Articles by Tommy Mackay

The Freewheelin’ Doctor Who

Bob Dylan meets Dr Who album out now. Tracks: Blowin’ Up The World Girl From The Planet Gallifrey Master Of War Down The Time Stream Who’s Blues A Diamond Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Don’t Think Twice,…


Kicked In The Head By A Horse

  (Turn around) every now and then I get a little bit anxious And there’s no-one else around (Turn around) every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to you pounding…


Banter Boys

  We’re only in it for the banter. Chewin The Fat meets Sparks with Sean Lock and Limmy. From the album Snarks Stramash-Ups see also:


Snarks Stramash-Ups

The latest Snarks album is a collection of Reckless stramash-ups. Tracks Get Tae Fuck Banter Boys Rhythm Thieves Without Using Hype Adrian Chiles’s Urinal What You’re Descending From Angsters Paradise European Clock A Little Restraint…


This Ain’t War, This Is Genocide

  And in the death As the last few corpses lay rotting in the slimy thoroughfare (Satan was unavailable) Red mutant eyes gazed down on hunger city This ain’t war, this is genocide see also:


Bunting Everywhere

  Call out the flagellators Cos there’s bunting everywhere We’ve got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution’s here And you know it’s right And you know that it’s right We have got…


Flegs

  They’ve got flegs, they know how to use them The absolute dregs of this blessed union They’re wavin’ flegs like pathetic children Who can trust a media that interbreeds like eejits Bless the meeja,…


No Thrones, A Pledge

words: A.L. Kennedy I hereby pledge allegiance to Utopia That place without an anthem, Its flag a turn of sunlight Rising over any nation, With no precise location on a map. And as I pledge,…


Whippy

Captain Scarlet meets Devo.   Crack that whip, give the past a slip Step on a crack, break your momma’s back You must whippy You must whippy When something’s going wrong, you must whippy Now…


Gerroff

  Jack Douglas meets Prince. It’s me…it’s me…it’s me…it’s me nerves, sir. see also: Purple Reindeer Carry On Macbeth