I'm currently at Hands Up for Trad's Tinto Summer School in South Lanarkshire. It's an amazing week with brilliant young people and fabulous tutors. There is not a lot of time to think about anything…
I wrote and recorded this little tune in Loch Tummel caravan park just outside Pitlochry. It is a little tune but swings along!
I was sitting on the train home last week when I heard this amazing train noise. I immediately thought train techno and got my phone out and recorded it! I'm also hearing a bit of The Beatles' Day in…
I was very lucky to receive fiddler Marie Fielding's new tune book the other day full of fabulous new tunes in a traditional vein. This particular air jumped out at me and I decided to write a string…
A quick track I wrote for a possible commission. I'm in a rush today so not going to say too much.
This track show's the pearls of not listening. I recorded this track whilst listening to really loud music and I couldn't hear myself playing at all. I haven't gone for beauty here. I wouldn't…
Here's a wobbly electronic strathspey. Not much more to say than that.
Have you ever danced on your own with no one looking? Well I've written this music for you to dance to. There is no form, you can go as crazy as you like and it's only two minutes long. So it's a…
I thought I would head in a traditional vein this week. 3 reels from one of Scotland's top fiddle composers William Marshall (nineteenth century). There are 3 tunes: Mr Alexander Laing's Hornpipe (E…
I wrote this track on election day. It features all the madness that goes in the run up to the election. It's noisy and primitive as all elections are especially this one (in 2015). This is also my…
