MUSICAL BOX: The Proclaimers

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

“THE PROCLAIMERS are on at Central Station”, I said. “You don’t have to come, but I’m going.”

It was 2001 and I’d been with my partner, now my husband, for eight years. I was pretty sure that the Proclaimers, Craig and Charlie Reid, the Scottish twins with a uniquely passionate singing style, were not his bag.

“No, I’ll come,” he said. It was a gig. He l…