Amazing Things (February 21st 2007)

One type of music Hairy plays a lot is Celtic Rock. Guitars and bagpipes?

I know, it sounds weird, but there's this one band: Runrig, who he plays over and over, I've got used to them.

In fact he's got every one of their albums, from "Recovery" onwards, copied for playing in the car - and boy does he play them!

Imagine his delight, then, when he discovered the cover (and set design) for one album was a copy of an actual sculpture in Scotland. Just a spit away from Gilcrux, metaphorically!

So in the hills above Langholm town we journeyed to the west, to get a snap or three of this sculpture. It's a memorial to a Scots poet called Hugh Macdairmid, who (by all accounts) sounds a bit of a lad. Or sounded, as he's dead now.

It was easy peasy to find but rather a surprise as it's quite small. As you can tell by our size in comparison.

Still it made him happy. He's vowed to go again, on a sunny day, wearing his tour T shirt from the 1993 tour, so he can be snapped in it next to the memorial. Now I think that's a bit sad, myself. Don't you?

Oh, the album's called "Amazing Things". My favourite song from it is "Song of the Earth".