Tunstall wants to find song of home

12:57am Friday 7th November 2008

Singer KT Tunstall is the latest name to join a campaign to find the top song that reminds Scots of home.

The hunt was launched by homeless charity Shelter and has already received the support of Scots acts Calvin Harris and Idlewild.

The search coincides with a campaign to help end homelessness in Scotland by 2012.

Current favourites are Dougie MacLean's Caledonia and the foot-stamping 500 miles by The Proclaimers.

The singer's choice is Getting Some Fun Out of Life by Billie Holiday.

She said: "It's the sound of a warm kitchen with a pot on the stove, a bottle of red wine open, and a dance with a good man. I love putting it on my old record player."

Colin Newton, of Idlewild, voted for the Proclaimers' hit. He said: "Every time we hear 500 miles, it brings us back. We have sung it in karaoke bars from Texas to Japan. It's an unofficial national anthem."

DJ Calvin Harris chose Too Young to Die by Jamiroquai.

He said: "It was the first record I ever bought and I have vivid memories of crouching down in front of my mum's tape player in Dumfries to listen to it."

Shelter Scotland director Graeme Brown said the charity would be taking the songs to politicians at the end of November in a bid to keep up the pressure on policy makers to end homelessness.