll let nocht ither be. Lo! It has choked the sunlicht’s gowden…


Aztec Character

  Rob Hayman, subeditor, answers questions on The Aztec Empire on Mastermind, backed by Aztec Camera.   see also:


Farewell To Dostoevsky

  The wan leafs shak’ atour us like the snaw. Here is the cavaburd in which Earth’s tint. There’s naebody but Oblivion and us, Puir gangrel buddies, waunderin’ hameless in’t. The stars are larochs o’…


Es Are Good

  Richard E Grant, Mark E Smith, Wile E Coyote and Robert E Lee backed by They Might Be Giants and a smattering of Shamen and Roxy Music. see also: