Nation speaking tunes unto nation 161
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February 22, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
SATIRE:
REALITY:
At least, we THINK we’ve got those the right way round.
Archive for the ‘music’
Our new theme music 153
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February 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Sometimes dreams come true 90
Posted on
December 25, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
One day is all it takes. Happy Christmas, readers.
Sorry, readers 139
Posted on
November 03, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is why you’ve had no posts today.
Meet Skye, Islay, Rona, Shuna, Cara and Jura. They’ll be staying.
Songs For Johann 170
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July 29, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For those of you with Spotify, click the image to open.
(Full 30-track playlist here. It’s an open collaborative one so feel free to add your own suggestions, or to make a YouTube version for those without the app.)
Revenge of the radio star 12
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March 25, 2013 by
Wings Over Sealand
And finally… #8 8
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January 31, 2013 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In the light of the Electoral Commission setting higher limits for referendum campaign spending, Labour’s Richard Baker, Dr. Richard Simpson and Alistair Darling embark on an urgent fundraising drive outside The Rangers’ next away game in SFL 3.
(We might have gone with this, but it doesn’t seem to be possible to embed YouTube video at a specified starting point, at least in so far as we don’t know how to do it.)
Don’t you ever 14
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September 10, 2012 by
Wings Over Sealand
"…don't you ever / Lower yourself, forgetting all your standards"
🙁
With terror and with fear 38
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July 17, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
There are, we’re certain, some twists to come yet in the “Rangers” story. But while we’ve been able to pretty clearly identify and understand the motivations of all the concerned parties in events to date (and our assessments and predictions have accordingly almost always been bang on the money), we’ve finally run into a logical roadblock where we just can’t make sense of anything.
Because we can no longer for the life of us figure out what the SFA is playing at.
The REAL “better together” 4
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June 21, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
…is seeing Scotland taking its place in peace alongside the other independent nations of the world (at 2m 42s), courtesy of the heartwarming and ever-splendid Dancing Matt:
(Where The Hell Is Matt? 2008 is still our favourite, though.)
Preparing for tomorrow 18
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May 25, 2012 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It was very pleasant to see Lou Hickey and Dougie MacLean performing “Caledonia” at the Yes Scotland launch – it’s a nice enough tune, if a bit mopey, and “Flower Of Scotland” has been somewhat ruined for us as a national song by years of appallingly murdered, out-of-time renditions at Murrayfield and, especially, Hampden.
(We liked the brief period when The Three McTenors or something did a speeded-up rendition at the football, which was nicely modern and left less room for the crowd to balls it up in – for some reason football fans can’t grasp the concept of a pause – but the SFA with their trademark ineptitude soon abandoned it in favour of Ronnie Corrie barking it out in his Hielan’-wedding get-up again. We also approve of the SRU’s practice of making the band stop for verse two and leaving it to the crowd alone, but why not just count them in and then let them sing unaccompanied from the start?)
We can’t help feeling, though, that music is a bit of a weak spot generally for the Scottish nationalist movement – still basically mired in the misty-blue-hills-of-Tiree era, where Runrig are seen as modernist hep-cats and the SNP’s official song is a 1962 blues tune best known by the staggeringly inappropriate title of “Let’s Stick Together”.
Had it been up to us, the Yes launch would have seen Glasgow’s own Primal Scream stood in front of a giant backdrop of Gordon “British jobs for British workers“ Brown and pummelling out an apocalyptic rendition of “Swastika Eyes“, but we get that that might not have mainstream appeal. Anyway, the point is, it’s time to think positive.
Eurovision for heterosexuals 9
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May 17, 2011 by
Wings Over Sealand
Long-time WoSblog viewers will already be aware that I’ve embraced my gay side when it comes to Eurovision now, thanks to the simple expedient of entering into the spirit and watching it with other people. (If everyone else is even briefly out of the room for some reason I get very twitchy.)
But for those of you still struggling, here are this year’s highlights, with the minimum of campness and the maximum of ROCK!
(NB “Maximum” does not necessarily mean “a lot”.)
