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Born To Be Wide to host 'Creating The Perfect Music City' Seminar Born To Be Wide next takes place on Thursday 5 November and begins with an interview with veteran promoter Pete Irvine at Edinburgh’s Electric Circus. The co-founder of Regular Music, Unique Events and author of the Scotland The Best guidebook, will be in conversation with Olaf Furniss and will also participate in a panel discussion imagining the perfect music city. With a focus on the capital, it will explore ideas about how to build and nurture artistic and business talent, and will draw on recent reports by the Music Venue Trust and the University of Edinburgh. The latter found that live music contributed £40m to the city’s economy, and its gig goers attend more than twice as many shows as the Scottish average. Its co-author, Adam Behr, will also take part in the panel with additional speakers from different musical sectors including Honeyblood’s Stina Tweeddale and Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust director, Ali Bowden.
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“Stina and Ali will bring valuable perspectives and make a great contribution to the discussion,” says Born To Be Wide founder Olaf Furniss, adding that through playing in hundreds locations around the world, Tweeddale is well-placed to give examples of successful models. In addition, Bowden brings a unique insight into what factors have enabled another creative genre to thrive and how challenges faced by the literary community, were overcome. “For the past year Edinburgh’s live community has been looking at how to overcome the obstacles it faces and this discussion will go a stage further and look at what would constitute the perfect environment for music, and music businesses, to flourish,” continued Olaf. “For four decades Pete has been a pioneer in the city’s music scene, so expect great stories and fantastic insights to complement those of Adam and the other panelists.”
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Largs Players to stage amateur world premiere of 'When I’m Dead and Gone'
The Gallagher and Lyle Musical Legendary song-writing duo Gallagher and Lyle have announced that they are to tell the story of their music and lyrics through a staged musical to be given its amateur premiere in their home town. When I’m Dead and Gone is the brainchild of theatre director and Deputy Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Maggie Kinloch, who was motivated to create the Gallagher and Lyle based show after listening to them as she grew up in Largs.
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part of the team who arrange the songs for performance. Pupils from When I’m Dead and Gone is the story of true love, heartbreak, tragedy, Largs Academy, will also be involved in the production. friendship and redemption told over three decades. Set in a small seaside town on the west coast of Scotland and in New York City, the story is told Benny Gallagher added: “Everything about this musical is perfect through the timeless songs of Gallagher and Lyle. symmetry as Largs was, and always will be, a major inspiration in our songwriting. Being able to work alongside the new generation of local The Largs duo have turned their music over to a Largs based writing and talent such as Ryan Moir and Matt Hickman et al will be a privilege. musical direction team and the show will be premiered by the amateur Maggie and Viv have excelled themselves with the story.” dramatic company, Largs Players in April 2016. Viv Adam added: “This is a groundbreaking collaboration that has the Announcing When I’m Dead and Gone, Graham Lyle said: “When entire production company excited and motivated. We cannot wait to I’m Dead and Gone is not the story of our lives, but instead it is a give When I’m Dead and Gone its amateur premiere at Barrfields in Largs wonderful story based on our songs. I can’t wait to see it I am delighted and who knows where it’ll be performed in the future.” that our songs are the inspiration for this musical.. What makes it all the more special is that from the start to finish, this musical is the creation of Drew Cochrane president of Largs Players added: “This is such a team mainly from Largs – cast, crew, writers and of course, Benny and I.” brilliant opportunity for Largs Players to celebrate the genius of Gallagher and Lyle. Graham and Benny are a source of pride to this town and we Maggie Kinloch said: “My brother Stewart Grant was Gallagher and are delighted to be collaborating with them on this world premiere Lyle’s manager and sound engineer when I was a teenager growing up in musical at our own Barrfields Pavilion Theatre.” Largs. Their songs are the soundtrack to a whole decade of my life as a consequence! I have been a fan ever since I first met them and heard Auditions for all roles will take place in December 2015 their music all these years ago. The theatrical potential just hit me one go to www.largsplayers.co.uk for more details day while I was listening to one of their CDs in the car. The opportunity to write a stage musical which allows the songs to have a new dramatic life Graham Lyle and Benny Gallagher were signed to The Beatles’ “Apple” Publishing Company in 1968 .In 1970 they were part of the band and to be heard by a new audience, as well as by Graham and Benny’s lifelong fans, was just too good to miss! A musical with their songs at the McGuinness Flint and they wrote the band’s UK chart hits When I’m Dead heart will be a sure-fire hit in their home town and, we hope, all over the and Gone and Malt and Barley Blues. They became Gallagher and Lyle in 1972 releasing many hit albums and singles including I Wanna Stay with world.” You, Heart on my Sleeve, Heart in New York, Stay Young and Breakaway. Maggie Kinloch will direct the show and is co-writing the musical, with her long-time friend and collaborator Vivien Adam, who is part of the River www.largsplayers.co.uk City writing team. The musical director is Ryan Moir and musician www.facebook.com/The-Largs-Players-212312922177560 Matthew Hickman, who is better known to his fans as Brown Bear, will be
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Edinburgh Blues Club presents every shade of blues in its most versatile programme yet Edinburgh Blues Club has released its eagerly anticipated November 2015 to May 2016 schedule, showcasing some of the biggest names in the global blues scene and underlining its reputation as one of Scotland’s most successful new live music ventures. Highlights include an intimate acoustic set from blues legend Paul Jones, the searing blues rock of Danny Bryant, the fluid Weissenborn lap slide guitar of Martin Harley and the deeply groovy funk blues of Ron Sayer Jr. & Charlotte Joyce.
Blues Club next event on Sunday 1 November. Zito comes armed with raw tone and pure grit that he can turn on a dime into silky smooth guitar melodies but it is the aged depth to his vocal that make Mike Zito stand out amongst the other cats claiming to have “the stuff”. Mike always returns to his founding values of honest, original songs, drawn from the emotional depths, twisting the great American genres into bold new shapes. "Keep Coming Back is all in the title," explains the songwriter of his latest release on Ruf Records. "I love the blues, I love rock 'n' roll and I love country music. It's what I do and who I am." This show is the first opportunity to buy the Mike’s new album. Members of the Edinburgh Blues Club paying by monthly or annual subscription attend shows with no additional ticket costs, and if you’re a regular at the club you can take up this option via the weblink below. Public sale tickets are still available via Ticketweb and from Tickets Scotland and Ripping Records; and there may be a limited number of tickets available on the door. More details on future events and The Edinburgh Blues Club on the web links below ....
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From the downhome sound of the Delta to contemporary blues rock riffage, the Edinburgh Blues Club showcases every shade of blues with its eagerly anticipated new programme. All concerts will be held in the blues club’s regular venue ‘The Voodoo Rooms’ 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA. Doors open at 7.15pm.
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The audiences Edinburgh Blues Club has had for their last few shows have been exceptional, with a sell out for the Nimmo Brothers and full houses for Gerry Jablonski, Lil Jimmy Reed and Erja Lyytinen. A trip to Edinburgh Blues Club allows you to see a range of styles of blues. Recent artists have been keen to express their gratitude to the club: “We greatly enjoyed the evening and had a ball playing to your knowledgeable and enthusiastic crowd”. Bob Hall, Lil Jimmy Reed Band “The tour went pretty well!! Edinburgh was a highlight, great people, venue, just great night!” Davide Floreno, Erja Lyytinen Band Keep Coming Back, could be a slogan for Edinburgh Blues Club, but it’s also the title of Texan Mike Zito’s new album and Mike Zito and The Wheel make their long awaited return to Edinburgh
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Hidden In The Highlands: The Lair Of The Lion Tamer A song sung at a Perth music festival has led Edinburgh based singer-songwriter Dean Owens to make a poignant pilgrimage to an Inverness cemetery, to see for the first time the last resting place of his great great grandfather – the lair of the lion tamer. Dean Owens wrote “Dora” – a track from his latest Nashville-recorded album “Into the Sea” - about his grandmother, Dora Salvona Owens, who grew up in a family circus in Scotland. He told the audience at Perth’s Southern Fried Festival, research into his family tree had revealed his great great grandfather Ambrose Salvona, who founded the circus, was a lion tamer and was buried somewhere in the Highlands. Ambrose was thought to have come to this country from Italy in the company of a dancing bear, sometime in the late 19th century. The song refers to: “Somewhere way back there’s a lion tamer/ Ambrose and his dancing bear/He’s buried in the Highlands/but we’re not sure where.”
