Celebrate the song lyrics you love.
Let’s Get Lyrical!
Featured story: Withered Hand
“Everyone’s got the right to write songs, it’s just whether you have the right to stand up and inflict them on other people.” Listen again to our fantastic interview with musical wordsmith Withered Hand.
Which lyric will you pick?
Read our collection of Get Lyrical stories
Eddi Reader sings hers in her head. AL Kennedy’s always makes her laugh. Rosanne Cash’s is a song that could never be written today. Read stories others celebrities have written for Let’s Get Lyrical.
Lyrical Death Match
Listen to some audio highlights from our words and music duel with AL Kennedy, Alan Bissett, Emma Pollock, Lord Cut-Glass and many more fantastic lyrically minded wordsmiths.
Feast Your Ears
Listen to audio from The Ghost of William Shatner, our celebration of lyrics without music, snippets from Alasdair Roberts and Robin Robertson, an interview with Withered Hand and much more.
Disco Lectures
DJ and author of Hey, Nietzsche, Leave Them Kids Alone! Craig Schuftan delivered Scotland’s very first Disco Lecture. It was pretty special. Read on for more of Craig’s musical goodies.
Featured Story
Like everyone aged 17 or 18, love caused a perpetual ache in my heart. It was always the same kind of love: unrequited. Then I discovered a man who spoke more precisely and wittily about unrequited love than anyone else: Steven Patrick Morrissey. Like the hero of ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’, [...]
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Let’s Get Lyrical is a campaign created and run by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature
The campaign is in partnership with Glasgow UNESCO City of Music
Campaign design and publicity is by Material MC. Website design is by Yellow Brick House. This project has been made possible thanks to funding from Creative Scotland and City of Edinburgh Council, and contributions from partner organisations in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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