Actually many of my favourite Scottish songs and singers are ones I heard around my Granny’s - Harry Lauder, Andy Stewart, Moria Anderson. One of my all time favourite Miles records is ‘On the corner’ - released in 1972, it ended up as Miles’ worst selling album of the time - and subsequently was the last studio album he made that decade.
It’s still one of my favourite records though, and I still prefer listening to it while i’m moving. I dreamed about endless rain and potato scones. 4,188 Followers, 416 Following, 452 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Roddy Woomble (@roddywoomble) Everyone else thought they were American, and they toured with Nirvana, but they were from Bellshill in Lanarkshire, and that made them cooler. It’s like a combination of a (sound) library, art gallery and museum, except it’s a shop. It’s comforting though - like my Grannies old house, with the usual selection of biscuits, familiar smells, and the fire on. Which is a shame as they were great and would’ve been included on my list.
Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. It is a musical sanctuary the size of a huge supermarket, stuffed full of so much good music from all over the world that it’s almost impossible to know where to start. The idea for it was literally conceived in a teepee in the Scottish Highlands. It comes as no surprise to hear then, that this EP was Woomble says of final (17 minute!) Oliver titled it‘RW OC Cuttup’ as that was what the file was named on his computer. Many of my favourite records are intertwined with the memorable journeys I’ve made - Touring America a lot between 2001-2003 The Grateful Dead soundtracked the long drives through the plains and deserts .’American Beauty’ or ‘Live in 1972’ would be on the tourbus stereo, as we drank beer as stars appeared and the world sunk into shadows outside the bus windows. I felt at home! Last Name. I head to Miles Davis.
That is my relationship to the art and the songs I like and the songs I endeavour to make. All the things about Scotland I’d mocked in years past seemed the things i wanted back.
Mostly it’s not gone well, and I’ve showed them to very few people.
Regardless, an artist can present postulations - a painting, a song or a play - a place for someone else to approach these questions’ I read this and wrote it down last year, and for me certainly there is a lot of truth in it. Keeping it at 30 minutes and calling it an EP makes sense for everyone. First Name. Everyday Sun. I wanted to see my friends.
‘Everday Sun’ has quite a catchy chorus for example. In the past I have never been drawn to EP’s. We also started ‘Everyday Sun’ and ‘Straight to Blame’ which were then developed further with Luciano Rossi at his studio in Hackney. Yes, listening to music in a car, van, or tourbus - the ideas go in deep and influence thoughts & feelings. Even someone who doesn’t think they like jazz, will like it - He is that good. Or you could be here for some time. March 4, 2020 . Like many others, I greatly enjoyed both of Andrews instrumental solo albums (Under his ‘Andrew Wasylyk’ moniker) and really liked the idea of trying to read some of my words over his compositions. Idlewild spent three months here once, in 2004 recording ‘warnings/promises’. The variety of experience on offer is immense, the diversity of people it’s possible to meet (and make music with) is intense. There is sense in them though, you just have to listen out for it. Roddy Woomble is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s finest songwriters. I didn’t do anything that you associate really & truly with living somewhere. You get the impression that if Roddy Woomble had been given the choice to be a poet or a rock star he would have chosen the former. The evening had a spirit of collaboration about it, a spontaneous and creative feel, in the cold and magical highlands forest. The best lines, or lines that I’m generally not embarrassed by have ended up in my songs. Formats: CD / Vinyl / Digital. It was 3pm, so we took the exit onto sunset boulevard and drove to Ameoba music.For those who have never been to this record shop it is the worlds largest independent record store - as a music fan, if that doesn’t fill you with a warm, happy, safe feeling then I don’t know what will.
Oliver continued to work on the track and it appears at it’s original length on the EP. Another, record, ’Listen to keep’ followed in 2013 - that album was more straight, country influenced and live sounding, mainly because it was written to play (and sell) on tour. Solo drives & journeys with Jazz singers, hip hop & punk rock songs playing loudly, soundtracking the wild landscapes - both rural & urban. Roddy Woomble, frontman of Idlewild, releases an EP that could be seen as a departure for the Scot. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Oliver set to work recording me reciting several lines from my notebook, which were then spliced and triggered by computer algorithm while cello & synth drones of varying length looped and grew underneath the booming & panning cut ups of the words, chopped in the tradition of Williams Burroughs to reveal subterranean, cultish and hypnotic meaning through abstract play of sound.