reckoned Ambrose was buried in Inverness, so I offered to see if I could track him down.” On her return to Inverness, Judi told the story to some of her colleagues at the Highland Archive and Registration Centre (HARC), on the banks of the River Ness. “They were really excited about the idea of finding Ambrose, and they offered to see what they could find out.” And, sure enough, the team soon discovered the lion tamer’s lair. Ambrose Salvona is buried in Tomnahurich Cemetery, a huge and beautiful burial ground not far from the river, sometimes known as “the Hill of the Fairies”. The inscription on his tombstone simply reads “In Loving Memory of Ambrose Salvona. Lion Tamer. Died at Inverness 13th October 1917. Aged 88 years.” And so enthused were the HARC team that they set out to find out more about the mysterious lion tamer. And, in scenes reminiscent of BBC television’s “Who Do You Think You Are”, they came up with a lot more information on the mysterious lion tamer. “It was great fun investigating Ambrose’s story,” says family historian Anne Fraser. “He turns out to have been a very colourful character – which may not be a surprise – but we have also finished up raising as many questions as we’ve answered.”
What the team have established is that Ambrose was married twice, Now he knows – and a hundred year the father of at least ten children: old mystery has been solved. that he was already around eighty Among Dean’s audience in Perth when he came to Inverness, which was a senior cultural manager with would have been a major journey High Life Highland, Judi Menabney, even for a young man, back then: whose organisation is responsible – and that he seems to have been a among other things - for archives, much loved character even in the registration and family history in time he spent in his new community Inverness. Judi said: “Dean apparently far from his family, in his
Dean Owens at his great great grandfathers grave in Inverness wearing a family jacket that may have actually been worn by him!
autumn years. At the end of his life, it’s now known he was admitted to the geriatric hospital facilities in what was then Inverness Poor House – it subsequently became Hilton Hospital and is now a block of residential flats - and died there, a few days later. A procession across the town took him to his final resting place, according to the death notice published in a local newspaper. He was “buried by friends”, according to cemetery records, in a prominent position at Tomnahurich. But the questions remain. No explanation’s been found for why he travelled to the north in the first place. It’s not clear who the friends were who undertook the costs of his final burial. And, according to various records, he was said to have been born in London or France, though family traditions insist he came to this country from Parma in Italy.
finding out what we could for Dean about his lion taming ancestor.” Dean Owens – accompanied by his father, George - has now finally visited the grave where Ambrose was buried by his Inverness friends. “I can’t believe the final resting place of my great great grandfather has been found. I’m very grateful to Judi, Anne and their colleagues for all the work they’ve put into discovering his story,” he says. “I’m delighted they want to use it and my song Dora – which started the search – in their own presentations.” “You really don’t know what’s up there, way up in the family tree. And maybe there’s another song in that “.
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Scottish National Jazz Orchestra directed by Tommy Smith presents
“The Glenn Miller Sound” If there is one thing that the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) and the Glenn Miller sound have in common then it is a warm, engaging personality. In the right hands, Miller’s distinctive music Glenn Miller’s highly personable style of popular jazz was the result of his painstaking brims with search for a signature sound, and it was an hit with the listening (and dancing) wonderful life, and instant public. Since then, his enduring music has become deeply embedded in the collective the SNJO is memory and undeniably loved by every Even the very young, perhaps guaranteed to bring generation. hearing it for the first time, fall for the irresistible charms of the Glenn Miller sound. out all of its Indeed, there may be no better time or place to hear deeply authentic melodic allure. performances of Glenn Miller sound than with the SNJO in Scotland this November. Founder/director Tommy Smith has been credited with meticulous attention to technical detail when it comes to recreating, if not enhancing, historic orchestral jazz. Glenn Miller’s career was astoundingly successful, not least because he achieved so much in the course of a tragically short life. In 1939, Time magazine noted: "Of the twelve to twenty four discs in each of today's 300,000 U.S. jukeboxes, from two to six are usually Glenn Miller's." Today, those jukebox hits are timeless classics, still loved and treasured by millions. The SNJO will take audiences on a whistle-stop musical tour from Chattanooga to Pennsylvania via Tuxedo Junction stopping just long enough at Kalamazoo for a Moonlight Serenade. All the Miller hits will be visited in inimitable SNJO style, with one or two surprising stops on the way.
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Glasgow band to raise money for Chernobyl children's charity with new single release Glasgow band 'December' plan to raise cash for Chernobyl Children International with the release of their new single 'Alison Stewart', which is also a tribute to U2 as the group claim they owe their passion for music and performing to the work of the Irish super group. The song also highlights the contribution of Ali Hewson (nee Stewart) who is married to U2 front man, Bono.
and example inspired them throughout and prompted them to get back in the studio. December now feel stronger than ever. The band intends to donate all proceeds from the single to Chernobyl Children International, a cause supported by Ali Hewson. Guitarist Scott Pattison said: "We really wanted to call it after Ali Hewson. It’s a tribute to her too - U2 and their fans owe her a debt of gratitude. We want to honour them and say
thank you, and as songwriters this is the best way we know how. We want to thank them whilst trying to raise cash for a charity that is so close to their heart. ‘Alison Stewart’ is available to download on iTunes from 2 November, listen to it @ https:// soundcloud.com/december-12/alison-stewart www.facebook.com/december1985 https://twitter.com/tilldecember http://december2.bandcamp.com/releases
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Scottish Ensemble collaborate with Swedish contemporary dance company Andersson Dance to create a new 21stcentury interpretation of J.S. Bach’s iconic masterpiece Glasgow-based string orchestra Scottish Ensemble and Stockholmbased contemporary dance company Andersson Dance will tour the UK this autumn with a new collaboration, Goldberg Variations - ternary patterns for insomnia.
with the performance of classical music at its heart – sounded deceptively simple. When the Artistic Directors of both companies, Jonathan Morton and Örjan Andersson, met for the first time, they knew immediately that they wanted to take it a step further: rather than have musicians only performing the music, they took the ambitious decision to choreograph musicians and dancers as one.
the well-known model of dance-with-live-musicaccompaniment one step further by choreographing musicians along with the dancers, the audience has the singular experience of musician and dancer performing as one, transforming the notes and our perception of them.
