IF you were to somehow find you had travelled back in time to the 1960s, and, for some reason, were in attendance at a house party in Billy Kay’s home town of Galston, in Ayrshire, you’d likely find yourself greeted by a somewhat eclectic soundtrack.
A Hard Day’s Night might be spinning on the record player, the voices of McCartney and Lennon broken up with appearances from The Temptations or the Four Tops, and, always, Robert Burns. “Motown and Burns were popular culture in that period,” Kay tells me. “And you had to contribute to that. It was that generation when everyone did a turn. All my family were good singers, and it was Burns songs they sang.”
