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WEDNESDAY

Michael Marra? Aye! Dundee? Naw!


'Mother Glasgow' - Michael Marra


Please spare us the insipid Hue & Cry effort.

Greenock

*Tall Ships - Wolfstone

or home of Jake McQuillen

*Ain't Got No Money - Frankie Miller

I guess it's my hometown more than where I live now - I'm originally from Bergen. "Famous" for it's incredible Hanseatic harbour, wonderful fishmarket, Ole Bull, Edvard Grieg (yes - he had some Scottish heritage, but let's not get petty) and the seven sisters mountains range. The latter is also related to the other things Bergen is well known for. Its umbrella vending machines and plentiful waterproof clothing outlets. Yes - it gets its fair share of rain.

Eurythmics Here Comes The Rain Again
BTW - if you ever want to visit the place, save up. Go for June or July. But avoid September at all costs. I've been there the last 3 years at that time and it poured. This year, I'm trying early October. Maybe it'll snow instead.

That was torturous. For a single song. Just to prolong the pain, I'll add in another.

If it hometown is present place of residence - then... Yes, it's a lovely place to live. Spectacular setting and scenery. But that isn't enough to compensate for the fact that most of the hotels have closed and our main visitors attraction has decided to ditch its heritage and go for the inferior "big" seller brand instead to punt its products. It's not just about a vital tourism industry dwindling (although it's pertinent for a so called "holiday town") - it's also about seeing small businesses battling against the wind and failing.
Long story short.
The best song to suit here would be
The Specials Ghost Town
We don't even have a Nite (sic) Club anymore.

And my son just read this and told me I need to get a life.

I think he's right.

Forget that superfluous "it" at the start. In fact, just forget the entire post. Sometimes listening to the younger generation brings you up short.
Toodles.

My sister told me I need to get a wife.

I think she's nuts.

True it's a dream mixed with nostalgia
But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to
That I'll always run to
Won't you join me by the riverbank

lyrics that sum up my feelings for my home patch

...and board my boat called Dignity

Here Git!
I thought you were having a week off!!

RMS 534 if you don't mind!

Here comes Ms Wendy Carlos...

Pittenweem or Rio??

I could do a list of Capt Ramius proportions for Rio I suppose.


But no, hometown it is.
I`ll put my Pittenweem shout in the morn. I`ve tried it for other themes with no success, so I`ll have a think on how to sell it for this one.

My fishmonger is from Pittenweem... just an idea!

No fish today ~ Kid Creole & his Coconuts

#11 Tornerse between two lovers?

(An East Neuk joke btw)

DC

Not sure what I would actually class as my home town having lived at some time or other in seven of them.

Let's just say
Falling Apart at the Seams / Marmalade
Wild Side of Life / Status Quo

could all have been appropriate at some time or other.


Spent a few years in falkirk where the big wheel keeps on turning
Proud Mary / CCR


However my kids were brought up in the place where they used to make cars. Now they just sell them there.
Motortown / The Kane Gang


I spend half my week these days in the place they call Bishy so
Bishy's Hideaway / Stephen Bishop

Rory was born in Teddington, home to Rick Parfitt and John Edwards from Quo.
Best Teddington song though has to be;

Now Ernie had a rival, an evil-looking man,
Called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van.
He tempted her with his treacle tarts and his tasty wholemeal bread,
And when she seen the size of his hot meat pies it very near turned her head.

She nearly swooned at his macaroon and he said, "If you treat me right,
You'll have hot rolls every morning and crumpets every night."
He knew once she sampled his layer cake he'd have his wicked way,
And all Ernie had to offer was a pint of milk a day.

Poor Ernie, (Ernieeeeeeeeeee)
And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Baltimore - Randy Newman - Just change the name

I think Steve Hackett's 'Darktown' describes Wakefield pretty well!

I've also worked in Headingley - Talking Heads' 'Road To Nowhere' suits it particularly with the regeneration going on ('well, we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been...'). And the cuts implemented by the Fat Controller.

