2025 Charity Shop Purchases #7 - Ballboy -All The Records On The Radio Are Shite
Ain't that the truth?
I had my first Charity Shop foray in over a month the other day on Glasgow's Battlefield Road and came away with three purchases.
First up was All the Records on the Radio are Shite a CD single from 2002 from Edinburgh band Ballboy on the local SL Records
I'm pretty chuffed as it is the first physical thing that I have by the band. Yet another act I discovered via the Blogging community in particular via JC, Drew and Dirk (I'm scared to search the Internet for a link to Sexy Loser)
Therefore I have plenty of their songs downloaded along with a digital copy of the compilation Club Anthems.
Gordon McIntyre is a great songwriter with a deadpan delivery as these songs should testify.
It's gone down as a find.
Ballboy - All the Records on the Radio are Shite
Ballboy - Building for the Future
Ballboy - Welcome to the New Year
Yep, Drew got me into them too. -Brian
ReplyDeleteBallboy had the ear of John Peel in the early 00s and featured in a few of his Festive 50s around that time. I recall they had a track called I Hate Scotland which I'll now have to seek out to see if indeed they did. I've an album of theirs, Club Anthems 2001. Not played it in 20 years - it's a common theme!
ReplyDeleteA real find!
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