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Frank Smith
Born: 28 April 1954 at Simpsons Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh (forceps delivery.) I spent the first 6 years of my life in Crown Place, Leith, beside the Central Railway Station, in a British Rail room and kitchen with an outside toilet. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 years old, going downstairs to the toilet in the middle of the night when it was baltic outside. I also remember my mum was a rotten cook. They say, no-one cooks like your mother. Thank fuck nobody cooked like mine. Her mince was shite. It put my brother, Stevie, off mince for life.
Q: When/why did you first start drinking in the Tynecastle Arms? A: My first time in the Tynie was probably about 1984, when my brother, Stevie, started working there, so I started drinking there. I ended up doing the door for a couple of years, then the head barman went missing, so I started full-time. Q: Why do you keep going in? A: Fuck knows actually. Force of habit. It's one of the few pubs I can come in and just have a cup of tea Q: What is your favourite song? A: Jethro Tull - 'Living in the Past'. At my funeral, I'd like 'Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die,' also by Jethro Tull, because it's appropriate. The first record I ever got was 'Help' by The Beatles. My ma bought me it
A: Edinburgh Castle. I used to work in the tea-room there when I was still at school. I worked there till it got blown up. Someone (they never found out who) planted a bomb in the toilets underneath where the tea room was, during a performance of the Tattoo in August 1971. Q: What don't you like about Edinburgh? A: There's not much I don't like about it. It's as good a place to stay as any. For more from Frank:
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