This ambitious performance follows on from Scottish Ensemble’s 2014 cross-artform event, What drew both Jonathan and Örjan to this work 20th-Century Perspectives, in which 20thwas that is it also one of the most interpreted. century string music was performed in the From theories that its structure deliberately previously-derelict Modernist landmark of the mirrors the ascent of the nine spheres of Anderston Centre surrounded by artwork Ptolemaic cosmology, to the claim that the whole specially created by architecture-inspired visual thing is a cleverly coded rebuke to a critic who artist Toby Paterson. had snubbed the composer, there is something about this sprawling, complex piece which has www.scottishensemble.com invited interpretation since its composition – and www.twitter.com/@scotensemble Following an incredibly well-received première at this collaboration adds another one. By taking www.facebook.com/scottishensemble Stockholm’s leading contemporary dance venues, Dansens Hus, in September, where it GIGnotes ..... garnered praise from critics as well as standing Glasgow, Tramway / Fri 13 and Sat 14 Nov, 8pm / ovations from audiences, the piece will be £20 / £16 concession, Tickets: 0845 330 3501 / performed in the UK for the first time from 13www.tramway.org 21 November, calling at Glasgow, Dundee, Dundee, Caird Hall / Sun 15 Nov, 7.30pm, £15 / £5 Inverness, Aberdeen and Newcastle. student / U16s free, Tickets: 01382 434 940 / www. dundeebox.co.uk
Featuring 11 musicians and 5 dancers, audiences will witness a new, 21st-century interpretation of J.S. Bach’s iconic masterpiece, in which both musicians and dancers are choreographed together as one single entity. This idea – to take a string ensemble that performs standing up, and with movement part of their performing DNA, and match them with a dance company
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Julian Wagstaff
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"The Scottish Music Centre's task is to champion the wealth of talent that abounds in Scotland's musical community"
Born in Edinburgh, Julian Wagstaff lives and works in the city. His first major composition: John Paul Jones (stage musical) premiered Edinburgh in 2001, was recorded in 2002, and revived with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 2010. He studied composition with Nigel Osborne at Edinburgh University leading to a PhD in 2008. Julian's first major concert work: Piano Quintet, premiered in 2003, and was recorded in 2004 by the Edinburgh Quartet with Alina Kolonitskaya and released on Circular Records in 2007. Other works include: Symphonic
Overture from John Paul Jones (2004), Treptow (for string orchestra/string quartet, 2005), Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2005), Symphony for Chamber Orchestra (2005) and The Turing Test (chamber opera, 2007 – sell-out run on Edinburgh Festival Fringe).Commission from Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011 (trio: A Persistent Illusion) premiered by Hebrides Ensemble. Appointed Composer in Residence at School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh in 2013. His chamber opera Breathe Freely was produced in association with Scottish Opera, and conducted by Derek Clark. The CD recording of Breathe Freely (set in the world of chemistry during World War II) has just become available on the Linn Records label - through all major online outlets such as Amazon and iTunes, and through record stores. Commissioned by the University of Edinburgh and produced with the support of Scottish Opera, the CD also includes a recording of his 2011 piano trio A Persistent
found at www.BreatheFreelyOpera.co.uk You can hear excerpts from the opera on BBC Radio Scotland this coming Sunday (1 November) at around 9.30pm on the Classics Unwrapped programme. The presenter Jamie MacDougall will be talking to Julian about the history of the opera, and discussing how the CD came into being. You can listen to excerpts from every track for free on the Linn Records site www.linn.co.uk. Linn will also be streaming the complete CD on their website for free at 10.30pm on Sunday evening (1 Nov). Just visit www.linn.co.uk/radio and choose 'Linn Classical'.
Illusion. The disc comes with a 68page full-colour booklet including the complete text of the opera in English and German, and might make a nice seasonal gift for a fan of opera, music theatre or classical music. Full information can be
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Hebrides Ensemble presents James MacMillan's 'Since it was the day of preparation ...................' When Hebrides Ensemble premiered 'Since it was the day of preparation…' in 2012, the response was extraordinary. ‘Wonderfully rich’, wrote The Times; ‘Broad, blazing and stunning’, said The Herald. This November, Hebrides Ensemble brings this remarkable work to two magnificent venues, whose vaulted acoustics create the perfect reflective backdrop for MacMillan’s rich and intricate score. Written as a ‘postscript’ to his St John Passion, Since it was the day of preparation… explores the biggest mystery in the greatest story ever told – Christ’s Resurrection. With just five instrumentalists and five singers, MacMillan’s scoring is as intimate as the story itself, one that is a tale of despair and sacrifice, but also ultimately of celebration. At times plaintive and lyrical, at others reaching into the far corners of tonality, this is a masterpiece of musical storytelling, finding a very human story in something divine.
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CHRISTINE BOVILL : EP : 'The Sentence That I Serve' release date - out now : www.christinebovill.com
The passion of a torch singer has to be combined with jazz finesse and the raw emotion of the blues to sit alongside the best voices of the 20th century. Christine Bovill has, in replacing the grey Glasgow of her youth with the vibrant colours of old record sleeves and the world they transport her to, tapped into that most vital seam of popular music. With this collection of self-penned songs on The Sentence That I Serve she presents an album of dramatic, forward thinking vintage pop that breaks convention by starting and ending a journey through 20th Century music in the present day. Tear stained, sleepless ballads sit alongside infectious New Orleans R&B grooves and wistful, folky vignettes all bound together by her heart stopping voice. With each song she effortlessly moves through the sounds of Paris and New York of the 30's and 40's via 50's Nashville and 60's Memphis before returning to the musical melting pot of her hometown of Glasgow.
Produced and arranged with the expertise of The Strange Blue Dreams, Scotland's finest roots rock house band, the album perfectly distils a wide array of musical influences into a cohesive sound. United by a shared love of Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, The Everlys, Orbison, The Ink Spots
and Leonard Cohen the band's arrangements provide a dramatic and sympathetic frame for Bovill's vocals. Both band and singer have spent years immersed in old blues, jazz, soul and country music and bring a naturally confident, risk taking flair that breathes new life into vintage pop forms. Years of working nights in smoky jazz clubs and days spent teaching in the city's tough south side high schools brings a gravitas and assurance to her musical personality. As her reputation grew she had to make a choice between her love of singing and the security of being a teacher. A flurry of 5 star reviews no doubt aided that difficult decision and shortly after her first album was released to considerable regional acclaim and airplay. Christine Bovill debuted her second long playing record The Sentence That I Serve at The Famous Spiegel Tent at this year's Edinburgh Festival in August, then St James Theatre in London and finally Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow.
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THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SCOTTISH FOLK : album Release date - out now : www.arcmusic.co.uk
The Ultimate Guide to Scottish Folk will be released worldwide through ARC Music on October 30th 2015. A double disc epic containing 36 tracks and just over twoand- a-half hours of music. The Ultimate Guide to Scottish Folk follows on the heels of the success of The Ultimate Guide to Irish Folk with liner notes by one of Ireland’s most respected folk music critics, John O’Regan. ARC Music started The Ultimate Guide compilations back in 2013 with the critically acclaimed The Ultimate Guide to Spanish Folk, and then went onto release The Ultimate Guide to Irish Folk (2014) which won the LiveIreland Best Compendium Award 2015. Compiling The Ultimate Guide to Scottish Folk took a great deal of attention, care and thought. Two mighty discs ful lling a bold challenge which was originally conceived by ARC Music Director, Julia Beyer, as she says in her
words: ‘I wanted to show the evolution, development and influence of folk music throughout the world by showcasing a cross section of highly talented artists, whether known or unknown, old or new, and give people a more in depth understanding of how a particular country’s traditions in folk music have evolved and grown.’
Ultimate Guide and write the liner notes for the album, but not without acknowledging the enormity of the task at hand.
And what can we expect of Mary Ann Kennedy’s liner notes? Rich, intelligent, intimate and eloquent. The music on The Ultimate Guide to Scottish Folk is played by both- renowned and remote Award-winning musician, BBC Radio musicians, from known places to presenter, writer, producer and faraway shores, but nonetheless teacher Mary Ann Kennedy accepted each one contributing a unique Julia’s challenge to co-compile The thread to the tapestry of-Scottish
folk with explanations that will leave-a thirst only to be quenched by playing the track. In Julia Beyer’s own words: ‘I wanted to work with a person who was not only highly knowledgable in the - eld but who had a similar vision for this project as I did, which is not necessarily about what’s popular or charting but what will help build the essence of a great compilation, with many turns and surprises along the way! Mary Ann was simply the ultimate lady for the job.’ Mary Ann Kennedy makes a special note as regards former teacher of women’s rights worker – Karine Polwart’s ‘unabashed rhyming of gigantic and Atlantic’ with her engaging self-penned I’m Gonna Do It All, akin to the aim of the The Ultimate Guide to Scottish Folk, a compendium that clearly does include it all with liner notes by the ‘ultimate lady for the job’.
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download SWEET WHITE
DAVY NICOL
Monet
Greenock Road
Danse Macabre
Album - cd / download Release Date: 2 October
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Sweet White are a 5-piece indie band from Peterhead, Scotland. Things began with only 2 friends writing and recording music together in a bedroom. Now one year down the line with the addition of some more friends, one released EP and multiple plays on national radio, Sweet White have been gigging live in the local area to great reviews from crowds and journalists alike, even being described as "The next big Scottish band in the making." in a live review. Sweet White recently concluded a 9-date Scottish tour promoting their new EP 'Monet' which was recently given a 7/10 rating by Tenement TV, proclaiming the EP as "utterly huge".
