Sleeve Notes:
Down with drink! That
is the message brought to you by the man who is known in every alcoholic
ward in the country as The Hogshead of Song. Accompanying him on this
record are The Five Firkins of Folk, known to the police as Daryl Runswick
who plays bass (preferring red triangle to blue), John MacKinnon on the
fiddle (no surprise to those who know him), Tom Harvey plays mandogin (a
sort of inebriated mandolin), Ian Macintosh banjo and whistle (no doubt
doing his Scottish best to sound like an English pub name) and Mike
Whellan who was busy corroding Hohners with a mixture of Bell's and Barr's
Irn Bru, when he wasn't making an empty Teacher's Whisky bottle sound like
a marimba as in Twelve and a tanner a bottle.
Down with drink! Is the
motto on the bottom of Hamish Imlach's portable two pint pewter tankard
and what better message for us here today?
No effort has been
spared to make this the authorative treatise on the effects of alcohol. By
no means least was the effort required to get Hamish Imlach into the
studio from the bar he nearly passed on his way to the recording session.
If you are subject to the temptations of Bacchus, may we suggest you keep
this disc by you always. You will find that if you are lured into the
local for a tipple or two, if some tavern tempts you to imbibe of
Barleycorn, this record can prevent you making a mess of things. Consider
it not so much a long player more a 12-inch beer mat.
