It’s Burns night!
I’m not Scottish but I never really need an excuse to down a load of whisky (that’s ‘whisky’ not ‘whiskey’), scoff some sheep guts and read poetry out loud. But if that all sounds a bit much (especially the poetry bit) I’ve prepared a wee Burns Night playlist for you to sip your Irn-Bru along to.
Slàinte mhath!
FRIGHTENED RABBIT – THE WOODPILE
Because few things burn better than a woodpile. Unless it’s damp of course. They really should have called it ‘The Dry Woodpile’
THE PROCLAIMERS – SUNSHINE ON LEITH
Sunshine on Leith? better get the Factor 50 on quick before you get sunburn. Here are the kings of Scotland – Charlie and Craig Reid – with a little help from their royal subjects at last year’s T in the Park.
TEENAGE FANCLUB – SPARKY’S DREAM
Because, as Bruce Springsteen once told Monica off Friends, you can’t start a fire without a spark.
MOGWAI – MEXICAN GRAND PRIX
I’ve never watched the Mexican Grand Prix, but I imagine it might involve a bit of burning rubber. Possibly the best Krautrock song to come from Glasgow, this.
FINLEY QUAYE – MAVERICK A STRIKE
Possibly the best reggae song to come out of Edinburgh this.
BIG COUNTRY – FIELDS OF FIRE
Apparently, Big Country’s Stuart Adamson hated it when people compared their guitar sound to bagpipes. Which is a bit weird when their guitar sound was quite similar to bagpipes.
RACHEL SERMANNI – AE FOND KISS
Ae Fond Kiss? Sorry, no idea how this ended up on the Burns Night playlist. But it’s lovely, so I’m leaving it in anyway.
(Someone do me a favour and explain to Leon what the ‘Burns’ in Burns Night means please – Editor)
2 comments
Toni Ratcliff
25 January, 2016 at 11:42 am
Hang on – he does know it’s about Robert Burns doesn’t he?? I honestly never knew that Finley Quaye was Scottish though!
Leon Barton
26 January, 2016 at 12:58 pm
I lived in Glasgow for a bit (’97-’98) and seem to remember Quaye being voted Scotland’s sexiest man in some newspaper/magazine poll… considering this was at the height of post-Trainspotting Ewan McGregeor-mania it was quite an achievement! Nowadays he’d be much more likely to win a Scotland’s biggest bellend competition…
Who’s Robert Burns? ;-)