'GREENOCK ROAD' is a self-penned 14 track CD from this seasoned musician, whose influences range from Gram Parsons to Willie Nelson. This is more than a music release, this is a musical journey - a chronicle of living and working in the beautiful but gritty West Coast of Scotland. Hailing from the former shipbuilding town of Greenock, Scotland, the title track is a homage to his roots. 14 melodic tracks of Scottish stories, spirit and celtic soul.
Danse Macabre is the second studio album from virtual band Imaginary Creatures. The group is a studio project formed by the collaboration of lyricist and songwriter David Scott along with composer and multiinstrumentalist Iain McKinna. For this album, the Imaginary Creatures are joined by legendary drummer Ted McKenna, well-known from the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Rory Gallagher and the Ian Gillan Band. There is also a top-notch lineup of guest musicians. Making a return from the first album are guitar ace Keith More and backing vocalists Alexis and Kirsty. New to this release are saxophone players John Burgess and Kenny Tomlinson, and keyboard maestro Rich Anderson.
EP / CD Release Date: Out Now
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CHRISTINE BOVILL
IMAGINARY CREATURES
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GAVIN BLACKIE THE DEADLY WINTERS
The Sentence That I Serve EP CD only (at present) Release Date: Out Now
Second release from singer songwriter Christine Bovill. A Roots affair, recorded with the Strange Blue Dreams, strirring in the tangle of Vintage Rock n Roll, Chanson and Americana. Both band and singer have spent years immersed in old blues, jazz, soul and country music and bring a naturally confident, risk taking flair that breathes new life into vintage pop forms. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/christine-bovill https://youtu.be/QoR9snXg0aU Available from: www.christinebovill.com www.christinebovill.com www.facebook.com/bovill.christine/ https://twitter.com/christinebovill www.facebook.com/ thestrangebluedreams
Laid Bare Table In The Corner EP cd / download Release Date: 6 November
Armed with swagger, a thumping singalong chorus and a fervent holler, the title track of the EP is the band at their rousing, anthemic best. The rest of the EP doesn’t disappoint with the raucous anger of Liars, Liars, Liars, the jaunty tale of a war hero that is Sam Did Run and the epic, percussive Gone to Ground. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/the-deadly-winters/ table-in-the-corner-ep-preview Available from: www.thedeadlywinters.com/shop/ www.thedeadlywinters.com www.facebook.com/deadlywinters www.twitter.com/deadlywinters www.soundcloud.com/the-deadly-winters www.thedeadlywinters.bandcamp.com www.youtube.com/deadlywinters
Album download Release Date: 6 November
A new singer is emerging as an exciting recording artist and live performer. Gavin Blackie is delighted to introduce his debut album ‘Laid Bare’. On the same day the album is released, Gavin will perform at Edinburgh’s Church Hill Theatre. Gavin has strived to create an image and album that has been five years in the making. Gavin himself, based on his life experiences, has penned every track on the album. Listen/Watch: https://m.soundcloud.com/offbeat/laid-bare-bygavin-blackie Available from: iTunes on release https://twitter.com/gavinblackie www.facebook.com/GavinBlackieMusic
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download NOVANTAE For Us
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Novantae are an award winning Scottish rock band formed in Dumfries & Galloway in 2010. The band are: James Henderson on guitars, mandolin and vocals; Tom Cuddihy on bass guitar, banjo and vocals; Guy Bryson on drums, percussion and vocals. The band’s debut album For Us was recorded in the heart of Galloway, and mastered in Glasgow. The songs are inspired by the people and places of Scotland and take the listener on a diverse aural journey. Available from: iTunes, Amazon MP3, www.novantae.co.uk www.novantae.co.uk www.facebook.com/WeAreNovantae
BATTLEFIELD BAND & Guests Beg & Borrow
Album cd / download / streaming Release Date: Out now on download/stream : CD on 2 October
EDDIE TOAL Always In My Heart Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Glasgow Jazz singer Eddie Toal has released a CD as a tribute to his wife Irene who always wanted him to make a recording. Sadly, Irene will never Beg & Borrow is a musical project which explores hear it. She died from Breast Cancer four years shared music and song from Scotland and Ireland. ago aged just 48. Irene’s dying wish was to help Featuring Scotland's Battlefield Band and twelve other patients at the Beatson Cancer Centre where guest artists, the recordings made during the she was treated. So Eddie (66) is donating all the project are available as an album from Temple proceeds from his recording to the Beatson Cancer Records. Charity and hopes to raise thousands of pounds. “It’s not exactly the Taj Mahal but it’s the best I Listen/Watch: can do to remember her” says Eddie, an exwww.begandborrow.net railwayman and semi-professional singer. “Irene used to nag me about making a recording of old Available from: songs that we both loved but I just never got Usual places or direct as download or CD from: around to it. Well, now I have and it’s for a great Temple Records at ..... cause.” www.templerecords.co.uk www.battlefieldband.co.uk https://twitter.com/BattlefieldBand www.facebook.com/battlefieldband
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JENNY LASCELLES
MARY MAY UP
Fairy Lights
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
This is What You Are Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Mary May (one of the best Jazz Singers in Scotland....Aberdeen Performing Arts) has already received a * * * * review from 'All About Jazz' for this album and sales have reached from Mexico to Japan. Described as 'Gregory Porter meets Peggy Lee', the album features her regular Quintet accompanied by horn section. Tracks are new arrangements of songs by Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter and Mario Biondi amongst others. It's Jazz to the Bone! Official launch 1 November at Edinburgh's Jazz Bar. Listen/Watch: www.cdbaby.com/cd/marymay3 Available from: www.cdbaby.com/cd/marymay3 Coda Music (Edinburgh) Vinyl Villains (Edinburgh) www.marymayjazzsinger.com www.facebook.com/MaryMayJazz https://twitter.com/MaryMayJazz
UPrising
Album cd Release Date: Out Now UP is a trio comprising guitar, double bass, drums and harmony vocals, based in East Lothian and Edinburgh. These are fine, experienced players, and the album (superbly engineered by Wayne Bell) gives a good crosssection of their eclectic live repertoire - early rock, jive, country, jazz, blues, traditional folk and skiffle pieces all come under a very broad umbrella - if it's fun they play it! Listen/Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudarwZ0w0w https://youtu.be/pFsYipnuZdI https://youtu.be/IQ7jGLShZ0M https://youtu.be/IFy6Tz0knAY Available from: Direct from the band - email: up.band@btinternet.com or via facebook - album £10 + UK p&p £2.65. Payment via PayPal invoice, either by PayPal a/c or credit/debit card www.facebook.com/uncertaintyprincipleup
Jenny Lascelles is a singer, songwriter, pianist and occasional ukulele enthusiast from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Fairy Lights is her first album, a result of both eager anticipation from audiences and a keenness to set down some of her music in sold form. The album is a reflective look at the way in which little, personal moments can portray the wider world. The album uses a variety of influences, whilst also maintaining a lyrical and stylistic thread throughout. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/jennylascelles Available from: www.bandcamp.com iTunes, Amazon MP3, RaRa, Spotify, eMusic, Google Play http://jennylascelles.com https://twitter.com/jennylascelles www.facebook.com/jennylascellesmusic
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download APACHE SUN
FOXBEEF
MEMORY MAN
Apache Sun
Shattered Echoes
In Praha
‘Newly minted psychedelic’ band from Glasgow have their debut self-titled EP released on infamous student run record label Electric Honey. Brothers Kris and Pete have encapsulated all that is great about psychedelic, garage, rock and pop music into this record. A perfectly balanced EP.
Foxbeef: Powerful, melodic, hard rock with grunge sensibilities. Foxbeef released their début album Shattered Echoes on the 27 June, 2015. The drums were recorded at TPot Studios in Kinross with Robin Wynn Evans, whose credits include The Manic Street Preachers & The View. The band took on the responsibility to record and produce the rest of the album themselves, working as hard as they could over the course of a year to get the album to a place that reflected the bands personality and energy.
