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Last Saturday I was DJing before the Scotland match in McChuills so thought I should wear something Scottish. All I coul...
21/06/2026

Last Saturday I was DJing before the Scotland match in McChuills so thought I should wear something Scottish. All I could find was an Irn Bru t-shirt I’d owned for many years. (Someone actually came up and told me they had one, they’d sent away tokens to get it in 1983.)

A few days later I met Martin Gavin about the forthcoming book we’re working on (details to follow), and he’d brought along an old photo from legendary northern soul night Goodfoot, backstage at The Bedsit. “No way, I was wearing that t-shirt on Saturday night!” It was only later that my daughter spotted the date-stamp on the photo - two nights DJing in the same shirt, precisely 29 years apart to the exact same date. 😎

The Daily Daly! Despite the gentrication of West End, the best the charity shops could muster was a VG- copy.
16/06/2026

The Daily Daly! Despite the gentrication of West End, the best the charity shops could muster was a VG- copy.

EASY EASY! Digging out the tunes for McChuills tonight! Think it’s going to be a busy one…Couple of matches showing with...
13/06/2026

EASY EASY! Digging out the tunes for McChuills tonight! Think it’s going to be a busy one…

Couple of matches showing with sound down, and pub will be showing the Scotland match in full surround sound at 2am. FREE ENTRY!

“Yabba dabba doo, we support the boys in blue!”

My Sunday Clyde Built Radio show is up to listen again. Bit of Kosmiche, recent random record pick-ups, some quite long ...
09/06/2026

My Sunday Clyde Built Radio show is up to listen again. Bit of Kosmiche, recent random record pick-ups, some quite long tracks, some quite short ones, new Boards Of Canada, some dub versions and a whole lotta… lousy chat.

From Tappa Zukie to Tina Turner - that’s how we roll! Tracklist below.

Link 📻 https://soundcloud.com/clydebuiltradio/divine-13

Clyde Built Radio (07/06/26)

Kraftwerk “Ruckzuck” (Vertigo)
Can “Turtles Have Short Legs” (Liberty)
Neu! “Fur Immer” (United Artists)

The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (Armageddon)
MC5 “Kick Out The Jams” (Elektra)
Blue Phantom “Microchaos” (Kaleidoscope)

Boards Of Canada “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” (Warp)
The Cure “All Cats Are Grey” (Fiction)

V. Jones & Doctor Birds “Black, Green & Gold” (version) (Freedom Sounds)
Errol Dunkley “Black Cinderella” (version) (FiMi Time)
Tappa Zukie “Freak’ (version) (Stars)

Tina Turner “Whole Lotta Love” (United Artists)

Doing my show on  on Sunday. 12pm-1pm. Turn on, tune in, drop out…Theme to be decided. Any requests?
06/06/2026

Doing my show on on Sunday. 12pm-1pm. Turn on, tune in, drop out…

Theme to be decided. Any requests?

Literally two people asked what I got at the Bellahouston record fair, so here’s my small selection of small records. Al...
01/06/2026

Literally two people asked what I got at the Bellahouston record fair, so here’s my small selection of small records. All found in the same “unsorted” box - always prefer rifling through random stuff…

Couple of Can singles for next time I do a Kosmiche-on-45s night, got a cover for a Manfred Mann soundtrack fave, a Minit single basically for the sleeve, a version of “Light My Fire” I hadn’t heard before (still planning to do a mix… ) and a “minty, ooh, that’s nice on U.K.” upgrade.

Always good to bump into the similarly afflicted and the empire biscuit didn’t disappoint. ☕️

Sun’s out, Guns (Of Navarone) out! ☀️The perfect weather for cranking out some ska. Despite the various names, think the...
28/05/2026

Sun’s out, Guns (Of Navarone) out! ☀️

The perfect weather for cranking out some ska. Despite the various names, think these are basically all backed by The Skatalites.

Always loved the label design on these early Island singles. I’m sure I read it was an early project by Charles Saatchi (of Saatchi & Saatchi) but actually struggling to find any evidence of this… anyone help?

That’s my Clyde Built Radio  show from earlier this month uploaded to listen again. Random mish-mash of sevens this time...
24/05/2026

That’s my Clyde Built Radio show from earlier this month uploaded to listen again. Random mish-mash of sevens this time, the theme being... if I like them, maybe there’s a subliminal thread running through them? Reggae, dub, post-punk, left-field funk, shoe-gaze, proto-shoegaze, early-indie, industrial, electro-glam 45s. Hmmm, the theme is... there is no theme.

The microphone was muted, so you’re spared my awkward jibber-jabber. I probably just mentioned The Drowning Craze feature a future Cocteau Twin and The Creation sound like Spacemen 3 a good 20 years before Spacemen 3. Link in bio, like, subscribe etc. etc.

Clyde Built Radio (09/05/26)

Dr. Alimantado “Best Dressed Chicken In Town” (Greensleeves)
Augustus Pablo “Havendale Rock” (Rockers)
Jacob Miller “Baby I Love You So” (Island)

Buzzcocks “Why Can’t I Touch It” (United Artists)
The Drowning Craze “Storage Case” (Situation Two)
Gang Of Four “What We All Want” (EMI)

Blackrock “Blackrock Yeah Yeah” (Select-O-Hits)
Gary Atkinson “Wanderin’ Soul” (Corillions)
Esther Phillips “Home Is Where The Hatred Is” (Kudu)

Spectrum “True Love Will Find You In The End” (Silvertone)
The Creation “No Silver Bird” (Guerssen)
The Chills “Pink Frost” (Flying Nun)

Foster Sylvers “Misdemeanor” (MGM)
Sweet Charles “Yes It’s You” (Urban)
Donald Byrd “Dominoes” (United Artists)

Throbbing Gristle “Distant Dreams” (pt.2) (Industrial)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark “Electricity” (Factory)
Jeff Britton & the Spitfires “Rub Out” (Decca)
Angelo & Eighteen “Flight 2” (Rak)

+++ DIGGING WITH DIVINE +++Latest addition to the collectionThe Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (Armageddon 1980)I’ve lo...
16/05/2026

+++ DIGGING WITH DIVINE +++
Latest addition to the collection

The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” (Armageddon 1980)

I’ve loved this high energy blast of power-pop post-punk since hearing it as a teenager in the mid-80s. I was introduced to it at Texas Fever, the first Glasgow club night I used to attend religiously at 46 West George Street. Texas Fever was an integral part of my musical education and I was exposed to so much incredible music which I absolutely soaked up like a sponge. I occasionally look back and think about the club’s floor-packing anthems: Cabaret Voltaire’s “Nag Nag Nag”, Sonic Youth’s “Death Valley 69”, The Birthday Party’s “Release The Bats”, Suicide’s “Ghost Rider”, The Go Betweens’ “Right Now” and the thing they have in common is… only in an alternate universe could these be considered floor-packing anthems! But in that tiny upstairs function room, they sounded amazing and were just perfect. “Free your mind and your ass will follow!”

The Soft Boys incendiary guitar intro followed by the superb three part vocal harmonies were another clarion call to the floor and Robyn Hitchcock’s anti-war sentiments are equally relevant today. So, it’s only taken 40 years for this nugget to be added to the Divine archives*, but I intend to play it loud and introduce it to the next generation...

Digging With Divine is happening TONIGHT (16/05/26) in McChuills. 8pm till midnight. Free entry.



*Thanks to for the good times and for sorting me out! 🙌

The carboot sale didn’t disappoint. The Daily Daly.
15/05/2026

The carboot sale didn’t disappoint.

The Daily Daly.

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