Orcadian Fiddle & Mandolin Player
Had an amazing week away with the Gnoss boys for our 2017 Spring Tour. Headed up to the Drouthy Cobbler in Elgin to start the week followed by a trip to the Salmon Bothy in Portsoy and a crazy good Friday in Hootananny, Inverness. The second half of the tour took us to Poolewe and [...]
Gnoss are away on tour in a few weeks. Really looking forward to heading on our first tour as a 4 piece taking in a few new venues and some that we've visited before. You can see ticket details in the Tour Dates section of the Gnoss Website here.
I'm delighted to now be an endorser of Remic Microphones. They are a Danish company specialising in high definition condenser microphones for classical instruments. I have just had a V5200LB Violin Microphone which Remic describe as - "This model is designed for “extreme loud” live performances, such as Folk-rock, Pop, Rock and Metal. Astonishing high [...]
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On Monday 31st October we filmed our new music videos and got new promotional photos done for Gnoss. We hired a photographers studio in the East end of Glasgow called Broadscope Studios. (http://www.broadscopestudios.com). Dougie Coulter did the photography and Gus Stirrat filmed the video. The studios had the usual photography screen but also had many [...]
We spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week recoding new tracks for Gnoss with Scott Wood at his home studio. We are expanding the former duo of myself and Aidan Moodie to a four-piece act by introducing Gregor Kincaid (Bodhran) and Connor Sinclair (Whistles & Flute). The new tracks are to promote this new four-piece [...]
This summer, I was luck enough to be asked to play fiddle for 2 trips to Germany with the Paul McKenna Band. This was due to Jack Smedley being away with RURA. We had one weekend in Germany in a town called Konigswinter that was for the Seven Mountains Music Festival. The following trip was [...]
