Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:31 - Music in the family home
02:32 - First records bought
03:34 - First gig experiences
06:05 - First performance: The Hippy Hasslers
08:34 - First Proclaimers gig
11:18 - 40 years of record making
15:02 - An intriguing video with John & Yoko
16:50 - You May Offend
18:12 - Current tour
19:15 - Festival modus operandi
21:40 - Rotating tour set lists
23:03 - Writing
25:58 - Planning ahead
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The Proclaimers have only had a handful of hits but they’re songs that have kept expanding for nearly 40 years. And the World Cup was a reminder of how far they’ve reached. Craig and Charlie Reid talk to us here about first adventures onstage, talent shows, the tour circuit, the new album ‘You May Offend’ and …
… the moment the Proclaimers took off
… first records bought in Woolworths in Fife (including the less-than-prophetic World Cup anthem Easy Easy)
… the fraternal voices of the Everly Brothers
… seeing Joy Division supporting Buzzcocks and feeling “the heat and charisma” of Ian Curtis
… the unique way they write songs
… getting royalties when your hits are sung in televised football stadiums
… their first gigs playing Stones, Kinks, Clash and Pistols covers plus a Talent Show in ’77 on a bill with “a lassie singing Scottish ballads and possibly a performing dog”
… recording at Rockfield and the ghost of Bohemian Rhapsody
... their new video imagining John & Yoko as they might be today
… how easy it is to offend Gen-Z
… and hitchhiking 60 miles to see Hibs and writing ‘The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues’ about it.
Order ‘You May Offend’ here: proclaimers.lnk.to/youmayoffend
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:31 - Music in the family home
02:32 - First records bought
03:34 - First gig experiences
06:05 - First performance: The Hippy Hasslers
08:34 - First Proclaimers gig
11:18 - 40 years of record making
15:02 - An intriguing video with John & Yoko
16:50 - You May Offend
18:12 - Current tour
19:15 - Festival modus operandi
21:40 - Rotating tour set lists
23:03 - Writing
25:58 - Planning ahead
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Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock & Roll going: patreon.com/wordinyourear
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The Proclaimers have only had a handful of hits but they’re songs that have kept expanding for nearly 40 years. And the World Cup was a reminder of how far they’ve reached. Craig and Charlie Reid talk to us here about first adventures onstage, talent shows, the tour circuit, the new album ‘You May Offend’ and …
… the moment the Proclaimers took off
… first records bought in Woolworths in Fife (including the less-than-prophetic World Cup anthem Easy Easy)
… the fraternal voices of the Everly Brothers
… seeing Joy Division supporting Buzzcocks and feeling “the heat and charisma” of Ian Curtis
… the unique way they write songs
… getting royalties when your hits are sung in televised football stadiums
… their first gigs playing Stones, Kinks, Clash and Pistols covers plus a Talent Show in ’77 on a bill with “a lassie singing Scottish ballads and possibly a performing dog”
… recording at Rockfield and the ghost of Bohemian Rhapsody
... their new video imagining John & Yoko as they might be today
… how easy it is to offend Gen-Z
… and hitchhiking 60 miles to see Hibs and writing ‘The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues’ about it.
Order ‘You May Offend’ here: proclaimers.lnk.to/youmayoffend
