Articles by Tommy Mackay


Death Of Scots Music

  Elegy on the Death of Scots Music by Robert Fergusson read by Billy Kay to the tune of Birks O Invermay by The McCalmans On Scotia’s plains, in days of yore, When lads and…


Trump Is A Cunt

It bears repeating… From the left to the right From the back to the front Everybody sing Trump is a cunt They say it’s just swearing That’s not big or clever I say whatever I’m…


Lesley Riddoch Top Ten

Hear Lesley Riddoch choose her top ten tunes on the Daily Reckless radio show here.  Includes Sibelius, Dick Gaughan, Detroit Emeralds, Todd Rundgren and more. Lesley once described me as a ‘containable bam’ which I…


Greetin Wall

  David Bowie meets Hugh MacDiarmid comin thru the rye in a mist filled Scotland. From the EP Hugh. See also:


Hugh

Reckless EP based on Scotland 76 by Momus. Scotland 76 “The mist-filled Scotland in which people chant Hugh MacDiarmid poems over Side Two of David Bowie’s Low” – Momus (from The Book Of Scotlands) Tracks:…




Beat You Cock

  Tom Baker wanders round the museum in his mind accompanied by The Jackson Five. see also:


Panic Guru

  Mr Grant McPhee commented during our chat about his favourite records that ‘Panic’ by The Smiths borrowed heavily from ‘Metal Guru’ by T.Rex, so I thought I’d test that out and, yep, sure enough….