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Where Is The Glasgow That I Used To Know? - Adam McNaughtan


This song makes me sad. My parents came here in 1965 and even now when Ma says "home" she means Ireland!

:o)

I suppose I'm forced to mention Polmont on my mind by Glasvegas. Nothing like a prison to give a town a bit of class.

Glasgow: ~

CITY OF SELF FASCINATION from 2032 by GONG

THE BANKS OF THE CLYDE from FASHIONABLY LATE by LINDA THOMPSON

FredTheFish that never swam

#22 Were you a bit lost for words here Fred?

#23 I'll Second these ones....................Great Shout! but I'm not Bryan OR Babs HaHa

There's not much you can type into Google and produce zilch, but 'Songs about Milngavie' does it. Well, there you have it.

Arcade Fire recently dedicated a whole album to the subject of growing up and living in the suburbs...this song kinda sums up my feelings about being reconcilled to a happy contended life in suburban Milngavie..

Ready To Start - Arcade Fire from the album 'The Suburbs'

you shouldn't need much of an excuse to play this, truly fantastic

May is always a nice month in Milngavie... ho..hum... the month Henry MacCullough came and played in the local hall...he used to play in Wings, you know.

The Mess - Wings

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I did a couple of summer seasons in the Fife Arms Hotel in Braemar and fell in love with the whole scene. I regard it as my spiritual home. Surrounded by Mountains, our summer(72) was dominated by listening to Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride and although a song about whaling might seem inappropriate, it means a lot to me, it's about 'coming home'and it's often been requested on GIO but never played.

regardez youse

henri

When googling for some info on this song the Blog from May 2009 came up so I juat copied the post:

"Did you know that Ian Rankin modelled Rebus on Ian Stewart?
And that he wrote a song about him a couple of years back that featured on an album called Ballad of the Book?
First and only time `Pittenweem` has been rhymed with `rock and roll dream`

THE SIXTH STONE
Words by Ian Rankin, music by Aidan Moffat and the Best Ofs

Chorus
All the way from Pittenweem
to the rock 'n' roll dream,
all the way from East Neuk, Fife,
to the R&B life."

As I say, I've asked a few times for this, but to be fair to Bryan, it could be dire. I've never heard it.

Where I grew up (where I still, after 20-odd years, refer to as home)...

Penicuik. When I was there it was known as 'The Papermaking Town' Used to produce the paper for banknotes there!
'Paper' - Talking Heads

...Our next door neighbour was a miner - there was a Pit Disaster in Mauricewood Pit just outside the town in 1889 where. Many men and boys were killed.
Bee Gees - 'New York Mining Disaster 1941' always makes me think of that.

Burke + Hare stayed in Penicuik at one time...next to the Town Hall...
Bodysnatchers - 'Let's Do Rocksteady'

Penicuik also has a cricket club, founded in 1844...one of the oldest in Scotland, but the least said about that the better!!!

The first Cotton Mill in Scotland was built in Penicuik in 1778...
'Cotton Fields' - Johnny Cash

Rumour also has it that Abernethy Biscuits we®e invented there.
SG has a song to fit that!!

The Carnethy Hill Race is local to Penicuik (could see the hill from my house).
'Running Up That Hill' - Kate Bush

Just educating you about what's probably considered as merely a dull grey dormitory town...great place to grow up when I did, but...I wanted out and I went. Didn't go far though.


I love Edinburgh...full of history, culture, nightlife, not too big a city, people just friendly enough and lots of green spaces. It just needs a better live music scene though that's improved a bit recently.

I'm in the suburbs now, where I never expected to end-up, but it's a great place to live when you have kids. I reckon my street is one of the friendliest you could hope to live in...great neighbours and the kids are never short of a friend. Sometimes it can be abit 'twitchy-curtain' but then if someone's watching you you know they're also watching your back!
Rockwell - 'Somebody's Watching Me'!!!

