“Growing up, my interest in Robert Burns was minimal, if not non-existent,” she confessed. “I thought his work was for the highbrow – something rich people celebrated at posh Burns’ suppers. “It was not for the likes of me … the hardly educated, council estate, overspill girl. “Burns wasn’t something which seemed part of my life. But neither was going to university or having more intellectual pursuits. “Now, I see that I was wrong. I am precisely the kind of person Burns wrote for.” In 1975, the Reader family relocated to Irvine, as part of the Glasgow housing overspill. “At 16, I attended Greenwood Academy in Irvine – the same school Nicola Sturgeon later went to – and there was a female teacher, who was really into Burns,” said Eddi.
“Growing up, my interest in Robert Burns was minimal, if not non-existent,” she confessed. “I thought his work was for the highbrow – something rich people celebrated at posh Burns’ suppers. “It was not for the likes of me … the hardly educated, council estate, overspill girl. “Burns wasn’t something which seemed part of my life. But neither was going to university or having more intellectual pursuits. “Now, I see that I was wrong. I am precisely the kind of person Burns wrote for.” In 1975, the Reader family relocated to Irvine, as part of the Glasgow housing overspill. “At 16, I attended Greenwood Academy in Irvine – the same school Nicola Sturgeon later went to – and there was a female teacher, who was really into Burns,” said Eddi.
The night Runrig had a Top Of The Pops dressing room argy-bargy with Oasis
Updated: April 1 2021, 11.16am
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When Runrig played Top Of The Pops alongside Diana Ross they were told not to make eye contact with or even look at the soul diva… so they had a dressing room wall-banging argy-bargy with rock bad boys Oasis instead.
“Oasis had the dressing room next door to us and they were playing a mix of Roll With It on repeat all the time, all throughout the afternoon and evening, to the point we were just fed up with it”, said Rory Macdonald, founder member of the iconic Scottish band, as was his brother Calum.
IT was general election night, May 26, 1955. Forty-five days after taking over from Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden returned the Conservatives to victory with an increased majority. At Glasgow’s Alhambra Theatre, though, the management had something else on their minds: the launch of a brand-new Five Past Eight show. Jack Radcliffe and Jimmy Logan headed the bill, alongside actress Olga Gwynne, Kenneth McKellar, and a “stupendous supporting cast”. The “fast-moving song, dance and laughter show”, presented by Stewart Cruikshank, had Geraldo as the musical director for the special opening performance. Radcliffe and Logan are pictured here, before the first night, with, from left, Joanna Rigby, Katherine Feather, Olga Gwynne, and Margaret Miles.
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