Paul Mellon (Guitars): This is our second single of our debut EP which we aim to release this autumn. In Praha is a song about 2 people falling in love in Prague. The main riff was inspired by Here Comes Your Man by Pixies and the solo is my own very poor imitation of / homage to Nels Cline's solo in Impossible Germany by Wilco. Some have called it catchy.
EP cd / download Release Date: Out Now
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Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
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SUMMERLAND
single download Release Date: Out Now
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ROBBIE FLANAGAN DAVID ALTAIR
Summerland
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now Summerland are a hard-gigging band that are delighting ever larger live audiences with their songs of love and loss, longing and rejection. Sophie Armstrong, a shepherdess working in the wilds of Northumberland by day, has an extraordinary voice that soars, yet offers vulnerability and clarity too. At her side stands Gary Shearer, a guitarist of impressive ability whose musical tastes know no bounds. Together they’ve crafted a set list of original, heartfelt songs. This is music that is both contemporary and timeless. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/summerland-1 Available from: iTunes and Amazon http://summerland-duo.co.uk/shop The Music Shop + Berrydins Bookshop, Berwick http://summerland-duo.co.uk www.facebook.com/SummerlandUK https://twitter.com/summerlanduk
Remember To Forget Movies
Album download Release Date: Out Now
David Altair releases his fourth album entitled ‘Movies’. This album is more beat driven than his last mainly instrumental albums. The album has an ambient and progressive feel to it drawing on inspiration from Boards of Canada. David has released the album for download on Bandcamp. The cover art is by James Abell with fonts by Douglas Mackay. Listen/Watch: https://davidaltair.bandcamp.com/album/movies www.youtube.com/user/TheDavidaltair/videos Available from: https://davidaltair.bandcamp.com/album/movies https://davidaltair.bandcamp.com
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Remember To Forget is my second release, which I feel reflects the ups and downs I have been through since my last release A Place for Sorrow. With this record I had a different perspective with writing and recording and I hope you enjoy listening it to as much as I enjoyed putting it all together. Thank you for your continued support; it is forever and always appreciated. Much love, Rob xx Listen/Watch: https://m.soundcloud.com/robbie-flanagan https://robbieflanagan.bandcamp.com http://ganbei-records.bandcamp.com/music https://m.facebook.com/robbieflanaganmusic Available from: http://ganbei-records.bandcamp.com/music https://itunes.apple.com/gb www.amazon.co.uk https://robbieflanagan.bandcamp.com https://twitter.com/r_flanaganmusic www.facebook.com/robbieflanaganmusic
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download ALISTAIR OGILVY
STEVE GARRETT
IAIN MORRISON
July Moon
Even Song
EAS
July Moon is the second studio album from singersongwriter Alistair Ogilvy - a strong collection of selfpenned material released on his own label and recorded at CHEM19 studios. Alistair was determined to push some genre boundaries while focusing on varying themes of love and loss, poetry and nostalgia. Louis Abbott from Admiral Fallow produced the album and it also features Karen Mathieson from Capercaillie on guest vocals. This new release is sure to gain him new admirers and open up exciting opportunities.
Electric guitarist, re-imagining jazz, folk, rock and choral music. Born in London, Steve Garrett has lived and traveled across the UK, Antartica, Canada and California, and now calls Scotland home. His music springs from a lifetime of influences from diverse sources and performances. Even Song include songs of loss, longing, inspiration by landscape, resolution and hope. The reflective mood mirrors the fading light at the end of the day. Composers range from the 16th Century through folk and the 1980s to contemporary European jazz, with some original compositions. Arrangements bring out the full resonance of the guitar, sometimes backed by loops recorded in real time.
It is never easy for a son to follow in the footsteps of a famous father, so Iain Jnr chose not to. He gave up the world of solo piping and went on his own musical journey. But what he was taught in his formative years is deep within him and this album is a definite attempt at some kind of filtering of the music of his hinterland. There is also a story present, sometimes a rocky one, of a father and son's relationship formed through a rich tradition and an art form that is deeply important to their culture and to both of them personally. There is a mixture of all these elements in this album and Iain Morrison is an artist who is following his own path, wherever that may take him.
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Album cd / download Launch Date: 8 July
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Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
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SYLVIE McFARLANE MAIRI ORR
Moving Pictures EP download Release Date: 15 June
Sylvie is a Scottish singer-songwriter & her songwriting reflects her Scottish roots and life near Glasgow. Her music has been described as "pop meets folk in a bar for the broken hearted". Over the last year she & her guitarist David, both Danny Award Winners at Celtic Connections have cowritten some of their best works & an EP of 4 songs called "Moving Pictures" will be released on the 15th June with 2 more EP's being released this year with an album in January 2016. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/sylvie-mcfarlane www.reverbnation.com/SylvieMcFarlane www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpWvn16QLt8 Available from: iTunes, Googleplay & Amazon www.sylviemcfarlane.com https://twitter.com/SylvieMcFarlane www.facebook.com/SylvieMcFarlane
Prettiest Criminal Jenny Does Burn Album cd / download Release Date: 29 June
‘Jenny Does Burn’ is a collection of 12 original tracks and the debut album from Scottish singer songwriter Mairi Orr. Produced by Mattie Foulds, this alternative folk / Americana album features musicians Steven Polwart, Nico Bruce, Fraser Fifield, Dave Currie, Danny Hart and Mark Woods. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/mairiorr Available from: Amazon, iTunes www.birnamcdshop.com www.mairiorr.com www.facebook.com/mairiorrmusic https://twitter.com/MairiOrrMusic
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Georgia Gordon's 'Prettiest Criminal' EP is the latest release from this 20 year old Scot. Tracks released in 2014 caught the media's attention 'bound for bigger and better things' - The Scotsman 'damn, this is good - must get more from her' Crack in the Road. This latest EP brings an intimacy to her voice with lyrics taking it to the next level. Her distinctive and huskily mature sound is pitched somewhere between blues and early RnB with a slight hint of KT Tunstall and Alabama Shakes. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/georgiagordonmusic Available from: http://symbiode.tictail.com
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download TIM DALLING Eve's Bonie Squad Album cd Release Date: Out Now
Tim is a song-writer and performer who has been described as a cross between Ivor Cutler and Randy Newman. And now that The New Rope String Band is calling it a day Tim is ready for a new solo career. This album is a collection of songs that celebrate a joyful and urgent humanity recorder with guitarist Ian Carr and bassist Neil Harland. Audiences are once again warming to a man with a very special gift who entertains with a passion, superlative musicianship - and humour. Listen/Watch: https://youtu.be/p1zj3wzqLXk Available from: www.timdalling.co.uk/boniesquad.html www.timdalling.co.uk www.facebook.com/tim.dalling.1
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JAMES EDWYN & THE BORROWED BAND The Tower
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
SKYLINE Homecoming
Debut Album cd (later) / download Release Date: Out Now
Skyline are a Scottish band from Edinburgh looking to revolutionize the musical boundaries that lie in place today. We are searching for the balance between electronic music and live music to change musical opinions. We adopt melodic undertones to inflict emotion but will always embrace elements of contemporary music.