Now...can someone please dop something about those flippin' trams!!!

#26 Adam - Bryan loves dire!

Cellardyke:

A place famous in its day for herring fishing on Drifters

A place where today some locals enjoy Rock Lobster for their morning "piece"

The place where Ian Stewart's (see #26 above)auntie (a Mrs Wilson) stayed and he brought his young pals to meet her. We thought they looked like they were Stoned.

The place where The Beatstalkers took their holidays

The place where the Fence Collective met and so arrived King Creosote and KT Tunstall

The place made famous when someone threw a dead white swan intae the harbour, a swan which then attracted the world's media

The place where thousands of west coast visitors spent their Summer Holidays in the caravan site

Lots of possible songs associated with the above.

Most of my childhood summers were spent at "The Pond" ie the local open-air swimming pool Night swimming - REM please!

DC

I grew up in a small town in Shropshire, cursing my Glaswegian parents. It was dull dull dull (and still is), and did nothing particularly well or badly. Therefore:

* Bob Geldof - Great Song of Indifference

Escaped as soon as I could to Uni in Edinburgh

* The Animals - We've Got To Get Out of This Place
* Peter Gabriel - Big Time

Thereafter, lived with wife & kids in Dunbar
* All About Eve - Martha's Harbor
* Rico - Sea Cruise
& now in Bathgate. For which I don't (yet) have an anthem, although I do live on the site of the old BL truck factory, and near the M8 which I cross twice a day, so let's go for
* Rascal Flatts - Life is a Highway
rather than Road to Hell, Highway to Hell (etc). Working out which end of the M8 is Hell is left as an exercise to the reader.

#12

What's his name, MM?

Alex?

I grew up in a wee village where you knew everyone and they knew you so there was lots of talking.Here in Kirrie people are much more private so my choice would be...

A Little less conversation - Elvis Presley

Gordon

the obvious thing about my hometown is the well known coastal location so

Down By The Seaside - Led Zep

it's also clear that the place has seen better days with many shops lying empty, parks untended and the town centre dominated by neds on methadone
maybe a more appropriate track would be...

Down Down - Status Quo

that sentiment would also apply pretty well to the football team, however the rugby side is making up for that.

musically the town is "famous" for the Dead End Kids and prominent individuals from Belle & Sebastian and Biffy Clyro

Paul from Ayr

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Keep on the Sunny Side - the Low Anthem

Bute's home of my birth, and certain islands just say 'home' and peace of mind as soon as I step on them - Cumbrae, Rum and Skye

so ( I doubt if the lyrics were influential in winning them the Mercury prize, but anyway)

Islands - the XX

Peace of Mind - Bat for Lashes


and since I realized I wasn't going to come up with anything more specific than that I need to live by the sea and the only places I've lived continuously are on the Clyde - then seconds for Linda Thompson

#3

Mary-Doll,

Ole Bull is composer of the week on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio3. 12 noon - 13:00

#1, #8

Adam,

Why dae ye listen to me? Naebody else dis!

>8-D

#37 Did they not play the Shuggie + Shout version of that song about a fortnight ago? You'd think they'd have played the Michael Marra version instead tonight.

Ah kain!

#39 You just made me smile, Scotch. Thanks for that!!

Thanks also for the heads-up re Ole Bull. I did suspect to begin with it was some sort of comedic wordplay on his name, but have checked out the necessaries (apologies!!) and will give it a listen at the weekend. Why he wanted to establish a colony in the US when Bergen had a thriving leper colony (oops - I meant Leper Museum) already, I don't know. And, if I gave the impression Bergen is in any way not worth visiting - it is spectacularly beautiful. The folk are still Norwegians though so don't expect much humour from them.

Just listened to the listen again - I always miss the first 10 minutes now because our bus has been replaced with one better suited to town driving than winding back roads.
Many, many thanks for playing my Eurythmics request. xx