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drummer’s token solo album. When we were doing this I just whole other thing. I’d like to make more records this way. Not
called him up and he was delighted to help. He loves Kris and necessarily quickly, but sometimes you spend so much time
he loves Roddy and he came up and recorded the drums in on little details – and I do love to do that – but you can lose
the engineer’s front living room. Wish I’d taken a picture!” the excitement and passion that way. This was a very exciting
record to make…
This is no vanity project. Inspired by the enthusiastic initial
reaction to the album, Drever McCusker Woomble will be Even after the Drever McCusker Woomble adventure,
touring together – another complicated meeting of diaries. the three of them may reunite again on Under One Sky,
Even getting them together for the Properganda cover shoot McCusker’s celebrated creation designed to unite Scotland
involved timing of military precision between international and England in melody and song originally commissioned for
plane flights. Celtic Connections and Cambridge festivals and now set to
become an album with a tour at the end of the year to back
“This just feels like a new beginning,” says McCusker. “I spent
it up. “None of us are in this for the money – it’s all about
seven years with Battlefield Band and then that felt like the
making music that excites you. I never want to get in a rut.”
end of something and then I had 10 years with Kate (Rusby)
and then that came to an end. Kate and I thought we could Colin Irwin
keep working together despite splitting as a couple, but we
were a bit naïve and it became too difficult. A couple of days
after I left Kate’s band I got a call from Mark Knopfler to go
on tour and I thought why
not? That was different again.
Now this project has come
up and we’ll see where it
takes us.
“It’s not folk musicians trying
to rock out and Roddy isn’t
trying to be a folk singer.
I don’t think of it as folk
or rock. It’s more like, I
dunno, Bonnie Prince Billy
or something, somewhere
in between. Roddy doesn’t
Before The Ruin
play an instrument and
Navigator Records
he doesn’t come from the
NAVIGATOR
folk world so he brings this
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