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I read last week that Radio Scotland is playing no music today, St A's day, as part of no music week/day/season. Not sure what the intended effect is, but there you go. There's one other radio station, a London one, taking part in this effort today as well. Even the station idents and jingles are being de-musiced at R Sctoland. (I love those neologisms.) Nero.

Yes Happy St Andrews day. This always puzzles me as nobody in Scotland celebrates it. As any good Scot knows its a' aboot Burns night these days. Which throws in the joy of haggis neeps n tatties. And poems by the bard himself.


The Irish have St Patricks, Aussies have Australia Day or whatever but English dont seem to have a good nationalistic day.


Why is that?

I feel very strongly that I should not have to work on any national day of celebration as we all emerged from the same African savannah 150 000 years ago and are therefore all one people. We should all be out celebrating in the streets in the traditional way with rain, whiskey, men in skirts and the tossing of large wooden poles.*



*please let me know if I have missed out any important clich?s

No one really celebrates St George's day either, maybe similar reasons to those highlighted in the flying the flag thread. It makes me laugh low the whole country goes mad for Guinness Day, sorry, St Patrick's Day, and I'll bet most people would be able to tell you it's on the 17th of March.

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> Ask Morrissey. Nero


Ha! I have a good friend who is a staffer at the NME. And have it on good authority that Morrisseys position is not as strong as he might think thansk to something called a tape recorder. He also had right to reply when they ran his comments past him again before publication. I guess they just didnt look too good.

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