For Those Inclined...

So the new Teenage Fanclub album "Endless Arcade" will now be released on 30th April, 2021.

Revised UK/Europe tour info and other news at www.teenagefanclub.com

 

This video is edited from footage of us recording new single "I'm More Inclined" at Clouds Hill Recording Studios in Hamburg. Fun times.

I loved working on the music for "Beyond Burns"...

...a gem of a programme about Scottish poetry presented by Jackie Kay. Here's the BBC iplayer link.

Gregory's Girl, 7:84, The Steamie, Chic Murray, Clint Eastwood, Dudley Moore, Napoleon... - I'm nearly finished Alex Norton's autobiography. 

I am glad his pal the late Jeremy Beadle suggested that he write it. (really.) Chapter 50 has a wonderful wee John Martyn anecdote which speaks well of the kindness of Blythe Duff. Many moons ago in the foyer of a Bayswater hotel after a Laura Cantrell gig, John Martyn gave some of us a telling off for something or other. Not that great an anecdote admittedly. To quote Neil Armstrong, you had to be there.

I have been writing an insane amount of TV music for project with a short deadline. (Which I can't tell you about.) A mad, intense workload. It never rains but it pours.

Fare thee well.