{"id":1190,"date":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T12:00:00","slug":"while-the-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/while-the-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"While The Chief …"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSong of the Week<\/a>, particularly towards the second half, has been ‘Sunshine on Leith’. Now I know<\/i> I’m home-sick 😉 (I also know this will break off relations between Andy C and I forever.) So, to be about as wildly off-topic (Oracle, moaning and cuddly toys) as I’ve ever been ….<\/p>\n

There’s something quintessentially Scottish about The Proclaimers<\/a>. In fact that’s what my partner Madeleine (who is English), dislikes about them most. <\/p>\n

Check those lyrics<\/a> out …<\/p>\n

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‘My heart was broken, My heart was broken<\/i><\/p>\n

Sorrow, Sorrow, Sorrow, Sorrow<\/i><\/p>\n

My heart was broken, My heart was broken<\/i>‘<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, and once you’ve sung the whole song – just start again! The punchline is that this turns out to be a song of faith, optimism and belief 😉 It was a while before I read them properly and realised it’s probably about having a child or a partner (and about life and all of that other stuff).<\/p>\n

However, Craig and Charlie Reid (when you see the video, you may detect they’re twins) are both big Hibs<\/a> fans (as is my daughter). Leith is where Hibs play and, although I grew up a Celtic<\/a> supporter and will always<\/i> be a Celtic supporter, I’ve spent most of my time in Edinburgh in the North – Hibs country – and lived in Leith for a couple of years so I have a huge soft spot for them (softer, now my daughter’s joined in). Hibs fans have almost made this song their own and it’s peculiar how a song that’s nothing to do with being a football supporter reflects those emotions so well.<\/p>\n

Then the slide guitar kicks in and you realise that, like most Proclaimer songs, it’s heavily influenced by American music. <\/p>\n

So what makes it quintessentially Scottish? Well, have several pints of beer to the point when everyone is your best mate (that’s the way it works) and bellow it out together, and you’ll feel it. (But make sure you don’t annoy the neighbours too much!) “Sentimental” seems an inadequate description. <\/p>\n

Enough words. This is them performing the song<\/a> in one of the tents at ‘T in the Park’, the biggest Scottish music festival.<\/p>\n

See – I really need to go home soon, don’t I? 😉<\/p>\n

I’ve made a sworn commitment to myself that the next blog will be something <\/i>to do with computers.<\/p>\n

P.S. Oh, okay, two more. This is the one most of you will know<\/a>. This one<\/a> is what got me into them in the first place, when they were supporting The Beautiful South on tour. It’s about their initial trouble getting a record deal because they insisted on singing in their own accents. Sadly, I couldn’t find a video on YouTube.<\/p>\n

P.P.S. Please, for goodness’ sake, believe that The Proclaimers are not my favourite band. It’s just they’ve been spinning around my head for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Song of the Week, particularly towards the second half, has been ‘Sunshine on Leith’. Now I know I’m home-sick 😉 (I also know this will break off relations between Andy C and I forever.) So, to be about as wildly off-topic (Oracle, moaning and cuddly toys) as I’ve ever been …. There’s something quintessentially Scottish… Continue reading While The Chief …<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1534,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/16\/oow-2009-swag-round-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":1190,"position":0},"title":"OOW 2009 – Swag Round-up","date":"October 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been trying for weeks to get a picture of me wearing the jacket you receive when you're made an ACE Director but it's proved trcky so I brought it over with me this week and wore it one day so Marco could take the photo. 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