I’m thoroughly chuffed to announce that I’m going to be appearing at the Solas Festival later this month. If you’ve not heard of Solas before, it’s a wide-ranging annual arts festival based in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, and it features music, talks, performing arts, literature and a wide range of family-friendly activities. This year it will…
I was at a gig tonight. Well, last night, as you’re probably reading this tomorrow. I’m writing this tonight but it’s just turned into tomorrow, which will be today for you. As it is for me too, come to think about it. Anyway, I was at a gig. Not just any gig, but a house…
I blogged last year about Calamateur’s album Each Dirty Letter, and it barely seems like five minutes later that he’s produced another album – The Quiet in the Land. I mentioned in Each Dirty Letter’s review Calamateur’s vocal versatility, comparing his voice to Thom York. Such is his versatility, though, that I am going to…
A while back I had the privilege through a mutual friend of meeting Andrew Howie, otherwise known as singer-songwriter Calamateur. Based in the highlands, Calamateur has churned out an impressive array of songs over the years, and I was lucky enough to be paying attention when it was announced recently that his entire back catalogue…