I live in (or on, depending on your grammatical persuasion) the Shetland Islands, halfway between Scotland and Norway. Weekday afternoons, I host BBC Radio Scotland's afternoon music programme, which is called, oddly enough, the Tom Morton Show. Find it on 92-95 FM, 810 MW 14.00 - 16.00 hrs or online at www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland. A week's worth of shows is always available for on-line listening anytime if you're really, really keen. Anyway, from the age of 16 (and that wasn't yesterday), I've been writing and performing my own songs. In various past and increasingly less religious lives, this has led to the making of albums (ah, vinyl! Oh, cassettes!) tours of Scotland, England, Ireland, Holland and Germany, and numerous radio and TV appearances. Of late, for reasons of personal security, I've been working under noms des plumes: Johnnie and the Notions and Blind Boy Flugga among them. I'm trying my best to embrace all this digital technology, but frankly, making a living and old school writing/broadcasting tends to get in the way. However, there's the blog From The Beatcroft (http://beatcroft.blogspot.com) and you can subscribe to the (occasional) Tom Morton's Chatter and Twang podcast on iTunes . As for my songs, well... Probably better if you judge for yourself. They range from more-or-less funny denigrations of The Beatles, male pattern baldness and its country-music stetson-wearing implications, female bagpipers and the iconography of Reliant Rialtos, to generally-quite-good sentimental heartstring-twanging. A CD is OUT NOW entitled A Complete and Utter History of Rock'n'Roll, on the North Atlantic Sweetie Organisation's label...order it online at http://.tommortonmusic.blogspot.com...and there are live shows, too. James Patrick Bowie Morton, who plays the bass, wishes to remain an enigma.
Appearing: Saturday 24th March 2007 at 8:00 p.m. "Tom Morton's Hieland Fling" with Finniston, the Lush Rollers, Malachy Tallack and Steven Laurenson
Hall: B   Tickets: £12.00

Website: http://www.myspace.com/tommortonmusic