I wrote this just after Kevin’s untimely death in 2015. My friend Kevin Wilson was one of the good guys. He was a man that I owe a lot to. Unfortunately I will not be able to repay him as he has died suddenly at a tragically young age. Kevin brought me to the city …
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RIP great uncle Hugh.
Hugh Burden was killed at the age of 20 around 11am on June 28 1915. His death was unpleasant in both the way and why it happened. Despite this I had the privilege of visiting the site of his death at Gallipoli almost exactly 100 years after the event. I had always been told that …
Our inflexible friend the visa system
The Promise by Tracy Chapman was the prompt for this blog that appeared in the Guardian a number of years ago. Still resonates strongly with me. “It would feel so good to be / In your arms / Where all my journeys end / If you can make a promise / If it’s one that …
My life in music – part 2
Watching live music comes naturally to most of us if we listen to it (as covered here regarding me – https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/stevenlindsay.home.blog/31). As I remember it, my gig going days started with my mate Steven and I going to see a celtic rock band he liked called Horslips at the Glasgow Apollo. Along with other mates …
My life in music – part 1
Unlike football, my involvement in music has only involved listening and watching (covered in part 2) as I have no ability whatsoever. I still obviously harbour the surely mistaken believe that my latent talent would spring forth given half a chance. My performances have been charity X factor type singing events. The Proclaimers are apparently …
Learning to understand
A version of this was published in the Guardian many years ago. I write this as I listen to an album 40 years after Aunt Betty gave it to me. I was only eight when she brought Wild Life for me and Beaucoups of Blues by Ringo Starr for my younger brother, when she came …
My life in footy
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.” Football has always been in my life. I have never been very good playing it but that never stopped me as passion overcame inability. I followed my dad …
Steven Lindsay, the Mancy Glaswegian 