Glasgow sextet James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band were formed in 2013 and soon established a cult following that set up a ripple effect carrying their name far and wide. Their music is a mix of alt country and folky rock roots orientated Americana. They showcased at the 2014 Celtic Connections and realised they had enough material to start putting their debut album 'The Tower' together. Recorded in Scotland an additional session was recorded at Smecky studios in Prague where the strings for the track 'The Last Waltz' were Listen/Watch: played by the world renowned Prague Philharmonic http://skylinescotland.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming Orchestra. Roddy Hart also guest vocals on the track. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzTuwy52-utraaCz8oNEfDZEWa3vndhF6 https://play.spotify.com/album/4ikvLfpi25pcgg7NNMH7Ct?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open
Listen/Watch:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7uWW086JRIOT3tHt8s3Ouu
Available from:
Available from:
https://itunes.apple.com/it/album/homecoming/id1002199288?l=en
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-tower/id839081801
http://skylinescotland.bandcamp.com/album/homecoming
www.facebook.com/skylinescotland
THE CATHODE RAY
MIR SHOOGLENIFTY
Infinite Variety
Truth Be Told
Album cd / download / stream Release Date: Out Now
Resisting obvious labelling MIR pay homage to their influences without ever drifting into cliché and from this genre surfing road trip craft a cohesive accessible album that is littered with pleasant surprises. Lyrically astute they do intimate and subtle and they let rip in equal measure and, have a massive personality on and off stage - Roddy McKenzie / Inverness Gigs Listen/Watch:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeMlkJlX1k0PcSJs3Lkr5w https://play.spotify.com/album/6cI6y40cqg99KUlRzonro8
Available from:
The Untied Knot Album cd / download Release Date: 6 July
Shooglenifty’s seventh studio album, and the first to feature a collection of songs. The breathtaking ‘puirt a beul’ (mouth music) of Gaelic vocalist Kaela Rowan brings a captivating and energising new element to the band’s sound, and further confounds any attempt to categorise them.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/truth-be-told/id991329636
Listen/Watch: https://shooglenifty.bandcamp.com
www.mirband.com www.facebook.com/MIR77BAND https://twitter.com/mir77band
Available from: https://shooglenifty.bandcamp.com
https://play.spotify.com/album/6cI6y40cqg99KUlRzonro8
www.shooglenifty.com https://twitter.com/shooglegigs www.facebook.com/shooglenifty.scotland
Album cd / download Release Date: Out Now
“Originally based on a loose concept of merging post-punk New York with postpunk Manchester, The Cathode Ray swiftly added sixties garage, soundtracks, glam, northern soul, disco and psyche to their sound-palette for their eponymous 2012 debut album - fully blossoming with added electro, shoegaze and prog for this year’s Infinite Variety.” Listen/Watch:
https://stereogramrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-variety-cd-dl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5J_oK8b9u8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-YXHTCYoVQ
Available from:
www.stereogramrecordings.co.uk/audio/infinite-variety-the-cathode-ray-cddl/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/infinite-variety/id976367851
Glasgow: Love Music Edinburgh: Coda Music; Elvis Shakespeare; Underground Solush’n; Vox Box www.stereogramrecordings.co.uk www.facebook.com/thecathoderay https://twitter.com/jcwthoms
music news scotland
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download URVANOVIC
RACHEL SERMANNI
DON'T SHOOT
Amateurs
Tied to the Moon
The Wonderkid
The debut album from Edinburgh’s orchestral noise-pop collective, 'Amateurs’ is a spectacular amalgamation of live and programmable instrumentation that creates an overwhelmingly powerful sound. “Pure, simplistic and beautiful” - Artrocker "It’s the kind of music that makes me want to type all day in an attempt to describe its beauty” - The 405 “Urvanovic have managed to create a sound that is both complex and enchanting” The Vinyl District
Tied To The Moon was conceived in an apartment above a pottery studio deep in the sticks of Nova Scotia where Rachel had four days of complete stillness with no means to communicate with the outside world - during silent afternoons of coffee and pistachios, Rachel would sit, in total solitude; writing; reading; playing music. In the space of these four days she unintentionally wrote six songs - four that would later become the core of Tied To The Moon: ‘Tractor’, ‘This Love’, ‘Banks Are Broken’ and ‘Old Lady's Lament’.
"This EP should come with a warning, one listen to this and you'll be hooked" - Michael Chapman Chordblossom. “For a band who are both relatively new and irritatingly young, it’s impressive this track (Panic) is very much the finished product. Catchy, welcoming and flawlessly presented, they’re ready for a big step forward.”- BBC Across The Line. Don't Shoot entered Glasgow's 'Soundwave Music Competition' and after storming through the heats, they played the final at Glasgow's O2 ABC on the 10th of January 2015 and were announced winners that very night.
Album : download / vinyl Release Date: 15 June
Listen/Watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89F8EC0EC604D929 https://urvanovic.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/urvanovic Available from: Love Music, Glasgow Vox Box, Edinburgh https://urvanovic.bandcamp.com/album/amateurs http://urvanovic.com/ www.facebook.com/Urvanovic https://twitter.com/Urvanovic
Album : cd / download / vinyl Release Date: 10 July
Listen/Watch: New single Tractor @ https://soundcloud.com/monrecordings-1/tractor
EP / Download Release Date: 18 May
Listen/Watch: www.soundcloud.com/broken-road-records
Available from: Preorder @ www.rachelsermanni.net or your local record store
Available from: www.itunes.com www.amazon.com www.googleplay.com www.brokenroadrecords.com
www.rachelsermanni.net www.facebook.com/RachelSermanni https://twitter.com/rachelsermanni www.youtube.com/user/RachelSermanni
www.facebook.com/dontshootband www.dontshootband.co.uk https://twitter.com/DontShoot1 www.brokenroadrecords.com
WE CAME FROM WOLVES
EMERALD SUNDAY DEAN OWENS IMAGINARY CREATURES
We Came From Wolves
Revolution
Album download (cd in July) Release Date: Out Now
Finally, it's arrived! "The follow up we've all been waiting for, the result being one incredibly cohesive album that doesn't put a foot wrong – welcome to the Revolution". - Andy Gee, The Sound. Includes the singles 'Los Angeles' , 'When the River Runs Red' and brand new single 'The Only One'. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/emeraldsunday www.emeraldsunday.co Available from: iTunes, deezer, amazon, play, google play, 7"Digital etc.... ie ' most online record stores www.emeraldsunday.co https://twitter.com/emeraldsunday1
www.facebook.com/pages/Emerald-Sunday/80792375884
Album cd / download Release Date: 1 June
Into the Sea
Album cd / download The Butterfly’s Release Album Date: Out Now
Dream
cd / download
Scottish troubadour Dean Owens’ 6th Release Date: Out Now solo album was recorded in Nashville, Imaginary Creatures is a virtual band, awith studio produced by Neilson Hubbard, project formed by the collaboration of lyricist guest US musicians including Will and songwriter David Scott and producer and Kimbrough, Kim Richey and The Suzy multi-instrumentalist Iain McKinna. Butterfly’s Dream is their debut his album. Guest Bogguss complementing searingly musicians include guitar ace Keith More, soulful voice. The former Felson’s harmonica legend Fraser Speirs and exunique blend of Celtic Americana is Lindisfarne songwriter Rod Clements. grounded in the idea of “home” while Listen/Watch: keeping a wandering eye on the www.reverbnation.com/imaginarycreatures road. Available from: Listen/Watch: Birnam Shop: http://bit.ly/1bLhVDw https://www.youtube.com/user/ www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ID7BLAK hummingbirdone1/videos www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ID7BLAK Available from: http://amzn.to/1heO9qD https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/into-the-sea/id986065601 also coming soon on itunes + spotify and www.deanowens.com Facebook: www.deanowens.com www.facebook.com/pages/Imaginary-Creatures/392409684214473 https://twitter.com/deanowens1 www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic
Saraseto Records proudly present the debut, selftitled album from We Came From Wolves. 'Everything you could want from emotional Scottish Rock' (Rock Sound Magazine) Listen/Watch:
https://soundcloud.com/wecamefromwolvesmusic
Available from: www.sarasetorecords.com iTunes and Love Music Glasgow www.facebook.com/wecamefromwolves https://twitter.com/wcfwmusic/ https://instagram.com/wecamefromwolves/
music news scotland
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download SPRING BREAK
MATTHEW WHITESIDE
SPOOT HAWK
Departure Lounge
Composer - Matthew Whiteside, featured musicians/ensembles: Red Note Ensemble, The Robinson Panoramic Quartet, Aurea Quartet, Emma Lloyd, Joanna Nicholson, Abby Hayward
The Good Haul
ep download Release Date: Out Now
Vaguely outrageous, psychedelic 3 piece hip-hop folk funk outfit, hand crafting screwball anthems deep in the Highlands of Scotland. Amalgamating a wealth of experience in vocal performance and musicianship, whilst fusing the hip hop languages of scratching, beat-boxing and lucid lyricism with the foibles of apathy and the implied abuse of aquatic life. Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/spring-break Available from: Google Play - http://bit.ly/1bXGSxh iTunes - http://apple.co/1O8hUfw www.facebook.com/springbreakscotland https://twitter.com/springbreakscot
Dichroic Light
Album : cd / download Release Date: 4 May
Album cd / download Release Date: 1 May
A Good Haul is the debut album from Spoot Dichroic Light is an evocative electro-acoustic album Hawk, who formed in the summer of 2013 on that combines interactive electronics and the classical the Shetland Islands. The album documents instrumentation of strings, wind and piano to create a the band’s first year together. The album very personal body of work reflecting Matthew’s passion for electronics and sonic experience. Matthew Whiteside opens with the catchy and memorable Hot Love (Straight After Midnight). With its darker is an electronic alchemist who combines his many musical influences to create an electro-acoustic moments and the odd spattering of humour, soundworld. the album is sure to satisfy a wide range of listeners. Brace yourself for a high-octane Listen/Watch: https://soundcloud.com/matthew-whiteside/sets/dichroic-light-album musical experience. Available from: iTunes link below .....
