That record sounds much more like Ireland to me that anything by the Clancy Brothers.
Keeping it at 30 minutes and calling it an EP makes sense for everyone.
(please note: Free Jazz attracts aficionado’s to the extreme. Mostly it’s not gone well, and I’ve showed them to very few people. I am naturally more of a melodicist and used to writing songs with verses, bridges and chorus’ - so a few of the ideas started to deviate away from speaking into singing with melody. It may be impossible to succeed at this job. The Ulrich Schnauss album ‘A Strangely isolated place’ - we drove about 400 miles around Ireland in a hire car with only that CD as accompaniment. I felt at home! By this point I had a new band - Sorren on guitar, Danny Grant on drums, Gavin fox on bass (later replaced by Craig Ainslie) and Seonaid Aitken on violin (later replaced by Hannah Fisher) - we had been playing everywhere visiting towns and areas that i’d never been to before, playing folk clubs, art centres, small theatres, anywhere really.When I think back about tours - often it’s actually the albums we listened to while we were travelling that define them. With the style of music we’re exploring on this EP - a minimal, more hypnotic sound, words spoken rather than sung, I was aware that an albums worth might be sleep inducing. I wanted to see my friends. Increasingly, I’m not sure how relevant the album is as a format, but i’m definitely of the generation that still believe in it, and so will continue to work in that way.
After stints in both London and New York City, Roddy now lives in Glasgow. ‘On the Corner’ made its lasting influence on post-punk, electronica, hip hop, and Jazz. Idlewild spent three months here once, in 2004 recording ‘warnings/promises’. Driving into Los Angeles fills me with excitement, no matter how many cars and lorries are cutting in front of you. It is an amazing place to spend time by yourself. To ‘Milk The Metaphor’ further - This is a short story instead of a novel - a starter instead of a main course, or two starters and no main course, only pudding, which has not arrived yet…Andrew and I are doing 16 shows around the country to support the ‘Everyday Sun’ EP.
Always very vocal about his love of traditional Scottish folk music as well as groups such as Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band, Roddy has decided to take time out from Idlewild to collaborate on an album's worth of songs that take these influences and mix them with Idlewild's trademark soaring melodies and thoughtful lyrics. He is the lead vocalist of indie rock band Idlewild, with whom he has recorded seven studio albums. I could milk the metaphor and meaning here - but in truth the cottage where i live overlooks the ocean and lots of crows nest in the trees behind it, so both are a constant fixture in my life. I didn’t know many people, and didn’t really try meet anyone, well I went out to socialise but always mostly came home on my own.
Everyday Sun. I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have any possessions really, other than a suitcase, some clothes, a few books and photographs. It was a solitary and magical time.Ultimately though, as anyone who has spent a length of time in a city where they don’t know many people and have no real sense of purpose will know - a homesickness creeps in. Kris Drever is a Glasgow based, Orkney born musician. Order Everyday Sun on vinyl / CD. I like what the quote means.I’ve been writing poems or trying to write poems or thinking about trying to write poems since my twenties.