Ken?
Val McDermid replies to the question of whether Scots should abandon the English language. With guitar!
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Iggy Pop’s Parrot
I tell you Iggy Pop’s parrot is a cockatoo Iggy Pop’s parrot knows what to do Iggy Pop’s parrot’s gonna throw some shapes And why not? Iggy Pop’s parrot (It’s a cockatoo!) It likes…
Pacific Quay Cowboy
I’ve been on the BBC so long Reportin’ the same old song I know every crack in the dirty politics of Scotland But bias is the name of the game And facts get washed…
Eating Figs from A Brown Paper Bag
A fruity musical interpretation of an extract from Lanark, Chapter 31 – Nan. Reading by Tam Dean Burn. from the album Lanarky by Tommy Mackay
Chaos
I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond I could swim, and fly, and walk and have three wives, and everything I wanted But I’m a man. I have a mind, and…
John Knox Boozed Up
As Britain lyes in guilt, you see Tis asked o reader, art thou free? Are we free, Mr Rennie? Of course we are We’re making our own model of the universe and nobody gives…
Lanarky
A musical imagining of Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’ featuring samples from Neu Reekie’s ‘A Gray Day Broadcast,’ excerpts from the ‘Gray of the Day’ project by The Alasdair Gray Archives and readings by the man himself….
The Great Dominic Swindle
Free album of Dominic Cummings songs as featured on the Daily Reckless. Tracks: 1. Dominic 2. Cummings! 3. Ballad Of Dom And Bojo 4. Truth Twisters 5. A Dom In Downing Street 6. Dom Promised…
Shall I Compare Shakespeare To Ann Summers, Dear?
Shall I compare Shakespeare to Ann Summers, dear? Hamlet, adultery, but less desperate: Rough hands do shake the Jack Rabbits of May, Ann Summers’ lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot…
Homer’s Morrissey
I’m now a caricature gammon wankspangle* and heaven knows I’m miserable now I was looking for a sword and then I found a sword and heaven knows I’m miserable now In my life why…