In 2023, only four new songs ... Irish folk and English punk, or The Dubliners’ satirical and politically potent tunes.

So I was sitting at my piano, up in Scotland, and I thought I would like to write a song with a Scottish flavour.” Denny Laine, a member of McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings for the entirety ...

These roving Falkirk bairns are Brògeal (pronounced “Bro-gale”), a Scottish five-piece placing their ... when they’d resort to trading songs for food and shelter (and drink). So “Brògeal” is apt – the ...