Well folks, it has been a pretty busy and humbling few weeks for us! We’d like to say thanks to everyone who came to see us, have watched the videos and have made all the effort worth it. We couldn’t have done the Fandango without the help of Gwyn Morgan Davies & Lewis Murray (who stood in for Gwyn last Saturday at a day’s notice). Special thanks must also go to the kind folk at Whalsay School for the use of the gong. We’re putting Bohemian Rhapsody into semi-retirement for now though, mainly because of the logistics involved.

The next time it will feature in our set will be on Friday the 31st of August at the Lerwick Legion when we’re putting on a gig we’re calling ‘First Foot Soldiers & Friends’. We’re hoping to have a lot of special guests, from the precocious to the well-travelled, allowing us to play songs we couldn’t play otherwise – songs that you may never have heard being played at a live gig in Shetland before. More details to follow nearer the time.

In the meantime, we’re going to keep adding great songs to our setlist. We hope you’ll come out to see us and have a brilliant time.

Chowdy!

Arthur, Chris, Joe & Rob

Photo: Zoe Galbraith

Good Day firstfootsoldiers.com and Friends,

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I saw that on your site, http://www.firstfootsoldiers.com/links/, has some links to some other great veteran resources, and I would be grateful if you shared our site, MesotheliomaSymptoms.com. Ideally, this would be a single text link to Mesothelioma to help raise awareness. Please let me know if this interests you. I look forward to your reply.

Respectfully,
Sarah Anderson

Well thank you Sarah, I hope this post raises awareness of what appears to be a law firm specialising in profiting off the backs of the kind of horrors that it creates in the first place by ‘sucking the black wormy jizz of satan’, as Bill might have said. I wish you luck in your quest traveller, and hope that you can join us in Room 16 of Islesburgh, approximately 2 hours before sunrise, where we shall be debuting Bohemian Rhapsody at the end of our set in the Shetland Folk Festival late club.

Disrespectfully,

Beelzebub.