Press
Releases
and
Reviews
for
"Alasdair
Mackay
Is
God
(Sorry
-
Bod)"
(2002)
NEW
GUIREANS
LP
RELEASE
IMMINENT?!
Reported
in
the
"Stornoway
Cassette"
Sunday
6
January
2002:
Plook
Records
supremo
Kenneth
C
"Seymour
Steinish"
Livingstein
III
yesterday
did
not
deny
rumours
that
the
label was
about
to
launch
the
Guireans'
first
new
recording
in
10
years
on
an
unsuspecting
world.
Speculation
began
after
residents
of
Stornoway's exclusive
Barony
Square neighbourhood
had
to
be
evacuated
on
Friday
afternoon,
due
to what
were
described
as "sgreadan
uamhasach"
emanating
from
the
dingy
bedsit
studio
of
"resting"
"actor"
and undernourished
Bowie
obsessive
Roddy
"Twiggy
Stardust"
Morrison.
While distressing
sounds
from
alleged
"musician"
Morrison's
premises
are
evidently
not
an
uncommon
occurrence,
investigators
from
the
Plasterfield
Institute
of
Advanced
Precenting
suspect
that
the
particular
nature
of
Friday's
aural
disaster
can
only
be
attributable
to
another
outbreak
of
Sandwick's
worst
ever
"pop"
group,
thought
by
many
to
have
been
eradicated
in
the
early
90s.
Survivors'
testimony
to
the
Plasterfield
boffins
spoke
of
brutal
attacks
on a
variety
of
songs
by
artists
ranging
from
Wheatus
to
Oasis,
The
Rolling
Stones
and
James
Petrie.
These
are
typical
of
the
Guireans'
modus
operandi.
However,
there
are
also
reports
of
tuned
guitars
and proper
chords
being
used
in
several
of
these
assaults,
leading
to
fears
that
other
organisations
may
have
been
involved.
"We
could
be
looking
at
some
kind
of unprecedented
Guireans/Dun
Ringles
supergroup
activity
here", speculated an
unnamed
Plasterfield
source.
"If
that's the
case
then
may
Philomena
Begley help
us
all".
A
sighting
(by
a
particularly
gullible
member
of
the
public)
of suspected
Guireans
chief
Alasdair
"Bod"
Mackay
fleeing
the
island
on
Thursday's
ferry
reinforced
suspicions
of
diversionary
tactics.
Mackay
is
thought
by
some
to
have
engaged
the
services
of
down-at-heel
80s
popster
Morrisey
to act
conspicuously
as
his
double
on
the
ferry,
thus
providing
the
alibi
which
would
allow
Mackay
to participate
-
uncredited
- in
the
Barony
Square
atrocity.
All
this
- as
well
as
speculation
that
the
new
release
might
be
called
"Alasdair
Mackay
is
God
(Sorry
-
Bod)"
-
was
not
denied
by
shady
Plook CEO
Livingstein
III.