I presume you all had a looky at the tourist site. Who feels Orkney is the next best option ? At 20,000 its a bit mean on people (Redditch possibly has more and has a handy multi-storey car park to boot) but maybe it has its upside.

Take a jacket.

heres a song you could hum in the main street if you so wish

If you're goin' to Kirkwall Orkney
Be sure to wear a balaclava in your hair
If you're goin' to Kirkwall Orkney
You're gonna meet some suspicious people there

For those who come to Kirkwall Orkney
Summertime will be a frost-bite there
In the street of Kirkwall Orkney
Cantankerous people with balaclavas in their hair
All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in commatose
There's a whole generation
Heading for the mainland
People in motion, people in motion

For those who come to Kirkwall Orkney
Be sure to wear some earmuffs in your hair
If you come to Kirkwall Orkney
Summertime will be 24 hours there
If you come to stone cold Orkney
Summertime will be all day there

heres a site with the song for download that seems kosher to me....


http://members.iinet.net.au/~hartman/mckenzie.htm

what a great song. The guy from the mamas and papas wrote it in 20 mins but when they were recording it he fell asleep after doing the guitar track cos he was high, so they got Scott to do the vocals (who was sitting in the studio as a friend I suppose)

since Alex seems to be synonomous with elavator muzak by his fans, how about this one to replace the delapidated, pitiful "nobody does it better"

I can see Alex playing the tamborine in a band (altho he was not so bad on the accordian)

http://www.jacquedee63.com/mrtamborineman.html

how can Mr Tamborine man play a song ?

that woman done a real hatchet job on "turn turn turn" which is one of my fav songs. The keyboard sounds up to it, so it must be her