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For August, I’ll introduce Down at the Casino, which is about gambling, unsurprisingly. My own experience of gambling is the few years I spent in Aberdeen working for one of the big bingo companies. I worked almost everywhere in the hall from the reception desk to being on the floor checking claims. It wasn’t a… …

July’s choice of song to introduce is Cinders. It’s the song from the album that goes back the furthest, as I came up with the initial idea in early 2020, just before Covid-19 and lockdown arrived. At that time I was starting to record my second Jaggy Nettles album of songs based on children’s fairy… …

I wasn’t planning on sharing any new songs until I had a second album ready but, with the recent UK general election announcement, it seemed a good time to put out a song I had been working on – Please Don’t Vote Conservative. Watch the video I made for the song, or have a listen… …

June’s song to introduce is Snakes & Ladders. Like a lot of the album’s songs, it was written using Nashville strings on my acoustic guitar, and then I let rip on the arrangement with overdriven guitar, some bar-room style piano and an energy-adding synth part.   The song tells the story of an ambitious politician… …

I’ve chosen North Coast 500 as my song to introduce for May. In case you don’t know, the North Coast 500 is a popular campervan/driving route around the north of Scotland’s mainland. It’s an incredibly beautiful route, but there’s been some controversy around it due to the infrastructure being inadequate for the number of vehicles… …

Each month, I’m posting something about a different song from Virtual Virgins. For April I’m going to introduce Bouley Bashers, the penultimate song on the album. This song’s already been getting a bit of radio play (especially from Jim Gellatly on Amazing Radio) so it seems like a good one to write about. Bouley Bashers… …