All over the world tonight people will be celebrating and paying tribute to the life, works and spirit of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759-1796). Celebrated on, or about, the Bard’s birthday, January 25th, Burns Suppers range from upperclass formal gatherings of artists and scholars to uproariously informal rave-ups of the the nations party people . Most Burns Suppers will involve the eating of a traditional Scottish meal, the drinking of Scotch whisky, and the recitation of works by, about, and in the spirit of the Bard. “There’s some are fou o’ love divine, There’s some are fou’ o’ brandy.”
In true Subbie Style our very own bar Bard and poet extraordinaire Sam Small paid tribute to our beloved underground home and our own wee beastie legends Harri & Domenic…“A man’s a man for a’ that!”
Tuesday morning,
Wonder where the week went?
Dropped half a months rent,
Well spent. Not yet.
Still got a night left
Hibernate, weathers wet
Don’t hide, not yet –
Unless it’s in a basement.
The years just started,
This is the first party
No good reason missin’
Haggis, neeps and tatties
Unless you hide with the best of them
Missing colours in the spectrum
A low ceiling laser show
Burnin’ in your cranium
Burns like the best of them
Burns night’s beckoning
Watch a promo whisky
Cure the thirst of a nation
A quarter of a century
Nocked off infinity
If you wanna blaze a snout
We’ll pay for the penalty
Don’t need a later licence
Don’t need a guest fay Italy
Don’t need another reason
Cause we pack em in intensively
For the hero of a country
Changing lives with poetry
Who the fuck really thinks
Thatcher needs another holiday?
No me, no need.
Reward love, not greed
99 reasons
We’re holding on to free speech
The kind that makes weak knees
The kind that makes the roof week
The kind that moves instead of speaks,
The kinda music we can breathe.
Dom, tell Harri
We want another tune,
Please.
You can catch sam performing regularly as part of Spoken Word at Glasgow’s Inn Deep. Be sure to join him next time for a wee nip.
***IMAGE RIGHTS FROM Not In My Name