Screwtops Are Falling On My Head is my least favorite Matt McGinn album,
although it's not completely without merit. Sadly, this was also Matt last
album. The main draw backs to Screwtops is the number of parodies to
popular songs of the day and the fact that Matt's voice is very rough. The better
songs are "Granda," "My Wee Auntie Sarah" and
"Heiderum Hauderum" and the jokes are good.
Sleeve Notes:
Gales of laughter greeted every line of patter and song in the making of this album live
at The Bonnie Prince Charlie in East Kilbride. That was the purpose of the exercise.
Now that hilarity is being passed on to the hundreds of thousands of fans and relations
of Matt McGinn throughout the Scottish-speaking world.
McGinn, the most original and funniest of Scotland's comedian/songwriters, has become
a household name since he took up singing (and roaring and bawling) some fourteen
years ago. Since then, the sound of this human with the crow's voice has been marvelled
at through clubs, concert halls, radio, films, the goggle box and the Medical Journal.
Matt McGinn....two little words synonymous with the big belly laugh and the chuckle, the
earthy and the innocent in fun.
Dinah Campbell Dimaio
(Spinster of the Parish of Ballupha')
Many thanks (alphabetically) to:
The Audience for Turning up
Jim Dorans for Banjo, Mandolin and Fiddle
Billy Davidson for Guitar and Material
Mr. & Mrs. Grenfall for Hospitality
Alex Hutton for Mandolin, Fiddle and Banjo
Stuart Jeffries for Engineering
Pete Kerr for Organisation, Material and Co-ordination
Shug O'Rourke for Bouzuki, Flute and Piccolo
Alex Osborne for Guitar
Beef Taggert for Cheek
Special thanks to:
Bryce Laing for Earplugs (imported)
Henry Spurway for Two Large Gins and Tonic for The Producer
Mrs. Thatcher for The Pies (Where's Cookin' Fat?) Glasgow Royal
Infirmary for The Stomach Pump
H. M. Government for The Toilet Rolls
Recorded February 1975
Front Photograph by Frazer Ballantyne
Sketch by Hugh Miller of Scottish Daily News