Listen/Watch: www.soundcloud.com/ewan-nowak
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00WR096DI + Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh
Available from: High Level Music (Shetland) Mareel (Shetland), Downloads from iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/matthew-whiteside-dichroic/id990051985
www.matthewwhiteside.co.uk www.twitter.com/mwhiteside www.facebook.com/mwhitesidecomp
www.facebook.com/SpootHawk
EVERING
THE OK SOCIAL CLUB BELLA AND THE BEAR
Running Circles
Baby Eat Your Heart Out Album cd / download Release Date: 1 June
The OK Social Club are back with their 2nd studio album Baby Eat Your Heart Out. The follow up to their 2013 debut Nothing in Common is already being heralded as bolder, deeper and more ambitious than their debut. "We're very proud of this record and can't wait for everybody to hear it" - Raff Eragona, The band's songwriter and frontman. "Already a strong contender for the year's best indie album" - Jamsphere Listen/Watch: http://youtu.be/eHtl02LsLGw + soundcloud Available from: https://itun.es/gb/aOAx6 (And other online stores) CD's @ http://theoksc.bigcartel.com/category/albums www.facebook.com/ theoksocialclubofficial www.twitter.com/theoksocialclub
Once Upon a Time ep cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Bella and the Bear are a Scottish duo formed in 2014. A traditional acoustic sound is restored with rhythmic and percussive guitar playing, blending two-part harmony and a flair for storytelling through song. Once Upon a Time is the opening chapter and an opportunity to share the music the duo are beginning to create together. Listen/Watch: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/once-upon-a-time-ep/id979217143
https://open.spotify.com/album/7yNehDIVMYcJHzxvIUy0JJ
https://soundcloud.com/bella-and-the-bear Available from: http://bellaandthebear.bigcartel.com/ Big Sparra Vinyl in Ayr https://www.facebook.com/bigsparra www.facebook.com/bellaandthebear https://twitter.com/bellaandthebear
ep cd / download Release Date: 18 May
Running Circles is the debut release from indie pop duo Evering, combining warm acoustic guitar riffs with graceful piano work to create an original pop-folk sound. Chris's raw vocals are enhanced with Dawn's rich harmonies as the band pull on a range of influences including Ben Howard and Elbow. Listen/Watch:
https://evering.bandcamp.com/album/running-circles-ep
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKGBOrZa0po Available from:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/running-circles-ep/id989860453
www.everingmusic.com www.facebook.com/everingmusic https://twitter.com/Everingmusic https://instagram.com/everingmusic/
music news scotland
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scotland's new releases ..... album : single : ep / cd : vinyl : download BECCI WALLACE
SUSAN GRACE BATES
SOPHIE ROGERS
Fragmentality
Skorsa: The Riddle of the Earth
Two Sides
Album : cd / download Release Date: Out Now
Album : cd / download Release Date: 1 May
Fragmentality is the eagerly-awaited debut album from Becci Wallace. The album showcases an artful blend of genres, blurring the boundaries between folk, pop, trip hop, jazz and blues. The album follows the journey of an escapist, yearning for beauty from the unknown, the untravelled, and inevitably the route back to where she started.
Eagerly awaited debut album, produced by the legendary John McSherry (At First Light, Lunasa, Tamalin) and Donal O’Connor (At First Light), it contains an eclectic mix of tunes and songs. There is a fine collection of musicians performing on the album including John McSherry, Donal O’Connor, Ross Martin (Daimh), David Foley (Rura) and Pauline Scanlon (Lumiere). Tunes from Ireland and Scotland (both traditional and contemporary), self-penned tunes, as well as songs and tunes that Susan collected on her travels in Sweden, can be expected.
Listen/Watch:
Listen/Watch: Soundcloud - coming soon!
Available from: www.amazingtunes.com/becciwallace www.becciwallace.net (TBC) iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify
Available from: Amazon www.CDbaby.com www.susangracebates.com At live shows
www.youtube.com/channel/UC0zZhI_1bbj0xF5F9zpRcjw
www.becciwallace.net https://twitter.com/toidfish www.facebook.com/becciwallacemusic
https://twitter.com/SusanGraceBates
www.facebook.com/pages/Susan-Grace-Bates/298781546970436
Album : cd / download : Release Date: 4 May The debut album 'Two Sides' from flame haired songstress Sophie Rogers is released this Spring. All music and lyrics were written by Rogers and skillfully co-produced by Gordy Goudie (Echo & The Bunnymen, Simple Minds) at The Soul Kitchen. Working closely with her band to develop her Celtic- soul & Country folk image and sound even further towards the album launches and tour, Sophie is lining up some unique venues to showcase her music. Album launch: Edinburgh, 14 May @ Sneaky Pete's + Glasgow, 15 May @ Broadcast Listen/Watch: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/sophie-rogers
https://play.spotify.com/artist/0cRPFrLYXNtzm6xZZ4Wp2S
https://soundcloud.com/sophierogers www.youtube.com/user/SophieRogers1
Available from: iTunes, Spotify, Deezer & Physical from BigCartel: http://sophierogersmusic.bigcartel.com/ http://sophierogersmusic.wix.com/main www.facebook.com/sophierogersmusic https://twitter.com/__SophieRogers https://about.me/sophierogers
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Festivals! Scotland's Music
the Scottish music festival supplement from MUSIC NEWS Scotland
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It's Perthshire Amber Festival from 30 October to 8 November : see page 5. Pictured is the festival's founder Dougie MacLean playing last year www.perthshireamber.com photo by Rob McDougall
INSIDE: Midstock : Perthshire Amber : Celtic Connections : Carrying Stream : Balmaha Braw Weekend : Groove Loch Ness : Glasgow Americana : Eden Festival : Doune The Rabbit Hole ..... plus 2 pages of Scottish festival listings www.musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com
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OCTOBER sound
Carrying Stream Festival Edinburgh 4-11 November
buzzing. Come along and experience the magic for yourself. www.edinburghshogmanay.org
The 13th annual autumn music festival by The Edinburgh Folk Club who meet every Wednesday The Red at 8pm in the Pleasance Cabaret Bar - www. Inverness edinburghfolkclub.co.uk 31 December
North East Scotland 22 October - 9 November
sound is driven by the passion to make new music more accessible to audiences of all ages www.carryingstreamfestival.co.uk and backgrounds. It embraces a network of local organisations to produce a varied programme of events exploring new music. The festival brings House Folk Scottish together a large range of different genres of Music Festival music to appeal to a wide variety of tastes and Kinlochard encourage people to discover new sounds and 11-13 November widen their musical horizons. www.sound-scotland.co.uk
Sonica
Hot Highland Fling
Scotland's Biggest Free Hogmanay Concert is guaranteed to bring the 2015 Inverness Festivals programme to a wonderful climax. Children Welcome! www.invernessfestivals.com
2016
The festival is now in its 8th year and takes place in three highly intimate venues over three nights in the wonderful setting of Kinlochard in the Trossachs. The concerts offer an expo of bagpipe, accordion, strings, fiddle, vocals and flute music fusing traditional and contemporary Scottish styles. Each night differs from the other Celtic Connections but both include a blend of great music for Glasgow everyone with a mix of folk, modern and 14-31 January traditional styles!
