My Ear Candy #38 Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell joined me in the studio this week where, for once, we were blessed with an absence of din from the neighbouring main hall, there’s usually a ceilidh or some such going on but not this week. He’d travelled up from Forfar, a place dear to my heart since it’s my mum’s hometown, and brought his fiancé Jo to keep order. Either Billy is every woman’s dream and Jo couldn’t afford to let him loose on an adoring female public, or, she just fancied a night out. 

The evening got off to a terrific start, the first of his six selections being The Pixies ‘Debaser’, a rollicking indie track, a ten out of ten knockout of a song. He followed this classic however with a collection of less triumphant numbers but I’m slowly learning not to mock the choices of others, even the ugliest of babies have their admirers, someone’s gotta love them. There’s a full list below, decide for yourselves.

Billy is a colleague of mine at Barclays Bank, the pair of us shuffling through our working lives with oodles of cash lying around us, none of which we’re permitted to get our dirty mitts on, regrettably. We’ve talked of effecting a midnight heist but bottled it so far and now that I’ve gone and put that plan on radar here, I doubt we’ll ever get the chance to fill our loot bags with swag before scarpering off into the sunset. All’s not lost though, he has a wedding to pay for in October and you know how much these things cost, he might well have to join me for the old Butch Cassidy routine after all.

I had no idea Billy was an American footballer, that’s to say he’s a Scotsman that plays American football. He informed our audience that a match takes as long as four hours, no wonder the game’s never caught on over here. Besides, we have our own version in the UK, it’s called ‘rugby’ and, unlike the American version, doesn’t involve the putting on of shoulder pads, lipstick and eye shadow. He didn’t accept this comparison and suggested it was indeed a tough sport, but I wasn’t persuaded. 

A good evening was had by all and Billy the. headed off with Jo in search of a pizzeria, an insult really to Stonehaven, the home of deep fried Mars Bars. Some people.

Billy’s selections

Debaser - The Pixies
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Latch - Disclosure
Sail - Awolnation
Young, Dumb and Broke - Khalid
Still Into You - Paramore