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Health and Safety: 11. Silence of the Frogs/Peewit

Silence of the Frogs Composed immediately after a very strange experience in the North of Poland in 2010 when hundreds of silenced frogs and a naked Scotsman shared a public pond at 5 in the morning....

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Health and Safety: 10. Thirsty Morning/Flatmates

Thirsty Morning This song was inspired by the elaborate goings-on behind the walls of 175 West Princes Street back in Calum's student days. There are a lot of stories involving that flat…the lyrics are...

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Health and Safety: 9. Wash that World Away

From time to time people need to remind themselves to enjoy some of life’s simplicities. Don’t let all this ‘aye-phone’ and ‘smack-book’ technology kill us off like Schwarzenegger predicted in that...

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Health and Safety: 8. Health and Safety

“This track is an arrangement of two tunes: ‘Health and Safety’ which is a fat-bottomed pipe reel and an dirty wee jig entitled ‘Man’s Ruin’. We must reinforce that there was nothing healthy or safe in...

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Health and Safety: 7. New

A tune by the formidable, the incurable, the unpredictably fantastical INNES WATSON!

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Health and Safety: 6. Midnight Train

This song has been ‘on ice’ since Calum was 16 years old. It is not about trains. See if you can figure it out.

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Health and Safety: 5. Living for the Day

Can’t decide if this song is delivering a positive or negative message…probably negative if we had to vote. The chorus is an arrangement of a tune written by Innes later lyricized by Calum.

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Health and Safety: 4. Avaaz

This piece of music started as an idea of Hamish’s which we used as an instrumental for Ceitidh Anna on the first self-titled album – Man’s Ruin. With hind sight we acknowledge that it might function...

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Health and Safety: 3. Time

A song written by Innes – it’s fairly self-explanatory if you listen to the lyrics.

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Health and Safety: 2. Days of the Weak

This set is based on a cheeky reel written by Calum and a riffy tune from Innes called ‘Stubbs’.

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Health and Safety: 1. Frantic Funk

Self, holds me back, from myself, please don’t offer me no help, ‘less I ask. I help myself, searching for my day of PEACE, piece of mind but mind your step, or someday you might find OUT! SOUNDS from...

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Working for the Man: 4. Working for the Man (radio edit)

Working for the Man gives a firm two’s-up to the corporate giants that dominate our modern high streets (in radio friendly style)

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Working for the Man: 3. Sanjay

Sanjay pays tribute to our folk-fusion forebears Croft no. 5. It was written for adventurer whistle player Mischa Sommerville.

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Working for the Man: 2. Under the Influence

Under the influence draws on inspiration from Glasgow’s burgeoning musical community.

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Working for the Man: 1. Working for the Man

Working for the Man gives a firm two’s-up to the corporate giants that dominate our modern high streets

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