Matt used go stay with us when he came south in the 1960's when I helped to run the Grimsby folk club with John Connolly and Bill Meek. Lots of lovely stories and memories of those days.

When I moved back to Scotland and helped form Stramash we worked up a programm to launch his book " McGinn of the Calton" It was a real pleasure to do that show in front of Glasgow audiences.    Get them singing along with some of Matt's chorus songs and then hit them with one of Matt's more serious songs like Kevin Mitchell singing "Deep In My Ego" Talk about hearing a pin drop!

There's a link to Stramash's Greentrax recording thats still active in a post above if anybody would like to hear it.

Just today however I was pointed in the direction of another video recording that Stramash had done on Matt, which includes one of his lesser known songs "Paper and Board" It was included that night because, as Adam McNaughtan says in the intro, that we wanted a song where Stramash knew the chorus and the audience didn't. ( to begin with that is) Never heard it sung before or since

Here's the link    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hdOxjtveA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hdOxjtveA

He was a dear friend and sadly missed.

Bob Blair