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Tommy Mackay

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Editor of The Daily Reckless www.dailyreckless.com MD ANT. Author of 40 Odd Years Of The Fall: gregmoodie.com/product/40-odd-years… The first man in the world to buy a book about Half Man Half Biscuit.

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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 3h
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/10/06/a...
Daily Reckless front page October 7th 2026 featuring Aztec Character.
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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 4h
My cat is currently dressing up as a Devon child.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 4h
Funny names time.
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Aztec Character | Daily Reckless
Rob Hayman, subeditor, answers questions on The Aztec Empire on Mastermind, backed by Aztec Camera.   see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 19h
Go Shuggy! 100th anniversary of A Drunk Man publication date just over a month away!
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A Drunk Man Looks At Throbbing Thistle | Daily Reckless
To celebrate the centenary of its publication, Throbbing Thistle present a musical version of Hugh MacDiarmid's epic poem 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.' Read by the man himself. This page will be...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 19h
Hey man! Masterful Mastermind Mash-up.
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Aztec Character | Daily Reckless
Rob Hayman, subeditor, answers questions on The Aztec Empire on Mastermind, backed by Aztec Camera.   see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 20h
Me too. Always wanted to see them live. I had tickets for their last tour here, but it got cancelled.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 20h
Yay! Have some Es:
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Es Are Good | Daily Reckless
Richard E Grant, Mark E Smith, Wile E Coyote and Robert E Lee backed by They Might Be Giants and a smattering of Shamen and Roxy Music. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 22h
Ha!
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Aztec Character | Daily Reckless
Rob Hayman, subeditor, answers questions on The Aztec Empire on Mastermind, backed by Aztec Camera.   see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 22h
Last night's Mastermind saw this guy play a stormer answering questions on The Aztec Empire. Here he is backed by Aztec Camera:
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Aztec Character | Daily Reckless
Rob Hayman, subeditor, answers questions on The Aztec Empire on Mastermind, backed by Aztec Camera.   see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 23h
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Farewell To Dostoevsky | Daily Reckless
The wan leafs shak’ atour us like the snaw. Here is the cavaburd in which Earth’s tint. There’s naebody but Oblivion and us, Puir gangrel buddies, waunderin’ hameless in’t. The stars are larochs o’ au...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Accompanying soundtrack ahoy!
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2 Chevrons Apart | Daily Reckless
Steve Hill's book about Half Man Half Biscuit, 'Friday Night Fever,' soundtracked by Half Bam Half Whisky aka the first man in the world to buy a Half Man Half Biscuit book. Tracks: Accosting Robert F...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cheers Palmer!
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Palmer Eldritch @palm3reldritch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now this is more like it. Enough data-scraping shite, let's have some actual creativity.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Endarkenment you say?
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The Endarkenment | Daily Reckless
Libraries close and the food banks increase And a diet of sugar makes more kids obese They're shutting down culture with less art degrees If you want to look up, first get down on your knees The Endar...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'Pithy philosophical apercus' Woo. 👏
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All available here:
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Discography | Daily Reckless
Click on albums for details and downloads If you like any of my stuff you can always buy me a coffee TOMMY MACKAY HALF BAM HALF WHISKY THE SENSATIONAL ALEX SALMOND GASTRIC BAND THROBBING THISTLE THE P...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
9 albums me made.
9 albums made by me - The Eejit, Fud, Kez Enduction Hour, Methil Machine Music, Stramash Ups, Forfar Pleasure, Scotland Calling, Tripe Mask Replica, Ziggy Sturgeon and the Spiders from Katie Melua's Ears.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/10/05/f...
Daily Reckless front page October 6th 2026 featuring Farewell To Dostoevsky.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remembering when I serialised the Jeffrey Archer prison diaries in the Sunday Proust in 2002 which featured a handy prison slang guide: www.dailyreckless.co.uk/proust/jeff....
Front page of the Sunday Proust from 2002 with the headline I Never Touched The Cucumbers - Jeffrey.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I liked the Aztec guy's answers. Didn't understand a single word. Wonderful.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was the first man in the world to buy this book and I made a soundtrack of it here:
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2 Chevrons Apart | Daily Reckless
Steve Hill's book about Half Man Half Biscuit, 'Friday Night Fever,' soundtracked by Half Bam Half Whisky aka the first man in the world to buy a Half Man Half Biscuit book. Tracks: Accosting Robert F...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Obviously Mr Male has never heard Hugh MacDiarmid.
