Episode 47: Fair Play
Sunday, 2nd December 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
John Purser traces music’s occasionally troubled relationship with sport in Scotland with the help of Pat Nevin, and asks whether ‘fair play’ is really a Celtic concept. Including sectarian songs, Flower of Scotland and the Calcutta Cup in 1990, Hibs and the Proclaimers’ Sunshine on Leith, oblique football songs from Michael Marra and Ivor Cutler
Episode Playlist
- Roy Williamson - Flower of Scotland
sung by the Murrayfield crowd March 17, 1990
BBC recording - Trad. arr Hall and MacGregor – Football Crazy
Robin Hall and Jimmy MacGregor
SINGLE Decca 45F-11266 - Trad. arr F. Allison and J. Eaglesham – The Twin-Towered Stand
Adam McNaughtan
CD Last Stand at Mount Florida
Greentrax CDTRAX 120 Track 13 - Trad - The Sash
Milltown Loyalist Flute Band
CD Ulster’s Greatest Bands Meet
Ulster Records Track 1 - Anon - Big Paddy Bonnar
Legend Lives On
CD Hail! Hail! Celtic
Cherry Red CDGAFFER 12 Track 15 - Reid/Reid - I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)
The Proclaimers
CD Sunshine on Leith
Chrysalis CCD 1668 Track 1 - Reid/Reid – Sunshine on Leith
The Proclaimers [and the Hibernian crowd at Hampden on 18 March 2007]
CD Sunshine on Leith
Chrysalis CCD 1668 Track 6 - Michael Marra- Reynard in Paradise
Michael Marra
CD Posted Sober
Inner City Sound ICS001 Track 5 - Ivor Cutler - Pass the ball Jim (for John Peel)
Ivor Cutler with Linda Hirst
LP Privilege
Rough Trade ROUGH59 Side 2 Track 15 - Roy Williamson arr. David Dorward – Eine Schottische Blume
David McGuinness, piano
BBC recording