JANUARY
Glasgow 29 October - 8 November Sonica returns to Glasgow for 12 days this Autumn with a programme dedicated to worldclass sonic arts, presenting emerging British talent alongside exceptional international artists from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Indonesia, Netherlands and Quebec. Highlights include:Olivier Ratsi (Antivj) // Herman Kolgen // Speak Percussion with Robin Fox // Kathy Hinde // Sisi Lu // Mark Lyken // Robbie Thomson. “If you want to experience the thrilling interface where music, visual art, theatre and digital technology meet, hasten to Glasgow.” The Times. Tickets on sale from Monday 15 June www.sonic-a.co.uk
Perthshire Amber The Dougie MacLean Festival Perthshire 30 October - 8 November
Strange Behaviours
Celtic Connections 2016 comprises a wealth of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events and late night sessions taking place over 18 days across various venues in Glasgow.
Stirling 20-21 November
www.celticconnections.com
www.scottishmusicfestival.co.uk
The Tolbooth’s annual indie and progressive music festival returns with Admiral Fallow and United Fruit heading the 2-day multi-stage event.Hosted by The Tolbooth over the 20 and 21 November, Strange Behaviours Festival welcomes in 22 of Scotland’s most original and compelling indie/electronic/alternative acts, spread over 3 stages across the entire venue. www.facebook.com/strangebehavioursstirling
Fiddle 2015
Edinburgh This is the 11th year of our festival and promises 20-22 November once again to be full of wonderful concerts One of Scotland's biggest traditional music featuring the finest of Scotland's musical talent as well as some international guests. Our venues festivals, promoting & sustaining traditional fiddle music since 1996. A weekend packed full are as special as ever … ranging from the prestigious Perth Concert Hall to town halls and of great music! Over the weekend there are concerts, ceilidhs, recitals, workshops, talks, tiny village halls, from atmospheric castles to open stage, festival clubs, sessions, stalls, free our historic Dunkeld Cathedral and even events.... and lots, lots more! The Fiddle Festival including an iron age Crannog on Loch Tay…25 committee are now working hard towards Fiddle venues in all in 2015! 2015. The dates are out now but keep an eye on our Facebook page and join our mailing list to be www.perthshireamber.com the first to hear what artists are playing at this years festival.
MARCH MV Festival Aviemore Returning in 2016 It’s a weekend of comedy, music and snowsport thrills on the hills in and around Aviemore. 2016 tickets will soon be available from www. ukgigsonline.com Proceeds from the festival go to the Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) and Disability Snowsport UK. www.mvfestival.com
APRIL Isle of Bute Jazz Festival Isle of Bute 29 April-2 May 2016
The Isle of Bute Jazz Festival has grown spectacularly from its small beginnings to become one of Britain's most popular jazz weekends. Top-class UK and international names www.facebook.com/scotsfiddlefest feature in a programme of traditional jazz music in one of Scotland's prettiest and friendliest seaside resorts. Some very well known jazz Kinross-shire names featured on the programme over the next Winter Festival few years – Acker Bilk, Monty Sunshine, Martin Taylor, Tommy Smith, Andy Sheppard, Carol Kinross-shire Edinburgh's Hogmanay Kidd, The Temperance 7, and The London November (various dates) Community Gospel Choir amongst others, and Edinburgh the Festival continues to attract top class UK and We are delighted to announce that Big Country 31 December international bands in mainly the Traditional New with THE BEST OF BIG COUNTRY TOUR will headline the Kinross-shire's Winter Festival 2015 Four fabulous days and nights of amazing events Orleans idiom.The Festival is a great supporter of young musicians who feature prominently in on Saturday 21 November, 8pm at the kick off the world's greatest New Year party. the annual programme. Community Campus in Kinross. With the traditional torchlit procession, street performers, fireworks, concerts, ceilidh, the big www.kinrossmusicfestival.co.uk Hogmanay party itself and a New Year's Day run www.butejazz.com to blow the cobwebs away - Edinburgh's
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..... lots more festival dates in our FESTIVALS! supplement read it @ http://musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com/festivals/ JUNE
Wickerman Festival
Eden Festival
Dumfries & Galloway 22-23 July
Raehills Meadows 9-12 June 2016
Wickerman is one of the UK’s best-loved Set in the stunning Raehill Meadows of Dumfries independent music festivals which will enter its Eden Festival is boutique festival, with over 250 15th consecutive year in 2016. With ten stages featuring an eclectic and exciting mix of leading acts performing across 9 stages, bringing you artists, heritage acts and up-and-coming talent, live music, dance, cabaret, burlesque, circus skills, theatre, a children's area, fun and games the two day summer party caters for all musical and much more. Nominated for three awards in tastes. 2015. www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk www.facebook.com/theedenfestival
Riverside Rock Jedburgh 18 June Riverside Rock 2016 already have some fantastic bands signed up: The Men They Couldn’t Hang / The Lost Boys / Scocha (Back for a 3rd Year) / Blistered Molly (Back for a 2nd Year) / Greg Anderson (Back too for 2nd year) he rocked the tent at the end last year! Main tent headliner and other bands to be announced. As before Riverside Rock must not be missed, the Scottish Borders very own music festival at Riverside Park, Jedburgh, and 2016 will have more food outlets, more bars and a bigger tent. Tickets on sale soon! www.riversiderock.co.uk
JULY Hebridean Celtic Festival Hebrides 13-16 July 2016
AUGUST Tartan Heart ‘Belladrum’ Festival Beauly 4-6 August Get yourself a ticket to Scotland’s all ages wackiest festival of music and performing arts. Bella is back in its beautiful Highland setting with all the crazy variety that makes it Scotland’s premier boutique festival. ''Belladrum - quite simply, it’s what everyday life should be like, if only everyday life didn't get in the way.'' - Clare Damdoaran, eFestivals. Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and its allages approach. www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
Innerleithen Music Festival
Fantastic four-day festival set against the rich cultural backdrop of the Outer Hebrides, featuring top quality music from around the Celtic nations and beyond. Stornoway and throughout Lewis and Harris. The cream of international folk and Celtic music have heaped praise on HebCeltl as it celebrated its 20th year in 2015 by hosting its biggest number of live performances ever. Award-winning artists who took part in this year's Hebridean Celtic Festival hailed it a huge success after bosses laid on new venues and returned to its roots for the showpiece event. www.hebceltfest.com
Scottish Borders 19-21 August 2016 A hugely enjoyable weekend of traditional music in this small Borders town, beautifully situated amongst rolling hills by the River Tweed. Memorable concerts feature some of the biggest names in Celtic music alongside the best of the local talent and the weekend is rounded off with a concert presenting wonderful singers of traditional song. Complementing the concerts are an open stage, a singaround and the legendary informal music sessions in local hostelries and the Union Club. www.innerleithenmusicfestival.org
Tiree Music Festival Isle of Tiree 15-17 July
Doune The Rabbit Hole Cardross, nr Stirling 19-21 August 2016
Tiree Music Festival (TMF) was formed in 2010 when Tiree musician Daniel Gillespie (Skerryvore) teamed up with school friend Stewart MacLennan with the radical idea of holding an open-air festival on their local island of Tiree. TMF is more than just attending a music festival – it is an island adventure. From the stunning sail or flight to the island of Tiree, camping next to the white sands of Crossapol Bay or surfing at Balevullin beach, TMF is an experience very few festivals in the world could compete with. Get your tickets quick, the early birds sell out in hours - http://tireemusicfestival. co.uk/ticket-prices
A small family-friendly festival with a twist! Doune The Rabbit Hole presents music, comedy, art, spoken word, drama, puppetry and much more! Events across Scotland throughout the year culminating in a 3 day multi arts festival... it's time to go Doune The Rabbit Hole!! We make people happy through music, art, cake and loads of other stuff! After we've done that we teach people who wouldn't ordinarily be able to how to do creative things, like play instruments, write poetry and paint.
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