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A Drunk Man Looks At Throbbing Thistle | Daily Reckless
To celebrate the centenary of its publication, Throbbing Thistle present a musical version of Hugh MacDiarmid's epic poem 'A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.' Read by the man himself. This page will be...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Only Fats Waller there has escaped being stramashed by the Daily Reckless.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest Throbbing Thistle here:
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Farewell To Dostoevsky | Daily Reckless
The wan leafs shak’ atour us like the snaw. Here is the cavaburd in which Earth’s tint. There’s naebody but Oblivion and us, Puir gangrel buddies, waunderin’ hameless in’t. The stars are larochs o’ au...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Song of the day in the Daily Reckless #songoftheday
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Es Are Good | Daily Reckless
Richard E Grant, Mark E Smith, Wile E Coyote and Robert E Lee backed by They Might Be Giants and a smattering of Shamen and Roxy Music. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They feel like interlopers.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Grape unease here too.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This morning's front page song at the Daily Reckless: www.dailyreckless.com/2026/10/04/e...
Daily Reckless front page October 5th 2026 featuring Es Are Good.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Naughty naughty.
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Es Are Good | Daily Reckless
Richard E Grant, Mark E Smith, Wile E Coyote and Robert E Lee backed by They Might Be Giants and a smattering of Shamen and Roxy Music. see also:
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mark e @ireallylovemusic.co.uk · 04/10/2026
in other news : no comment necessary.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cheers!
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Agree. I had to put it in this stramash-up:
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Es Are Good | Daily Reckless
Richard E Grant, Mark E Smith, Wile E Coyote and Robert E Lee backed by They Might Be Giants and a smattering of Shamen and Roxy Music. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'll have an E please, Bob:
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Es Are Good | Daily Reckless
Richard E Grant, Mark E Smith, Wile E Coyote and Robert E Lee backed by They Might Be Giants and a smattering of Shamen and Roxy Music. see also:
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yay! Here's the soundtrack:
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2 Chevrons Apart | Daily Reckless
Steve Hill's book about Half Man Half Biscuit, 'Friday Night Fever,' soundtracked by Half Bam Half Whisky aka the first man in the world to buy a Half Man Half Biscuit book. Tracks: Accosting Robert F...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And now I have to make a stramash-up of all the best people with E as a middle initial. Mark E Smith, Richard E Grant and Wile E Coyote.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cheers! And thanks again for playing my Simon Armitage song. Happy memories of that weekend still.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course I was a huge influence on Primal Scream ;)
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Kill A Hippy, by Tommy Mackay
from the album Stigma & Style
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good to hear the Simon Armitage O Brother episode again @hanleypa.bsky.social @stephenhanley6.bsky.social I set the poem to 'Bill Is Dead'
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Reddish Light Arches | Daily Reckless
The fall guy is dead They didn’t say how I make him face down On a draylon settee A half bottle of blended scotch On its back on the rug A buckled beer can Crawling with stubbed cigarettes A thin shim...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ha! Gave up eventually. Retro Song was alright but it just all felt a bit too tame and trying too hard to capture Fallness and failing. Doubt I'll be revisiting.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Scottish version by They Might Be Gannets here:
theymightbegannets.bandcamp.com
Fud, by They Might Be Gannets
19 track album
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking good Mr M. Moody and dishevelled.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yay. Used to go to The Wee Cooper there and my band played at the Exit Youth Club once.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did ye find yer granny's hoose though? #TheManFromGlengrotty (Macedonia/Tanshall/Cadham)
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something for the weekend:
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Clash Stramash | Daily Reckless
Collection of Reckless Clash related nonsense. Tracks: These Days MacDiarmid Ginsberg Time London Corrie I Don’t Accept The Premise Of Your Question Korea Opportunities Help Yourself Pig Vomit Toxin K...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Aye that's a good one. I'm currently listening to the Post Script album. Jury's out. Need to listen a few more times. Sounds too polished.
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kid just came to the door asking if I wanted a free high five. Is this the new six seven?
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Album of the day in the Daily Reckless #albumoftheday #BandcampFriday
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Clash Stramash | Daily Reckless
Collection of Reckless Clash related nonsense. Tracks: These Days MacDiarmid Ginsberg Time London Corrie I Don’t Accept The Premise Of Your Question Korea Opportunities Help Yourself Pig Vomit Toxin K...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Album of the day in the Daily Reckless #albumoftheday #BandcampFriday
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Clash Stramash | Daily Reckless
Collection of Reckless Clash related nonsense. Tracks: These Days MacDiarmid Ginsberg Time London Corrie I Don’t Accept The Premise Of Your Question Korea Opportunities Help Yourself Pig Vomit Toxin K...
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Tommy Mackay @tommyreckless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week's free Daily Reckless newsletter featuring Peep Show Boys, Throbbing Thistle, Greta Garbo, Bernard Bresslaw, Simon Armitage and The Clash: mailchi.mp/f835006d34eb... Subscribe if you like, I don't care.
Daily Reckless newsletter number 1026.
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